As a Missionary kid raised in Africa, I always was taught that God was loving and forgiving.\u00a0\u00a0 My parents’ devoted service in wanting to free the natives from whatever primitive fear bound them, and free the women from being considered merely a “jom” (thing–like the goats or cows a man owned) inspired me as I grew up. Their willingness to sacrifice being with me all through childhood, where the school was 2 days away thru the jungle;\u00a0 and thru all the\u00a0 formative teen high school years they had to leave me in America, taught me what TRUST in God was. Especially when I had my own children !<\/p>\n
After a Christian Women’s college, I was inspired to go to Princeton Theological Seminary, where my Dad had gone. There I met Bob, who asked me why I’d come. I said “I want to study God”. And I’ve been doing it, experientially, ever since !\u00a0 We married and embarked on 40 years of ministering to 4 congregations. Through all this time, described in my memoir, “Mish Kid To Mystic”, I was increasingly dissatisfied with the depth of my spiritual life. I quietly, and privately, looked into many venues offered in the ’70’s: Charismatic Movement, Astrology, Bioenergetics, The Feminine Mystique, Transactional Analysis. Mercifully I avoided drugs. I\u00a0 read at a furious pace: psychology, Be Here Now, Eastern mystics, Christian mystics, mystic clairvoyants.\u00a0 I was really “ripe” !<\/p>\n
So–no coincidences–I was hit by\u00a0 car and sought healing.\u00a0 Led to an MSIA practitioner, I was invited to a Seminar, where I met JR, and shortly went to a Retreat.\u00a0 There I had a powerful feeling I hadn’t experienced before, and asked JR if there were any other professional clergy wives in the Movement that I could talk to.\u00a0 He said “Nope.\u00a0 You’re the first”. Scary.\u00a0 But I was hooked, and took the very next Insight that came East. Blasted by the Spirit, I took the next II, and felt gloriously that I had COME HOME !\u00a0 This was what I had been searching for at Seminary, as a pastor’s wife, in all my groping questing. I devoured Discourses hungrily, loved their UN-heaviness (after theological studies), went for Ordination and later USM and PTS and every place I could go to hear JR.\u00a0 I helped create the ACTS seminar (with Dan Kendrick) which aimed to present a Christian Insight to churches.\u00a0 And, after 30 years of daughter Susan & her husband Gavin and I sharing the Light with Bob, he joined us!\u00a0 Hallelujah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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