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Love Came to Me in a Dream

by Rev. Erica Letfus, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

When I hopped into bed, I was overcome with grief, feeling my journey as “mother” was coming to an end. It was suggested to me that I was experiencing “empty nest syndrome,” a term used to express the grief parents often feel when their children leave home and get on with their own lives.

My children are 16 and 13. My daughter though attached to me, is also an adventurer and definite that she wants to move away from home for university, a choice which I have no hesitation in supporting her in every and any way I can.

But here I lay sobbing at midnight. And in my despair, thoughts started to steal my peace, one by one:

“My kids don’t need me anymore. They used to adore hugging me. I used to be their entire world. Raising them was hard. I should have enjoyed them more. I should have been more present with them. Did they know I loved them enough? They were so sweet and innocent. Now it’s all gone. Despair, despair, despair.” My ego thinking took over well and truly.

However, in truth, I know for a fact that I loved them with all the love in my heart. When cleaning out our garage, a job that goes on and on forever it seems, I constantly find notes we used to write to each other expressing our love, photo albums filled with happy faces and lovely adventures together. But my ego mind does it’s guilt ridden “image making” of the past and keeps me locked into, “I didn’t do a good enough job. I wasn’t a good enough mother. Now I have missed my chance – they are all grown up.”

I could barely escape the grief this evening. I didn’t know how I would fall asleep these thoughts tormented me so much!

But in a tiny moment of surrender, I remembered a teaching from A Course in Miracles — we can’t heal ourselves — that’s the job of Holy Spirit. So finally, in the wee hours of the morning I asked Holy Spirit to heal my mind. I asked for correction. I asked to have my mind healed of the beliefs that time had run out, that I didn’t do a good enough job, that I had missed my chance. I asked for my mind to be healed of the deeper belief in separation. I asked for my mind to be healed of the belief that I was all alone in my grief.

And remarkably, I fell asleep. I slept all night and awoke to a dream.

In the dream God, or Benevolence, clearly told me that a mother’s job is to love. And love is the most powerful thing in the world. That love is the only real thing at all. And no matter how hard things got while raising my children, I always loved my children. I was told that if I’m loving them, I’m always relevant. I was told that if I’m loving them, it’s never too late. We are on an endless journey through eternity and after this life is complete, love is all that remains.

This is certainly true for me, as my two year old daughter Lily died of cancer. But her love never left me. In fact her love serves as evidence to me of the unendingness of love, connecting this world to the next.

Last night, I asked a being beyond myself for my mind to be healed of my sorrow and grief, to be healed from wrongminded thinking, and I was answered. I was answered in a profound way in my dreams whilst my ego mind was at rest — by the love that never leaves me.

Rev. Erica Letfus, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Auckland, New Zealand.  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  http://www.ericaspeaceplace.com

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The Opportunity

by Rev. Joyce Peebles, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

There is a book by Neale Donald Walsch called, The Little Soul and The Sun. It is written as a children’s parable; however, adults find it helpful too. It talks about two souls that are planning their next incarnation. One soul wants to learn forgiveness. Another friendly soul tells the other he will provide the opportunity to practice forgiveness by doing something to offend him.

The first Soul asks, “Why would you do this? You who are a Being of such utter perfection! You who vibrate with such a speed that it creates a Light so bright I can hardly gaze upon you! What could cause you to want to slow down your vibration to such a speed that your bright Light would become dark and dense and make yourself so heavy that you could do this bad thing?”  The Friendly Soul says, “I would do it because I love you.”

The story goes on to say, we have done this for each other many times before in other lifetimes, you just don’t remember. The purpose is to provide the opportunity to experience who we Really Are by practicing forgiveness. The Friendly Soul says, “I will come into your next lifetime and be the bad me this time. I will have to pretend to be something very unlike myself. And so, I have but one favor to ask of you in return.” The Soul who wants to learn forgiveness replies he will agree to anything for this opportunity. “What is it, what can I do for you? You are such an angel to be willing to do this for me.” At that point God interjects and says, “Of course this Soul is an angel because I send you nothing but angels.” The Friendly Soul continues, “In the moment that I strike you and smite you, that I do the worse to you that you could possibly imagine — in that moment remember who I Really AM.”

The Soul who wants to learn forgiveness promises to remember. The Friendly Soul says, “Because you see, I will have been pretending so hard, I will have forgotten my Self. And if you do not remember me as I Really Am, I may not be able to remember for a very long time.” The Soul who wants to learn forgiveness vows to remember and says he will be thankful for the opportunity.

Yesterday I had an argument with my husband. I thought I was justified in my anger, all the while, faintly hearing within that anger is never justified and lesson 193 came to mind. “All things are lessons God would have me learn.”

I lead A Course in Miracles group in my home. That day I asked someone else to lead the group. I was very aware my ego thoughts were in control. I shared with the group my emotions and the argument with my husband. Then I heard the words of an angel in the meeting. She said, when my husband and I have a disagreement we end it by telling each other, “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to grow.” My heart melted and tears were shed. I had failed to recognize Who my husband Really Is and Who I Really Am. After the meeting I shared this with my husband. I want to remember God sends nothing but angels. Like the soul in the parable, I also came here to learn forgiveness. The miracle is recognizing the Love present in the opportunity.

Rev. Joyce Peebles, OMC, is a Pathways of Light minister. Email:
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Eternal Soul Love

by Rev. Ashley Rose Legrand, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Changeless. Perfect. Immutable.
Deep and Everlasting.
More than meets the eye.

Spirit of the universe
Residing in a temporary body. 

Igniting the soul.
A passion emblazoned in fire.
Branded in the heart.

The heat charging every cell
With divine current
Electrifying.
Intoxicating.
Penetrating
Every curve,
Every inch of being

Freeing…
Expanding this world
To a whole new dimension.

Other worldly power and passion.
Coalescing into an electric,
undulating wave of unity.

Moving into
What the soul has known all along
ever since the body came to be.

Reminding me
of the eternality

Knowing this was not all there is.
Knowing this was not “home.”

Yet still understanding
It could be brought here
Through the unending wellspring of
love pouring forth from within

Luscious. Rich. Plentiful. Open.

Restoring heaven into earth
One breath, one decision at a time
To side with what’s real, what’s true.

Deep pervasive Love.
Nothing else will do.

Nothing else will satisfy
The hunger that has been awakened.
Willing. Able. Open.To receive.

This…
Is living in the world,
while waking up.

Rev. Ashley Rose Legrand, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Metuchen, New Jersey. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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Window of Imagination

by Rev. Robin Singler, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Looking out my kitchen window, I see a beautiful blue sky with white puffy clouds slowly passing by.

They’re so lovely and gentle, traveling from right to left effortlessly as I stand safe and sound in my comfortable home.

In this moment, I’m not confusing myself with the clouds. It is clear that I am in my home, safe and sound where I belong, merely looking out a window, noticing a world outside. I cannot hear the breeze, but I see its effects, blowing leaves and foliage around in undulating movements. And yet I am still safe and sound in my home, merely observing out a window another world outside.

There’s a beautiful calmness now looking out this window, as I recognize myself as a safe child inside the eternal Home of creation. Divine Love and Parenthood has built this Home for me, and this is where I’ve always lived.

I can imagine myself out there among the elements, unsafe and whipped about by the currents of changing seasons. But I am not confused now. I am safe and sound in my Home which my Eternal Love and Compassion built. It is a sound home, strong and unshakable. I have gone nowhere. I was mistaken to believe that I had traveled outside of my Home to claw and search for provisions and survival in a chaotic world of shifting winds and rising and falling temperatures. 

My currents are still and serene. The temperature is mild. I am Home now. I have always been Home, right here, peering out a window of imagination that I mistook for my existence. There has been nothing to fear or fight. How joyful to see so clearly now, held in the serenity of clarity. 

I am still here Now, no storms have touched me. No starvation or thirst has depleted me. What ever changes only exists in the window of my imagination. The scene shifts, rises and falls, grows dark then bright, quiet then raucous. A powerful yet harmless window of imagination. 
But I am safe and protected. I have always been safe and sound. I AM what does not change. I Am.

Robin is a Pathways of Light minister offering Pathways course facilitation and spiritual counseling. She can be found at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address),  http://www.robinbirdsingler.com or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rev.robinbird.singler/

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