When I finally read Conversations With God, Book I, it had been on my bedside table for three months after my sister-in-law (God bless her!) had loaned it to me. I finished it in three days. And, I was moved beyond comprehension. Predictably, I was hungry for more! So immediately afterwards, I purchased a copy for my own library and, at the same time, bought Books II and III and read them also, one after the other. Then I devoured Friendship With God.
Needless-to-say and predictably so again, I have not been the same since. I am a changed being -- my spirit has resurfaced. My soul has reconnected with me and I am finally awake again after feeling as though I have been asleep for the past twenty years. I celebrated my 53rd birthday right after that and decided I had better get moving!
In this enlightened state, I felt I was being called into action. I found it no longer possible (even painful) to sit back and watch passively as my world around me lashed out in pain. I had thought that I had been making a difference all this time. But then I knew that I had taken a very long and complicated detour and had finally been guided back on the road again through the ministrations of Neale's book and his co-hort, GOD.
I consider it a miracle that I was given the first book, and I want to spread the word! I now know what I really need to do to make that difference, and I want to take positive action, as an end result of having written some of my "beautiful sentiments" on my very first page.
Of course, I realize that nobody will read Neale's books until they are ready to read what is being told them -- just like me! That they cannot read God's words until they are ready to hear what God has to say -- just like me! However, I want to be available for those souls who recognize that they are in need of spiritual enlightenment. I stand ready and willing to help.
About a month ago, I received what I believed, at the time, to be a revelation. I have always sought answers as to why human beings respond to circumstances affecting them in the way that they do, and I have, since I was a young girl, been very sensitive to spiritual pain in another. What I did not realize until now is that if one is not nurtured, one does not know how to nurture. And I believe that this is why there is so much pain in the world. I believe that it is as simple as that. Only through being nurtured can human beings become whole again. Only then can they allow themselves to open up to the spiritual guidance that is available to them
at a moment's notice, and give back that which has been given them. It is within us all. We need only to ask.
To this end, I feel a great need in my area for a spiritual center that will offer just that. A center that will nurture the human spirit, not only for those who are already on their spiritual paths, although of course it would offer services to enhance that, but I feel it is necessary to offer affordable spiritual and holistic services for those of the population who are lacking in enlightenment, and who may be in crisis, but realize that they are in need, and want to explore what that need is.
A great portion of the population is unable to participate in this sort of thing due to the overwhelming cost of guidance in this day and age. We receive medical attention because the majority of us carry insurance, but even then, it is a broken system at best, and it bypasses the most important facet of our healing altogether -- that of Spirit. The miracle that I have asked God to help me create is a center offering a wide range of spiritual healing and enlightenment, including: study groups, healers, massage therapists, Tai Chi, acupuncture, spiritual counseling, workshops, music and aroma therapy, etc., etc., at an affordable price, and on a continual basis for growth and nurturing. All people will be embraced. Men, women, and especially children whose soul knowledge may still be intact. It is my personal pledge to nurture those young spirits so that they do not go through what I did when I became an "adult," and lose my soul memory.
I know this is a lofty dream, and I have only the seed of a plan. But I also know that through God this is possible. It will eventually become my one single lovely action. My vision is God-inspired and so I am confident that He will walk beside me in the construction of it and finally in its application. I believe that if I begin to work towards that goal and chop away at it in small and manageable chunks, it may take me ten years, but eventually the dream will be realized. If I build it, they will come. I have no financial backing so this is going to be a complete act of faith. But I have my spiritual inspiration, and the strength and desire to see it happen. And I have my God within.
In the meantime, to begin this process, I plan to form a support community here on my home page. It is the seed that I am sure I need to sow. I want to give back what Neale and God has given me. I am sure that there are many who would benefit. It will be a way to put my thoughts into positive action, while I work on the larger and grander vision -- the seed for the flower that will spring from it. While at the same time, immediately I will be able to fulfill my desire to help others grow in their own spiritual way -- in the ways in which they see themselves becoming one with the universe, as it was meant to be in the very beginning. And, who knows, this group may become the core of the center as it builds into what it is supposed to become.
