In Loving Memory to Pat Hicks
Pure Love, made in the image (imagination) and likeness (Love) of our Creator, the essence of life itself, a perfect, whole, complete, radiant light of the universe.
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Pure Love, made in the image (imagination) and likeness (Love) of our Creator, the essence of life itself, a perfect, whole, complete, radiant light of the universe.
RIVER OF GRACE Rise out of the limited sense of being a separate person using their conditioned mental faculties to navigate through life unaware of the sacred life that lives in you, beating your heart, breathing you,
The Grace Affect™ is a new book by co-authors Patrick Hicks and Cynthia Richmond. If you resonate with the questions above we’d like to include your story in our book and help you inspire and lift the hearts and spirits of others.
An Entrepreneur’s Story With no more than an idea and a pitiful few dollars, Pat struck out to find his dream. Hope and Wonder From the first class of 35 students in March of 1977 through its golden years of the 1980’s, thousands of hopeful students flooded up the stairs of a funky old building on Holly wood Boulevard
Elena’s family of tobacco growers escape from Castro’s Cuba to Puerto Rico only to have her career dream to become a dancer turn to terror as she unwittingly dances her way
Scientifically speaking, we are literally a mass of subatomic particles expanding and moving through our universe since the Big Bang. It is condensed into form at the whim of God to act out our purpose on Shakespeare’s “stage” in a Mystery Play.
He’s had several experiences where he almost died and was miraculously saved and he shares them with you in his book, Cheating Death,
I believe as the Mystics do, that we are literally One – Waves appearing as separate, yet inseparable from the infinite universal Divine ocean of Beingness, not our puny limited egoic minds with feckless thoughts only useful to navigate us through life’s landmines of our own making.
Running my life thinking it was my high school dropout pea brain doing it, like a small wave thinking I was the ocean, I finally came to an awakening: God’s Grace was always in charge, like a third base baseball coach looking over my shoulder running toward home, to an outfielder throwing the ball to the plate, and saying to me “go ahead, you can make it!”
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