Miracles News

Sept.-Dec., 2024

Holy Spirit, Guide Us to Your Peace and Joy

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

We have been working with A Course in Miracles for 40 years. Over this time, our willingness to follow Holy Spirit instead of deciding things on our own has increasingly helped us to let go of our thinking about being separate and that it is our job to decide what we want and need in order to be happy.

This practice has also helped us to ask of everything, “What is this for? Is this idea reinforcing the ego’s false values of separation or reinforcing the truth of everyone’s oneness in the Mind of God?” This practice has helped us step back and let the Holy Spirit return us to the truth that everyone is the same extension of God’s Love.

The Holy Spirit is also helping us to be mindful of when ego thoughts pop up in our mind — to notice when we become fearful or afraid, or when we are following the ego’s lead to project guilt onto another, or when we focus on the past or the future instead of the eternal present where we live in God’s Kingdom of eternal Love.

Over the years the Holy Spirit has guided us to continue with our study of the Course and continue to do the daily Workbook lessons to reinforce the truth that we are Spirit and not a body. The Course reminds us that we are dreaming a dream of separation from God and that we are still the perfect Love that God created us to be.

Our best friend, the Holy Spirit, has very consistently guided us day by day to help us remember what our true purpose is and why we are here. We have been guided to share with others how much the Holy Spirit can help anyone who is willing to step back and let Holy Spirit lead them to a more peaceful and happier life.

The following are messages that we have received from Holy Spirit when we were willing to stop and listen for a better way:

Let Holy Spirit Be the Judge

When we recognize we are judging a situation or someone in the world, this is what Holy Spirit reminds us of:

The truth is that everyone in this world you see is still God’s Perfect Love because God gave all of Himself to everyone. As you let yourself remember the truth, you help yourself and you help the world.

The ego thoughts you have recognized in yourself or anyone in this world are just mistaken ideas. It is helpful for you to think of these mistaken thoughts as calls for Love.

If you want to be truly helpful, remember to extend Love to others and to yourself for believing these thoughts could be true. When you remember the Christ in all your brothers, you free yourself.

Let Holy Spirit Bring Us to the Eternal Present

When we experience thoughts of being afraid that something terrible might happen in the future, this is what Holy Spirit reminds us of:

The truth is that there is no past. There is no future. In Reality there is only the eternal present. You live in the Mind of God. This world is not your home. Remember you still are as God created you. You are safe… you are innocent… you are loved… you are Home in the Mind of God, now and forever.

Let Holy Spirit Help Us Pause, Choose Peace and Receive the Truth

When we recognized we were not peaceful because we were impatient with some situation that was not working out fast enough according to our made-up deadline, the Holy Spirit helped us this way:

We heard the words of the song, “Slow down, your going too fast. Got to make the moment last! Skipping down the cobble stones… da da da da, feeling groovy!” This made us laugh and relax about the situation.

Remembering Only God’s Plan Brings Us to the Truth

When we made plans for the future without pausing first and checking in with the Holy Spirit, we were reminded of the famous quote found in Lesson 71: ”Only God’s plan for salvation will work.”

In paragraph 9 of Lesson 71 we are told to ask: “What would You have me do? Where would You have me go? What would You have me say, and to whom? …let Him tell you what needs to be done by you in His plan for your salvation. He will answer in proportion to your willingness to hear His Voice. Refuse not to hear.”

Mary: Years ago, when we had a spiritual retreat center in Kiel, Wisconsin, we thought that we would be working there for the rest of our lives. One night, very early in the morning, I started hearing the Holy Spirit telling me that it was time to move to Florida to continue our work through Pathways of Light.

This was very scary because I thought we were too old (we were 65) and didn’t have enough money to move all our printing equipment all the way to Florida. It seemed inconceivable to me. Where would we get the funds? At that time I forgot Lesson 71 and was not open to Holy Spirit’s plan.

Well, a week later Holy Spirit returned again at about 4:00 a.m. and talked again about moving to Florida. This time I was more open to stepping back and letting go of my preconceived ideas. I was open and listened. He said that it would all work out and that we were being carried if we were willing and would trust in God’s plan enough.

Well, amazing things happened and the way was cleared as we strengthened our trust in God’s way instead of what we thought.

It is 15 years later and we now understand why stepping back from making plans on our own and trusting in Holy Spirit’s plan is so important. Among many other blessings during our time in Florida, Spirit also brought to us two angels — Revs. Colleen and Deb Fee, who now have important roles on our Pathways of Light team.

With Holy Spirit, Healing Is Simple

Healing merely accepts Reality as It is. Healing only seems difficult because at some level, we still want the dream of separation from Love’s oneness. This is the barrier in our mind that opposes the Will of God. It only has effect in dreams that are not real.

We can waken from fearful dreams in any moment. We have been blessed with an inner Teacher Whose purpose is to help us recognize what is truly helpful and what is not. As we become willing to accept the help of our inner Teacher, we become increasingly aware of the Love that is given us without limit.

We learn to see truly once again that there is no separation. We are forever joined in God’s one Mind of Love. We are eternally united with every brother and our Father. In this recognition comes peace that cannot be disturbed; joy without limit. In Workbook Lesson 137 we are told:

“Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours; how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain.

And as you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you, or who cross your mind, or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contact with you, healed along with you. Perhaps you will not recognize them all, nor realize how great your offering to all the world, when you let healing come to you. But you are never healed alone. And legions upon legions will receive the gift that you receive when you are healed.

Those who are healed become the instruments of healing. Nor does time elapse between the instant they are healed, and all the grace of healing it is given them to give. What is opposed to God does not exist, and who accepts it not within his mind becomes a haven where the weary can remain to rest. For here is truth bestowed, and here are all illusions brought to truth.” (W-137.9–11)

Robert and Mary Stoelting are co-founders of Pathways of Light.
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