I will start at the beginning of my journey—my search for God, which ultimately led me to myself. I remembered as a child, say around nine or ten years of age, of being so scared of what the world seem to behold. It was the first time I was exposed to death and feared it. There was a program on TV about a famous man who died and his funeral. I don't remember any of the details other than I had the realization that I too would experience that someday. I was very moved, saddened, and frightened. The threat of a third world war also haunted me. I was so afraid of life ending. I could see the beauty of what it could be and couldn’t understand how “God” could let it end. I would overhear conversations about the threat of nuclear warfare between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. I couldn't understand why two countries would want to do that to each other.

I was afraid of a world in constant threat of being destroyed. I was too afraid and embarrassed to discuss my fear with my parents. I would pray at night to God. I would pray for peace. I was taught that Jesus would come again. I prayed that it would be a peaceful coming. I begged God to let heaven come and that I may live to be part of it.

Supposedly, God was all powerful, yet I still was to be on the “lookout” for evil. Sin was everywhere, and life was not to be trusted. How can that be, I thought, if life was created by God? This made me question Christian doctrine and what the church taught me about God.

If I gave complete trust and control of my life over to God, how could I be mislead? There seemed to be many contradictions in what I was taught. I was told that God was love. Well if that is the case, then “love “certainly wouldn’t hurt me, would it? I decided to hand myself over to God’s guidance in complete trust.

I believe Jesus is coming and working through me, as well as all of us who remain open, as a channel in bringing about heaven on earth. I believe Jesus came to teach us to reclaim our power. It has taken thirty-nine years of working on me through life experiences to shed old beliefs in order for me to be open in receiving what I am to share. I am so thankful for that ten-year-old girl who put me on the path that I was to follow.

Losing My Religion: Breaking Down Your Walls to Release the Insides is about coming to a greater awareness of God and essentially of “self” through the process of self-discovery and investigation of one’s beliefs. It is about empowerment through unlocking your “treasure chest” and breaking free of past conditioning in order to experience true freedom and fulfillment.

This book acts as a guide in forming a truer relationship with God through discovering oneself for the divine resides in each and every one of us. We are one with God and are given empowerment through positive expression in which we are cocreators with God, for there is no separation between God and us.

Losing My Religion explores our perception of sin, guilt, and suffering and working through them in order to free ourselves. It is about releasing and living in alignment to who we really are, who creates a life of passion and joy!

The eleven chapters of Losing My Religion each have a special message on ascertaining the divine within. As we come to a greater understanding and awareness of our power within and releasing it, we come to reflect that very energy. This truer relationship with God, our “self,” is reflected back to us in all our relationships and in all areas of our life.

In the process of finding our “key” in unlocking all that we are and all our potential, we come to realize God’s plan for each of us, which creates our very own individual “heaven on earth,” which bleeds into the rest of the world!