Faith

Faith has brought me here 

It gave me the courage to preserver

Faith took me to greater heights and

Showed me the way

Faith was all I had and nothing else was needed

It led me to achieve the Unachievable

It gave me the opportunity to go the last mile

It strengthened me and gave me hope

Faith is all I need to get where I want to be

And faith will forever help me when nothing else will

Webster describes faith as a “Complete confidence in a person or plan.” 

And faith is more than just a vague belief in a person or plan. Faith is personal. Faith gives us the courage to go ahead with our plans believing that God will be there to help us.  It can make the difference between succeeding or failing in a project, family planning, a trip around the world, being able to sing or talk in front of a thousand people, and much much more.

Faith took my parents my three brothers and sister and me to live in California in May of 1952.

When I was in my senior year of high school I had to make a decision as to whether I would go to junior college to become a electronic engineering technician or go to college to become a missionary or minister, I went to junior college. It would take another 45 years for me to be ready for ordination.

God in His infinite wisdom knew that it would take a long time for me to over come the multitude of childhood problems I didn't know I had, before I could be ordained. It actually took me being divorced for me to really start dealing with my childhood problems.

Let me give you an idea as to what I had to do to be ordained.

In the mid 1980s I started taking mediumship development courses with Rev. Marylyn Rosner at the Spiritual Science Fellowship in Montreal. In the mid 1990s I left the SSF and started attending a church in Montreal north that also had a ministry program.

I took mediumship development courses, healing work shops and a number of other types of workshops that were required for ordination. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, at the church in Montreal north, I worked with another student on Thursday nights learning how to conducting devotional church service and using my mediumship gift.  After a few more years I became a Licensed Minister. One step below ordination. However, the church didn't teach me anything about Spiritualism.

In 2003 I learned from a minister friend about the National Spiritualist Association of Churches (NSAC) in the U. S.

The National Spiritualist Association of Churches has several educational programs conducted by the Morris Pratt Institute in Wisconsin. I learned that I could take home study courses from Morris Pratt Institute in Modern Spiritualism that would prepare me for ordination. I signed up. 

During the time I started courses with Morris Pratt I continued taking courses at the church in Montreal north. The first course I took with Morris Pratt was a Course in The History of Modern Spiritualism that was based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's two volumes Books on The History of Modern Spiritualism. I then signed up for their 30 lesson Course in Modern Spiritualism. After completing the Course in Modern Spiritualism I then attended the NSAC's Course in Pastoral Skills. 

A few years later I learned that I could not be ordained by the NSAC because I lived in Canada and I had to be sponsored by a Spiritualist Church in the U. S.. And I could not be a member of any other church or association in Canada. At that time I was a member of the Spiritualist Church of Canada and a member of the Spiritualist church in Montreal north. What to do? Well, I presented to the Montreal church the course work I took with the Morris Pratt Institute. After attended for 8 years the Montreal church's ministry course. they refused to ordain me. However, not all was at a loss. Rev. Robert Johnstone knew of my work and I asked him to ordain me. Bob ordained me at my house in Boucherville Quebec in May 2007 and a number of my friends were there as witnesses. 

Two years later I applied to the Spiritualist Church of Canada (SCC) for ordination by them. The SCC accepted my certifies and studies with Morris Pratt to be ordained and after two years as a member of the Spiritualist Church of Canada and completing a requirement they had that I needed, I was ordained by them. 

It took a lot of faith and 30 years of hard work and 45 year after leaving high school for me to be ordained.

God is the source of all faith and it is faith in Him and our abilities that makes the difference between success or failure in this world. It was through faith that I became ordained. 

Some would say that we planned our present life while in the Spirit World and lessons we would achieve to the smallest detail. The question is why would we need to incarnate, if we already new the lessons our life here had for us. However, if we believe that we only planned our lessons for our life here, but not the particulars required to learn those lessons, then it would be up to us to make the decisions necessary to fulfill those lessons.

It is through the multitude of challenges and decisions that we have to make in our daily life that we fulfill our lessons here. 

We are all on a spiritual path serving our fellow man/woman as a son, daughter, owner of a company, salesman, engineer, or in what ever capacity we are trained and able to perform. It is by faith that we are able to accomplish the impossible in our lives and help others along the way.

Faith gives us a reason to live and gives us the desire to develop the methods and steps that are necessary in the development of our spiritual selves and to meet the challenges of everyday life.

Faith is what is needed to accomplish our lessons here and God changes our faith into reality.