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Claim Your Divinity, Not Death

by Rev. Linda Wisniewski, O.M.C.

I observe in the split mind that when I experience bodily symptoms like throat soreness and difficulty in swallowing, which blocks the passage of food, the ego wants to take these symptoms and make up a story and give it a meaning. Oh, it must be cancer; I (ego) am going to die. This is a story that has been in the family for generations past.

This is a story that is blocking the truth of what I Am and is the story of egoic resistance to healing and returning to Wholeness.

I spent time with Holy Spirit asking to see this differently, to heal me for my highest good and remind me of the Truth.

Message from Holy Spirit:

Claim your Divinity not death. Claim your serenity, not insanity. Claim your sinlessness, not sickness. Claim your sacredness, not your stubbornness. Claim your victory, not your vulnerability. Claim your wholeness, not your weakness. Claim your Spirit, not your stories.

The blockage you perceive is just resistance to remembering the truth. It is a defense against allowing the truth to come in. It is a defense against Love, the Love God has for you. This is what you have a hard time swallowing. You are still holding onto the belief that you have sinned and deserve death as a punishment.

You believe you are afraid of death. But the you that believes that is not the real You. There is no death. What dies is the illusory self. What lives on is the True Self. The mind that split off from God doesn’t really fear death. What it fears is remembering that Life is in the Mind of God, not the body. So while the ego does fear its own annihilation, which is the body, it really is in terror of returning Home to God, just like the prodigal son was in terror of returning home to the father. But like the prodigal son who stayed away for many years, he found upon his return to His Father that his fear was in vain. It wasn’t real. His Father welcomed him with open Arms and unconditional Love. 

This does take time to digest, to swallow, so be patient with yourself. Remember, I, your Holy Spirit, will never force anything down your throat. When you believe from your experience that the miracle will be a blessing and not a sacrifice, the truth will be revealed to you.

Because of your willingness, you now have the experience of the deep peace and Love that bubbles up when you rest in God. Every time you choose to rest in God instead of being tempted by the distractions of the world, God becomes more real to you and attachment to worldly thoughts recedes from your mind. 

One more thing: Maybe your physical symptoms have been a gift instead of a curse. The initial fear response was like an arrow that pointed you in the direction to go within. As a result of going within, you could begin to have the experience of Life bubbling up in you rather than the thoughts of death. Be grateful to the symptoms for pointing you in the right direction. Remember, the body is neutral; it can’t feel pain or pleasure. It’s only a symbol of fear and an invitation to go within where Life is. Life is when you experience the peace and Love which is of God. This peace and Love is your true Identity; it is Your Divinity; it is eternal Consciousness; it is eternal Life in the Mind of God.

Today my lesson was “Love is the way I walk in gratitude.” Thank you, dear Spirit, for reminding me to claim my Divinity, the Truth of Who I Am.

Rev. Linda Wisniewski, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Plymouth, Wisconsin.

© 2012, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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May I Never Set You Back on Your Journey

by Rev. Myron Jones, O.M.C.

In Chapter 4, Section 1 of A Course in Miracles we are told: The Bible says that you should go with a brother twice as far as he asks. It certainly does not suggest that you set him back on his journey.

As I read this passage I asked myself, “How have I set my brother back on his path?” It came to me that I could do this if I correct my brother. Our ACIM group has guidelines to keep this from happening. They are as follows:

We make our group a safe place to explore and grow by not correcting each other, and by not instructing each other. We report our own experience rather than saying what someone else’s experience should be or mean. We are a silent, supportive presence for each other.

I bring this up because these are the guidelines I try to follow in all areas of my life. And when I veer from these guidelines, it is because I am listening to the ego. When I listen to ego, I really believe that I am right and that I know what is right for the other person. I believe it is very important that I share what I know, and that the other person hears this. When I listen to the ego, I am delusional, but convinced of my delusion.

When I first read the Course, I realized that I had everything wrong and that I did not know anything. As I continued to study I would experience shifts in my understanding and for awhile I would think that now I understood. I must have been really obnoxious to my family and friends as I explained to them how wrong they were about everything.

As I continued my study I would understand differently and off I’d go, thinking I knew something and believing people should listen to me. After this happened many times, I finally began to see the pattern and thankfully slowed down on telling people how it is. I began catching myself when I wanted to correct my brother, and I would stop before I said too much. I stopped debating the meaning of passages from the Course. But, I confess, that is not always my first inclination. The ego-thinking mind has been collecting a lot of information over the years of study, and it really wants to dispense that information, and it really believes it is important that it does so.

Now I seem to have come full circle. I am back to realizing that I don’t know anything. Now when I think my brother is wrong, I ask the Holy Spirit how He hears this. I ask what He would have me understand. There is truth in my brother just as there is truth in me, and I can hear the truth if that is what I want. I cannot hear the truth, however, if I am busy enumerating his errors.

What I understand now is that telling someone how wrong they are is like stomping on a new green shoot because its not growing fast enough. How arrogant of me to have ever believed that I knew how fast it should grow. And did I think stomping on it was going to help it find its growth?

When I tell my brother he is wrong and I am right I may as well tell him that he is less than me, that he just doesn’t get it, that I don’t trust him and so he shouldn’t trust himself either. Telling my brother he is wrong by trying to convince him I am right is setting him back on his journey. It is setting me back, too, as it is creating a stronger belief in separation in my own mind.

So while my first thought might be to correct (the ego often speaks first), the truer thought is a sincere desire to be empty of all the mind thinks it knows so that the Holy Spirit can give me words that will be truly helpful, words that will fertilize the new shoot rather than stomp it down. Becoming willing to know nothing and to allow the answer to be given is the only sure way I know to avoid setting my brother back on his journey.

Another way I can set my brother back on his journey is to encourage his guilt. I’ve seen myself do this to my children and in other relationships. This happens when, in any way, I say to them, “You hurt me” — when I try to convince them that they made me feel bad, or hurt my feelings, left me alone, or that they owe me.

It can be easy sometimes to find proof that I am right, that what they did was hurtful. I could find enough apparent proof to convince others that I have been hurt by them, and so gather witnesses to their guilt. And if I am determined to play victim or martyr I can certainly find someone to buy into my story, to shore it up and make it seem more real.

As I am saying that someone did me wrong, I am also saying that someone is guilty. Anything which reinforces guilt sets my brother back on his journey and, of course at the same time, it sets me back. Believing in guilt anywhere creates the experience of guilt in my life.

This is an excellent time to remind myself of this, because as I am writing this we are in the Christmas season. When the holidays are upon me, I have family and friends visiting, extra expenses, crowds, heavy traffic, many stressors, creating the perfect environment to trigger my stuff. And this is the opportunity I need to see how much I still believe in my victim stories, my martyr stories, and my guilt stories.

This Christmas required a bit of effort to arrange a time when we could all get together. It seems everyone has gone off on their own, some in different towns, some with new partners. There is the need to divide the holiday between families, and to make it all work. I noticed a sadness and resentment that I have to share. It seems I want things my way. If I decided I love this story, this poor mom story, and wanted to keep it, no matter how hard I try to keep my feelings to myself I would let it slip out that I’m not happy and its their fault.

I had to ask myself if I really wanted to tell my children that they are guilty of not making me happy. I have to laugh as I read this, it is so ludicrous. But I felt it and know the belief was in my mind.

I was reminded of another way I could hold my kids hostage to my happiness when I read this quote from Byron Katie.

It says: “If your happiness depends on your children being happy that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.”

The reason I find this an especially helpful thing to remember is that my children are very much on my mind during this Christmas season. One child is short of money, another without her partner. They all have their own challenges going on and I am tempted to try to fix their problems, or to want them to be happy or at least I want them to show me their happiness.

This need to see them happy for me to be happy leads to all sorts of unhelpful behavior. Advice giving is one of those behaviors; the belief that I know something they need to know. The belief that they are not as wise as I am and they need to listen to me. These beliefs lead to words that can set them back on their journey.

My prayer for the holidays: Holy Spirit, help me remember that my children are exactly where they need to be on their path. Help me to remember that my happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with their life situation. Help me to remember to step out of their business and to trust them to grow at exactly the rate they should grow. Teach me what it means to be devoted to these my brothers and to go with them twice as far as they ask. Guide me in my words and deeds that I might never say or do anything to set them back on their journey.

Rev. Myron Jones, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Charles, Louisiana. Read more of her inspiring Healing Journal articles on the Pathways website. Website: http://www.forgivenessisthewayhome.org
Note: Be sure to see Rev. Myron Jones and Rev. Larry Glenz at the 2013 Chicago ACIM Conference, where they will be the speakers representing Pathways of Light. See the details on the back cover.

© 2012, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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The Team

by Rev. Veronika Wilcox, O.M.C.

The Team

Holy Spirit and I are a team.
I do nothing without Him,
for I am nothing without Him.

We go hand in hand,
Holy Spirit and I.

We walk together,
we talk together,
we breathe together.

And most of all,
we live together as One,
in the inner stillness
which is God.

Connect to Love

Do not be cast down, my Beloved,
but lift up your consciousness
and behold all that is
good and beautiful.

It is there, everywhere if you would
but look with eyes that are loving, with
eyes that are connected to your heart.

Rev. Veronika Wilcox is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Merimbula, NSW, Australia.

© 2012, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Attraction Rather Than Promotion

by Rev. Larry Glenz, O.M.C.

This past month has been very eventful for me. The book I had been writing for the past two years has been self-published and now has become available to the general public. My relationship with my son, Kevin, while he descended into opiate addiction over a seven year period is the backdrop of my story. The message that I wish to convey is that in any situation in the world — only the Love is real.

Only four months before his fatal overdose on heroin, Kevin helped to bring his only child, Olivia, into this world. He was a loving twenty-seven year-old man with a terrible problem as this world would judge it. His passing 22 months ago has had a profound effect on those that knew Kevin and his family.

Since the publication of the book just over a month ago, I have received emails, texts, letters, and phone calls every day from those who knew and loved Kevin. Few understood before the details of his extensive battle with addiction, recovery, and relapse. As word of this book catches on, I expect to continue to receive more and more communication — not just from those who knew him — but from those who love an addict and are totally immersed in all that it entails.

Being a longtime student of A Course in Miracles, I have learned the importance of turning all of my decisions over to my Higher Power. My efforts are imperfect but my trust in the process is only getting stronger. As a grateful member of Al-Anon — the twelve step program for the family and friends of alcoholics and addicts — I have learned the value of the principle of “attraction rather than promotion.” I am learning to trust that this book will reach those that need it. I need do nothing except put the outcome into the hands of my Inner Guidance.

It has been a short time that this book, Forgiving Kevin: A Son’s Addiction Becomes a Father’s Greatest Teacher, has been out there. The feedback that I have received indicates that Kevin’s story will touch others in a meaningful way. When Kevin was in recovery we talked often about how he would be able to help others as an addiction counselor. He had graduated college with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and was already working as a counselor for those with addiction to gambling shortly before he died.

Over the past month my emotions have been greatly stimulated by the love that has come from so many that needed to tell me how this story affected them. So far, most of the messages have come from his friends and those in the community in which he grew up. Although I cry more from this loving communication, it reaches so deeply into my heart and fills me with joy.

My desire is that the story about Kevin can help others. I certainly have never written a book before but I do believe that this one was guided by Holy Spirit. I know I can let go and let God now. I feel Kevin’s love helping me with great power in all the aspects of my life. And as A Course in Miracles teaches me – only the love is real.

Rev. Larry Glenz, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Long Beach, New York.
Note: Receive Rev. Larry Glenz’s audio book, “Forgiving Kevin: A Son’s Addiction Becomes a Father’s Greatest Teacher as a free gift with Pathways membership.

© 2012, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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