An unmarried marriage is a marriage, but Christ has not yet come to this marriage. When we marry people who have lived in a marriage for many years, who gave birth and raised children, we say to them: “You were a husband and a wife until today, and now you have become a husband and wife in Christ. Christ on marriage in Cana turned water into wine. Your life before the wedding was water. She was refreshing and nourishing. Now, with the coming of Christ to your marriage, it should become wine, that is, should become more beautiful, tastier and healthier. ”
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
What Fr. Andrei relates, my late husband and I experienced, when after 10 years of marriage and having become Orthodox Christians, we partook in the sacrament of marriage in the Orthodox Church. What a remarkable spiritual experience we both had the morning after! It was as if we were in Paradise together! I share more about our this in my first book, The Pearl of Great Price, the Spiritual Journey of a New Age Seeker to the Light of Christ and the Eastern Orthodox Church. From that point on in our marriage, we were in a truly spiritual relationship with each other and God. Even now that he is past on to our Lord, he is ever with me in my heart in God and we await our reunion.
I am a native San Franciscan currently living in Sacramento, CA. Due to health issues in my early 20s, I began a spiritual journey in quest of inner peace and healing. I felt my soul and body were connected and if my soul could heal, perhaps so could my body.
I was a lapsed Catholic who studied Eastern religions. I had a guru and Tibetan lama, practiced prayer and fasting, and meditation techniques. I studied metaphysics, channeling and the life of the soul, which I later taught to others.
Yet, after twenty-five years of seeking within the New Age and Eastern religions, I was left depressed and spiritually unfulfilled. Thanks to my late husband and the grace of God, my spiritual journey ultimately allowed me to convert to back to Christianity, find God and open my heart newly to Jesus Christ through the study of ancient Christianity in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
I am the author of two published books, The Pearl of Great Price and In Christ I am a New Creation, Part I. I am currently working on my third book, A Leap of Faith, and a book about my saint, St. Veronica, my other guardian angel. St. Veronica is the woman with the issue of blood, whom the Lord healed (Matt. 9:20). In 2018, I will be publishing a book about St. Veronica including an Orthodox liturgical service to her.
I am passionate about:
Eastern Orthodox Christianity (Orthodoxy) since my Christian conversion in 1996.
My relationship with Jesus Christ
Striving to live in the world, but not be of the world
Talking about spiritual warfare - there is an unseen battle being fought for the salvation of
our souls
Helping others come to peace with the Church and God
Connecting with other Orthodox Christians about their spiritual experiences
Living a full life while dealing with chronic health issues
My dogs and gardening
My saint, St. Veronica
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