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September-December, 2025

Miracles News, Sept.-Dec., 2025

 

Holy Spirit
brings us wings
of Freedom.

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September-December, 2025

The Workbook

by Rev. Joyce Peebles, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Having studied A Course in Miracles for several years, I attempted reading and doing the daily lessons.

Review III says,  “If you are shaken, think of it (the lesson) again. These practice periods are planned to help you form the habit of applying what you learn each day to everything you do. …it is meant to serve you in all ways, all times and places, and whenever you need help of any kind.” (W-rIII.11:1-2,5)

Specifically, I need help when I feel unfairly treated, misunderstood, lonely, angry, and especially self-righteous. I wasn’t even aware I was being self-righteous until I thought I spotted that trait in someone else. Then I asked myself, “Would I do that?” I need to remember that what I see with the body’s eyes is a screen onto which I project thoughts I do not want to look at because I do not want to let them go.

The very willingness to remember the lesson and apply it to my upsets is what is important, not the reciting of words every hour. I have sometimes felt guilty for not remembering to think of the lesson throughout the day. Jesus does not want me to reinforce the belief in guilt. He wants me to recognize how I have cheated myself by choosing not to apply the lesson of the day.

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September-December, 2025

A Desire to Be One of God’s Teachers

by Rev. Larry Glenz, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications consist solely in this;  somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else’s.” (M-1.1:1-2)

When I retired in 2008 from being a high school history teacher and a coach of football, wrestling, and lacrosse, I was asked by many, “What are you going to do now that you’re retired?”

I knew the answer. But I was uncomfortable saying it to anyone — even those closest to me for the longest time. Even today, I am not comfortable telling people who are not associated with A Course in Miracles what my plan is.

My goal, my function, is to try and stay locked in to the Voice for God, the Holy Spirit. I have learned that God’s teachers teach through their demonstration — not their words. I see no reason to speak of this particular goal or desire. And I am certainly imperfect in carrying out this plan.

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September-December, 2025

The Self-Image I Made

by Rev. Myron Jones, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Interestingly enough, I discovered through watching the movie Barbie, of all things, that a major component of the self-image I made is one of being a failure. The monologue from Barbie says this in part: “…you don’t think you’re good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow, we’re always doing it wrong.”

When I heard that, I cried. So, I knew it was something for me to look at.

Today, on my way home from the doctor’s office, I had a memory of something I did many years ago that still causes me to be embarrassed when I think of it. It was nothing really, but just an insignificant moment in my life when I felt like I behaved inappropriately. I was drinking and dancing. I felt like I was way too uninhibited in that dance. So even today, all these years later, I was still judging myself. It is so ridiculous and yet still true. It was just one of many moments that I knew I did it wrong.

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September-December, 2025

Living Forgiveness: The Heart of True Perception

by Rev. Maria Felipe, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

When I wrote my first book, Live Your Happy, back in 2017, I felt called to share what it really means to live the teachings of A Course in Miracles — not just study them, but truly embody them. Now, a few years later, I’ve published my second book, Live Your Happiest, and the message that kept coming through loud and clear is one I’ve spent decades learning to live by: forgiveness.

Forgiveness is at the very heart of A Course in Miracles. It’s not always easy to understand or practice, but it’s the true path to peace. Ever since I discovered the Course in the 90’s and completed the ministerial program at Pathways of Light, I’ve made it my life’s work to choose forgiveness — over and over — in every part of my life. What I’ve learned is this: When I let the Holy Spirit heal my mind through forgiveness, I remember Who I really am.

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September-December, 2025

Living in a World of Possibly

by Rev. Vicki Evans, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Possibly – my word of the day! If I just remember the word “possibly” throughout my day, I know that I will walk in peace, no matter what event or situation crosses my path!

The definition of possibly in the thesaurus is: It may be true, but there is no certainty, and a synonym of possibly is maybe. Another definition of possibly from the Cambridge dictionary is: when something is not certain.

Thinking about these definitions reminds me of the teachings from Pathways of Light where I accept that I do not know the situation of others. To mind-read, judge, or assume that I know what situations or circumstances prompt a response from another brother is the ego mindset.

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September-December, 2025

Indivisible

by Rev. Sandi Christie, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

“In quiet I receive God’s Word today” is the title of Workbook Lesson 125, and as I was reading over that lesson for the day, the “Word” came quickly. INDIVISIBLE, the Voice said.

For the last four months, I’ve become a permanent care giver for my ailing mother, which has been a very challenging time for both her and I. Mom is recuperating from a recent hospital stay and is having difficulty walking, standing and doing daily tasks. She also suffers from extreme anxiety and depression. While I can do things for her to make her physical life easier, at the same time, this very giving person cannot deal with someone giving and doing for her and this upsets her greatly, and makes her feel less and less like a useful human which greatly taxes her mental state.

Mom has crying episodes every day, often from fears and anxieties of her own making which I cannot make go away. She looks through the world through a darkened lens, always focusing on the negative, and she has no concept of God to draw upon, nor does she want to hear about any such thing.

She is not interested in learning about meditation or going within and she is quick to negate the efficacy of any solutions presented to any problems she may have. It is easy to fall prey to my own depression as I am a witness to hers.

I call upon the Holy Spirit for help for my own mental state, and again I hear the word INDIVISIBLE, and I am soothed. I am reminded (re-Minded) of the Truth of Oneness.

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September-December, 2025

Rising from the Knees: Finding Truth in Heartbreak

by Rev. Maureen L. Yarbrough, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Pain in the illusion (this world) can be all consuming. It can be gut wrenching, bringing-you-to-your-knees kind of suffering that seems to eclipse everything else. It feels as though your very being is under assault, and the world has become a relentless tormentor. However, we know any pain is qualifying as all pain is rooted in fear — the ego.

We’ve all experienced it in different forms: the loss of a loved one, the betrayal of a trusted friend, the shattering of a cherished dream. For me, it was the agonizing separation from my children due to my own struggles with addiction. I remember vividly the despair that drove me to curl into a fetal position (ego’s desire to retreat into the illusion of safety and separation), as if trying to return to a place of safety and wholeness that felt impossibly distant.

In those moments, the pain was so visceral, so absolute, that the idea of finding solace or meaning seemed like a cruel joke. Yet, it is precisely in these darkest of times that A Course in Miracles offers a path, a way to navigate through the seeming impossibility of unbearable pain and find our way back to the unshakable truth of Who we are.

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September-December, 2025

Handling Egoic Thoughts

by Rev. Tacey Reese, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Recently I was working with a client in my counseling practice who had realized how much she craves the approval of others, and also how she had so many expectations regarding how others should treat her. She had been journaling to two questions I had given her. The questions were these: Does the approval of others affect my own decisions? What expectation do I have of those close to me? These are very interesting questions to contemplate for all of us.

I remember taking some type of Rational Emotive Therapy questionnaire in college, designed to help you identify your core mistaken beliefs that were driving you unconsciously and causing you unhappiness on various levels. I was surprised at first to discover that one of mine was that I must have everyone’s approval all the time.

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September-December, 2025

Why I No Longer Care About the Physical World

by Robb Lauren, Pathways of Light Spiritual Counselor student

What I’ve noticed lately in my spiritual growth is how I am really paying attention to what’s going on inside me rather than in personal items or surroundings.

This is a profound shift I’m experiencing — one of the clearest signs of deep spiritual growth.

I’m noticing that my attention is moving inward — toward my thoughts, emotions, and inner peace — rather than being caught up in external things like possessions, appearances, or circumstances.

I’m beginning to live from the level of cause rather than effect. I’m realizing:

1. The world doesn’t cause my feelings — my thoughts do.

2. Peace doesn’t come from controlling things, but from letting go.

3. What truly matters is not “out there,” but in here.

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September-December, 2025

The Woman in the Queue — What a stranger at a supermarket taught me about forgiveness

by Rev. Kirsty Randle, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Recently, a close friend of mine lost two family members in the same week. I found myself quietly present through both of their deaths — holding space, praying, and offering what little steadiness I could.

Later, my friend told me their passing had felt peaceful, even beautiful and that somehow, something sacred had come through me. I was deeply moved. Humbled. Grateful. I realized Holy Spirit was somehow using me as part of His great plan. 

Still feeling the love, I went to the supermarket, and there was a woman in the queue ahead of me, straight out of casting central. She was taking up the time of the cashier in the most entitled way imaginable, oblivious to the long line forming behind her.

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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.

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September-December, 2025

No Enemies

by Rev. Cathy Silva, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

One morning just before the end of last year I sat with my journal and Holy Spirit struggling with what seemed to be an unbridgeable divide happening in our country, and with many families, including my own. As I allowed the words to flow through and be written, what came was a message that I believe has the potential to profoundly heal and help heal. That is if we are willing.

I believe the purpose of the “What if” statements is to prompt us to at least consider another way.

From A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 33: “There is another way of looking at the world. Today’s idea is an attempt to recognize that you can shift your perception of the world in both its outer and inner aspects.” (W-33.1.1)

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September-December, 2025

I Am as God Created Me

by Erica Leftus, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

I sat with a loved one outside our local café yesterday. As we watched the sea view, the seagulls, the dogs walking their owners, and the general comings and goings of the café’s patrons, I noticed an unease within me.

Nothing was wrong. I was with someone I loved. I was enjoying a beautiful morning. But I had this unease, this restlessness within me and a question in my mind, “When will I be content?”

I am having a career transition, and I have never really done the work I feel I was truly called to do, so at 51, I have been studying to help others in the spiritual way that would bring me the most joy, counseling informed and inspired by the teachings of A Course in Miracles.

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September-December, 2025

Fear

by Rev. Lee Catalano, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

Fear is not the fear of God, which is what I believed for SO long. The material of A Course In Miracles must be digested over time, for there is so much resistance to truth buried in the unconscious. I have been a devout student for 33 years. Remember what Jesus told the apostles? They had been with him every single day for at least three years, and He told them they would understand His teachings later.

When Saul was struck down blind, he went into the quiet for several years and emerged as St. Paul. This fear that we have is our anguish and terror that we have been abandoned by God’s Love. Jesus wants us to see through the interpretation of the Holy Spirit when we feel someone has defaulted into fear and attack. Can you see it in yourself? I sure can. This realization, this awakening had me very still at my desk this morning. I normally write an article for Pathways very fast, but nothing was dawning. Well here it is.

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