Miracles News

April-June, 2004

Being Open… Being Willing

by Rev. Etienne Pait, O.M.C.

Rev. Etienne Pait I would like to share a few of the many times when I was open and willing to listen to Spirit. The first of which I remember happened when I was a mere babe, less than six months in my body. (I confirmed the outer conditions with my mother when I was in my early forties.) When I was about 3-4 months, I had a conscious OBE (out-of-body experience). I remember my dad, my mom and myself cruising in a sky blue color ‘55 Chevy. My dad was in the front while my mother and I were in the back. I was securely snuggled in a blue blanket, simply laying still inside a wicker-like bassinet. Then IT happened! The real me, the part of me that knows, the aware part of me, shifted its point of view from being inside this little, gentle baby body to a much larger field of vision outside of the body.

I saw the three of us. We looked perfect — perfect in everything we did. We were being. And I knew we were guided by a Force greater than what we knew. In fact, I knew we were part of this Force! Within this awareness, a voice spoke to me in a clear and articulate language about our souls and what our purpose is. The whole experience was so matter-of-fact and downright natural, and at the same time larger than life!

A second willing and open experience happened when I was nine years old. My parents, sister and I lived in Chicago. I’d been out of the city only at most a couple of times and that was to go to Evanston, a neighboring suburb. We planned a trip, an adventure! An exploration to Quebéc, Canada. WOW! Going to Quebéc was a very expansive journey, to say the least, for a nine-year-old sheltered boy.

So here we are, the four of us, going through Michigan. Our destination was St. Anne de Beaupré Shrine, fourteen miles NE of Quebéc City. When we arrived at the shrine, I think my almond-shaped eyes transformed into saucers from the amazing forms that overwhelmed my psyche!

My mother and I, hand-in-hand, are walking up toward the shrine and we encounter a huge, French-speaking man. My mother asked him a question in French. He pointed and we walked some more, all the while, on the path we are surrounded by life-size pewter sculpted figures of the stations of the cross. WOW! Especially for a nine-year-old altar boy! My mother and I reached the enormous, heavy, thick doors of the shrine. The doors must have been at least twenty feet tall. She grabbed one door. I pulled on the other and voila — the experience! At the entrance of the shrine are two pillars filled with attached crutches, canes, swathes and other items people left because of the healing they received.

In the moment of seeing inside the entrance, I had what’s called a “oneness” experience. My mother, the shrine and the rest of the surroundings seemed to have disappeared and Spirit once again spoke to me, but this time not in words but in a knowingness-like energy! Spirit gifted me with a conscious recognition of my innocence and purity. Spirit also gave me a “beyond conscious” knowing of true healing.

The next visitation by Spirit that I will share occurred when I was 24 years old. I had previously gone through many experiences and many feelings reflecting these experiences over the past 5-6 years that covered a full spectrum of emotions. I had been involved in both self-healing attempts and self-non-healing attempts. So consequently, I had some decisions of the heart to make because the fence that I was straddling was grinding away at me and I was becoming more and more conflicted inside. So I prayed a sincere prayer of heart, not fancy in words, but one in intention — “HELP!”

I didn’t know what I was praying for exactly, but I did receive a timely response. I’d say within a week to ten days, Spirit answered my prayer with a direct reply - IN FORM!

At 10:30 at night, I was laying in bed and all of a sudden I received an electric shock (like the kind you’d receive if you accidently stuck your finger in a wall socket.) This shock coursed throughout my entire body — head to toe, front to back! The shock lasted about five seconds. I screamed, “NO!” The shock came again for another five seconds. I relented by saying, “Okay!” By this time, the electricity in the room stopped! The refrigerator was dead, the clock stopped and my body was in a cascading sweat!

I sat up on the side of the bed and in front of me appeared a luminous beach-ball size sphere. The colors radiated a northern lights display. And from this ball came a very simple and direct message: “You can create your own Heaven or hell right here on earth!”

Believe me, I took this message to heart! Not only did I receive the blessing of the message but I also witnessed the mixture of senses, such as hearing the lights, seeing the sounds and smelling the words! The entire experience made absolute and complete sense, in spite of what my human brain-mind would like to interpret the experience as.

So from these wonderful experiences two questions came to mind. How do I apply what Spirit has so generously given me? How do I make this wisdom work here? Well, one possible answer that comes is that I have a choice — a choice of two paths.

One path is the path of judgment. Judgment gives birth to disturbance, which produces fear. Fear creates separation or the experience of aloneness. Aloneness is the experience of hell.

The other path, the one of which I choose, is the path of forgiveness. Forgiveness gives birth to acceptance, which creates peace. Peace invites awareness, which allows the experience of unity and unconditional Love. Unity and unconditional Love are the experiences of Heaven!

If my calculations and deductions are correct, my judgment leads to the experience of hell and my forgiveness leads to the experience of Heaven. My choice is made clear — Forgiveness! or simply, Awareness.I have found that there is never a time when forgiveness (acceptance) is not appropriate and there is never a time when Love is not necessary.

My experience at St. Anne de Beaupré echoes back the Truth on Healing, which is: both Love and forgiveness are the panaceas for all that is out of balance. So. . . whatever the problem. . . forgiveness is the medicine, and. . . whatever the question… Love is the answer!

Rev. Etienne Pait is a Pathways of Light minister living in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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