{"id":110428,"date":"2021-03-26T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=110428"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T22:20:46","slug":"trusting-a-friend-and-opening-my-heart-to-the-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/110428-trusting-a-friend-and-opening-my-heart-to-the-traveler","title":{"rendered":"Trusting a Friend and Opening My Heart to the Traveler"},"content":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \n

Joan Victoria Kurkian with John-Roger at a Q&A Fundraiser in Philadelphia, May 2003<\/em><\/p>\n

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In May of 1979, Rita Pepe Benasutti repeatedly asked me to go to a seminar given by her spiritual teacher, John-Roger, at Rosemont College. I tried to the best of my ability to ward her off and said I wasn’t interested.<\/p>\n

She finally captured me and dragged me to Rosemont (thank God). When I got there, I was taken back by all the hugging and felt very uncomfortable. Prior to starting, Rita mentioned that I could give a note to John-Roger’s staff if I had any questions. So…this is what I wrote….<\/p>\n

“John-Roger, <\/em><\/p>\n

This is my first visit to an MSIA seminar. I’m a little puzzled about the idolization of J-R. I know you teach the Light of Jesus Christ, but do you profess to be like Jesus or a disciple or what? I’m not being smart, just confused.” <\/em><\/p>\n

I gave the note to Edgar and at the end of the seminar, he returned it to me with J-R’s response.<\/p>\n

Where I wrote:\u00a0 “do you profess to be like Jesus<\/em>” J-R\u00a0wrote
\n“no”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Where I wrote:\u00a0 “or a disciple or what?<\/em>” J-R put an arrow next to “disciple”<\/strong> and wrote
\n“more this, He is my personal Teacher and Savior.
\nJ-R”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The tears flooded me and, I knew at that moment, that that was my first initiation with our Beloved Traveler.<\/p>\n

Thank you to Rita for caring enough to get me there. My life has been forever changed and the grace that has been extended has been an eternal blessing.<\/p>\n

By the way, I still have that piece of paper! (although it went through the washing machine years ago)
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Note given to John-Roger at Joan Victoria's first J-R Seminar at Rosemont College, Rosemont PA, May 1979 <\/em><\/p>\n

Much Love to All,<\/p>\n

Joan Victoria Kurkian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In May of 1979, Rita Pepe Benasutti repeatedly asked me to go to a seminar given by her spiritual teacher, John-Roger, at Rosemont College. I tried to the best of my ability to ward her off and said I wasn’t interested. She finally captured me and dragged me to Rosemont (thank God). When I got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ndh-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}