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A Miracle Distribution Center Publication May / June 2010 IN ME O J at the • CENTER'S • • CONFERENCE • See Page 11 • A u 9 gu 2 • Rev. Hugh’s st 28• • Treasure Hunting • { by Beverly Hutchinson McNeff • • • Homilies s children, my brother and I used to out of our being. But, searching the world • So Simple It’s Insulting • pretend we were pirates looking never quite seems to bring us the purpose • ••••••by Hugh Prather { for buried treasure. We would make we are looking for. That doesn’t mean that a map and put a we deny the world or our participation in s we amble along our chosen A path, we encounter many big“X” on the the world, we just stop looking to it to give spot where the us what we can only find within. distractions. One of the most treasure was This year’s annual International Confer - Ainsidious is buried. We then ence on A Course in Miracles in Irvine, the notion that would proceed to California is entitled, The Treasure of God . to pursue a hunt for that This title comes from the section in the path is treasure in the Course’s text of the same name and is a sufficient, that Beverly Hutchinson McNeff woods around our powerful reminder that we are what we pursuit is an home in Oregon. We never really found are looking for — not in an ego sense of end in itself. At the chest of gold, but we enjoyed the our personal self importance but in the a local organi - Hugh Prather hunt. sense of our true Self value to God and to zation that our church asked Gayle and Nowadays, people still play this game all our brothers. The true treasure we me to address, the group leader told us with their hand-held phones or GPS de - can be. with a hint of pride,“We here are all vices. Called geocachers, This section also offers the seekers of truth.” these people go out and Course’s restatement of the We opened the meeting with the hide trinkets and then The Course tells us story of the prodigal son... invitation to interrupt us at any time write clues for anxious “that God wants only “Listen to the story of the with comments or questions. We then treasure hunters to follow prodigal son, and learn what proceeded to talk about our spiritual and find the booty. Once us because nothing in God’s treasure is and yours: beliefs and practices and we demon - you find the treasure, this world holds any This son of a loving father left strated with a volunteer couple just though, you are supposed his home and thought he had how easily an issue could be resolved to put it back so the next value. We are His squandered everything for when the couple switched from their hunter can find it. It seems only treasure. nothing of any value, al - ego minds to their connected mind. to be that the fun is still in though he had not under - We walked the couple through the the hunt. stood its worthlessness at the steps and, sure enough, it worked just What is the hunt all about? We all wan - time. He was ashamed to return to his father, as we had said it would. der in the world looking for our“treasure.” because h”e thought he had hurt him. Yet So there we were, talking about the We call it by many names... career, relation - when he came home the father welcomed difference between our chattering, agi - ship, family, fame, but they are really all him with joy, because the son himself was tated mind and our peaceful mind and substitutes for purpose. We are trying to his father’s treasure. He wanted nothing demonstrating fairly dramatically the find out why we are here; to make sense Continued on Page 12 practical implications of being aware of Together, Gayle and Hugh Prather have Beverly is the co-founder and president of MDC, one of the longest running organizations based on written twenty books including: Morning A Course in Miracles founded in 1978. As a student, lecturer and author on the Course since 1977, her recorded weekly commentaries on Course principles have become a wonderful source of inspi - Notes, The Little Book of Letting Go, Standing ration and study for many around the world. Receive a FREE recording by contacting MDC. on My Head, Love and Courage, and How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy, all avail - able through MDC. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook! 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