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October-December, 2012

From “Problem” to Blessing

Revs. Robert & Mary Stoelting

As we continue on in our inner journey of returning to our true Identity, we have encountered many obstacles. These obstacles are always areas in our mind that need to be healed.

As we practice seeing these obstacles as opportunities to move past our barriers to Love, it is reinforced in us that each circumstance brings with it a blessing.

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October-December, 2012

To Remember

Michele Carlson

To be your true Self is to be
the person you were meant to be.

To follow our true path,
most of us think we are not good enough
or smart enough to do what we feel.

We think this is far from our reach.

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October-December, 2012

Announcing a New Pathways Support Group: Support for the Chronically and Critically Ill

by Revs. Linda Wisniewski & Maria Kingsley, O.M.C.

Pathways of Light is expanding its services to the chronically and critically ill. This program is being formed by Pathways ministers who are interested, willing or are called to lend their time and talents to this group of people. POL already has started a Prayer Outreach service, and is now putting together a program to serve all who are seeking support in the area of dealing with chronic and critical illness or are working with those who are chronically or critically ill. We are soliciting ministers who would like to participate on the initial level of forming this group and setting up all the parameters for such an outreach, and or would like to volunteer to be a member of the ongoing support group. Some of you have already volunteered and we are truly grateful.

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October-December, 2012

New Website Ministry

by Rev. Julieanne Paige, O.M.C.

Sometimes guidance from Holy Spirit can seem like it is a little obscure or even irrelevant to us and the path that we are on. When we are on a spiritual path the mundane can often become something that we decide not to pay much attention to. However, if we are choosing to surrender and create space for Holy Spirit, we can find that in hindsight we were being guided to our perfect path Home… no matter how mundane or irrelevant it might feel at the time.

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October-December, 2012

From Heartbreak to Happiness

by Rev. Dennis Flynn, O.M.C.

In April 2011, I ended a relationship with a woman I was deeply in love with. I met her in 2008 while I was going through a painful divorce with my ex-wife. And in spite of all the rational reasons why I should not have pursued another relationship during that difficult period, my ego craved the coddling, attention and affection of a “special relationship.”

Needless to say, the relationship was doomed from the start. I was attracted to her to be sure and we did enjoy a deep and fulfilling romance. But having gone through the pain and dissolution of a marriage, I was simply unable to open myself and completely trust her.

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October-December, 2012

Holy Spirit, I Am Here

by Rev. Myron Jones, O.M.C.

Through my study of A Course in Miracles, I learned that when I didn’t know what to do to be happy, I could ask the Holy Spirit for help and He would guide me to the right action. Often, when I brought my fears and doubts or my wrong-minded thinking to Him and in faith would ask that my mind be healed, all my distress would dissolve away and peace would take its place.

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October-December, 2012

Tending Bar with Spirit’s Help

by Rev. Larry Glenz, O.M.C.

I don’t know how many combination Ordained Ministerial Counselor / bartenders there are in the world — but I am one. Some have said that it is certainly an odd mix; others have said they see how the two vocations dovetail beautifully. ACIM has taught me that it does not matter what you do in the world of form. What is important is with which teacher you choose to do it.

When I was a younger man in the 1980’s and 90’s, I tended bar on Sundays at a sports bar in NY on the south shore of Long Island. Sunday was my day off from being a history teacher and coach of three sports. The part-time bartender job helped to pay the bills and seemed to also enhance my social life.

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October-December, 2012

The One About the Secret

by Rev. Stephan Mead, O.M.C.

It seems a constant flow of comments and insights this past year have been on the subject of “waking up.” I can almost dare you to go to an ACIM internet board or ACIM Facebook posting and not find that elusive goal discussed. “What is waking up? What does one need to do to get out of the dream?” And, if it’s so easy to do, “Why haven’t more people, even the supposedly spiritual giants done it?” If one does actually “wake up,” how would he know it? What changes? Who would you hang out with in the land of enlightenment? Do people actually “wake up” or is it just something to discuss with others as we live out our lives?

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October-December, 2012

Healing Trust with Love

by Rev. Peggy Rivera, O.M.C.

There was a time in my life that I could not trust anyone. I was so afraid to open up to people.
Through the Holy Spirit we can learn to trust in Him and through Him we learn to trust ourselves.

Living in fear is one of the greatest ploys the ego has to keep us locked into our need to be in control of the world we create. As long as we listen to the ego we will not be able to find the peace and joy that it takes to heal our ability to trust.

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October-December, 2012

My Latest Teacher Is a Dog

by Rev. Susan Lewis, O.M.c.

When I get up this morning, our dog is whining in her crate in the dining room, a pan of rice is on the stove and there’s a note from my husband on the table. “Have taken Katy out 2X and fed her rice. Sorry to leave you the (poopy) mess on dog cushions, now in garage. Ran out of time.”

Sigh. The body’s senses report that our two-year-old rescue dog obviously had to go again after my husband left, which is why she’s standing up in her crate, whining and wagging her tail guiltily (my projection). I clean it up, pop the cushions in the washing machine and take her outside.

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October-December, 2012

Forgiveness

by Rev. Georgeann Medved, O.M.C.

Lesson 249 of A Course In Miracles says, “Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss.” This is true as spiritual destruction is the act of hanging on to grudges and old resentments. There is no spiritual release and relief until I release myself from the harmful, negative, get even and grudging feelings I harbor. There is also no way I can overemphasize the spiritual vulnerability that comes from hanging on to resentments. Resentment is my most perilous enemy.

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October-December, 2012

What Lies Beyond

by Rev. Sherry Jonckheere, O.M.C.

Who are we? At the surface we are a conglomeration of feelings, emotions, experiences and unexplainable coincidences. Day by day we move through a world rocketing back and forth between an assortment of thoughts and feelings. Fear and love; life and death; God and ego. Fear thoughts bring us to those places within us that say, “Stop — do not go any further!” These are instantaneous glimpses at the death of the ego. The ego shrouds this fact with a worldly fear of some kind, but when I take it to truth, it is revealed that a fear thought is nothing more than the ego’s survival mechanism — it says, “This is too scary for you. Only I know what’s best for you. I’ll take control here and tell you what to believe and keep you safe.”

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October-December, 2012

Peanuts and Pushing Peas

by Rev. Nancy Moore, O.M.C.

One busy morning in a rush to get chores out of the way, I spilled a box of packing peanuts on my patio. They were scattered out all over, and so went my mind, to numerous scatter thoughts of regret and of picking them up. I resigned myself to the task and soon relaxed and softened with a mind shift, opening to Holy Spirit’s message. With each single or handful I scooped, I thought, “I am Spirit. I am Love. All is well. We are one.” There was no struggle, the time flew, and I was finished with the pickup feeling soothed and uplifted.

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October-December, 2012

Applying the Rules for Decision

by Rev. Linda Wisniewski, O.M.C.

For the past five years, a water conditioning company has placed us in a collection agency trying to collect a fee from us for a service we haven’t used in the five years and which we have asked them to take back their equipment. Each time we get a notice from the collection agency, I initially panic and imagine myself being carted off to a prison or having my husband’s wages garnished. Oh what vain imaginings the ego constructs to keep us in fear and separation.

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October-December, 2012

Healing Emotional or Physical Pain and Sickness

by Rev. Nouk Sanchez, O.M.C.

Excerpt from ‘The End of Death’

If we truly wish to help ourselves or another to heal from emotional or physical sickness, then it’s wise to look more carefully at our intent. The ego seeks to cure through fear, so as the underlying cause of all sickness (guilt), it is never found and addressed. If we have un-relinquished fear beneath our intent to heal, then we’ll inadvertently increase fear in ourselves and/or the one we’re attempting to help.

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