Miracles News

September-December, 2025

God, the Original Senior Citizen

by Sonya Spahn, Spiritual Counselor Training student

I am currently studying Course 301: Christ Vision with Reverend Myron Jones as my facilitator. The question posed was how the practice of paying attention to my thoughts and feelings was helping me be more gentle and loving to myself.

Holy Spirit weighed in on this one with answers to questions I never knew I should be asking.

Following months of some serious ailments that came one after another, I didn’t realize how wrong I’d been about everything!

It is my honor to share, perhaps you’d like to look at aging through Christ Vision as well.

I am amazed at how a practice that I have done so many, many times over the 20 years I’ve been A Course in Miracles student still feels a bit foreign and as if not believing ego thoughts is something new!

I’ve become pretty adept at looking at the “big” thoughts, the grievances and wrongs. It’s the little loop thoughts that I get to see highlighted now.

I am going through some body issues now, first digestive issues that were “off the chart” for weeks, then a knee event that was both painful and shocking which ended in needing a new knee, and now an arm that is in pain and cannot do all the things I’m accustomed to my arm doing.

I have watched as a constant parade of thoughts such as “getting old isn’t for sissies” and “boy, when you get to be 65 years old, your body really falls apart for no good reason” and “old age means pain and suffering” flooded the mind.

Now I’m seeing the pattern.

First and foremost, those body issues came after a long, dark winter where I did little to love the body.

I constantly consumed foods that didn’t nourish the body, had excesses in appetites, long periods of little exercise and even less motivation to move.

I had been filled with shame and guilt and constantly scolded myself for these unloving actions but did absolutely nothing to change them.

A broken body was the effect of all those thoughts.

I prayed for help.

Suddenly, I had to change my diet, so my tummy wasn’t at war. Suddenly, I had to lose some of my excess weight because I needed an operation, and the doctor said I had to be a smaller person to do the surgery.

Suddenly, sitting and reading books on my phone was no longer an option. What else could I do with my time?

Those shame and blame and guilt thoughts had led to attacks on the body. Suddenly, overnight it seemed, I had to change the habits that were leading to pain and suffering.

Yet, instead of looking upon the body as an enemy, a traitorous bringer of pain, it was, instead, time to look at the thoughts.

I had prayed for help.
And help had come.

The Course tells us that all healing is of the mind.

A healed mind doesn’t project thoughts of guilt and shame upon a loving vehicle or communication device. A healed mind extends Love. The body longs to be lovingly exercised, to be moved in fun and creative ways, and to be nourished with nutritious fuels for the body as well as for the soul.

The soul longs to sing!

What I saw when looking with Christ Vision is that old age is a blessing. Those younger years were full of adrenaline, hormones, broken hearts, competition. There was always a rush to get to tomorrow, when all would be well. Do, do, do.

Old age, by comparison, calls me to be, be, be. Be wise. Be still. Be joyous. Be in the flow of creation. Be at peace.

These Thoughts are the Thoughts of God. An eternal All That Is, that existed before I was born and will extend long past when this body has become unanimated with the Sonja personality. God did not fall apart as the illusional years flew by. Creation continues, unabated and unaffected by minutes, hours, days and even centuries.

This is just one of the gentle and loving set of corrections I have heard when I notice thoughts that do not inspire, support and extend my Beloved.

I’m not there all the time, and often I’m floored with how I could so easily go astray, but I know the Divine attracts with an overwhelming magnestism. I forgive the little delays and am grateful for every Holy Instant.

Thank you, Father, for creating the Christ. Thank you for my True Identity. Let that Light continue to shine in Your very grateful creation, one newly born Holy Instant by one Holy Instant. Each Holy Instant is eternal, and eternity is ageless and limitless. Thank you, Holy Senior Citizen of Heaven!

Sonja Spahn is a Spiritual Counselor Training student living in Alexandria, LA
Email:Sspahn007@aol.com or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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