About
In One Strength
Embracing Oneness
In One Strength
In 2013, my daughter and I traveled to Dharmashala, India, the home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile. From my earliest years, I have had a hunger to understand the life given me and also to be of service. I already had a strong religious conviction from a western perspective but wanted to learn and experience more of both the Buddhist and Hindu religions. This was an opportunity to further expand my world.
We enrolled in a three-week course in Tibetan Buddhism and meditation at Tushita Meditation Center. In our group, we had fifty or sixty people from all over the world. Almost all sat on the floor in a meditative position and for the next three weeks, we learned about Tibetan Buddhism, meditated, and also looked with curiosity at the surrounding people with whom we had yet to speak.
It was during this retreat while I was meditating that God came to me and gave me an instruction: “Make all religions one.” I was astonished by this huge request and asked, “How am I to do this?” The answer came back, “I will give you tools.” I have always sought to serve and the largeness of this request both filled me with the joy that I was thought worthy of giving me such a task and the wonder of how I would be shown to go about it. There have been various times in my life where God spoke directly to me, usually when I ask a question, but this time it was unsolicited. The message came from the center of my being using words that I rarely use and with a feeling of complete peace, followed by a sense of joy.
From the time I traveled to Dharamshala in 2013 until late in 2021, God made it clear to me that I should not do anything with this request to “Make all religions one.” I was busy with children who were reaching adulthood, dealing with the passing of parents, the arrival and caring for grandchildren, and a Board of Director of three different non-profits. I was also thinking a great deal about faith and the world around me. My constant request has been to do the task that was given to me and my ongoing prayer, (said thousands of times), was, “Do not let me fail”, to which the response was always, “I won’t.” After waiting all those years, there finally came a time in 2021 when I felt the instruction to wait was removed, and I knew it was time to proceed.
