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A Lesson from the Holy Spirit

by Rev. Cathey Jo Tomilenko, O.M.C.

The last ten months of 2012 have been very challenging in my life. I had a lumbar fusion in March of 2012 and another one which was an emergency in August of 2012. I thought I was finally on the upswing of mending this physical body when in October I slipped and fell and broke my leg. Up until this event I knew that the Holy Spirit was guiding me back to health. In fact, the Holy Spirit and I were partners for many years in healing mind, body and spirit. I was doing my part and the ability of the billions of cells in this miracle body of mine was doing the rest.

Something happened to my Spirit when I fell and broke my leg. I lost my ability to depend on God and the Holy Spirit to help me. For the first time in many a year I felt lost, angry, upset, frustrated and kept saying to myself, “Why, why, why?” How could this happen when my faith has already gotten me through at least 30 surgeries over the years from a car accident and especially the last two fusions on my back? I was so angry at myself for slipping on my kitchen floor, which is how I broke my leg. I was so upset in the emergency room at the hospital I was crying, saying to the doctors, “Don’t tell me this. I can’t handle anymore, I don’t want to hear it.” I couldn’t even make any wise or healthy decisions at the time. My friend Miriam had to make them for me. I spent the next two days at home, now wearing a leg brace for 10 weeks, in a wheel chair, not being able to do anything, having a great pity party with myself. I was still angry, although I wasn’t sure if the anger at the time was directed more at me or God. Where had my faith and trust in the Holy Spirit gone?

After two days of nothing but anguish, I finally decided this is enough. It was time to take a deep breath, and step back and get myself out of the way. I was sitting in my chair with my leg up, reading the book mark “ I REMEMBER WHO I AM” from Pathways of Light. I read, ”I accept that I am Love and I stay in tune with the Highest Source within me and let It guide my ways.” I calmed myself down and went back to my basic principles of Spirit. I finally said, “Okay God, I don’t know why this happened and right now I guess it doesn’t make any difference, but I need help.” I then sat quietly and prayed, asking the Holy Spirit for help in bringing me back my peace, my joy, my happiness that I was able to experience and live through all the other surgeries. For I do know in my heart that the Holy Spirit is always there guiding me, helping me through any challenge I may experience in this world, knowing that in truth nothing in this world counts anyway, that the dream we created in this world is so temporary that it has no value and I for the last two days had given my power to it. Only the truth would get me through this event. I am a spiritual creation, the same creation of God. I was finally able to get out of my head and into my heart, feeling the Holy Spirit within me. I continued to read “I know the perfect circumstances present themselves for my perfect continued growth. I am Love, I am Joy, I am Peace.”

Once I could let go of the anger and go back to the basic principle of being this wonderful creation of a living and loving God, peace came over me. I knew from that moment that the Holy Spirit, which is always with us, was guiding me to my higher good, which is living truth principles and not giving my power away to the dream.

I soon began to understand that the Holy Spirit was teaching me many lessons, especially one of humbleness. It is so easy for us to “Give,” so why was it so difficult to “Receive”? As ministers we give prayer, support, and love in so many ways, but all of a sudden I found myself having to say “HELP.” I couldn’t drive a car, I couldn’t grocery shop, I couldn’t get myself to doctor appointments and at the beginning, I couldn’t even get dressed by myself. I remembered my sister once told me, “When someone offers to help you, don’t take away their gift to you.”

In my ACIM class I always say, “We are all teachers and all students, and we all minister to each other in many ways.” Well I guess I really became the student.

This experience in the last ten weeks has really taught me how to receive lovingly and with gratefulness. I also learned that blessings come in many ways.

The first blessing was knowing that the Holy Spirit is always guiding me and never leaves my side. I didn’t break a hip, I didn’t need surgery on my leg, I was still able to laugh, sing, talk, read, see, hear — all the little things we take for granted. I even felt how blessed we are with all the little gadgets that man created to make life easier while our spirits are in these bodies, such as a wheel chair, a grabber to pick things up and a little plastic thing with a long string on it so I could put my socks on.

My church family sent me cards. After several weeks, I was able to be picked up so I could go to church. My church family and friends called me every day to pray with me. Miriam, my friend who lives next door, helped me shower, dress, and grocery shop.

This probably has been the most humbling blessed lesson I learned throughout my years of working on living a very spiritual life and learning about truth. My life will never be the same again. I am and have been blessed in so many ways. No matter what the events are in the dream world our ego’s create, the Holy Spirit is always guiding us for our spiritual growth.

I learned to receive with love and be grateful for all the little things we take for granted that most of us never pay attention to. I am so grateful for being a student of A Course In Miracles. At the moment the biggest miracle was knowing that the Holy Spirit was with me all the time, that I am and always was in God’s care. I just had to go back to the basic principle into my heart and recognize the truth of my creation. My brace will be off in two weeks. I will again be able to drive and the best gift is being able to get back to facilitate my class again, A Course In Miracles. The truth is I AM LOVE, I AM JOY, I AM PEACE all the time, and the Holy Spirit has many ways to remind me of this truth. This experience was one of them.

Rev. Cathey Jo Tomilenko is a Pathways of Light minister living in Bloomfield, Michigan.

© 2013, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Inspiration in Motion

by Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan, O.M.C.

My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today- Have but one purpose; to be given Christ
To use to bless the world with miracles. W.pII.353

In the midst of thoughts about “caring for” the body, I have been given sight as follows. Inspiration In Motion is an experiential practice of accessing Inspiration Within through your Inspired HeartMind any time, anywhere while in the midst of everyday living. Inspiration Within is This Inner Present Love, wholly free and absolutely present, here, now, everywhere, at all times. There is nowhere This Love is not. This is how This Love is Love.

Inspiration In Motion is the experiential practice of “de-compartmentalizing” how you come into the awareness of Inspiration’s presence within. Experience Inner Stillness and Union while being still and while moving through life’s daily activities, communicating and interacting in all kinds of relationships and even while involved in activities that seem to be body focused such as eating, exercise, cooking, touch, walking, housekeeping, caregiving, playing sports or the physical aspects of a job.
Inspiration In Motion is de-compartmentalizing how, when and where one can experience Inspiration Within. Freeing us up from the ideas about needing to keep the body still or take on certain postures or positions, close the eyes or perform a specific technique or way of moving, or be engaged in a “spiritual” activity or form. Life is experienced as spirit-filled as we are aware of that Inspiration. This Inner Present Love is Life. One can enjoy certain practices, both with the body still and moving, and reap the benefits. However, we need not confine ourselves. We can experience Inner Peace and Union all throughout the day.

Inspiration In Motion helps to heal the mind of the many body images and judgments of the body that the cubicle mind (ego unawareness of Inspiration Within) perpetuates as it identifies itself as a body. It does this by helping one move away from an experience of disconnection as the cause of dispiritedness, and moving towards an experience of connection and union with Inner Present Love.

When the body is still, such as seated for meditation or laying down for sleep, it is less of a distraction, that is, we are more easily able to focus on Inspiration’s peace. Then we begin moving about for our daily life activities and often lose the experience of peace, contentment, rest and connectivity that we were experiencing while being still. Or it can be that being still raises thoughts about the body into our awareness due to discomfort, pain, illness and/or injury.

Inspiration In Motion is the practice of accessing Inspiration Within in body stillness and motion as a way to heal thoughts and judgments about the body and be present with bodily sensations that may be drawing us into unawareness.

Inspiration In Motion is the practice of awareness of Being while not elevating the body and placing it on a pedestal to be worshipped and adored, and not degrading the body or being ashamed of the body. Both stances are judgments and give the body meaning that in and of itself it does not hold. Both perspectives are placing meaning upon the body as they are both rooted in believing I am a body. Inspiration In Motion is not denying the experience of having a body, rather it is recognizing and accepting the usefulness of the body as a means of Love’s extension. Now the body becomes truly helpful.

The body participates in the experience of the mind. If the cubicle mind experiencing separation, disconnection and fear is in charge, the body follows suit and takes on disconnection and fear. If one chooses to be aware of one’s Inspired Mind experiencing connection, union and Love, the body shares this communication and naturally, without thought, participates in extending this healing message to others.

Inspiration In Motion is practicing awareness of Being, Love, Peace and Union, even while engaged in what we may normally think of as “body-activities” such as in exercise, what we say and do while interacting with others and daily physical activities.

We need not become ego-minded. Inspiration In Motion guides us to focus less on how we think we should be exercising, what we think we should be saying and doing and how we think we should be performing a physical task and instead keep a one-pointed focus on how Wisdom and Inner Knowing is literally moving us towards our true nature. It is trusting that there is an Inner Present Love Who truly knows what is in our best interest at this moment in time.

If you are exercising and feel a need to go through a certain routine, you can do so with the awareness of your Inspired Mind. The goal is to move away from disconnection and body identification and towards an experience of connection and wholeness.

Inspiration In Motion is not instructing how to move the body or not move the body by way of a special technique or form for some specific benefit(s). Inspiration In Motion is the practice of trusting This Inner Wisdom and Knowing and allowing the body to follow. This practice naturally allows our experience of being human and this body experience to now have real meaning and purpose. Meaning and purpose that are founded in Inspiration Within.

Inspiration In Motion is truly an experiential movement practice of The 4 Decisions: Pause, Step Back, Step Aside and Let Inspiration Guide. All for the purpose of being a willing vessel of Inspiration Within, inspiring the dispirited, including yourself, thus bringing healing to yourself, others, relationships and the world.

To practice Inspiration In Motion in the midst of your everyday activities, simply allow awareness of Inner Present Love as living, moving and being “in you, with you, through you and beyond you.” This is how you participate in your life, relationships, activities and the world as Inspiration In Motion.

Love does not stop at the level of the mind, heart or body. Inspiration In Motion is an unending, unceasing, continuous, constant Flow. You are inside of This Love and This Love is inside of you.

Note: Mary will be demonstrating and sharing the practice of Inspiration In Motion in person and through the website: http://www.pauseforinspiration.org

Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Louis, Missouri. She is author of the books Visions of Illumination, The Mentor Within and the inspiring new CD Album WNYHOO Now!.

© 2013, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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All Is Well in God’s Hands

Jim Klapperich

I have a flooring business to earn money in this earthly illusion. One of my customers had some water damage so she called me on a Thursday and I went to her house to correct the problem. I removed the wet pad and propped up the carpet so the fans could dry the floor and carpet. I got a strong message that I should come back on the following Monday to finish the repair.

When Monday arrived, I was about finished with the repair when my wife Diana called and said that my ex-wife had called and wanted to talk to me. Because this did not happen very often, I was concerned if there was some emergency in the family.

When I called her, I could hear that she was very upset. She was very angry about the fact that our son does not communicate with her. It was her birthday on the last Friday and she had not heard from him again, and was asking what she had done to him to make him so distant to her. Thanks to all the help I’ve had over the years from Holy Spirit, Robert and Mary Stoelting from Pathways of Light and from A Course in Miracles, I remembered to stay calm and loving as this was unfolding. As the conversation continued, she shared that her beloved pet dog had just died and her husband had just been diagnosed with bladder cancer. She finally said she just needed to vent her anger and frustration.

The job I was at just happened to be two blocks from where she lives and, trying to bring some peace to the situation, I was lead by Spirit to ask her if she would be available when I finished the carpet repair. I told her that I would also like to see her mom, my ex-mother in law, who was 98 years old. I asked her if her mom would remember me.

By this time my ex-wife was starting to relax a bit and said she would meet me at her mom’s house which was close by.

When we arrived at her Mom’s house, I was so welcomed by her mom. We had a wonderful visit for about an hour. I could see my ex-wife smiling and laughing and really enjoying herself. After our visit with her mother I stopped at my ex-wife’s house and talked to her husband and was thanked for coming over.

As I left, my ex-wife apologized for being so angry and said she just needed to talk to someone. I told her that she could call me anytime. She also told me to thank my wife Diana for always treating her with respect and being kind to her. Apparently her husband’s ex-wife has harassed her all the time they have been together.

As I drove home, I thought, “Wow, this had nothing to do with a piece of carpet, but Spirit knew I had to be there at that time because of my ex-wife’s call for love. A week later and I’m still on a high because of this wonderful experience. I know that all is well in God’s Hands. Love Rules!

Jim Klapperich is a Pathways of Light ministerial student living in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

© 2013, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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The Peace of God — A Poem

Cathy Corson-Diaz, M.D.

Home is within me.
Peace is within me.
God is within me.

There is no Light
that shines upon me.
The Light is within me;
It shines outward
It is the Source
of all Light

Let it shine;
do not hold it back.
It can never be lost,
destroyed or extinguished.

It can only be covered up.

So uncover yourself and
you will discover the Light
— the potential within.

© 2013, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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