Miracles News

january-March, 2008

My Encounter with My True Self

by Rev. Yvelise Fingerhut

Twenty-one years ago my life changed. I met the best friend I’ve ever had, the Holy Spirit in ACIM. When that inspired book came into my life, it felt as if the center of my being had been turned from the inside out. All my old beliefs were shattered and these new ideas felt so true. I new that I had come home. ACIM was my constant companion for one year. I would read it in every break I had at work, when I stopped at a red light, before and after going to bed, in fact, reading and studying ACIM was what I did most of 1986.

During that year I moved from Ponce, Puerto Rico, the city where I was born and raised, to San Juan, where I hardly knew anybody. The Course brought many new and wonderful friends into my life, one of them being Rev. Annie Arbona. Annie and I shared many wonderful spiritual experiences. Even though life took us in different directions, we have always kept in touch.

A year ago, because of my husband’s health, we moved to South Florida. Again, I hardly knew anyone. Even though ACIM had been my path ever since my first encounter, ego took over. I started asking the Holy Spirit to bring light into my life again and the right people so that I could be of service. I was sure He would, I just didn’t know how, or when. “Faith and belief and vision are the means by which the goal of holiness is reached. Through them the Holy Spirit leads you to the real world, and away from all illusions where your faith was laid. This is His direction; the only one He ever sees. And when you wander, He reminds you there is but one. His faith and His belief and vision are all for you.” T-21:III:4:1-5 (Text p. 452)

In the darkest of days I received a call from Annie who now lives in South Carolina. She told me about Pathways of Light and how she was translating its courses into Spanish. We thought we were just chatting, but Holy Spirit had another intention. I immediately felt a wonderful energy coming from my heart and knew that this was the Holy Spirit’s answer. I have since been helping with the translation into Spanish and I started the Ministerial Counselor Training.

My life has changed. I cannot put in words the energy of peace, joy and happiness that is back into my life. I am so grateful for ACIM, Annie, Robert and Mary Stoelting and Pathways of Light for this opportunity to be of service. I feel very deep within me that the Spanish translation of these courses, which are so simple yet so powerful, will be of tremendous spiritual growth to the Spanish speakers of the world. I have one advice to all of them: Fasten your seat belts; tremendous healing is coming your way. As the Course did for me, your lives will never be the same.

Rev. Yvelise Fingerhut is a Pathways of Light minister living in Weston, Florida.

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