Miracles News

October-December, 2004

Election Day November 2, 2004

by Rev. Therese Anne Ward, O.M.C.

Rev. Therese WardNationally we are focused on Bush vs Kerry for President of the United States of America. Then there are the states electing their congressmen and women, and local cities electing officials from mayors to commissioners to you name it.

The “race” my husband and I have been personally working with is on a county level. Our daughter-in-law, Jude Julie Reinhardt Ward is on the ballot for Cambell county Circuit Court Judge. There are also three men running for this position.

Let me say straight up, this is my first active (other than voting) work in politics and it is a challenging arena for practicing ACIM.

It seems the whole voting system has its foundation built on the idea of separation. One person vs. the other; the us vs. them of political parties and of course someone must lose in order for another someone to win. Ignorance of a world asleep.

We are sleeping and dreaming chaotic dreams. In our fear and guilt we are imagining a world of separation and lack, punishment and loss.

It is said that politics is dirty business, and with just this limited exposure to it I’m observing the cruel tricks and calculating, strategic deceptions and outright bald face lying that goes on in these “children’s” games. As an aside, I’m also reminded of the summer Olympic “games” being held in Athens, Greece. Again the win or lose paradigm.

So where did I find myself in my daily ACIM reading yesterday? Right where I needed to be — T.30.Vl, The Justification for Forgiveness, where I’m told that anger is never justified. Pardon is always justified and forgiveness recognized as merited will heal. It gives the miracle its strength to overlook illusions.

And today — T.30.Vll, The New Interpretation, where I’m set straight about “my scripts” and how the day should be. I quote paragraph 4: “A common purpose is the only means whereby perception can be stabilized, and one interpretation given to the world and all experiences here. In this shared purpose is one judgment shared by everyone and everything you see. You do not have to judge, for you have learned one meaning has been given everything, and you are glad to see it everywhere, unchanged by circumstance. And so you offer it to all events, and let them offer you stability.”

And so I hear, “Wake up in Oneness. Wake up in Divine Order. Wake up in your brother as your one Self.” And so I say thank You, Father, for Your perfect Son, and in his glory will I see my own.

So I let go of my script in this political drama and my attachment to outcome as I merrily knock on doors and put up signs in a peaceful state.

Just to reinforce what I was learning from Holy Spirit, a few days later in The Manual for Teachers, #2 on page 5 — Who Are Their Pupils, put a new spin on this whole business of political races; that is the miracle! Thank you, thank you.

Rev. Therese Ward is a Pathways of Light minister living in Cold Spring, Kentucky.

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