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January-March, 2011

Two Ways to Let Go of Fears

by Rev. Sharyn Zenz

As we get closer to the holidays, it seems that my fears of lack seem to creep into my thoughts more and more. It is also the time of the year that property taxes are due. So, my ego seems to work overtime at this time of the year! Whenever I am not at peace and these ego thoughts start to creep into my mind, these are a two of the exercises that are very helpful to me:

1. I sit quietly with Jesus and picture myself in a classroom. Then, I picture myself writing on the blackboard every fear thought that has been cropping up in my mind. I talk to Jesus about them and ask Him to help me forgive myself for thinking those mistaken thoughts.
He is always so happy to answer my requests when it comes to forgiveness! He says He really wants me to get it — that I am innocent, along with everyone else. He reminds me that the opposite of Love is fear, and if I am constantly aware that I am holding His hand, I would remember the Love and forget about the fears! Since our Father only knows of Love, there is nothing else. So all those thoughts I have been dwelling on are false and can never be true since only Love is Real.

Jesus then hands me an eraser and asks me to go to the blackboard and erase all of those mistaken thoughts that I have been having. He reminds me that all I ever have to do is erase the mistaken thought and remember only the Love that I am and that is true forgiveness. Wow, this is powerful to me. I then walk away with a clean slate and if thoughts of lack, or fears of what if’s, or how is this going to happen, enter my mind, I quickly remember the eraser and picture myself erasing all of those thoughts. It is amazing how easy this is to do and how it really works!

2.  Sometimes at night if I wake up and am going over and over in my mind some thoughts of a particular incident or thoughts of not having enough to pay this or that, or whatever the thoughts are that are keeping me awake, I get out of bed and stand up. Then I bend over as if I was going to touch my toes, and I stay in that position picturing all those thoughts emptying out of my head. I remain bent over until I feel that all the thoughts are completely gone.

When I stand back up, I ask Holy Spirit to “please fill my mind with only thoughts of You. Fill it with the thoughts that You would have me think.” I then sit quietly with Holy Spirit, and you know it is amazing that they really are gone and I can’t even remember what thoughts I was ruminating about! Try it. It really works.

Today as I sit here writing this article, I am reminded that even though this world seems real — it is not. Even as I think of everyone else and they seem separate from me — they are not. We are all connected to God and we are all one Light. As I remember to extend the Light that I am to others and help them to see their Light, this world is filled with more Love and more Light. Even when I think of getting a job, or where am I going in 2011, I am reminded that my only job is to extend the Love that I am, and the only place to go is within.

Rev. Sharyn Zenz is a Pathways of Light minister living in Luxemburg, Wisconsin. She serves as the Office Liaison for Students/Facilitators at Pathways of Light.

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January-March, 2011

ONEderful JOYning

by Rev. Bob Thompson

This morning when I woke up I immediately noticed that Kathy had risen before me and gone downstairs. This was unusual because she always worked later than me and thus usually rose after me. I also wondered, “What is she doing downstairs that would cause her to rise so early?” And then I remembered… The day that my life ended? And the day (that same day) that my life, a new now, began again?

Seemingly, on July 19th, when I repeatedly kissed the river coldness of Kathy’s body, I immediately slipped into a twilight zone of another dimension.

Looking back now after nearly five months have gone by, I remember India’s old custom of “suttee,” where the widow casts herself onto her husband’s funeral pyre, and burns to death. “Suttee” is still used to describe the widow, in India, who voluntarily wishes to do this.

After kissing Kathy’s cold hands, lips and brow, it seemed as if coldness had entered me. I remember feeling that what I was witnessing, was not real — that what I was experiencing was a nightmare from which I really looked forward to waking up.

It would be such a joyous occasion to see her move and feel her warmth, again! The warmth in my own body had completely vanished. And I felt that warmth was gone forever. I was alive in the sense of being able to move my body, but I was not alive in the sense of my feeling any body warmth or feelings of my own. Kind of like a living, but cold, corpse? A shocked, corpse? Somehow, in my thoughts, I had  seemingly embraced and retained the coldness of Kathy’s body, and had done a “voluntary cold suttee” and given up my own zest for life, my body warmth for life and, in a shocking instant, entered into a dimension of no warmth at all, seemingly forever.

Numerous times I had said to Kathy, “I know that you are only a dream (and what a dream!), but I am really attached to my dream of you.” And Kathy’s response was always, “It is only a body” — Kathy’s five words, her belief, which now, after all these months finally are unfolding their meaning for me.

A psychic friend shared with me that Kathy’s greatest fear was that I would die before her. Now I understand the reluctance of the survivor to continue living a life that has lost its meaning, lost its warmth, because the joy and the warmth in that key relationship are no longer there.

But help does come unexpectedly, when one is willing to be open to guidance. And so it finally happened for me.

A loved one mailed me the book Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, by Gordon Livingston M.D., a psychiatrist. I am now reading the book for the fourth time. (I recognize myself as a slow learner.) 😊 . It is thirty short essays based on Gordon’s personal experiences and those of some of his clients.

One of the short essays is: “Love Is Never Lost, Not Even In Death.” Gordon’s two son’s died about 13 months apart, a six year old to leukemia, and a brilliant 21 year old, to suicide. Gordon admits, that in his own grief, he contemplated suicide. Then this insightful, grieving and distraught doctor went on to talk about how the death of our loved ones invokes in us, or brings up in us, feelings of love that are much stronger for that lost person than we had ever suspected were in us while the loved one was still alive.

Thus the dilemma — What do you do now with that exceedingly great love, greater than what you were aware of during your loved one’s life? Especially now, when that loved one is no longer alive to share that love with? Gordon’s answer? “You give that love to others, thus honoring the memory of the beloved.” (And, in so doing, I believe, honoring all others, self, and The Divine.)

NOW it seems as if the real twilight zone has crept up on me and seemingly whisked me off into the true dimension — A dimension of gratefulness so complete that it slips over into unspeakable awe and then, profoundly, into inner peace.

Teacher Kathy lived such a life, hour by hour, every hour, day by day, every day. Two of her favorite words were, ONEderful and JOYning. Kathy said them and wrote them frequently.

She is my role model. Others have said and written that Kathy is their role model, also. And so, now, I am always warmed with the JOYning presence of angels, angel bodies and angel spirits in me, in front of me, on the phone, or in e-mails. Now, when ONEderfully JOYning…. I always smile, because… in the oneness… an angel joyfully dances….

Rev. Robert Thompson is a Pathways of Light minister living in Portage, Wisconsin. Web site: wwwbumpityroad.org

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January-March, 2011

Now One with Source

by Rev. Petra Sundheim

“Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.” ACIM Lesson 164

Amazing how Spirit works. I have not heard from my youngest daughter for some time and have been unable to reach her. Mystified, I went to sleep asking for Peace.

I had a dream of climbing a slippery wide ladder with my youngest daughter, as a little girl, climbing along side of me to a ‘loft of safety.’ We were near the top and others who had made it were encouraging us. I was tired and having trouble hanging on and couldn’t help my struggling little girl and I asked those above to help her. They reached down and pulled her to safety as I made it over the ledge. I asked for her and went into the room they pointed to. I heard sobs coming from a form rolled up in a blanket and took her into my arms, holding and comforting her as I woke up.

I asked for the meaning of the dream. The slippery aspect of the ladder was my self-doubt. “Why my youngest child?” I asked. “Did I wound her?” “Yes” was the answer. She was six and my attention and focus was on my two oldest acting-out adolescents. She was a trouble-free independent little girl who, at times, tried to comfort me and never shared her feelings. Deep remorse and tears flowed as I recalled this time in my life and my neglect of this precious child. Now this unhealed memory was coming up for her and she is acting accordingly.

I wrote a letter of confession and request for forgiveness for behaviors reflecting my own unhealed childhood and effects of Christian fundamentalism, a fear-based distortion of Jesus message. The Christ presence within, her true Self, Source could help her parent and heal this wounded inner child. I shared the love I feel for her and my availability when she is ready.

Opening A Course in Miracles to Lesson 164, I felt a holy instant had transpired in the present moment — the Now. Oneness was felt as I heard the Father’s call and allowed the Christ in me to answer. Indeed, grief was laid by. Now is Christ’s power in your mind, to heal as you were healed. Then, your doubts are meaningless for God is certain. His sureness lies beyond our every doubt. His Love remains beyond our every fear… Beyond all dreams.

Every word in this lesson came to life, as I had lived it.

Rev. Petra Rose Sundheim, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Kauai, Hawaii.

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January-March, 2011

Receiving Inspiration and Giving It All Away

by Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan

Peace is the Way through the Door
Creating a Life waiting for you to live it.

Nothing to postpone until the
circumstances are just right.
Nothing to delay until you
can slip out of sight.
All your needs will be met,
All you fears have been wept.

Leave your bags at the door
and your weariness too.
Let Peace be your friend and
Create a friend out of you.

What’s the point you say?
Your life is on a roll?
I will tell you this,
Life is taking its toll.

Hold on, wait up, I’m not finished yet.
I heard your sighs today,
Your worries and your frets.
Yet, I also see your joy
In the way you and I met.

You are exquisite my friend —
No matter what.
No need to believe Me,
Experience it for your Self.

I am asking for your help
In a world that needs a friend.
There are hearts and minds among us
Who do not know how to mend.
This is where we come in, you and I.
Together we can see their wholeness
In the blink of One Eye.

Think you are not the one
Who could ever make a difference?
Perhaps you are thinking
Who am I to undo this nonsense?
Yet, you are the one,
You will do greater things than Me.
And the mending will be done
As friend to friend is willing to see.

I delight in a way
In both your frenzy and dismay,
For I know around the corner
Is a friend willing to see you and say:
Thank you for helping me
To remember who I am,
An Inspiring Heart-Mind and
In this moment your friend.

Here it is the meaningful life you seek.
Real meaning and true joy
Have not begun to reach their peak.
There is a Great Inspiration within you
And it isn’t happenstance
That you and that Great Inspiration
Are One in the Dance.

Gotta Dance!

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!. Web site: http://www.pauseforinspiration.org

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