PREFACE

I wrote this book at the insistence of two close friends and two published authors. In addition to the messages, most of the text was given to me by direct revelation during my predawn meditations, not that I was looking to write a book. The Divine would show up, in one of the many forms He assumed and would start speaking. My job was, and still is, to listen and record what I heard.

This is where all my learning took place—in the quiet moments when it was just that all-knowing Source and me. I mentioned this in passing to my dear friend, Linda Fallo-Mitchell, thinking that she may want the numerous spiral notebooks in which I recorded the messages should anything ever happen to me. I figured that if my husband were to find them he’d probably just throw them out—likewise, my kids.

Years after learning about these journals, Linda received guidance that the messages I had received were to be compiled into a book. That seemed like an insurmountable task to me for two reasons: first, because I can’t type; and second, in spite of their source, I thought a lot of what was in the journals might be a waste of most people’s time. Linda was not having any of my protests, and her conviction led her to type almost all of my journal entries that summer. As she began typing she became more, not less, convinced that I had to write the book.

Drawing on her experience as a developmental psychologist, educator and researcher—and using years of puzzle solving skills—Linda took my random, chronologically ordered revelations and grouped them into topics that became the chapters you will read in this book. Linda would send me a series of journal entries on a particular topic and tell me to make them into a chapter, which I would do and send it back to her for further editing. The only writing I did that was not by divine revelation was to connect the dots of my story and to link otherwise random entries to help the story flow more smoothly. In this way, working in God-time, Linda and I eventually gave birth toEveryday Mystic: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary.

The purpose of this book is to tell you that you have the power to live your life on what I call God’s jet stream and to illustrate what a life lived on His jet stream can look like. Judging by my own experience, it can be a wild ride with results more glorious than anything you might have imagined for yourself. It will show you how to align yourself with the Divine, how to have God streaming live, and then how to follow Divine guidance. The title of this book,Everyday Mystic, is not meant to trivialize mysticism but to underscore the profound depth of who each of us is, as a part of, instead of apart from, the One, the Unity, God.

I write not as a learned person, a priest or an intellect. I am here to pass on to you what Jesus has shown and said to me. I was never religious, nor did I know what to believe about Jesus until he spoke to me. Although I use the word “spoke,” it is inaccurate because initially, he communicated without actually speaking. His first message was crystal clear—that the meaning of our life is pure love. That’s all he wants in its deepest, truest form—for this love, which is the Divine within each of us, to be extended to everyone without exception. Extend it as if the person opposite you were the son of God because he is. And no matter how he chooses to live his life here on earth, God loves him no more and no less than he loves you. Jesus gave to me the gift of knowing what these words meant and what it felt like to be truly embraced by, and incorporated into, that kind of love. He allowed me, for what may have been a moment on earth but an eternity in heaven, to exist in his love. It is a love that is so beautiful, so totally unconditional that I did not