Mother Mary's Garden,

I've won the lottery and I'm rich!

Well, I won the lottery and I'm now rich beyond my wildest dreams.
I'm dripping with diamonds and have gold coming out of my ears.
Is that what you want to hear, that Master Keys to the Abundant Life made someone filthy rich?

Oh it has. Just not the sort of riches you can trade for a Ferrari or a home in the Hamptons.

So hands up who thought this abundance lark was all about the cash?
*raises hand*

I know I'm not alone. We see the word 'abundance' and hear the cha-ching of cash registers don't we? Just a little?

I've just finished my second read through of Mary's beautiful book and being flippant about Ferraris is much easier than explaining how I feel about what I've read or what it's done to my life.

Total transformation is not too strong a phrase. I'm still me but I'm like super-me. I'm 'me plus'. I'm the me I was always supposed to be.
For a $25 investment I've been given a $25million opportunity. Is that the abundant life? You bet it is.

Remember at the end of 'It's A Wonderful Life' when Jimmy Stewart finally learns the value of life and love and friendship and goes home to find all the people of Bedford Falls emptying their piggy banks onto his dining table? Well his kid brother Harry raises his glass and makes a toast. "To my big brother George, the richest man in town." And he's not talking about dollars.

That's the abundance I mean, magnified about the thousand times.
It's not about something you can buy. It's the sort of abundance that makes you giggle on the inside, even if it's a wet Tuesday and you're stuck nose to tail in a three-mile traffic jam, just because you're so delighted to be alive.

Quite simply, I can't recommend this book highly enough. If you want to know how to be truly, deeply, insanely happy, fulfilled and whole, it's not a secret any more.

Eight months ago I was a lapsed Catholic who had, for the previous three years, torn down the religion's doctrines one by one by asking questions that Rome just couldn't answer. My dad always said curiosity would get the better of me. I got to the stage where I had asked questions about everything - the virgin birth, Jesus' divinity, vicarious atonement, heaven, hell, where Judas ended up, the whole lot of it. And for all of those questions I'd gradually decided if the answers I got from my religion weren't true, it didn't matter. It still didn't change what I knew about God.

I was born knowing God. It's the one thing I've never questioned - whether there is a God. I just know it in my bones. But religion? That's a whole different ball game. I questioned and I questioned and I questioned and I questioned and one day, I realised I knew nothing for sure, except there was a God. All the details, I'd stripped away. It was just me and God and a big clean slate.

And at that very time, I was searching on the internet for something else entirely, and the askrealjesus website popped onto my screen.
It found me, not the other way around.

It was like God saying 'Right, Linds. You've been willing to question everything, that's great. It's taken 33 years but you're finally someone I can really work with.'

I don't need to explain how the site changed my life. I can't anyway, the right words haven't been invented yet. I only know that truth is something you confirm inside. When the very core of your being leaps in joyful recognition of something you always knew but had forgotten, you know you've uncovered an absolute beauty.

Master Keys is the first of Kim's books I've read. It wasn't an easy read. The pages kept falling out where I broke the spine but I dismantled it one day, carefully pulled out each of the pages, and put it together again in a ring binder.

As to the content? Well, there's no shortage of it. Lots of it is repeated too but you know what, it doesn't matter. This is a complete guide to manifesting the abundant life. You think you can cover it in 250 pages?

Mary calls us 'beloved' a lot which I really like and she is the gentlest teacher. She offers you her hand and then walks with you down through the layers of your psyche, pointing out the pitfalls and the dangers, surrounding you with loving protection and offering you a leg up all at the same time.

I often felt her presence with me, some solidarity as I read, as we dug deeper and deeper into the layers of the consciousness of duality, looking under every rock and throwing a light on all the creatures lurking there.

Mary often talks in the book about the ego being 'subtle'. And I admit when I read Master Keys the first time, after almost every key I said to myself: 'Oh good I already knew that, I must be almost there with this Christ Consciousness thing'. It makes me laugh to write that now.

Beginning the rosaries was a huge step towards me overcoming some of the subtle pride I had developed in thinking I already knew... if not all of it, a good 90 per cent. Because, as Mary says herself, if I had the abundant life, I'd be living it, not reading a book about how to get it.

Yet in many ways, I do have the abundant life already. I'm as poor as a church mouse, but I'm generous with the nothing I have because I love to give to other people. That is the spirit of abundance. And I feel whole, I feel like I need nothing from outside myself. That is the spirit of abundance.

So I reason that I'm a mature soul who must have done a lot of hard work in other lifetimes so I didn't have to start from scratch in this one.
But as for knowing it all - no, I definitely don't. So I set a date to begin the rosaries and stuck to it. I added a prayer at the beginning for my Christ self and I AM Presence to show me the blocks I needed to uncover in order to progress to the next 'step' towards becoming like Jesus
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Truly, I didn't have to wait 24 hours before being shown how I have a tendency to get irritated with people who don't get jokes as quickly as I do. And what a ridiculous thing to lose my patience and hurt someone over! So immediately I had something to work on.

More blocks have since been revealed. You ask, you listen, you get an answer. It's a surprising, humbling, life-enhancing experience I wouldn't miss for the world.

For example, I now know that realising I am an individualisation of God doesn't immediately mean I accept other people are too. I can see the flaw in my thinking now, because Mary always points it out. Is it that I haven't internalised that truth fully? Is it a bad habit I need to get out of? Is it a lack of faith - do I not fully believe other people really are God? Or is it something else I've not yet uncovered?

A spiritual awakening is a journey of more than one step, and I admit I'm still not sure of the reason I haven't let my sarcasm-loving ego completely die yet. In the past I'd say it was a shame to waste a talent for something I'm so gifted at. But that's no longer good enough.
The 'gift' of sarcasm didn't come from God, I'm sure of that. I have other gifts to share now. Peace, gratitude, courage and God-will, for starters.

So with a nod to this amazing book, to Kim for his courage and service, and to Mary for her divine love and gentle teaching, I plan to gratefully return my sarcasm where it came from with a note that simply reads, 'Thanks, but no thanks'.

Lindsey

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