E-News
September 2010 Volume 31
Dear E-News Subscriber,
Hello from us in Canada ... Still!
After more than 35 years, it sure felt good to fly a kite again! Trusting the future to God and really re-learning how to simply ‘be’ has been a feature of our wonderful time together here in Victoria. We love you heaps!
In This Issue
* Tomas' Healing Update
* "Shine" - A Poem from Cindy Lora-Renard
* "You have nothing I want World" - A poem from Katherine
* Tomas' Latest YouTube Clip - "Beyond Death to Forgiveness" Click here to view now
* The Healing Avatar - A True Story by Cath Doran
Tomas' Healing Update
Hi everyone,
Thank you all for your love and support. My thanks to Robert & Mary Stoelting of Pathways of Light who first initiated an appeal for donations to help us live and focus purely on healing and to all who heard the subsequent call to love, Thank you!
Many of you have probably seen the YouTube clip, "Beyond Death to Forgiveness", I posted September 2nd, 2010...if not click here. When I made that clip, I was told by a doctor that there was no treatment that would benefit me now and it was time to go home and enjoy the remainder of my days. Nouk, our daughter Rikki and Stacy were then advised of morphine, sedatives etc, that they could inject to make me more comfortable when the time drew near. The emergency injections are also in case of an (ego) expected increase in difficulty in breathing and restriction of both blood and oxygen flow to my head and lungs. I tell you this not to sensationalize the matter or scare you, but simply to show you what lengths the ego will go to in order to kill you while (seemingly) demonstrating factually and logically, how it will do it! Lots of laughter!
Upon hearing the doctor's grim report, instead of reacting in any way I might have expected, a beautiful peace descended upon me. I knew at last, that I had reached the place of miracles and I had not flinched! For months I had been preparing for this day and it represented the moment when I would hand over my life entirely to God, to Love itself. Jesus asks us to have no care for the ego or the body and instead to turn our attention to Him and living His Word. To quote from Matthew in the Bible (6:25, 33): "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on... But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
When I turned my body and life over to Him (and not the disease), I experienced tremendous relief to find that I am no longer personally responsible for "saving" the body or its life. I feel that I am being guided and that this guidance arises from love and not from fear or doubt. After months of disciplined handing over, I reaped that benefit - and fear is no longer present!
These past months of handing over fear to the Holy Spirit is paying off and the growing sense of gratitude for this time has overwhelmed any sense of poor me or thoughts of potential loss of life.
From that day on, I have chosen to live and to double my discipline of overlooking appearances and instead, spend my waking moments as close to God as I can. Every morning, I spend a quiet hour with him before anyone else is up. From there my day is full of love, laughter, meditation and witnessing God everywhere, and in everyone. Jesus promises us that He can look after the body and the ego, but we are responsible for turning over any fear or doubt, and then trusting Him that no harm can befall us. To date, aside from some discomfort at times, I have experienced no pain nor have I suffered one day...except for the psychological suffering the ego tries to induce with its story of death and destruction. No ego story is true and I denounce it on behalf of all of us. Our brother Jesus became Christ our Savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true and that is our task folks. It is time!
This has been a joint effort - I see groups in concentric circles - on the inner circle, those with me here daily have held the light of truth, unwavering in the face of the illusory threat of the ego, to outer circles of people whom I have not yet met but who have been drawn by Holy Spirit into the healing circle. I marvel daily at His working and know that all is in perfect and divine order and therefore I (as we all are) am safe in God.
Thank you again from the bottom of my heart for having the courage to join me in this journey of healing. I am so blessed.
Tomas.
"Shine"
By Cindy Lora-Renard
To show others the sunrise, you just shine your light
When others need some loving, you keep your Spirit bright
Shining day and night, peaceful Mind, living Christ
You are the Christ, not knowing what is without
The loving God is alive in you now
Brother we love you, beyond time and space
Trusting in God's strength, willing to go the length
You're a treasure to behold, you're a brother we adore
SHINE through the quiet beauty of creation, extending your love
The gentle movement of your Spirit, how lovely the sound
SHINE, our dear brother, your spark of light will ignite others
Your presence is a blessing, your joy inspiring, you teach by example in the highest way possible, just by being YOU.
SHINE through an ancient memory of the song of love, oh how wonderful it is to hear, a whisper in your ear, playful and so dear. You are this melody you're wanting to hear. All of us as ONE, hearing the song, each of us awake, knowing all along, we are the light of the world, the truth be told, so SHINE our dear brother, you are a wonder to behold...
With love and gratitude for being such a strong light and example of faith in what's real...
Forever your friend,
Love, Cindy
p.s. Tomas, I wanted to express through this poem my appreciation for you and your process and what an inspiration you are to so many.J
"You have Nothing I want World"
By Katherine
You have nothing I want world
You cannot satisfy my hunger
You cannot quench my thirst
Your promises prove empty
Your charms are cursed.
You have nothing I want world
Your love is conditional
Your truth is all lies
Your judgment is a henchman
That chops and divides.
You have nothing I want world
Your hierarchy's hurt me
Your dreams are built on sand
Your offerings are fool's gold
I will not take your hand.
You have nothing I want world
I turn away and turn within.
I now know I am not this body, I am not these emotions, I am not these thoughts,
I am not this name by which my parents chose to call me. Letting go of
everything I think I am makes way for a surprising surprise!
I don't think we can make a mistake, whatever choice we make, whatever we do,
whatever happens, one day it can all be used by the HS to return us to our self,
everything can be used. Nothing is ever wasted...what a prayer that could be
"Dear HS please use all I have experienced to return me to my True Self."
What an adventure. I am blessed
Katherine
The Healing of Avatar ...
A True Story by Cathy Doran
I wanted to tell you what happened this week. Tomas, you sent a prayer tip a couple of months back.
Praying for the Sick - A Tip from Tomas
"How can we help anyone who is seemingly ill? How do we pray for them? Pray to the Holy Spirit for forgiveness for our mistaken belief in sickness, suffering and death. We cannot ask for healing from something that is an illusion but that we still believe is real. And sickness (or suffering and death) is something that we've given more power (reality) to than that of the Holy Spirit. And so this is what I am learning. I want your prayers for me, but please let the prayers be to ask the Holy Spirit to heal your perception of illness, suffering and death. As you heal your perception, myself and all humanity are healed. Thank you. As The Course says, we never heal alone."
This tip changed the way I pray.
In my ‘dream job,' I work as a nurse in a hospital. Last Tuesday I was in the Administration office and a couple of the people in there were talking about a fish. One had won the fish at a volunteers' dinner a few weeks back. They were talking about how much they hated that fish. They were tired of taking care of it, having to change the water and feed it every day and how it was going to die anyway. The poor fish is a betta. It looked so sickly it was difficult to tell it was blue. It was literally lying on the blue gravel, its gills barely moving. It was in a fairly large bowl with a nice ribbon tied around the base, but there were no plants in the water; only the blue gravel. When the secretary said, "I hate that &^%# fish. I'm going to flush it down the toilet.
I said, "Don't do that. I'll take the fish and give it hospice care." So they gave me the fish. I asked its name, which is Avatar. I took
Avatar and his supplies (net, extra gravel, food and plant bulbs which had never been planted) to my office.
My office is my sanctuary. I have angels, and plants, and a water feature, and aromatherapy, and a big picture window. I turned on soft music and asked Holy Spirit to touch Avatar. I sent healing energy to him and pictured him as a whole and beautiful betta with flowing blue fins.
Our department secretary came in and said, "Cathy, that fish is dead."
I said, "No, it's not. I thought it was, but it is still moving its gills a little." By this time, Avatar was lying on his side. I planted the bulbs and pulled a piece of pothos which I had rooted in some water, and added it to the bowl. Then I place it on top of my bookshelf between an angel and a picture montage of some Course friends. I sent more healing energy to Avatar and gave him to Holy Spirit, turned out the office light and went back to the hospital to work. I felt strangely excited about him.
Near the end of the day when I came back to my office, Avatar was upright about halfway up the side of the bowl. I talked to him and sent him loving energy. I sprinkled a couple of food pellets in the water, but he didn't respond to that. One of my nursing colleagues who is undergoing chemo for breast cancer came in with the secretary, who was very surprised at how much better he looked.
The next morning when I walked into the office, Avatar turned and looked at me. His little fins near his gills were balancing him upright. He still had a couple of food pellets floating, so I did not add more, but it was amazing. The secretary said, "Cathy, you saved him!"
I said, "I just sent him good energy and decreased his stress."
Daily Avatar has gotten better. His fins are fully extended now, though they show a lot of damage. He swims around the bowl now, and always swims to me when I walk in. He is eating well, too, but he is skinny and his chest looks about like yours, Tomas.
So, thank you Tomas, for teaching me to pray for the sick. Since I learned of your body's apparent illness, I have consciously seen you as whole. Avatar has taught me that my eyes cannot see the truth, only the dream. Therefore, I know you are well, and in fact, have never been sick.
What I find surprising is that I did not share with my colleagues the role of Holy Spirit in Avatar's transformation. I still apparently care about the opinion of others. This I give to Holy Spirit for a change in my perception.
Thank you for being.
Cathy.
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Teleclasses and Appearances –Tania De Winne
As most of you are aware by now, Nouk and Tomas are having a hiatus from workshops according to their Guidance. During this time, I invite you to join with us in healing of the one mind and the mistaken belief in being a body and experiencing sickness, pain and suffering. We don't know what it will look like when they emerge out of 'their desert' experience but we know they will want to share in some form. Stay tuned...tania@takemetotruth.com |
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