My parents were ministers especially from 1954 to 1960 when they were in charge of a Mystical Christian Church in Los Angeles when I was 6 to 12 years old. Though I didn't see them much then and was taken care of mostly by my mother's mother I learned a lot about counseling people and my mother did about 300 funerals from 1954 to 1960 of members of the church who mostly got old and died.
In my 20s I realized that organized religion was mostly about money and not about anything really genuine so I decided to become Spiritual but not religious as a reaction to the hypocrisy I saw in the world regarding organized religion.
This led me to realize that compassion towards oneself and all beings was the most powerful path to enlightenment. So, during my 20s I studied among other things comparative religion and realized that all religions were basically the same thing in different cultural contexts. As I moved on a path towards enlightenment through compassion towards myself and all others I found that I healed my traumas in my life by being on this path.
I went from wanting to end my life in my early 20s to becoming a husband and father by 26 and I found that I was actually happy from 32 to 37 when my father died which is a long way from wanting to be dead a lot from age 21 to 25.
What I found was that I could not please really anyone but myself and that what my parents wanted for me wasn't realistic at all. So, what they wanted for me was impossible always. This helped me a lot in recreating my life and redesigning my life as being more efficient and streamlined in every way.
I became empowered in a new way by my compassion towards myself and all other beings and was able to start businesses to support my children and move forward in a good way in my life.
By God's Grace
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