Miracles News

October-December, 2010

WNYHOO — NOW! “The Paper Cut”

by Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan

This past spring I began experiencing some trepidation about the idea of having a split mind. Would that be like having two heads? As this thought embedded itself more deeply, fear began to rear its ugly head. I knew this was the “cubicle self mind,” this is the ego in WNYHOO, up to its old shenanigans.

I saw the cubicle self mind as a cube cast out of Heaven and floundering in a void completely disconnected from Inspiration (Holy Spirit). It had no control over its apparent situation. There it was, an alien cubicle creature ousted out of creation, exiled in the Land of Inspiration II, the cubicle sequel of Heaven, the Land of Inspiration.

I called for help! “Jesus, please help me to see the thought of separation without fear.” He immediately replied, “Mary, the seeming split in the mind is like a paper cut; it’s that small, like a slit in the skin of your fingertip.”

I looked at my index fingertip and imagined a paper cut. I laughed and was immediately relieved. What I had concocted to be a galaxy of immense proportions was shown to me as if a paper cut! Of course, the paper cut is not really real, but it sure can feel real. I thought of how a paper cut is usually so small, barely noticeable even, but so painful. How can something so small be so painful? In fact the only times it is painful is when it first happens and then I forget about it until the sting of salt creeps into the slit. Then I heard that it is when I focus on the ego, the tolerance I have for its antics, that makes it seem larger than life. It is my judgments, like salt poured into a paper cut, that make the cubicle mind seem worse than it is, causing it to flare up grabbing my attention even more.

Wow, a healed perception of the illusion; nothing more than a paper cut! I see how it is much easier to surrender a paper cut than an entire galaxy! Inspiration, through my Inspiring Self Mind, took a deep, metaphysical subject and the psychological ramifications of the belief in separation, fear and all of its sorrows, and boiled it down to the likes of a paper cut!

This is exactly what WNYHOO — NOW! Inspired To Be Truly Helpful is doing; keeping it simple! Taking what appears as our entanglement in a complex web of jigsaw puzzles and says, “Look at the paper cut already; we are not to ignore pain and suffering. It is in surrendering to Inspiration in the midst of our everyday paper cuts, that the peace and joy the paper cuts seem to hide emerge unscathed.” So really, I am thankful for the paper cut. Each time it stings is a potential opening to joy, each time I am willing. No willing soul will be left unturned by Peace.

Mission of the Cubicle Self Mind

I don’t know who i am or what i’m seeking, but i have a lot of thoughts and i’m thinkin’ their really important, see, so i’m gonna keep thinkin’ those thoughts as long as i’m listenin’ to these thoughts and thinkin’ these thoughts are real important, see. Seeking is my game and hiding is my shame. i get pretty darn dispirited workin’ on the job. What’s my job? Producing, consuming and disseminating dispiritedness. Hi, i am the Cubicle Self Mind and i am the head of the World Headquarters Cubicle Self Mind Belief Management Department. My job is to make every attempt to perpetuate dispiritedness by spreading the rumor that “each and every one of us is alone, separate and disconnected from Inspiration.” This is all pretty uncomfortable, see, though sometimes it appears to be a pretty good time. But i think i’m gonna keep on seekin’ out there in the world for relief from all this discomfort. I’m not gonna stop till i find it — and when i think i’ve found it i’m gonna take it all apart and put it back together again and make it into somethin’ i really want — and now that i got what i really want, i’m gonna hang onto it as tight as i can until it does me no good anymore. Then i’m gonna go seekin’ for somethin’ else that’s better — and when i find somethin’ better or maybe even worse, i’m gonna frame it and throw myself a party. You’re invited! I’ll catch you later; i’m busy these days rehearsing for the future based upon my past performances, see!

Mission of the Inspiring Self Mind

Wake up, wake up wherever you are,
Come one, come all from near and far.
I am here for all to lend you a hand;
A hand full of peace
in a moment unplanned.
I will teach you if you are willing
to lend a hand too,
By seeing with Inspiration
The peace that is you.
My one desire is for you
to truly see
The way I see you;
loved, loving and free.
Don’t think for a minute
that I would turn away
From any willing mind that
may have gone astray.
Fear looks at you,
now you need simply look at me,
In Inspiration fear dissolves
In a moment of free.
Be willing to see another
beyond their seeming cover.
In giving our light to another,
You too come out from undercover.
Now that one who is seen within
will begin to see too;
Seeing with Inspiration, seeing anew.
You’re not alone
you’re not separate from me,
We are one brilliant light
setting the world free.
Inspired To Be Truly Helpful
is seeing anew,
Seeing we are one,
where once we saw two.
One–to-One we inspire
in ways seen and unseen,
Inspired by One,
Together we are free.

I have been care giving for my elderly parents for a few years now. I commemorate this article to my father who made his transition July 19th at the age of 93.

He surrounded me with miracles on the three days before he passed on in his sleep. He surrounded me with miracles my whole life by the simplicity of his love. He simply didn’t take the Cubicle Self Mind seriously. He laughed it off and kept on praying.

In the midst of his experiences in WWII in the Battle of the Bulge and as a forward scout with the Timberwolves (whose slogan was, “Nothing in hell will stop the Timberwolves”), he prayed unceasingly. He recognized that if he ever got out of this alive he would never complain again. After that the world seemed like a paper cut to him!

I remember his blue eyes and smiling face seeing me anew, even now. As my brother put it, he was an uncomplicated man. He never gave or took advice, he focused on God. His perpetual words to me were, “Let it go.” Thanks dad, for being a demonstration of being free.

Want a personal experience of freedom? Want to be Inspired to Be Truly Helpful? When you become a member of Pathways of Light with a contribution of $120 or more, you will receive the Inspired to Be Truly Helpful audio CD album. The CD’s include the core material, a section on “Which Relation Ship are you Sailing?” and “Health and Healing.” It is straightforward speak of what the ego is experiencing and how Inspiration, with our willingness, is teaching us Love instead of fear, through our Inspiring Self Mind.

Every moment of every day amidst our everyday circumstances we can be “a living expression of inspiration in the world!”

Rev. Mary Gerard is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Louis, MO. She is author of the books Visions of Illumination, The Mentor Within and WNYHOO NOW!

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