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Cathy Bacquet was born in Dallas, Texas. She has traveled extensively both because
she loves it and because her father was in the Air Force. Like many, she went to
college, married, juggled family and career, and experienced the tragedies and love
that life brings. Her family and friends tell her she has changed since she began
taking classes at Seaside to become a practitioner. (She graduated in 2000.) They
agree that she is happier and certainly healthy again. (Please click on the Health
and Balance Spiritual Ministry webpage to read her healing story.) When she thinks
back to that time, she realizes how much her life has changed. She worried incessantly
about her job, her daughter, and the minutia of my life. he felt like she never had
enough time to do the things that she really enjoyed. She grieved for her husband and
felt regret for when she had felt inadequate and helpless during the years he was ill.
Gradually, through taking classes at Seaside and practicing meditation, she learned
techniques to release these attitudes of worry, grief, shame, regret, and fear. By
meditating and treating every day, she has come to realize that those attitudes are
simply ways she can choose to spend her time or not. Upon completion of one of the
Seaside classes, she joked with a friend that she had graduated “spirituality.”
They laughed, knowing as one of the teachers had explained, that we’re as spiritual
as we’re ever going to be, and that’s the good news.
To Cathy, faith is knowing that each day brings a new revelation to perceive. With
each revelation, she comes closer to the Truth—that is, recognizing her own Divinity
by expressing all the many aspects of God as Cathy. To express those aspects of Love,
Health, Creativity, and Peace (to name a few), she must continue to know and help
herself with ever greater awareness. In other words, she finds aspects of God in her,
and by doing so, she recognizes them in others and is able to help others as well as
herself.
Ernest Holmes put these ideas succinctly in Creative Mind and Success, page 82:
“God made man to have all that the Universe contained and then left him alone to
discover his own nature. Stop striving and all struggle and within your own soul
know the Truth and trust absolutely in it. Daily declare that you are being guided
and protected and that the power of the Spirit is bringing all to pass, and wait in
perfect peace and confidence. Such an attitude of mind will overcome anything and
will prove that spiritual thought force is the only real power in the Universe.”
Cathy’s experience with illness and the healing that took place has also made her
realize that illness and pain is the path that some people take in order to experience
spiritual as well as physical healing. Since illness is the impetus for healing,
there is no need for remorse or guilt or despair. We are all divine beings with
our own divine paths. Rejoice in our oneness with God and know that the Abundance
of the Universe is ours now.
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