First Impressions - Go Forth With Joy!

My hope is that many other people will find this blogspot to be a way of expressing all the many facets of the Living Gold Conference that occurred last week on Vancouver Island.

So much was given to the participants in such a short period of time that it will take many weeks and months to absorb everything we heard, felt and thought.

In a way it is perhaps best to start at the end and work backwards to the beginning.

As Sunday approached and we were aware that our time together was ending, it was a bittersweet moment. For a few short days, we had been lifted up into a higher realm of consciousness, and it was time to "come back down to earth". Nevertheless, as we prepared to depart, we all did so with a feeling of great joy and thankfulness for the many gifts we had received and the strengthening of community, in a very broad sense of the word.

It will be each individual's task now to take what we have been given, and find ways of allowing this to live in us and through us.

In the workshop presentations Saturday evening, Les Tulloch mentioned that there had been a great deal of healing in the course of the week in his spacial dynamics class.
For me, too, it was a time of spiritual healing. The huge load of pain and grief I had been carrying around for the past 4 years was lifted, and I feel now that I can face whatever comes in the future. I have been given a glimpse of the far distant future, and it will be one of great joy and peace. Similar to giving birth, it makes all the pain and suffering that must occur beforehand, worthwhile.

For my son as well, this will be the greatest birthday gift he could ever receive. Knowing that he belongs to a much larger community than our small outpost in Vancouver and meeting and making many new friends in Los Comunidad Christianos Internationale, both near and far. He will know that he is "held", no matter where he finds himself in the world, and most importantly, connected.

I thank each of you who made this journey with us. For many, it was literally a long and difficult place to get to. For some, who had been to the East Coast, but never to the West, I hope it was a revelation, or perhaps one could even say an apocalypse, or lifting of a veil, to see what lives and is possible, in a different part of the world, or even a continent.

Last but not least, my deepest gratitude to Susan Locey, who is living proof that "In God, all things are possible."

Sparky