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This is the story of the Pathway Chapel. Click on the link to the left to continue to the next page of this journey. There was a scripture that continued to make itself present in my life at every turn: Trust in the Lord
with all your heart and lean not on your own
understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make
your paths straight. Proverbs
3:5-6 He also had a plan to bring me out of depression, and that plan became the stepping-stones to creating The Pathway Chapel. But first, I had to do a lot of stumbling around.. A lot of personal changes had to be made in the years prior to finding the light once more.
I now believe that what you see, is what He wants me to convey to you. Because a large part of our population will go through depression at some time in their life, it is my hope to serve as an encouragement to people that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. That light as I know it is God. But even more importantly I hope you can catch a glimpse of the wonderful opportunity for personal and spiritual growth that can be gleamed from the dark times of our lives. In sharing my little stories with you, perhaps I can give you the courage to do whatever it is He may be leading you to do.
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The harder one tries
to know God through intellect, the more elusive our God experiences become. For me, the divine experiences
occur when I am in an open,
relaxed and receptive state. That seems the time when the inner connection takes place. It is also in His time, not
mine. I don’t dictate or set up the experiences - He does, when
He thinks everything and everyone is in place and the time is
perfect.
It is only when we decide
to let God express His power through us that things begin to change. For me, God’s plan is worked out
through a series of what I refer to as almost a mystery, with
one clue leading to another.
Let me explain what I
mean. He creates something
that seems to spark my interest. It may be in something I
read in a devotional, a scripture in the Bible, or a book. I may be attracted to a particular
material object, and not know why.
It may be in something I heard a person say in passing
conversation, or more often than not, it’s an intuition, or a fleeting
thought. I
don’t always know what's taking place, but I do know, I have learned to
trust whatever it is, and to move forward with it. The reasons or the whole picture
may not present themselves until some time later, or in some cases not at
all. But for the most part, I
do gain the spiritual understanding, that I believe He intends for
me. For
example, I identify strongly
with the darkness of the cocoon. What is in the cocoon emerges into a beautiful
butterfly. Many people
relate to that concept, so to me, it
only seemed natural I would end up at a butterfly solarium. Once
there, I also discovered a chapel on the site, created by the husband for
his wife. That got my wheels
turning. From then on it
seemed like I was stumbling onto little chapels that seemed to be popping
up everywhere. Or should I
say, I was open to finding them?
I actually would seek them out and make every attempt to go and
visit them.
At the time I
thought I was stumbling, but I learned to realize that God was creating
the desires in my heart and the path I was on. The seeds were planted. I thought what a wonderful idea
for a chapel, a place for my own spiritual healing, a place I could go and
be alone with God. |
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