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I thought my life was quite perfect. Happy marriage, happy career … everything was going according to plan. And then one day it all changed.

My first son, Liam, was born one beautiful summer morning when life was still picture-perfect. Then when we discovered that he had a brain hemotoma, my life changed forever.

At eight months old, his life journey led him down the road of becoming a warrior. He had to spend many days in the hospital and experience not one, but two brain surgeries to teach him the path of strength. Or maybe it was to teach me the path of strength. Either way, it was divine and so perfectly planned. In those dark moments alone with my son, I uncovered lost parts of myself. Our experience together as a family revealed deep hidden truths about me and I began to question the true purpose of my life.

At that time I had been working as an electrical engineer for nearly eight years. I had decided to become an engineer because my father was one and it just seemed the logical choice at the time. I did not realize until later how much of a mask I had to put on to just fit into that predominantly male environment or into main-stream society.

It was during my son’s illness when I awakened to a new life. I began to really question myself: “Where do I belong? Who am I really? What do I truly want out of my life? Are there others who think like me?”

Suddenly I looked around and discovered that there were others who had touched that same place of vulnerability and surfaced with new direction and purpose in their lives. I met a new friend, Enid, who recognized my sense of urgency and desire to make a difference in the world. She saw me for my true self – a perfect, divine child of the Universe.

And with this one new friend my understanding of the importance of being with ‘like minded’ people grew and the significance of ‘community’ changed drastically. I realized that community is a space that can be shared between two people or 100 people once a common thread has been discovered. And for me, the thread of an intentional, spiritual community is the knowing that we are all one and we are all perfect and whole just the way we are.

We wanted to create an environment that recognizes each person for who they really are - one that honors each others’ gifts, passions, talents and that encourages each other to be authentic and follow their inner guidance system always. Our community of two grew to seven (the seven sacred sisters, as seen in the picture above) and now we have hundreds in our group that meet every month. We gather in ceremony. We celebrate life, we eat, we dance and we laugh.

Now on my journey of discovering who I really am, I have the support of my community who consistently encourages me to be all that I can be. And I, in turn, encourage them as they awaken to who they really are.

I would also like to encourage you to be authentic and surround yourself with others who accept and love all your quirkiness, all your idiosyncrasies and all your hidden gifts. Come and celebrate yourself with us if you feel drawn to. You are welcome to join our community.

Posted in: on Friday, November 21, 2008 at at 2:01 PM