Miracles News

July-September, 2010

And Then There Was a Gathering

Rev. Stephen Cox

It was the evening of Sunday 16th May 2010 — well it was over on the United Kingdom side of the pond which we call the Atlantic. I was being ordained as a Pathways of Light Ordained Ministerial Counselor. It was being done ‘virtually’ over the ‘phone since it wasn’t actually possible to lay hands on me physically.

It was a lovely event. It was the culmination of the work that I’d put in to doing the Pathways course modules over the previous six months or so.

We’d decided to celebrate it with a Spiritual Awakening Ceremony that I’d written as part of my course work and an acknowledgment of the ordination on the following Thursday. We were going to do it in place of our usual A Course in Miracles study group.

In the end, 25 of us gathered together, both ‘Miracles’ students and others at my invitation. We celebrated in style with the ceremony that I’d written that concentrated on water and the spiritual qualities of water in leading us all towards the Spirit in our own lives.

After the ceremony had finished, my ‘Course’ colleagues were kind enough to lay on a fantastic buffet and one of them actually made a lovely cake which I cut for the group.

I am a Quaker. Quakers generally would have issues relating to ministers because of how they view equality: We are all ministers in our own way. I decided to go ahead with the ordination anyway because I feel I am likely to be able to be of more service to the world with the ordination than without it. It’s as simple as that, really. After all, the ordination is really just acknowledging that I’ve completed the Pathways of Light course rather than that I’m any different to anyone else.

Again, Quakers don’t tend to do ‘special’ in that everything is special yet there was something about the ceremony that we all shared that was worthy of note, if not special.

I’m grateful to the Pathways of Light Spiritual College for providing me with the opportunity of becoming an Ordained Ministerial Counsellor and for encouraging me to wake up to how to live this life in fullness.

I have no idea how my life will change as a result of my ordination for it will depend on what comes my way. That it will change as a result of my ordination seems incredibly likely.

Rev. Stephen Cox is a Pathways of Light minister living in Birmingham, United Kingdom. E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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