Miracles News

April-June, 2014

Healing Through Spirituality

by Rev. Cathey Jo Tomilenko, O.M.C.

Rev. Cathey Jo Tomilenko Many years ago I was in a car accident, which changed my life drastically. I lost my teaching job of 27 years, a marriage, and over the years I have had at least 30 surgeries. I have actually lost count. It was a hit and run. A lady ran a red light and hit me at 55 mph. Little did I know at the time how important it was that the healing of my mind and thoughts were determinedly necessary for my physical healing.

Before I learned about how important our thoughts are, or even knew that the Holy Spirit was always guiding and working in and through me at all times, I spent several years living in anger. I was mad at the lady who hit me, the doctors who kept telling me I would spend the rest of my life in a wheel chair, my husband at the time who took advantage and stole my money from me by forging my name on the medical and disability checks. Even with all this anger inside, something was telling me that what the doctors predicted didn’t have to be. I didn’t know what it was at the time that kept giving me this message.

It wasn’t until five years later, when my sister and brother-in-law took me to a new thought church called Unity Church of Today. The first time I walked in I felt a certain peace and some kind of happy spirit not only in the church but with the people. After a year of taking Unity classes, I was introduced to A Course In Miracles. At first, like most of us, I didn’t understand anything I was reading. In fact, I was so confused I put the book on the shelf and didn’t touch it again for a year. As I continued learning about how important spiritual principles are in one’s life, that God is always present in our lives and that I am the beloved of God, I found my life changing. I was becoming more at peace. Forgiveness became a major part of my life. The more I forgave, the more at peace I was. I was especially learning to forgive myself for being so angry and living in blame.

I finally picked up the book again and went to A Course In Miracles class. I seemed to be more open to the teachings. Little did I know at the time that I would be led to Pathways of Light Ministry and be facilitating a class myself. God has the plan for our lives, not us, contrary to what we think.

As I grew to understand the teachings of A Course In Miracles, I spend more time in meditation, in peace, doing the forgiveness exercises in the Workbook. As a result, my body began to heal in a different and better way. As the surgeries continued, I was able to put my body at ease, talk to it and tell it what was going to happen. I would tell my organs to support me and blood not to go to the surgical site. My body didn’t have to experience a lot of pain and it could begin to heal as soon as the surgery was over.

I also told my mind that the I AM would be in the presence of God and the Holy Spirit would be protecting not only me but working through the team of surgeons and physicians. If I got a little nervous, I would immediately go within to the Holy Spirit for peace and guidance. What a difference it makes when your thoughts are at peace and you are putting your trust in the Holy Spirit. This trust and knowing that I am always being guided by the Holy Spirit are now embedded in my life.

I now have a team of physicians that support me in using spiritual principles as well as western medicine in my physical challenges. They pray with me, do visualization with me and know that I believe my healing goes way beyond just the physical. I now know that I Am a wonderful creation of a loving God, and that the Holy Spirit is very much a part of my healing. When my mind is at peace and I trust, my body is at peace and can heal more quickly and easily.

Each week, when I facilitate A Course In Miracles, I thank God that my ministerial teacher, Cheryl Goodrich, lead me to Pathways of Light. I might be the facilitator of A Course In Miracles, but each week I am still learning, forgiving and healing my mind, which ultimately supports the healing of my body. I live a very grateful life.

I am especially grateful for A Course In Miracles. My life is a miracle. I should have died in that car accident and a couple of times in surgery, but I didn’t. I am standing and walking at times with some limitations, but I am not in the wheel chair that was predicted. I have a big sign on my fridge that says, “God has a plan for my life. That’s all I need to know.” God is my Source and the Holy Spirit is my Guide. I still have much more healing of my mind to do. I am open and willing to allow the Holy Spirit’s guidance within to continue taking me on this wonderful Journey called life.

Rev. Cathey Jo Tomilenko is a Pathways of Light minister living in Bloomfield, Michigan, USA

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