Miracles News
October-December, 2007
Honoring a Transition
Just this week as I was beginning my morning meditation, I was reflecting on how often in recent days I have been thinking and even writing that I just do not know. My ego was well at work here, judging and thinking if I did know then — then what? Things would be better. I should know and have my life all figured out. At that point I remembered seeing an article in a recent copy of Miracles News that was about not knowing. It was an article by Robert and Mary Stoelting titled, “The Importance of Remembering that I Know Nothing.” It seemed like the perfect fit for this morning’s reflection. As I read it, I began to experience a miracle. I love these moments when I feel Spirit with me. A wonderful sense of Presence comes over me and I rest today in the knowing that I do not know.
It was an amazing experience. I began to reflect on how many times I have written in my journal that I just do not know. I write about not knowing almost with a sense of anguish of not knowing what to do, what to say, where to turn. As I read this article, a light went on and I was hearing, “Listen to Spirit.” This seems like a perfect place for me to work on a transition. Spirit knows. Spirit will tell me. I need to learn to listen to Him.
What an amazing practice I was involved in! There in my life experience was the perfect opportunity to practice. What from one perspective appeared to be turmoil was actually a part of a transition. My ego chatter would keep me turning in circles, in some clueless state of separation or believing that I am separate. “The world you see is based on ‘sacrifice’ of oneness. It is a picture of complete disunity and total lack of joining.” T-26.I.2:1-2
When I became aware, my perception opened a new circle of connection. I shifted to an awareness of Love, where I am one in a circle with everyone.
The Course teaches me about the transition. “There is a borderline of thought that stands between this world and Heaven. It is not a place, and when you reach it is apart from time. Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought together; where conflicting values meet and all illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue. This borderline is just beyond the gate of Heaven. Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple.” T-26.III.2:1-5
I am realizing the benefit of this practice. I honor this gift of Spirit and I celebrate a new awareness of a deeper connection to my truth. I celebrate truth. I celebrate Love. I celebrate oneness. I feel like I am in a transition period. It is a re-thinking and a re-learning, asking for a new way to look at the circumstances of my life.
My experience was telling me that “I know nothing.” My limited ego perceptions did not even recognize the importance of remembering. I wasn’t aware then that this is the “place the Holy Spirit comes, and there abides.” T-18.VII.7:8
I embrace this practice and set my intention there. “When we develop the habit of giving time to quiet listening with an open mind, one of the first things that we receive is Holy Spirit’s gift of peace.” Miracles News p. 3 Vol. 9 No. 3
The ego so insanely perceives doing nothing as non-productive. I am learning to say doing nothing is actually doing something. It is about creating a space for Holy Spirit to guide my life. “To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention.” T-18.VII.7:7 I center myself in love and peace, accepting the gifts of this day. I embrace and honor Holy Spirit’s presence in my mind.
“Yet every instant can you be reborn, and given life again. His holiness gives life to you, who cannot die because his sinlessness is known to God; and can no more be sacrificed by you than can the Light in you be blotted out because he sees it not.” T-26.7:1-2
Experiencing a Quiet Mind
My mind wanders all over the place. It is my ego mind questioning and doubting, judging and comparing everywhere and everything. I stop a moment to be quiet and I invite Holy Spirit to guide my life. I settle into a deeper calm where Love enters.
The transformation is in allowing Spirit to teach me, to talk to me and to continually remind me of a Presence that is eternal. It is the Light in which I see, accepting a miracle of Love.
My being lights up in what is not of this world or any knowing of this body as real. The transformation is a love song. The music extends.
There is a giving and a receiving, a quiet gentle connection to Love, shared in an ocean of oneness. It needs no words. It is in truth.
My mind quiets. Love is revealed. It is a miracle. Peace has come. It is a blessing. Joy to the world.
I rest a while with Holy Spirit. My heart knows only gratitude.
Rev. Colleen McNally, Ph.D. is a Pathways of Light minister living in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
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