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There is only one way fear is created — when you believe not that you are Love. That you could ever be separate from the Love you are is inconceivable in truth.
Being Love, there is no fear involved with giving yourself permission to know Itself. No reason for fear exists.
Because of the tendency to mistake our identities as Love for something else, we doubt Who we are to begin with. Doubt is the creation of fear and we are so used to being scared that we think it is natural. But thinking fear has power is merely a habit that breaks down quickly when our minds are inclined to learn and teach the truth. To Love is more natural than to fear. ❦

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Miracles News, April-June, 2018

 

Forgiveness takes
us up the ladder
to our Home in
the Light

Pathways of Light Miracles News is published quarterly in print and online to provide a forum for Pathways of Light ministers to share their process of allowing the Holy Spirit to heal their minds. As we read and share these miracle stories with each other, we are inspired and we inspire each other to accelerate our return Home to Love, peace and happiness.

Subscriptions to the printed version are available without charge, but tax-deductible donations are gratefully received to support the printing and mailing expenses of this magazine. A suggested donation of $20.00 a year is invited.

Pathways of Light is nonprofit, providing spiritually focused courses with A Course in Miracles orientation, and has served spiritual awakening for over 27 years. Pathways of Light is dedicated to joining with people around the world in awakening to the Love and peace of God. As part of this joining, Pathways of Light offers training in a new kind of spiritual ministry.

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We Can All Channel

by Rev. Dan Strodl, O.M.C.

A couple of years ago I asked Robert Holden if he had a daily spiritual practice. He said, “Yes, l ask the ‘Holy Spirit what would you have me know?’ and then I write whatever comes up. It could be one word, a few words, or more.”

So I started doing this practice the next day, and was totally surprised that words not of me poured out of my pen. And, they were exactly what I needed for the day. I’ve made it a daily spiritual practice ever since.

It’s so simple. I just quiet my mind for a few minutes, and then I ask, “Holy Spirit, what would you have me know today?” and I write down whatever comes up. I have no idea what will appear. I just write and what comes out of my pen is exactly what I need.

What I now realise is that channeling isn’t for the chosen few. We are all chosen. Try it. The Holy Spirit is always waiting for your invitation.

Following are a few examples of what has come through to me:

Draw Out the Light

The world needs Love. It is a starved and lonely desert — cruel, self centered, everyone for themselves, out for their own best interests. Everyone’s projecting their guilt onto others to try to make themselves feel better. They are in pain, afraid, shut down, shut in. They all need Love. That is what’s missing. They are like plants that haven’t been watered — shriveled and slowly dying.

Water them generously. Notice them, smile, show you like and appreciate them. See their goodness, their Light. They have waited a long time for this. Take your time. Listen to them, their stories; listen without fixing. You have no idea what they need. The only thing you can be sure of is they need love, kindness, compassion, softness, being heard. Draw out the beauty inside them. Everyone has it. A loving ear is a great healer.

Light Detective

See the Light in your brothers and sisters. It is there. Draw It out of them. Pay attention to what they say and do. Look for the vein of Love. A road that leads to their goodness, kindness, caring, compassion. It is there. Be a diligent observer. Ignore the judgments, complaints, grievances, moans. They come from their conditioning.

We live in a world that values complaining. People feel superior by putting others down. It is just their training. You can help retrain their minds, their identity, by drawing out their innate goodness. And as you give them this gift, it comes back to you. You are lifted out of this insanity to your true Self. Train your mind to see the Light in others. Be a Light detective.

Relax

Relax. All is well. All is in Divine order. Just do what is in front of you.

Then pause, breathe deeply, and do the next right thing.

Stress, worry, anxiety are all fear. It is projecting and imagining into the future.

Be still and return to peace.

Just do what’s in front of you. And do it with peace …and joy. All is in Perfect Divine order. All is well. All will be done, perhaps not like you had planned, but it will all fall into place perfectly.

Leave the planning to me. I will walk you through it. Just hold My hand and trust that all is well, all is as it should be …and relax.

The work you are doing is for you and your brothers. And you will perform at your best when you are relaxed.

FORGIVENESS IS…

Forgiveness is letting go of the ego world, of judgments, opinions, grievances, and upsets. They all come from the lower mind, and by letting them go you take away their power. They are meaningless unless you give them power, and when you give them power, you are locked in the ego’s thought system.

Forgiveness is flowing through the day and not allowing anything to hook you in. And when you do get hooked in, which you will, simply stand back and invite Me to dissolve it away.

Each time you do that you weaken the ego’s thought system and you gently awaken a little bit more. One more step up the ladder.

Return to peace, which is your true reality. This is the purpose of your day.

TRUE HUMILITY

It is time to look at humility. At modesty. At deflating the ego. You have a desire to blow yourself up, to be important, to be recognized and appreciated. You are easily wounded if others are recognized and you’re left out. This is ego driven. It’s all from an ego that craves specialness, and separateness. It’s all an effect of a deep wound of guilt and fear. You can heal this wound by not playing the game.

First you must be aware when you are seeking, craving, approval. Then you can go to your Right Mind and ask for a new way of seeing. This will encourage you to let go, and go to True healing.
Disengage from the insanity and go to humility. Let others be right, let others get the applause, approval, and recognition. That is what bodies crave. Let them have it.
Return to your center of peace where your true Self resides.

HOURLY FORGIVENESS PRACTICE

This is the perfect time to re-evaluate your life situation. A new start to get clarity on what you want to do, where you want to go, and what you want to leave behind.

Your intention to practice an hourly forgiveness review is a powerful tool to drag the ego out of hiding and heal your mind. Ego cannot survive in an environment when it is observed from above.

An hourly forgiveness practice will help ferret out all the little judgments, annoyances and grievances that often can go unnoticed. Your willingness to make this your hourly practice a priority will bring you everything you want — peace, love, joy and happiness.

An hourly forgiveness review is a practical way to bring “My only goal is God” to life. Forgiveness is the key to your awakening, and awareness of your ego acting out is the key to forgiveness. Just do it without any judgment and look down on it from above with Me.

True peace and happiness are yours with your willingness and commitment to notice the ego without judgment. Share your hourly forgiveness practice with your brothers. Give what you want to receive.

Rev. Dan Strodl is a Pathways of Light minister and publisher of Miracle Worker magazine in London, UK. His email is: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Visit Miracle Network online at www@.Miracles.org.uk

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Accepting Opportunities for Healing

by Rev. Michael Graves, O.M.C.

I was introduced to the Course through some cassette recordings by Marianne Williamson, given to me by another recovering friend in a 12 step program. The topics of the recordings were quite common but the messages were not. I was quite taken by the decidedly spiritual nature of the solutions she offered. I later read her book “A Return to Love” and began my study of ACIM.

There is a line in the “Big Book” of AA by one of its authors that states, addiction is a spiritual malady. That statement really resonated with me and I knew it was true. At least for me. 

Like many students, my study and practice of the principals of A Course in Miracles has changed my life, in what can only be described as miraculous ways. Let me begin with this quote from A Course in Miracles:

“This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.” (In-1)

I have often asked Spirit to help me to go deeper in my practice and recently, I had the opportunity to do just that. A member of The Living Miracles community accepted an invitation to stay with me while they were on a trip that brought them to California.

Of course, I envisioned long, peace filled, meaningful discussions about practicing ACIM. I thought the experience was going to be quite different from what it actually was. While our discussions were profoundly meaningful, the experience was anything but peaceful much of the time. During our visit, I got to see and experience in them what leading a deeply devotional life looks like. It is quite different from what I have been used to.

One of the many gifts that I was offered, was to learn to look past the feelings and emotions that come up and the buttons that are pushed in me, to see the opportunity beyond them to transcend my most limiting beliefs. I cannot imagine a more important ability to cultivate. “Beware of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated.” (T-26.X.4:1) comes to mind.

To me, this epitomizes, “removing the blocks to loves awareness and presence.” I often say to those I work with, Spirit is much more concerned with our growth than our comfort. And now, here it is, in my own experience.

But isn’t that how it often works? We generally teach what we most need to learn. I knew, even at the time when I was a bit disoriented during and after my experience, I would never be able to look at things the same way I had before. I had shifted in a very profound way. I could push opportunities for healing aside, or I could face them and grow. It is always my choice.

I know that Spirit is not saying, “Geeze, when are you going to learn this, when will you be ready?” There are plenty of readings in ACIM that teach quite the opposite. It is only the ego that would try to put that in my mind. Spirit is always kind, loving, patient and gentle, but sometimes opportunities create discomfort. But now I know the discomfort is not real, is coming from ego and I can look through it to the opportunity it brings.

A Course in Miracles often refers to “Transfer of Training,” which is putting into practice the principals it teaches. I can’t imagine how my study of ACIM could lead me to the “Awakening” it refers to without actually practicing it.

Today, I am asking Spirit to help me in deepening my ability to look past the illusions of hurt, fear, and doubt that come up in my daily life, to see the magnificent opportunities that they truly are, should I choose to see and accept them.

Rev. Michael Graves, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Beaumont, California. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Web: newbeginningslifeservices.com

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