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January-March, 2022

Being Carried

by Rev. Larry Glenz, Ordained Ministerial Counselor

During all the years that Pathways of Light has been in my life, I have listened to Robert and Mary Stoelting express often that they feel like they are “being carried.” I always loved hearing them say that. They have put Holy Spirit in charge and have been led on many adventures. Their latest journey, the move from Florida to Huntley, IL, is just the most recent example of their trust in being carried by Holy Spirit.

I have been keeping a journal for many years. Occasionally I look back at my journal for inspiration and for clarity on my past. 

My current journal begins almost one year ago. Christmas had just passed, and I was preparing to take my annual drive to my winter home in south Florida in the new year 2021. I am a snowbird, spending my winters in Florida and the rest of the year on Long Island.

I read in my journal about my burning desire to find and rescue a nice dog. I also read about my wife Laura’s encouragement to find a nicer place with a better location for the winter. I expected that a new place would cost more, and I had some money in a savings account allocated for that.

I thought that rescuing a dog would be easy. Selling my FL condo and buying a new one, however, felt like a daunting task. I don’t know much about swapping real estate or rescuing a dog.

However, I read this except from my current journal dated January 1, 2021:

“Again, I ask You to guide me with getting a dog and buying and selling a home in FL without overextending my finances. I need Your support, Holy Spirit, to tell me if this is a good idea. It sounds like a lot of work and a lot could go wrong. I don’t want Lulu (Laura) to be unhappy once this is done. So, I depend on Your help. It should be fun. You are in charge by my request.”

Laura continues to work up in New York while I am in FL. She visits several times in the winter, but I am on my own for the most part. I know very little about real estate and had not owned a dog in over twenty years. I lacked confidence in my own ability to get this done properly.
Fast forward to the present moment.

I plan on driving down to FL on January 2 with my new dog Buddha. My new place in FL is located on a small lake close to my brother and sister-in-law. Although the place needed a great deal of work, I bought it at a low price and had the savings to renovate.

I found a contractor in FL that just happened to be a football and lacrosse player on the first teams I ever coached back in the mid-1970’s. This former student/player of mine, Mike, was most certainly sent by Holy Spirit. When I returned to NY, Mike put in a new kitchen, 2 new bathrooms, all new hurricane-proof windows, new lighting, new closets. He fixed everything so that the place looks brand new.

The dog, Buddha, that Holy Spirit found for me has been a joy. Holy Spirit sent me another former player, Marlon, who is an excellent dog trainer. He has been great. Buddha is now a well-trained border collie mix that has the “therapy support dog” documentation that allows me to have him in my new condo unit.

This is certainly not the first time, nor the most important, that I have recognized myself being carried by Holy Spirit. It is, however, a recent example that alerts me to His constant presence.

When things DON’T work out the way I had hoped, I have been taught to see it as a lesson I need to learn. I often get frustrated with people, things, and events. But all these thoughts simply need to be given to Holy Spirit for correction. This is the practice Course students have been given.

Not everything seems to go my way. But if I keep God as my goal, I feel the Love that is always there for me.

I am being carried. I am very grateful for the recognition that there is another way of looking at the world. “All things are lessons God would have me learn” (W-193). And I am grateful for His continued guidance.

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