Miracles News

October-December, 2014

Spirit Light Outreach

by Joe Wolfe

Rev. Joe Wofe “What could you not accept if you but knew that all events, past, present and to come were designed by One whose only intention was for your good?”

That’s a reminder to us from Jesus in Lesson 135 of the Workbook in A Course in Miracles. All events! Every single encounter… every situation… every holy encounter…

For me, those events included following the path of a career criminal. I cared not for my fellow man but only for my own personal self-gratification regardless of who I harmed in the process.

I grew up without a mother, void of a loving family experience, and viewed this world as a very cruel place as I perceived it through these five very limited senses. I was convinced that I was a victim of it, unable to escape from it. I lashed out at this world. I hated everything about it. I vented my hatred upon everyone and everything in this world. I hated the concept of God as I perceived Him. I viewed God and all of the fundamentalist ideologies of Him as a strategically contrived brainwashing effort by the political powers that be to suppress everyone and use religion as a method to control.

I could never accept the force fed ideologies of a “supreme being” who doled out favors for some and punishment for others, and I questioned every concept about hell and damnation. Even as a small child I could not feel any truth in the teachings that suggested that certain people were favorites, ...that God could be ‘offended’ in any way and that I was somehow destined to serve under the thumb of a vengeful overlord. That god was not my God.

Convinced that I was somehow condemned to an ugly world that I hated, I decided to live in it under my own rules. If I had to be here I would do so on my own terms. My rebellious nature evolved from a juvenile delinquent, stealing candy and toys from stores to a ruthless thief, sticking guns in the faces of people and businesses and forcibly taking their money.

And during all of this time God was with me. The ‘mystical experiences’ I describe in my books, In Warm Blood, The End of Reincarnation with the Five Signs, A Mystic’s Message and Letter To A Prisoner, continued periodically throughout the young life, even into prison. The real God had better plans for me.

The fifth and final mystical experience happened about 16 months before my release from prison. God showed up for me in a very profound way. He rescued me from a situation that would have resulted in my certain death at the hands of other convicts. Then he lifted me up, out of the body, gave me a glimpse of who I really was and shared the truth with me that I was His Son. Without words He comfortingly blasted my very core with the unmistakable conviction that the Real God was all Loving, all compassionate, and always at my beck and call. At those moments I vowed never to harm another again. I could never return to a life of criminality. I knew in an instant that I was One with everyone and everything.

Today as I study with Pathways of Light to complete my ministerial ordination, I continue to deliver inspirational books like A Course in Miracles and related books to prisoners. To date the Spirit Light Outreach ministry has successfully reached and changed the lives of many women and men confined in the hell within the hell. A Course in Miracles group gatherings in several prisons around the country have been approved and established. Letters of deep gratitude for the message of hope have touched the hearts of many hardened criminals, changing the way they perceive everyone and everything in the world.

Jesus’ message to me, to “Bring with you all those I have sent to you to care for as I have cared for you” became my passion and special function. Prisoners whose families and friends have long since forgotten them, who never receive so much as a postcard, now are visited by a different kind of mailman. One who brings hope where there once was despair, love where there was hatred, compassion where there was once vindictiveness and forgiveness where there once was despair, guilt and forlorness.

“I was hungry and you gave me meat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in. I was naked and you clothed me. I was in prison and you came to me. For verily I say unto you, that which you do for the least of mine you do for me.”

It was in prison where I found my guiding light. It is there, whether bound by walls and bars or by the ego’s tenacious thirst for control, where I care to share it.

And may the Love, Light and Peace of God be with you always.

Joe Wolfe is a Pathways of Light ministerial candidate who lives in Chicago, IL. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Website: AcimLive.com
If you would like to help Joe Wolfe bring A Course in Miracles and related materials to prisoners, contact him at Spirit Light Outreach, PO Box 1174, North Riverside, IL 60546 or go to AcimLive.com

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