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Healing My Mind --by Rev. Stephanie Pokorzynski

"Pneumonia? Are you sure?" I asked the doctor. I knew I had let the winter bitterness grow inside me, yet I hadn't realized how much. I understood my negativity about the snow and cold had finally caught up with me, but even with that realization, it would take time for me to heal. I was tired. I was worn out. I needed to rest, yet I was tired of resting. For the past six days, I had been coughing and sweating, which was becoming extremely exhausting.

Three days later -- even after taking an antibiotic -- still no improvement. I was getting discouraged, thinking I would never be healthy again. Why wasn't my mind healing? I thought I had discovered where my mind had gone astray. I started getting upset with myself for being unable to heal. I decided to take a rest in my bedroom, but my negative thoughts would not leave me alone. I began to journal and wrote:

"Memorial Day. More rain and gray sky. It doesn't matter whether it's rainy, gray, cold, sunny, or hot, my kids still have fun. But too many clouds for me and I feel like they are pinning me down. I've lost a lot of that childlike playfulness. I feel like I am dying here and wonder when I am going to heal. God help me! What do I need to do? How do I need to be?"

I went on to express my aloneness and distance from family and friends. I began to entertain the idea of being weary of life. "Maybe it's not that I am getting a bunch of garbage out of me in order to shine more brightly. Maybe I am dying. Maybe I am just plain tired of living in this world. Maybe I want to go on without earthly limitations -- break free to real, true, eternal living. I don't know if I will get it in this lifetime God… I'm lost. Things have become unclear again. How will I clear them up now?"

Almost immediately, my nurturing adult stepped in to answer my needy inner child's questions. She comforted and told her, "Go ahead and cry. I am here. It's okay -- cry it out."

I had been wondering if I would be able to work the next day. The doctor had given me a week off of work, but I didn't want to take it. My loving adult reassured me that I would be healed tomorrow, and not to worry about calling in sick.

She strengthened me more by saying, "You are a strong, beautiful woman. God blessed. God powerful. And you are strong enough to do this. Strong enough to cry. Strong enough to heal. No more sickness. Cough it out now and sleep tonight. Wake up healed, loved, surrounded by light and energy once again. Sickness is done. You have seen its falseness. And now, you choose the Power God has given you to heal. Take it. The Power is yours. God is in you still. God is blessing you still. Here is the chance to see it -- to choose it. There is no other way but to choose. What a story you will share when tomorrow you break free of your own chains! Your own death sentence. Thank God for healing. And share God's healing Power. You are whole. You are free. You are one with all creation. How can you choose to be powerless with all that in you?"

I hadn't slept, but I felt totally renewed and walked out of my bedroom with a sense of power and strength that medicine could not have brought me. Everything was going to be all right.

I did not miss a day of work the next week and grew stronger each day. My cough lessened and my nights were much more restful.

Thank you God for giving me all I need to heal my mind and reminding me to use all that power in my life.

Rev. Stephanie Pokorzynski is a Pathways of Light minister living in Alpena Michigan.
Email: stephiewonder1@yahoo.com

Who Is My Father? --by Rev. Christine Anderson

To my delight I was invited to take over the service for my spiritual brother and friend in the Milwaukee area, a fellow Pathways minister. The service happened to fall on Father's Day. I asked Holy Spirit what would be for the highest good to offer to the congregation as an inspiring and healing message.

The impression I got from Spirit was to speak about my earthly father, Larry and my Heavenly Father, God. Putting my hand in Spirit's Hand, I walked into the memories of childhood. When I was a little girl, my earthly father was somewhat of a mystery to me. Physically he was handsome, tall and strong. I remembered my perception of my father was that he was distant and not emotionally available. He didn't talk to me very much. He seemed to have pent up anger that would spill out at times and I didn't know when that would be.

He would play with me occasionally or read me the funnies while I sat in his lap. Those closer times were important, but it seemed that there weren't enough of them. My dad was a time keeper at the Chicago stock yards, a job he didn't like. He'd have to get up at four in the morning to go to work, so he went to bed very early. He would knock on the wall for us to turn the TV volume down so he could sleep. I wished that he could have stayed up with us those nights and not be so separate from us.

He was a good man and he served in the church in many ways. I'll always remember him standing at the stove with "Aunt Jemima," flipping pancakes at the church breakfasts. He enjoyed fixing things around the house and making improvements. He was always doing the best he could with the understanding he had at the time.

As I began my spiritual journey, my opening to Love, I realized the pain of holding together a false self was no longer desirable. I really wanted to experience the Love of God that was promised in the Bible stories of my Sunday school days. I was eventually led to study A Course in Miracles®. My younger brother Ron got into a 12 step program. What a blessing that our Spiritual pathways coincided so well. We shared the joy of discovering the Love within. We wanted our parents to be this happy too. We realized that if we professed to have found this Love within, our only task was to merely be this Love. There was nothing else to do. We didn't need to make our parents happy, we only needed to continue to open and be that Love and share that Love.

Spirit provided an opening for my father and I to connect in a meaningful way. He was experiencing poor circulation in his legs and he asked me if I would massage his legs. This served as a bridge to open to Love together. He expressed his interest in my life and gratitude for my helpfulness. I was able to express to him at that time that the way he expressed love in his life was perfect. The miracle was that as I opened to the Love of my heavenly Father, my earthly father appeared as expressing that same Love.

In recent years, as I open to deeper healing through ACIM, a most wonderful revelation came to me. As I opened to Love, I could look without shame or fear at the mistaken ideas I had about my earthly and Heavenly Father. I learned from the Course to join with Spirit to look only through the eyes of Love at perceived errors and see them transformed. I realized that in my youth I had been projecting my mistaken ideas of God onto my earthly father.

He was only playing a part to mirror to me the misunderstandings which included: A God Who was angry and punishing, a God Who wouldn't talk or listen to me, and wasn't interested in me, a God who didn't know I existed, and a God who wouldn't play with me. I thought my relationship with God was controlled by me. I'd let Him in on a "good day." But on a "bad day," He and His baseball bat could stay out, because He just might give me a bop on the head for not being perfect!

As a confused child, I sought out separation through buying into the world of the ego. I never knew what to expect from my earthly dad, and since I didn't know my heavenly Dad's Identity, I didn't know that I could expect only Love. All those wrong ideas of God being punishing, angry, not knowing I existed were transformed in that true awareness of Love. So I no longer projected those errors onto my Father and the world.

In these days of miracle minded thinking that I share with all of the Sonship, I have great gratitude that the identity crisis is over. The real Identity beyond the role my father seemed to play was actually my heavenly Father, loving me unconditionally and eternally. I'm continually in communication with my heavenly Father. He certainly knows that I exist as I am His Creation. As a matter of fact He is not complete without me.

He guides me with gentle strength in every area of my life. He leads me through the maze of the world with amazing grace. He holds the Sonship safely within Himself, where we all join in the joyful dance of awakening. I know without fear that a loving Father lives within me. Thank You Father for Your gifts to me. I receive them and share them with all.

Rev. Christine Anderson is a Pathways of Light minister living in Chicago, Illinois.
Email: revhappywoman@prodigy.net

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Will You Follow? --by Rev. Mary De May

If there is something I want you to do,
will you do it, daughter?
If there is a call to make, will you speak?
If there is rest to be taken, will you give it?
Will you follow, will you do what I ask?

It is not big, but it takes courage
to follow your Heart.
You must walk a different path.
And the world does not see a different path.
Will you do what I ask? Will you follow?

If you have faith in the unseen,
the faith will hold you up.
The strength you may think you lack, you already have because you believe in Me.
I may be unseen, but I am with you all the while. There is nothing that you cannot do because I am with you.

Each day you take another step,
Each day you follow a little more.
Each day the way is surer.
Each day you are given more.
A wall revealed and down it comes.
Nothing can obscure your way.

Will you do what I ask? Will you follow? Only Love leads the way…
Will you do what I ask?
Then listen for your Heart Song.

Rev. Mary De May is a Pathways of Light minister living in Kiel, Wisconsin.
Email: RevMDM@pathwaysoflight.org

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Forgiveness Removes Barriers to Love --by Rev. Robert Stoelting

This spring I had an illness. In my daily work with the ACIM Workbook lessons and meditation with Holy Spirit, I asked for understanding of what it meant. Following is insight that came to me in one of these meditations.

You are the Light of the world means you are Love. Love is your nature. Because Love always extends itself, you can only be happy by extending Love. Love always extends itself, but you don't experience that in this world because the world was made as a barrier against Love. That is why forgiveness, which is letting go of the barriers against Love, is the reflection of Love in this world. Forgiveness lets the Light of Love, which is always there, shine through. Every image of this world was made to stand against Love. To maintain the illusion of specialness, you need the images of the world to be real. To have specialness, you must reject Love. The images of this world are the means to keep this rejection in place.

Love is ever present. To maintain the illusion of specialness requires constant effort to defend the images that stand against eternal Love. This effort is exhausting and debilitating, depressing and sickening. It need not be. You need only recognize that specialness literally offers you nothing, and you will cease to defend the images. They will no longer have value to you, so they will fall away and you will once again remember the eternal Light of Love that you are.

There are many forms of seeking specialness. Some, such as competition, may be more obvious to you. But any form that seems to set you off as different from another in any way is specialness. God created you like Himself, one with Him and with all His attributes the same. There is no difference of any kind in God, so to be different in any way is to seek specialness. This can only mean that you believe you are separate from God, you are not your Self.

Thus sickness is just another manifestation of the attempt to make separation and specialness real. They are equally meaningless. Not sinful, not justification for guilt, simply meaningless. Whatever you recognize as meaningless has no attraction to you. You let it go.

Because you give everything all the meaning it has for you, the release from sickness or any form of specialness must come in your mind. It comes from recognition of the meaningless for what it is. You only think sickness can harm you because you think the body has meaning, and you have identified yourself with the body. Because the body is meaningless, you have identified yourself with the meaningless. This is why identification with the body is innately depressing.

Beneath all the denial in your mind, you believe you are meaningless. You believe you have no function or purpose. You believe you are a pawn in someone else's chess game. What could this belief bring but the wish for death as release from this meaningless existence. Yet even death of the body does not offer release from the belief that you are meaningless because you see the death of the body as the end of your existence.

The only way to release yourself from this depressing situation is to let go of this false image of yourself. That is forgiveness. With that release, the Light of Love floods in, embraces you and fills you with the awareness of your Self in the heart of God. Here is your happiness. Here is your safety. Nothing else will satisfy you. Nothing else is worthy of you.

Sickness is just the manifestation of the wish for death that comes with believing you are a meaningless image. When you remember you are Love in the heart of God, you remember you are Life. Death is impossible, for what is eternal can never change. As you realize you are not a limited body, you will cease to try to make it act out fantasies of destruction and death. It will be given a new meaning. Instead of defining what you are, it will become a useful tool to help you express what you are to those who still think they are bodies.

You are not a body. You are free. You remain Love as you were created, eternally.

Rev. Robert Stoelting is co-founder of Pathways of Light living in Kiel, Wisconsin.
Email: office@pathwaysoflight.org

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