More than two decades after reading Ruth Montgomery’s “A Search for the Truth,” I felt compelled to do as she had done: Commit to sitting in front of a keyboard every day and allowing words to flow.
I did that for nearly a year. I had a title: “Miracles on My Path,” and a desire to share the profound lessons I had learned during years of heartache and blessings that were disguised as adversity.
I had no outline, a large of audio recordings from clairvoyant readings I had received during the previous 20 years, and a few notes and transcripts from those readings. This was an experiment in surrendering, allowing Spirit to guide me.
I ended many days reading words I did not remember writing, and details that had long disappeared from my consciousness. I completed the final chapter, grateful that Spirit had ably guided me through the authorship adventure; but also immensely curious about the choices of scenes that were plucked from my life. Beyond the lessons Spirit tried to teach, what had I learned?
A lot of time and effort had been expended for these lessons to be for me alone. Were they universal truths?
It wasn’t long before I received my answer, and it was so profound that they became Drama Queen Workshops’ guiding principles:
1. Life is ALWAYS fair.
There is almost universal agreement that life is unfair. I challenge that. Is life unfair—or are humans the culprits? Is God unfair for saddling every newborn with the sin committed by a man made of dirt—or does the unfairness rest with the humans who created that implausible story and those who have perpetuated it for centuries? If what goes around comes around; if at some point in our eternal lives, every soul reaps what we have sown; if every punishment fits the crime, where is the unfairness? Life itself is always fair.
2. God is NEVER far.
There are forces on Earth whose goal is to block us from having a close relationship with the Divine. These forces have psychologically distanced us from God by claiming God is a fearsome, violently angry, genocidal and vengeful man who is excessively punitive and harshly judgmental. To punctuate the point, they insist that He would not forgive the guilty unless an innocent son was brutally tortured to death. And if you do not believe that, He will brutalize you throughout all eternity. These forces also have physically distanced us from God, claiming that God lives millions of light years away, in the far reaches of outer space.
Believing does not make it so. In DQWs, we choose to believe that God is omnipresent; there is no spot where God is not. God is never far. If we do not have a close relationship with God, it is because we have failed to acknowledge God’s divine presence within and around us.
3. Death is not THE END.
After decades of leveraging the tools as a journalist to conduct “spiritual sleuthing expeditions” I affirm the findings of French philosopher, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and so many others: We are souls, temporarily having a human experience. In DQW vernacular, we are immortal souls, temporarily wearing human body costumes so we can be visible on Earth. When we step out of these costumes, the body dies. We do not.
We take with us any karma we amassed while wearing that costume. At the most perfect time and in the most perfect way, we will right any wrongs and reap any rewards from the experience. Our costumes’ death is not THE END for us.
4. Absolutely NOTHING is unforgivable.
From an early age, many are taught to pray, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” Yet few realize their request is for God to forgive them the same way they forgive others. If they refuse to forgive, they are asking God to refuse to forgive them. If they hold forgiveness as ransom or a bargaining chip, they are asking God to do the same to them.
As I discovered, and revealed in EARTH Is the MOTHER of All Drama Queens, forgiveness changes everything. It neutralizes karma and changes the trajectory of our eternal lives. Consequently, the final DQW principle is that absolutely NOTHING is unforgivable.