Spirit’s messages lie just
beyond the veil. But we must be
willing to clear the barriers before our eyes, silence the noise within our mind
and question the assumptions we have made for most of our lives. To hear this
Inner Wisdom we need to pause and be open to the myriad ways the Great
Communicator transmits those joyous messages.
I find that I receive
insights when I least expect them. I might be reading a book and a passage will
jump out at me. Or, a person may make an innocent statement that at once appears
to be concocted precisely for me. The other day my horoscope, which I generally read for humor, plainly hit the nail-on-the-head. It precisely
talked about a path, which I am seriously contemplating traveling, in almost the exact words that were used when my teacher and I discussed my plan.
And then, it was on one of my walks around
the neighborhood while listening to a Ted Talk/NPR podcast episode entitled Champions that I started making
connections between the challenges and revelations discussed by the guests to
my study of A Course in Miracles.
The second highlighted
speaker on the show who offered inspiring statements was Amy Purdy. Amy was an able-bodied, nationally
ranked snowboarder who developed life-threatening bacterial meningitis, a blood
infection that landed her on life support. Doctors gave this superb athlete a less than 2% chance of
living. Said Amy, “I was
physically, spiritually, emotionally broken.”
The infection took its
toll. Doctors had to amputate both
of Amy’s legs below the knees. They had to remove both kidneys, as well as her
spleen, and she lost complete hearing in her left ear. Amy Purdy came close to
losing her nose and both hands. And her life.
Amy shared her process of
healing:
“I began to daydream: I
imagined myself walking gracefully and snowboarding again. I didn’t just
imagine myself carving down a mountain of powder,” said Amy, “I could actually
feel it! I could feel the wind against my face and the beating of my heart as
if it were happening in that very moment. And that is when a new chapter in my
life began.”
(While still in the hospital) “All I would think about is snowboarding, not if I would do it again, but when I would do it again. Four months
later I was back up on a snowboard.
This past February, I won 2 back-to-back World Cup Gold Medals, and I am
now the highest ranked adapted female snowboarder in the world.”
Of her ability to move past
such a life-threatening challenge, Amy revealed, “It’s not about breaking down borders
it’s about pushing off of them and seeing what amazing places they might bring
us. I’m better because I work harder at it. The motivation comes from wanting
to figure it out, of finding a way.”
What can Amy Purdy teach me
about reaching my goal of remembering my Oneness with My Creator through
forgiveness?
1.
When I quiet my
mind, I can imagine myself free of guilt, fear and pain and for brief moments
I’m in the realm of my Creator and feel nothing but peace. I see the Light and
I feel its gentle, healing warmth throughout my soul.
2.
Amy said, “It’s
not about breaking down borders it’s about pushing off of them and seeing what
amazing places they might bring us.”
·
What are my
borders or my barriers to finding peace? Could they include the too-well tuned
egoic thinking? The scenarios of fear and attack that have been bred into me by
a world that believes that fear lurks around every corner and that we must
attack first in order to survive? How
can I push off of the ego and rebound
into the realm of my Natural Home, that of my Inner Wisdom? Perhaps the answer
lies in slamming the door shut on egoic thoughts and pushing off of that portal
into my given Homeland.
3.
“I’m better
because I work harder at it.”
·
Look at how long
I’ve/we’ve worked at living our lives in the darkness? It will take vigilance
and study to change this ingrained, knee-jerk reaction way of looking at life.
It will take vision to see.
4.
“The motivation
comes from wanting to figure it out, of finding a way.”
· “There must be a better way,” said William Thetford to Helen Schucman. It was then that Jesus’ words were
‘heard,’ and A Course in Miracles was
revealed. For me, the road to ‘the better way’ has already been paved. With
Love. I simply need to stay the Course!
Inspired by, God
is the only goal I have today. W-256
A Course in Miracles, Second
Edition
Foundation
for Inner Peace, 1996.
Bottom picture by Barbara Franco Adams (c)2012
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