Miracles News

July-September, 2013

A Holiday in the Hills and One More Step On My Journey Home

by Rev. Anne Mepham, O.M.C.

Rev. Anne Mepham It was two weeks after being ordained as a Ministerial Counselor. I was looking forward to a couple of days in the hills of Derbyshire with an old childhood friend. We had planned this months ago and I was excited about walking in the hills again. I had been experiencing some pain but I had no intention of cancelling my trip. Even so I was a little anxious. I wouldn’t be telling anyone about my difficulty because I know that whatever may appear as a bodily difficulty needs a correction of my thought, so discussing this with someone would serve no purpose other than alarm others.

I spent a lot of time in prayer and meditation before the journey to my friend’s house. I was feeling reasonably confident but was not completely free of the difficulty.

We had a lovely first day. We caught up with some old friends, had a walk, and went for dinner in the evening to one of our friends, who, as it happened had cooked my favorite dish, apparently co-incidentally. It was all very enjoyable but at the back of my mind seemed to be a little niggling uncertainly about the discomfort resurfacing.

When I was alone in my room later that night I was so overwhelmed by the love that had been shown me during the day and evening. I recognized it to be God’s goodness and gave thanks. I recognized the Oneness of God expressing Herself in the unity and the love of those I had spent my day with. I felt a lovely warm feeling of gratitude and love for all.

When I got into bed I noticed that the discomfort had diminished. I slept for a short while, but woke with the discomfort there again. I lay there for what seemed like a couple of hours, thinking about myself as being the beloved spiritual child of God, never born and never ending. I didn’t want to get up to read but I thought about ACIM Lesson 93, which I had been working with for a few days.

“Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought;—you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself. Whatever evil you may think you did, you are as God created you. Whatever mistakes you made, the truth about you is unchanged.” (W-pI.93.7:1-3)

I turned within and asked to see as Holy Spirit sees, recognizing that I know nothing of myself and can do nothing of myself. What came to me was, “No man can take your joy away.” I thought about this for some time. This was pretty surprising as I was feeling so much joy nowadays, but I listened carefully for more enlightenment.

A couple of instances came to mind which had happened years before and involved me and others. This situation had been anything but happy, so I replaced this ego thought of separation from God with the Truth of Atonement. I recognized that God’s Will for all is happiness now and always has been. I also remembered a time when I wanted to be special.

This wanting a separate identity from God had caused me a lot pain. But the Christ the Comforter had been there all along and was all that was real for me and others. I saw very vividly that there is one Son, the Christ. I saw that there is only one man, and we, in our Oneness with God and with each other, are that One Man.

No man had taken my joy and neither had I been capable of taking anyone else’s joy from them. I realized that I had been looking at and thinking about a meaningless world. A world in which all thought, whether good or bad, is meaningless and powerless. With this I felt release. I knew the discomfort would not return. I knew that the day to come would be a wonderful day without any more fear of discomfort returning. I felt lightness and joy and knew that I had taken one more step on my journey home.

“God did not create a meaningless world.” (W-pI.14)

Anne Mepham is a Pathways of Light minister living in Howden, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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