Miracles News

April-June, 2013

Already Home

by Rev. Paula Richards, O.M.C.

Rev. Paula Richards For many years I considered myself to be a spiritual seeker. But one of my favorite inspirational authors, Alan Cohen says, “To step onto any path is to leave our source.” One day, when I was meditating, the Wizard of Oz came to mind and I realized just how brilliantly it illustrates this point.

When Dorothy took her first step onto the yellow brick road, she set out in search of something she already had. But because she no longer realized that she was home, she embarked on a magical but often fearful journey through a land of good and evil, dazzled by beautiful sights and fueled by false promises from an egotistical wizard. The friends she met along the way were also searching outside themselves for something they already had. Eventually they all learned that they already possessed what they were looking for, most importantly, that Dorothy had the power within herself to return home whenever she chose. But it wasn’t until she released her fear, closed her eyes and became still that she was finally able to hear the wisdom of the good witch’s message. “You don’t need to be helped any longer. You’ve always had the power to go back (home). . .”

I can see now that my “human” experience is a lot like a journey through Oz. I keep looking for magical solutions to my imagined problems and trusting in my ego’s guidance to keep me safe. And although my journey can sometimes be very beautiful, I never know what evil lurks around the next corner. A Course in Miracles is helping me to know the truth; that we are really already ONE with God and this thing we call “life” is just, as Auntie Em says, “a bad dream.” All our seeming problems could be solved instantly by simply waking up to the fact that we already are beautiful spirits imagining we’re not. We’re already home.

When asked why she didn’t tell Dorothy sooner, the good witch said, “Because she wouldn’t have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.” And so do we.

Rev. Paula Richards, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Lowell, Massachusetts

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