Miracles News
April-June, 2012
Holy Spirit’s Study Group
It has been three days since my ordination. I have been busy catching up with friends and family that wanted to congratulate me, setting up my website, filing and organizing.
As I was sorting through my filing I came across the sign up form for the ‘ACIM Study Group Leader Program’. I currently meet once a month with a friend over the phone to study ACIM, and we love this time together. I have also received a request from someone in another county that would be interested in joining a Book Study.
The form has been filled out for a few weeks. I just thought I would wait until after my ordination to send it. I placed it in my scanner and the thoughts started.
‘Who are you to start a Book Study? There are many other people that are far more qualified and familiar with ACIM than you.’
‘What if someone comes and asks questions you don’t know how to answer?’
These thoughts kept coming. I stopped and asked Holy Spirit – ‘What is this? I want to see this differently.’
Holy Spirit guided me to the Manual for Teachers, page 5, 4th paragraph. What was standing out to me was the 4th sentence (M-5.4:4)... ‘The pupil comes at the right time to the right place.’
There it was. I had forgotten that Holy Spirit is the one in charge. Anyone in a Book Study has been assigned by Holy Spirit to be a part of that group.
Holy Spirit guided me further by reminding me that the Introduction to A Course in Miracles clearly states in sentence 4: ‘Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum.’
So the curriculum is not my concern either. My thoughts have now turned to the excitement of meeting those that Holy Spirit will send to me. I know today that all I need is a willingness to let Holy Spirit take the lead. I am grateful for Holy Spirit’s reinterpretation today and will now email these new thoughts along with my form, asking to please sign me up for ‘Holy Spirit’s ACIM Study Group Leader Program’!
Rev. Julieanne Paige, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom.
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