Miracles News

April-June, 2012

Letting Holy Spirit Solve All ‘Problems’

by Revs. Robert & Mary Stoelting

Robert & Mary StoeltingMary: Our lessons continue to be centered around the theme of stepping back with everything and letting Holy Spirit take charge of our thoughts regarding every situation we encounter.

When we forget and think we know how to decide on our own, peace disappears and so again we attract another lesson to ‘choose once again.’ 

In Lesson 151 we are reminded, “How can you judge? Your judgment rests upon the witness that your senses offer you. Yet witness never falser was than this. But how else do you judge the world you see? You place pathetic faith in what your eyes and ears report. You think your fingers touch reality, and close upon the truth. This is awareness that you understand, and think more real than what is witnessed to by the eternal Voice for God Himself.” (W-pI.151.3)

Reinforcing this reminder gives us the opportunity to step back into a place of quiet and let our minds be purified of the false ideas we have brought from the past. We are reminded that we don’t know how to judge. We are reminded once again to forgive or let go of all we thought we knew about anything in the world.

To help us awaken to the truth we are told, “Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back as miracles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness God wills His Son, as proof of His eternal Love. And as each thought is thus transformed, it takes on healing power from the Mind Which saw the truth in it, and failed to be deceived by what was falsely added.” (14:1-2)

So we are learning that our real job is to observe what we are thinking and hand these thoughts over to let Holy Spirit be the judge. We are to be as little children. We are not the authority, for on our own we really know nothing. With Holy Spirit as the judge, we see innocence instead of guilt. We are lifted up past time to the eternal truth that we all are still pure Love and we cannot leave God’s oneness.

As we continue our practice of pausing and letting Holy Spirit be the judge, we see the many blessings that are returned to us and we feel grateful. “As we give thanks, the world unites with us and happily accepts our holy thoughts, which Heaven has corrected and made pure. Now has our ministry begun at last, to carry round the world the joyous news that truth has no illusions, and the peace of God, through us, belongs to everyone.” (17:2-3)

Letting Holy Spirit be the judge provides us all the answers to everything we need, today and every day.

In Quietness Is Every Problem Quietly Resolved

Robert: While I was setting up a page on the Pathways of Light website recently, I had a happy lesson in the value of letting Holy Spirit lead the way. I wanted to align two elements on the page. I had tried a couple of times, but they didn’t work. My focus had been to get one part to move in relation to the part above it.

I’ve been practicing being mindful of when I start efforting — trying to make something work. I realized that I had fallen back into that old pattern, so I sat back, took a deep breath and expressed a willingness to follow. The thought came to set it aside for the moment. It would fall into place later. A few minutes later a thought came into my mind how I could adjust the upper part. I tried it and bingo, perfect alignment!

I believe that the Holy Spirit will guide us in even these little worldly details because He sees every circumstance as a teaching opportunity. As I efforted to try to make it work, I was not at peace. By stepping back, taking a breath and letting peace return to my mind, I received a great demonstration that, “In quietness are all things answered, and is every problem quietly resolved.” (T-27.IV.1:1)

Revs. Robert and Mary Stoelting are co-founders of Pathways of Light. They reside in Sanford, Florida.

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