November/December 2002
Feature Articles
Holistic Health Q & A
by Dr. Carol Anne Bates
The role of the liver in Oriental Medicine.
The connection between the liver and depression. How acupuncture can help.
What is... the Organic Movement?
by Robert Roman
Final part of a three-part article
detailing the author's personal experiences and the growth of the organic
movement.
UnCommon Sense!
by David Findlay
Iraq?
Articles on the theme "Miracles"
A State of Consciousness
by Rev. Susan R. Griffin
The real "reality" in which
miracles are part of everyday experience.
A Personal Course in Miracles
by Lisa Raphael
Miracles and the Big Picture. Co-creating
with the Creation.
Are Miracles Miraculous?
by Charles Larsen
A psychotherapist's attempt to define
the word "miracle."
An Everyday Experience
by Rev. LeRoy Zemke
The realm of miracles and how to get
there.
A Miracle?
by Dave Hunt
The "miraculous" effect of
changes in perception.
What Happened?
by Dr. Audrey Craft Davis
A first-hand account of two miraculous
events.
The Miracle of Life
by AnneMarie Dyer
Letting go of a personal perspective
and opening one's eyes to the miraculous possibilities of life.
Sharing the Miracle
by Rev. Pat Cross
Some personal miracles and some reflections
on the nature of miracles.
Sharing the Miracle
by Rev. Pat Cross
At this Holiday Season each of us, as the miraculous gift that we are, have an opportunity to contribute to and light up the Divine Christmas Tree, spreading our branches of joy, peace, love, compassion and goodwill as far as they'll reach.
Reach out and touch someone, share the miracle you are, feel the peace and joy of letting others know who you are and how you feel. Be an attentive and interested listener. Let this indwelling spirit within you blossom into its precious and natural beauty, radiance and wholeness. Be an enjoyable person to be with. You are the only person you can ever know intimately. You are the one with whom you must live eternally.
Wow! I must take a moment to share with you the enjoyable person I am to myself this Sunday afternoon. While writing this article I have been tuning in to TV to watch the Women's Final tennis matches from Manhattan Beach, California. An unexpected win by a player! That was an internal wowee for me and the bubbles are still bubbling inside of me. A miracle indeed in the tennis world!
Another personal miracle for me this past week was having lunch with a dear friend. What's so extraordinary about that you ask? About 3 or 4 years ago there was a misunderstanding between us and our relationship was damaged. It was a close and meaningful relationship and I felt a great loss. I am happy today to report that by the grace of God that relationship is now well, healthy and thriving. Recently I received a thank-you note from her thanking me for the beautiful butterfly earrings I had given her for her birthday. In her note she also thanked me most of all for the enjoyable time she had being with me. Likewise, she is the most enjoyable person I have been with in a long, long time.
We must practice loving and appreciating ourselves as children of God. Let us free ourselves from the effects of past mistakes and allow self-forgiveness to clean the slate and free us to move on and experience more good. As so adequately expressed by Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, "Your primary task is not to seek salvation through creating a better world, but to awaken out of identification with form." Then we can experience and live life from the essence of spirit and not only enhance our life and the life of others but reap the benefits of the fruits of spirit. This is miraculous living and a way of life that heals all mortal wounds and centers all focus and attention on loving and accepting each other in our Christhood and as our Creator's holiness expressing in, as and through each of us.
Life itself is a miracle and an every-moment event when we contemplate and reflect on its nature.
I am sure we all have experienced many miracles in our life that we can relate to and share. A personal miracle of mine, and a vital one at that, is the fact that I am sitting here today writing this article. Over a year ago I suffered a heart attack and it was necessary to paddle me back to existence. I give heartfelt thanks to the God of my understanding and his skilled medical ambassadors for giving me a second chance at this fantastic gift called life. Gratitude is the heart of the soul and creates a Wowee of divine love to immerse ourselves in and be embraced by. A sincere, heartfelt desire to respect, revere, and value this gift of life. My aspiration is to live life in a better way. To live a life well worth remembering.
As has been written by a wise soul, "No tree would be so foolish as to fight among its branches. God is the whole body and each of us is a cell within the body. I don't think our own fingers would be so foolish as to want to chop one off because they were of different sizes."
Random acts of kindness, love, understanding, compassion, acceptance and forgiveness can be contagious amongst all of us.
Let us honor our differences, love one another and exemplify thoughts, feelings, attitudes, actions and responses of peace on earth, goodwill toward all, beginning with ourselves.
What awesome power there is in insightful awareness and spiritual discernment as we travel this road less traveled. We discover the eternal journey is one with God, to God and from God. At one with atonement for all on awakening to the awareness of acceptance of the reconciliation of man to God, intertwined by the Christ Spirit within us.
What is a miracle you ask? Is it not the opportunity and gift we each have of touching someone's heart with an act of loving kindness and making their life, as well as our own, richer in every way.
Rev. Pat Cross is a Science of Mind minister, lecturer, author
of Spiritual Awakenings, counselor, teacher and workshop facilitator. Holiday
FL (727) 934-6730. rev-Pat_cross@msn.com.
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