Divine Diva I

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What a great idea for Donna, a subscriber to Heavenletters, to publish interviews on her web site!

Here is a sneak preview of the questions Donna asked me:

1. When you were starting out in your career, how did you know you were making the right choice as far as pursuing that career for yourself?

2. Who were your biggest influences growing up?

3. When you faced obstacles or fear along the way, how did you overcome them, and move beyond them?

4. What or who inspires you and why?

5. If you could go back in time and change anything about your life, would you change anything? If so, what would you change and why?

6. What do you feel is your greatest achievement?

7. What are the most important lessons you have learned along the way?

8. What do you hope others will remember most about you and your life?

9. What is the best advice you would give other women who are not sure what path to choose in their life?

10. What does success mean to you?

So here begin my answers:

When I was starting out in my career, how did I know I was making the right choice as far as pursing that career for myself?

Divine Diva, I never thought of what I’m doing as a career! And I never knew ahead of time what I would be doing now or that I would ever do anything spiritual at all! When the time came, it wasn’t a question of choice for me -- it was like I had no choice. I mean, if you were presented with a beautiful treasure, could you turn it away? I don’t think I ever thought about what I’m doing as being right or not. It was simply irresistible to me. Anyway, here I am, and there’s no going back.

Before Heaven opened itself to me, I had been a school teacher and subsequently started my own job search strategy/career counseling business. Many of the people who came to me were desperate to find work. After a few years, I didn’t want to deal with anyone’s angst any more. I remember thinking that I wanted to get into something that was joyful from the beginning. I didn’t know what. I had no idea at all what. It turns out it didn’t matter what I knew or didn’t know. I had asked in my heart that something wonderful come, and then it did, and I took it. So, maybe all we really have to do is to desire and then let it happen.

Every day for ten years, I have been listening to the Voice Within and writing down the marvelous love and wisdom that I hear whispered. And every day, I email Heavenletters all over the universe to people of all ages and all walks of life, and I thank my lucky stars for this opportunity.

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Who were my biggest influences growing up?

I was the youngest of five children. One of the things that being the youngest meant was that I believed everyone was better at everything than I was, and that everyone always knew more than I did.

My mother and father worked long hours in their grocery store, The Rose Market. Long hours meant they went to work at 3 a.m. and returned home at about 7 p.m., and Saturdays after midnight. Sunday was their only day off.

Until I was seven, there was a succession of people who took care of me, and then there was no one. This meant I was left alone. I got up on my own. I went to school on my own. I came home at lunch and made a peanut butter sandwich or something on my own and went back to school. No one told me what to do or when to do it. Today, this wouldn’t be allowed. What it meant for me, however, was that I was given the freedom to be, and this was the best childhood for me. I would not have done well with supervision, especially the constant supervision that kids today seem to have.

I think books raised me. Books certainly inspired me and gave me high ideals. I read a lot, and I believed in everything I read.

School gave me structure, companionship, education, sense of accomplishment, and, in second grade, something more. My second grade teacher, Miss Bancroft, stood out because she loved me. On my seventh birthday, she held me on her lap and kissed me. What a wonderful thing Miss Bancroft did for the little girl I was then. Obviously, I have never forgotten her, and my gratitude is great.

I was not brought up in any religion. The only talk of God in my house was when my parents made fun of the whole concept of God. I never made light of God, but I never thought about God much either.

So how did it happen I became a spiritual writer? That is the mystery.

TO BE CONTINUED