Where are We?

The past catches us unaware.
It chips away at us for hour, days and weeks.
We don't understand what's happening to us, and yet,
We have that knowing that is always there.
Our lives are filled with despair ever searching for relief.

We know that there is more to our life than past mistakes, or outlandish wonderings.

Tomorrow is another day, but what kind of a day will it be? We don't know but hope for the best.

Starting from the beginning we strive to do all that we can to bring a little joy, love and happiness into to our lives. We forget that we are only one in the multitude of billions. Our life is worthy of every challenge that comes our way. We embrace it with all our being charging into it with enthusiasm knowing that we have what it takes to over come any obstacle in our way.

It is our nature to solve problems and remove obstacles that we encounter in our daily life. Once we encounter a problem, we start working on it by calling upon the knowledge we've gained from the influence of our parents, friends and society in general and knowledge gained through our education. We even use knowledge we have gained through radio and television programs.

You create your own reality and take personal responsibility for it. Your life is a reflection of who you are and the experiences that you, as a soul, planned for in this life.

Spring

Can there be any season that brings us so much as spring? That time of year when life in the Northern hemisphere starts to awaken. The snow is melting exposing the browns, blacks and other colors of the earth.

The trees are budding and the gift of the maple tree is ready for wide eyed children and the elderly alike. The sugar shack, the horse drawn wagons and the many trees with buckets hanging from them.

I've watched the squirrels playing in the snow all winter chasing each other up and down their trees as they go for their stash of winter food. What a delight!

Like so many, I look forward to seeing the flowers of spring forcing their way through the thawing earth as they search for the warmth of the sun. Not only does the earth awaken but all life in general. We look for the day when we can retire our snow shoes and winter coats and just enjoy being out in the warmth of the sun.

Spring is also a time when those of us afraid to slip and fall on icy sidewalks can now get out for a safe walk and go to church to be with friends once again. The snow birds are returning from Florida and the robins and those pesky gulls. It's ok mister gull I know you have a right to be here as you are a part of God’s children of the air. Dig out those spring clothes, dust off the roller skates and get ready for summer vacations and lots of friends gathering around the picnic table. It's a time of sharing with special friends and family. How about a softball game or a friendly game of football? Let's go swimming? Or maybe to grandma’s for some special family get together.

We have so much to be thankful for and Mother Nature’s seasons have their special offerings that delight us and challenge us in many ways. Let's get together and have some fun. 

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.

Prophets verses Mediums Messages

Not long ago I encountered a Christian pastor who condemned me for being a fully ordained Spiritualist minister and medium. He wanted to come to my house and persuade to give up my gift that I have had from the day I was born. That pastor also wanted to convert me to his beliefs; being a born again Christian. I did not let him come to my house.

The argument about where a person get his/her inspiration and who he believes in in his/her heart is the source of their inspiration will never be settled by arguing about the subject. I know who I believe in and my relationship to Him, God. 

I could not be a Spiritualist if I didn't accept our first principle I believe in "The fatherhood God.

Weather or not messages come from God, the Holy Spirit or the Spirit World of Light makes little difference. If a person is Christian oriented, or a member of a large denominational church, he/she will believe that the prophetic message originated from God. A Christian prophet will always give a message to a church congregation that is Christian in nature.

If a person is a member of a Spiritualist church then the messages given in church well be a message that is up lifting and providing inspiration and help to the recipient so that he/she is able to make better/right decisions. A Spiritualist medium will often give a person a message from a love one who has transitioned to the Spirit World by proving proof of continuity of life. That is not to say that a Christian prophet's message can be the same thing.

The question is about where the message is said to come from and the nature of the message. This is the crux of all messages given by a prophet or medium.

As a Spiritualist, I fully expect the source of the message to be from the Spirit World of Light, God or even the Holy Spirit, and for my highest good.

Christians will always condemn a Spiritualist and claim that their messages are from a demonic being and not to be accepted.

For the Spiritualists, he/she will accept the message from a Christian prophet as quickly as they would a Spiritualist medium. Spiritualist know that people in the Spirit World of Light are NOT demonic and would never give a demonic type of message.

All Spiritualists mediums always prey before giving messages or readings in order to protect themselves from "earth bound" negative spirits. The Christian prophet believes he/she doesn't have to prey for protection because they believe they are already protected by just being a Christian. The fact is, human being are naturally protected and really don't need to make special prayers. However, Spiritualist mediums know all about human nature, and choose to be on the safe side by making a short prayer before giving messages.

Where do you stand on the subject? Do you accept all messages you receive from a Spiritualist medium without question? I hope you weigh the message as to its source and the nature of the message. Is the message for your highest good?

Problem Solved

The past catches us unaware. 

It chips away at us for hour, days and weeks. 

We don't understand what's happening to us, and yet, 

We have that knowing that is always there. 

Our lives are filled with despair ever searching for relief. 

We know that there is more to our life than past mistakes, or outlandish wonderings.

Tomorrow is another day, but what kind of a day will it be? We don't know but hope for the best.

Starting from the beginning we strive to do all that we can to bring a little joy, love and happiness into to our lives. We forget that we are only one in the multitude of billions. Our life is worth every challenge that comes our way. We embrace it with all our being charging into it with enthusiasm knowing that we have what it takes to over come any obstacle in our way.

It is our nature to solve problems and remove obstacles that we encounter in our daily life. Once we encounter a problem, we start working on it by calling upon the knowledge we've gained from the influence of our parents, friends and society in general and even applying our knowledge gained through our education. We even use knowledge we have gained through radio and television programs.