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Our Pathway Home Comes from Holy Spirit

by Revs. Robert and Mary Stoelting, Founders of Pathways of Light

Forgiveness guides us to overlook the world of separation to experience our oneness with our Creator and every brother. We willingly shed our judgments in favor of seeing the truth and blessing our brothers. As we welcome the Holy Spirit, we are safely led out of the dream of separation to find the eternal Love that has always been ours.

“Forgiveness is the Holy Spirit’s great learning aid in bringing this thought reversal about. …As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or “forgive.” At the same time we are forgiving ourselves, looking past our distorted self-concepts to the Self That God created in us and as us.” (ACIM Preface, xi)

The ego fantasy is that we have succeeded in separating from our Creator. From this wish, a whole universe of fantasies comes forth. Being dependent on these dream fantasies of separation for its existence, the ego never questions its choice of being unique and special. Rather, it always seeks to make the false idea of separation from God more real. The ego’s plan for forgiveness is to first believe that something has happened and then tries to disregard it or put it out of awareness to hold the illusion of separation from God in place.

The unconscious mind is the ego’s repository for all the illusions it wants to keep held in place but which we do not want to be aware of. By seeming to put thoughts and beliefs out of awareness, we have the illusion of overlooking them while still hanging on to them. The ego smiles happily at this charade because it keeps it safely entrenched in our mind. To break free from this imprisoning cycle, we need help from outside the ego thought system. This is why we need the Holy Spirit’s plan of forgiveness. The Holy Spirit gives no credence to all ego ideas.

The ego’s plan for correction is to make the error unconscious rather than undo it. This allows the ego thought system to remain in place by making us unaware of the intense fear and guilt that we would surely reject if we were conscious of it. On the other hand, the Holy Spirit’s plan for correction is to undo the error at its source in our minds. This is why it is important that we not hide from our errors, which are our mistaken beliefs in being a separate identity.

The initial error of believing that separation is real is played out in our life experience in myriad ways every day. That is why it is essential that we develop a habit of taking all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His reinterpretation. When we let Him, the Holy Spirit will reinterpret what we have perceived in His own Light of perfect Love. He will show us that what we thought confirmed our separation is not true. As we accept this, He will undo the effects of the error because the error was not real and therefore had no effect in truth.

This practice, done moment by moment, takes us back up the ladder that we have descended into the hell of separation. We undo all the images of separation until we reach the point of true perception, where we see that everything is, in truth, part of us and we stand at the threshold of the unity of Heaven.

To the ego, this process seems like it must be endless because there seems to be so many different forms to forgive. But as we work with the Holy Spirit, we learn to see more and more that what seemed to be different is really all the same. We come to the point of realizing that there is really only one error — the belief that separation occurred. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we let that go and we return with joy to the welcoming arms of our loving Creator. We return to the awareness of Reality.

“Forgiveness is acquired. It is not inherent in the mind, which cannot sin. As sin is an idea you taught yourself, forgiveness must be learned by you as well, but from a Teacher other than yourself, Who represents the other Self in you. Through Him you learn how to forgive the self you think you made, and let it disappear. Thus you return your mind as one to Him Who is your Self, and Who can never sin.” (W.121.6:1-5)

The Holy Spirit represents our true Self. To be happy, we must have a consistent practice of letting Him be our Guide in everything we think, say or do. This practice will free our mind from fear and guilt, returning it to its natural state of Love.

The Holy Spirit’s vision shows us the presence of Love everywhere. He teaches us that what we see with the body’s eyes is not real and has no effect on the Self God created one with Him. Reason under the ego’s guidance cannot teach us illusions are not real. The seeming existence of the ego depends on maintaining the belief that illusions are real.

But as we let the Holy Spirit guide our perception, we see the world in a different Light — the Light of Love. This Light dispels the shadows of mistaken beliefs in what could never be true. This Light is in us. We need only choose the Light of Love in our mind to see a forgiven world, free of the ego’s denial of God’s Love. By choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide, we choose life instead of death, Love instead of fear, innocence instead of guilt. We are returned to happiness.

Because we have been attached to a false ego thought system, which is based on the desire for uniqueness, specialness and being different from Universal Love, we will practice being led by the Holy Spirit to become aware of the thoughts we are believing in and recognize the difference between ego’s thoughts and Holy Spirit’s thoughts.

We need a Teacher Who is not deceived by the illusions we have made to substitute for the truth of Love. By the grace of God we always have the Holy Spirit in our minds, right there, where we made up the illusions. Being in the place where we make the error, He is in a position to offer correction if we are willing to learn His lessons. His lessons begin with helping us recognize that what we have believed brought us happiness has no real value because it is made of nothing. It is a simple lesson, but one that may not be easy for us to accept.

His teaching helps us to change our values so that we no longer give value to nothing. We learn to recognize the real value of Love, Which is everything and is What we are. Gradually the fear of change subsides and we become happy learners of the fact that only truth is true — only Love is real.

The Holy Spirit shows us that nothing really matters in a world that is not there. What really matters is remembering the truth that we are in Heaven where we belong, now. No worldly stories can change the truth. Truth is true and nothing else is true. As we see our brothers in the light of truth, we help ourselves and our brothers because we are one.

As we let the Holy Spirit be our Guide in awakening from our belief in separation, we become God’s messengers. We remember that we are Love Itself and extend Love equally to all. This is the one function God would have us fulfill. Today and every day we practice being a messenger of Love.

Understanding the difference between our function and the Holy Spirit’s function is a very important part in being able to experience the happy dream. Our one constant focus is, “‘…Thy Will be done,’ and not, ‘I want it otherwise.’” (T-18.V.4:3)

Once our role is clear, and we are willing to do our part of stepping back and following, the Holy Spirit knows how to do the rest.

“On your little faith, joined with His understanding, He will build your part in the Atonement and make sure that you fulfill it easily. And with Him, you will build a ladder planted in the solid rock of faith, and rising even to Heaven. Nor will you use it to ascend to Heaven alone.” (T-18.V.2:6-8)

We do not ascend to Heaven alone because, as we allow the Holy Spirit to heal our thoughts of separation, we learn to see that all the little illusionary ‘minds’ in the dream of separation are really connected. We are, in fact, joined. This means we are not alone and never were, even though we believed it for a while.

Our experience: We still find ourselves believing in the thoughts of the world, but as we continue to practice, we find that it has become easier to see these thoughts sooner and again remember that calls for love are reminders to extend Love, not judgment.

In truth, we are all God’s children. There is nothing to fear. We are still safe in the Mind of God, where we were created. We are a great help to each other when either of us forget that only God’s Love is real. The following is a process that we work with to deepen our connection to the Holy Spirit:

Relax and open to Holy Spirit’s healing guidance in your mind… You remember that the Light of Love is what you are, given you by our Creator to be forever united with Him… You remember that this is true about you and every brother in this world…

Today we choose to accept Holy Spirit’s help to let go of our wish for specialness, or separation from Love’s oneness. We want to remember the Love we are. We want to be happy. We remember with the Holy Spirit that forgiveness is the key to everything we truly want.

© 2026, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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