If anything would convince me it is time to write this book, it was the circumstances the Holy Spirit showed me to do so. Two years before I wrote this book, I went through several life changes. My life changed in every way imaginable. It seemed everything was left up in the air. Each day when I awoke, I felt a sense of dread and panic. Consciously I was thinking of doom and self-resignation. Perhaps this was my inner self saying to me, 'There is a better way to see my life. That is when prayer became my morning ritual, more than at any other time in my life up to that point. My daily prayers were always answered as I look back on things, but I was not always aware of this absolute fact. My faith was not as yet strong enough to open my eyes and ears and truly see the Lord's work. I was still trying in my small way to make sense out of things that were happening.

One day, I sent an e-mail to someone who had posted to a spiritual Internet board. Her reply had energy of so much comfort that I was able in that brief Holy Instant to feel my attunement with the great universal mind of God. Her response was friendly, but the energy beneath the words was a message of comfort like I had not felt in years. I knew again that no matter what changes I was undergoing in my earthly affairs, God was guiding me, and there was nothing to fear. Well, as events unfolded, this woman became my soul mate and wife.

Shortly thereafter, she found a bulletin from a seminary I had sent for some time ago. Rather than put it aside, I was surprised at the small voice inside me saying, The time is Now. I called the next day and was accepted with special consideration because my inquiry was past the deadline. That was the beginning of my ministerial studies. About a year later, after studying at the heart level within the seminary program, I heard a voice within saying again the time is Now, write the book.

For several days, I attempted to convince myself that I was not ready and besides, I didn't know what to write. Yet, it was too late. That still voice of the Holy Spirit was all too familiar to me now. In a Holy Instant my mind flipped to a solid and knowing awareness that all I needed now was to be shown the mechanisms for writing this book. The book was to be a description of the spiritual evolution I have truly experienced in such a short moment in time.

I asked God how I would find the time and the resources to write this book and how it would be published. I was told to take a block of time off and travel to one of my favorite areas on the Pacific coast in Mexico. I had many excuses for not going, so of course I went. My listening was becoming stronger (and continues today).

Shortly after we arrived, I experienced some illness. I felt a lack of physical strength to persevere. My wife helped by taking dictation. This was God's plan. Her encouragement and inspirations helped make the writing easy. She was (and is) God's messenger. Yet, that is not all. As the book progressed, and I diligently practiced the meditations, many of God's messengers came to help write the book in a great variety of ways. Most had no idea they were doing so. It didn't matter. I invited them into my mindŐs awareness. God showed me miracles through them. God bless them as they continue on their life's journey.

Each morning, I would take a walk along the beach and the pelicans flying in formation overhead seemed to call me. Each day, I would ask God to show me the miracle in my noticing them. Their formation was flawless as they flew just above the waves looking for their fish meals. I meditated on being the pelican and felt a wonderful coordination of mind, body, and spirit in my efforts to dance with the elements in finding my meal. What a beautiful feeling of balance! Yet, I was told by the Holy Spirit there was more to this miracle. One day, I walked a bit farther to find where the pelicans nested. They showed me a large hilly area with tall cliffs. They would nest amongst the jagged rocks above the shore.

I climbed high up onto one of the hills. I climbed higher than I may have in the past since I felt the echoes of fear. Yet, they were only echoes and no longer were felt as real. As I came close to the top, I noticed these pelicans were not afraid of me. They just went about their business. I looked and identified further with them as I sat on a large rock overlooking the ocean. Suddenly I felt it. The unmistakable wind blowing in from the shore. It was powerful and cool. I became the pelican spreading my wings and easily being carried by the wind. I marveled at the ease in which the pelicans just knew this profound discovery for me. I realized I only need to be present for God's wind to take me soaring. I only need to spread my wings and let God's energy take me.