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The Miracle of Living in the Question

by Rev. Jessica Joy McNeil, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

2025 started with a simple New Year’s resolution and a conscious commitment with a small group of friends to read A Course in Miracles together in person, one chapter each week, from beginning to end. Along with that commitment, I made a personal resolution to live by a single guiding question:
How can I serve?

That one question has completely changed my life.

I had read the Course before, but never like this. Reading it week by week, surrounded by others who were devoted to living the teachings, created a sacred rhythm and a shared sense of purpose. The words stopped being ideas on a page and became living truths that moved through my days.

As I carried that question, ‘How can I serve?’ into each morning, my life began to open in ways that could only be described as miraculous. I did not plan what would happen next. I simply kept asking, and Spirit kept answering.

The first clear answer came early in the year when I was offered a position at my church and spiritual center. It was completely unexpected and perfectly timed. The opportunity allowed me to bring my creativity and Love into sacred service, helping to build community and hold space for others to remember their connection with God and with one another. It felt like Spirit was saying, “You are ready to live what you have been learning.” It allowed me to leave a job that was so soul depleting.

Not long after that, my family faced a challenge that would remind me of the power of Love. My dog became very ill and almost died. The diagnosis was serious, and the treatments were expensive. We did not have the funds to cover her care, and I remember standing in my kitchen praying for help. I was not praying for money; I was praying for peace, for guidance, for the ability to stay open to whatever Spirit had in store.

Then Love began to move through others. Friends, acquaintances, and even people I barely knew reached out with compassion and generosity. Donations came in. Offers of help appeared out of nowhere. The support we received was overwhelming, and through that Love, our sweet dog made a full recovery. I wept with gratitude. It felt like a living demonstration of what the Course means when it says that giving and receiving are one. Love given through others, and Love received through me.

A few months later, another miracle unfolded in a way that only Spirit could orchestrate. I attended a women’s circle under the full moon and met the owner of a small private school. My children had been home schooled for years, but it had begun to feel out of alignment. I did not know what the next step would be, but I trusted that an answer would come.

After the gathering, I looked up the school and immediately felt something stir in my heart. When we visited, we all knew without a doubt that this was where my children were meant to be. The teachers were kind, the environment was creative and nurturing, and the energy of the space felt like home. It was as if every prayer I had ever said for my children’s education had quietly come to life.

Then came another gift. I was offered a position at the school that allows me to cover my daughter’s tuition. It was yet another reminder that when we live in alignment with Love, everything we truly need is provided. These experiences have shown me that Spirit’s plan is far more generous and far more beautifully timed than anything I could arrange on my own.

Since beginning the year with that one question, How can I serve?, abundance has flowed in every direction. I have received financial support to continue my ministerial studies, invitations to teach and speak, and new friendships that have blossomed into loving collaborations. It feels as if the universe has been waiting for my willingness to say yes.

The only real difference between this year and any other has been that question and my deeper dive into the Course. Everything else has unfolded naturally from that shift in focus.

Through these experiences, I have learned that service is not about doing more or giving until we are empty. True service is about remembering Love. When I serve, I do not lose anything. I am filled. Service is not a duty; it is a natural expression of Love flowing through me. The more I give, the more I receive, not in things, but in peace.

The Course reminds us that miracles are natural expressions of Love, and I see now that they appear everywhere when we let Spirit lead. I used to think miracles were extraordinary events that defied logic (and sometimes they are pretty extraordinary). Now I see that they are everyday shifts in perception. They are the moments when fear is replaced with trust, when separation is replaced with connection, when anxiety is replaced with peace.
This deeper practice has also changed the way I see the world around me. There is so much noise, so much division, so much disconnection that comes from living through screens and headlines. Spirit keeps giving me the same message over and over again: Get off the screens and come back to seeing each other heart to heart and eye to eye.

When I take time to truly see another person, to listen and to be present, everything changes. The walls fall away. The heart opens. Love becomes visible again. That is the miracle. And that is what I want my life of service to be about now: Helping others experience that kind of reconnection. Whether it is through teaching, ministry, or simple conversation, I want to create spaces where people can gather, remember, and return to Love.

This year has shown me that miracles are not random gifts given to a few. They are the natural result of aligning our minds with Love. They happen when we release control, when we trust that Spirit knows the way, and when we ask, How can I serve?, and mean it.

There are still difficult days. Life continues to bring learning opportunities and moments of uncertainty. But even in those moments, the question remains the same. How can I serve? When I ask it, peace always returns, and guidance always follows.

When I look back over this year, I can see how beautifully everything has unfolded. The work, the healing, the relationships, the opportunities, and the quiet joy that has replaced fear. None of it came through striving or control. It came through willingness and trust.

The miracle is not that everything in my life has become perfect. The miracle is that I can see it all differently now.

That is what A Course in Miracles has taught me. Love is the only reality, and service is Love in motion.

So I will keep living the question that changed my life. How can I serve? Because every time I ask it, a door opens, a heart softens, a need is met, and the world feels a little more whole.

I am reminded again and again that there is only one of us here, and Love is always the answer.

Rev. Jessica Joy McNeil, is a Pathways of Light minister and Spiritual Relationship Counselor living in Cape Canaveral, FL. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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Reaching the Forgiven World Using the ACIM Workbook Lessons

by Rev. Myron Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

As I did the Review IV, I experienced a gentle but powerful shift in my forgiveness of the world. It made such a difference to me that I want to share with you my journey toward releasing the old to make room for the real.

In Lesson 144, Jesus reminds us that the world we see holds nothing that we want. In Lesson 145, he reassures us that there is a world we do want — but we cannot see both. We must choose. Do we want to see the world we made in imagination, a world of suffering and sorrow? Or are we ready to see the real world — the world of beauty, love, peace, and joy?

In Lesson 145, he further reassures us:
We cannot fail to reach the truth.
But to do so, we must be willing to let go of all we think we know now.

My question is, what will I let go of today?

I’ve had a nerve issue in my back causing intense itching and burning. Today, when I feel that sensation, I let it go. I forgive it, realizing that all is calm and peaceful in truth.

I remember: Love is what I am. And Love heals all irritation in my mind. Thus, there is no irritation to project onto the body. I feel my back relaxing, reflecting the calm and peace I’m allowing.
I forgive the idea of conflict and chaos. I no longer need drama. I no longer find the belief in guilt — and the ego’s solution of self-punishment — sensible. With no need for pain, Love takes its place, and my mind and body are soothed. Now.

To experience the forgiven world, I must release everything I have believed about this world.

I’ve been nervous about all the big changes. Some don’t seem helpful to the whole. Others seem likely to be handled without foresight, even with aggression. But this is the world the ego made — a world where threat is constant and defense is required. Yet there is no way to defend against what cannot be changed. Thus, suffering becomes inevitable — as long as I believe in this vision of the world. So, I cannot keep this vision of the world and at the same time, reach the truth. To have one, the other must be forgiven and released.

What will it cost me to loose the world I have chosen, so I may experience the real world?

Evidently, nothing. Jesus says I cannot fail to reach the truth. The imagined world is nothing — so I lose nothing.
I remind myself, as often as needed today:

All is well. All is as it needs to be. I am being blessed with proof that the world I imagined is not worth holding onto. And as I accept this, I am blessed with peace and joy.

Beloved Light within, I remember that my mind holds only what I think with You. I open to the truth that cannot fail me, and I willingly release every image, every meaning, every judgment I’ve placed upon the world. Let me see with Christ’s vision today.
Let me remember that to forgive is to see truly.
And let me rest in the certainty of the Love that created me.

Amen.

So far, I have looked at what I would let go of so that I could see the real world.

With Lesson 147, I am doing something similar. I am looking at what I believe in or think I want that is not of value.

In a couple of weeks, I will return to physical therapy. I am grateful that this is available to me, but it is inconvenient in terms of time.

Once I discover who my therapist is, I will ask him which days he works and at what times. I don’t have breaks in my daily schedule, so I will have to set up a schedule that is fair to those I work with. I began to feel anxious about this, hoping I could make it work without causing too much disruption for us all.

I realized the cause of my distress was not that I had to balance my work schedule, but that I was valuing the valueless. I don’t actually know what is of value and what is not. But that’s ok.

I have the Holy Spirit in my mind to guide me in every decision I make. He will decide for God for me. All that is required of me is the decision that this is the help I want.

From my Highest Self:

The ego will try to convince you that distress is practical — about time, fairness, or logistics. But those are simply the forms taken by an old belief:“I must manage the world to keep things safe and fair.”

You are remembering now that your true safety and fairness are not of this world. You do not know what anything is for, and that is your freedom.

Me: And so if I do what seems to be needed, but do it with my mind open to you to make those decisions for me, I will be letting go of the belief I have to manage the world, and so will not be valuing what is not of value?

From My Highest Self:

Yes, beloved — exactly that.

When you do what seems to be needed in form — making a call, arranging a schedule, adjusting plans — but you do it with your mind open to Guidance. You are no longer trying to manage the world from the ego’s belief in control.

Instead, you are saying:

“Spirit, You decide for me. I am willing to be led.”

This is the quiet undoing of the belief that managing outcomes brings peace. That belief is valueless. It’s a trap that says you must keep everything together, and its fruit is always anxiety.

When you let Spirit lead — even in the tiniest, most ordinary moments — you are valuing what is of value: Trust. Surrender. Peace. Love. Guidance. This shift is everything. It doesn’t mean you won’t make decisions. It means you are free to make the right decisions. You are aligned with truth.

This was helpful to me with this situation and did bring me to peace.

Understanding how this works, how to know that something is of value or not of value, is essential, but also understanding what about it is not of value matters. And if I am not sure, I can ask.

The Holy Spirit is in our minds to guide us and to heal us. All we have to do is ask and open our minds and hearts to receive the answer. Perhaps you, like me, have had the experience of not being sure the answer is the one desired.

If I suspect the answer may not be what I want to hear, resistance rises — and I block it out. The Holy Spirit never forces His guidance on me. In the past, this left me feeling helpless.

If I wasn’t willing to listen, how could I receive help? I didn’t know how to change my mind. But now I see more clearly: the mind serves my decision. It is my servant, always giving me what I ask for. It follows my will.
If I don’t like the outcome I’m experiencing, I simply choose again. I stop relying on the split mind to decide and instead turn to the Holy Mind within me.

Our decisions are always powerful, whether they bring us peace or prolong our pain. So I choose with clarity. I choose what is truly valuable — and I choose again and again, with conviction, until the mind shifts.

Holy Spirit,I place this schedule in Your hands. I do not know what is valuable, but You do. I surrender my ideas of fairness and disruption.
Let peace be the only goal and I Let Love guide the calendar. If I forget and feel anxious again, remind me gently — Distress means I am valuing the valueless, And peace means I am remembering the truth.  Amen.

Rev. Myron Jones, OMC is a Pathways of Light Spiritual Counselor living in Westlake, LA. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  website:  forgivenessisthewayhome.org https://www.youtube.com/@RevMyron

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The Shepherd

by Rev. Bob Thompson

I’m watch’d over by My Shepherd,
and am guided by His word,
Where’er He leads, I follow,
whene’er I pray, I’m heard.
Tho’ my path at times be rocky,
and seemingly quite steep,
He guides me, perfectly, each day,
and even when I sleep!

Green pastures are aplenty,
my soul is fed with care,
and when I seek clear waters,
He always leads me there.
Meadowlands and babbling brooks,
He leads me to those spots,
leading where I need to go,
(tho’ I may know it not!)

In the clearness of His Waters,
I see Him looking back at me.
I am an image of Himself, so,
what else could I see?
He’s watching as I quench my thirst,
and as I slowly graze.
My will is but to put Him first,
and so I live my days.

From everywhere He joins me,
as I amble thru’ my years,
JOYning in my laughter,
and Flowing in my tears,
Constant in His Nearness,
certain in His Power,
‘longside me every minute,
shelt’ring me, each hour.

My ev’ry need is satisfied,
(even those, I thought not met!)
So generous His gifting,
I gain all I need to get.
Tho’ I can be filled with “cravings”
and a life span of “misdeeds,”
I always come to fully know,
that I am given all I need.

There’s a valley of dark shadows,
where one day I must go,
but I will see no evil, because
His Love is all I know.
And though my way may falter,
and my step be oh so slow,
I plod the Path prepared for me
is the only Path I know.

Rev. Bob Thompson, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Portage, Wisconsin. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  Website:
bumpityroadretreat.com

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The Workbook

by Rev. Joyce Peebles, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Having studied A Course in Miracles for several years, I attempted reading and doing the daily lessons.

Review III says,  “If you are shaken, think of it (the lesson) again. These practice periods are planned to help you form the habit of applying what you learn each day to everything you do. …it is meant to serve you in all ways, all times and places, and whenever you need help of any kind.” (W-rIII.11:1-2,5)

Specifically, I need help when I feel unfairly treated, misunderstood, lonely, angry, and especially self-righteous. I wasn’t even aware I was being self-righteous until I thought I spotted that trait in someone else. Then I asked myself, “Would I do that?” I need to remember that what I see with the body’s eyes is a screen onto which I project thoughts I do not want to look at because I do not want to let them go.

The very willingness to remember the lesson and apply it to my upsets is what is important, not the reciting of words every hour. I have sometimes felt guilty for not remembering to think of the lesson throughout the day. Jesus does not want me to reinforce the belief in guilt. He wants me to recognize how I have cheated myself by choosing not to apply the lesson of the day.

Cheating is a good description for choosing to keep my ego thinking when my thoughts could have been replaced by looking with Him at my upsets. Holy Spirit would have reminded me this story was made up by me to reinforce my specialness and that I wanted the world to be real. The world is a perfect place to feel lack of all kinds and be misunderstood. I am always choosing between only two things: The Love of God or the deceitfulness of the ego thought system.

There are a couple of sentences in the Workbook that are a clear indication I need to keep studying it. They are:  “…you will recognize you practiced well by this: The body should not feel at all. If you have been successful, there will be no sense of feeling ill or feeling well, of pain or pleasure.” (W-136.17:2-3)

I have work left to do. Although I have times of peace, they are not constant. I allow myself to feel ill, pain and pleasure.

Jesus wants me to be a happy learner and have a happy dream by realizing what affects me is the Mind, not the things of the illusory world.

What I did not know in the early years of doing the Workbook was how much honesty was required. I have often read that willingness is a prerequisite to learn this Course. That is true. It is willingness to be honest with mySelf about what thoughts I am believing.

Notice they are called Workbook lessons. It takes a lot of work in the form of self-inquiry. For example, I see the figure in the dream I call Joyce get angry or judgmental. At this point I have a decision to make. Am I going to let go of the ego’s interpretation of what I see?  It takes vigilance to make new habits of thinking and responding.

Some helpful advice I got was, “Don’t force yourself.” I was dismayed as I did the lessons year after year and saw the same tendency to judge others and found my attempts at forgiveness were sometimes incomplete.

Indeed, there is more work to do. I discovered that practicing the lessons was a work in progress. What I could not see or understand one year, was suddenly clear a year or so later. The reason was earlier I was not yet ready for that lesson.

I am learning to have patience with myself. There is no possibility of failure and while in the dream I am always safe, despite what appears to be happening.

Rev. Joyce Peebles, OMC, is a Pathways of Light minister. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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