Miracles News
January-March, 2014
The Focus of Pathways of Light — An Ongoing Healing Journey
We have been inspired to share about how we have worked with Spirit for the last 40 years and where Spirit has led us. Our experience has been that Spirit works with us in the moment. Spirit has never given us a five year plan. Yet we always receive what we need when we need it.
We have observed that Holy Spirit’s one goal over all these years has been to help us all realize that, in this “world,” we are dreaming a dream and its content is not true. We are not separate bodies with separate minds. In truth we are one Mind, the same Spirit of Love that our Creator is. That is why A Course in Miracles tells us in the Introduction, “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”
This one goal of waking up from the dream and realizing our one true Identity is why Pathways of Light (POL) has provided materials that focus on listening to the highest Source of Love that resides deep within our minds, waiting to help us realize that this world we think we “live” in is simply a dream, an illusion. Our true reality is always that we are Spirit, and the physical world we are dreaming we live in is not where we are or what we are. The Course calls accepting this transformed way of thinking a miracle. Being willing to let go of the idea that we are a separate body is the means to receive the miracle or change of mind that comes from our one true Self.
As we continued listening to Holy Spirit, we were guided to teach what we need to learn. We were guided to join with others for the purpose of healing our minds. This led to receiving and sharing different avenues for awakening over the years, including Listen & Receive 30-Day Home Study Program, ACIM Text Made Simple, ACIM Daily Lesson Insights (which came from the sharing of POL staff, ministers and students), Minister Training courses, ACIM Practitioner courses, or posting the Daily Inspiration we receive from Spirit each morning.
Over these many years Holy Spirit also led us to provide additional avenues for Pathways of Light ministers to teach what they need to learn by giving them the opportunity to share with others about their experiences of letting Holy Spirit heal their minds. They can do this through writing Miracles News articles (in print and online) and/or writing an ongoing Ministers Healing Journal that they post on the Pathways of Light website. They also can participate in the Saturday and Sunday ACIM teleconference groups or facilitate their own group in their area or through teleconference. To wake up to what is real, we need constant reinforcement and as we join with our brothers for mind healing, we remember that we don’t go home alone.
Pathways ministers sharing through these many avenues have experienced many beautiful healing connections with others on their spiritual journey as well as opportunities to join with others with the Accessing Inner Wisdom Counseling. In addition, the Spiritual Awakening and Healing Inner Child eight-week program materials were developed to give ministers more ways to offer a bridge for inner healing to people who are new to spiritual awakening.
Training the ministers to offer Accessing Inner Wisdom Counseling and facilitate many of the courses they have taken are additional avenues for ministers to teach what they need to learn and strengthen their awakening. The ACIM Practitioner 24-course program was also developed to provide ongoing mind healing training for POL ministers and others, using A Course in Miracles as our focus for study. This is done through joining with others by phone, in groups or by teleconference to reinforce awakening to the truth.
Also we were led to develop custom promotional materials for POL ministers. These include brochures explaining all the minister’s services, programs and courses available, the Accessing Inner Wisdom Counseling brochure, and a wedding brochure, which also talks about the Relationship Enhancement Counseling service the minister may provide. POL also developed personalized business cards and laminated bookmarks for ministers to distribute in their area or mail to people who might be interested. Pathways also prepares personalized fliers for ministers to use to promote the eight-week Spiritual Awakening and Healing Inner Child programs. From the central POL office, ministers services fliers are included with every catalog and order mailed to locations near each minister.
Over the last 16 years, Pathways of Light has also built a website that attracts over a million visitors every year, helping people find POL ministers who are perfect to join with them for healing. The Pathways of Light website promotes the workshops, ACIM groups, and eight-week Spiritual Awakening and Healing Inner Child programs offered by POL ministers. People who come to the Pathways of Light website can find the ACIM groups and the events pages through links on the front page and in the right column of thousands of pages on the Pathways of Light website. In addition people can find the profiles of ministers in every state and country to see the services they offer and email the ministers directly with their inquiries.
The support services offered by ministers for Help with Inner Guidance, Chronic and Critical Illness Support, and Prayer Support also give ministers avenues to teach what they need to learn. This has led to further connections with participants in the Listen and Receive teleconference program, eight-week programs in groups or one-on-one, and also to help people connect with their inner Guidance through the Accessing Inner Wisdom Counseling.
To promote ministers, we provide links to ministers’ personal websites on the POL website links page. (Note: If you are a POL minister and have a new website or your website has changed, please let the office know and we will update the links.) Because of many inquiries from people interested, we are working on ways to make it easier for ministers to facilitate the eight-week programs one-on-one. We are in the process of expanding courses 1101 and 1102 to train ministers to provide Spiritual Awakening and Healing Inner Child eight-week programs through teleconference or one-on-one, by phone or in person. This additional option makes it easier for many more people to participate in these gentle, healing programs. As soon as this additional training is ready, we will make it available to all Pathways of Light ministers.
In the past year we have added a section on the website just for POL ministers that provides easy access to all updated materials and additional resources to help ministers expand their ministries and order supplies not available to the public. As new training materials are developed, it is added to the Support for Ministers section. The link to this section is located on the POL website home page, at the bottom the right hand column. It is also under the Minister Services tab on every page of the website. This section will also have links to purchase ministerial supplies online rather than having to call, fax or mail orders to the POL office.
Our focus has always been to put peace first, which is important to help us stay connected with Holy Spirit’s plan. We know that Holy Spirit is our Guide and we follow the best we can. We are not perfect at it and we have had many lessons along the way, but we keep practicing. We simply focus on our forgiveness lessons for the day, which means letting go of our belief in separate bodies with separate minds.
We welcome your feedback by emailing us or making an appointment to talk if you have questions or thoughts about POL you would like to discuss. The goal of Pathways of Light has always been to provide the means to help us all wake up from the dream. Only Holy Spirit knows how to do that and our job is to open up to receive Holy Spirit’s peace, where we are reminded that in truth we rest in God, no matter what stories the ego’s dream of separate identities makes up.
Revs. Robert and Mary Stoelting are co-founders of Pathways of Light. They reside in Ormond Beach, Florida. Website: PathwaysOfLight.org
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