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LIFE IS GREAT AT 87!

29/4/2018

 
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I would like to share how I feel about being 87 on the 22nd of this month. For some reason, I am feeling quite excited about it. Plus, I am proud to tell people that I am turning 87. What an amazing journey this life has been for me with all the ups and downs and roundabouts! I see my life as a tapestry of different colours and as a dear friend said, “Yes, it is, and it also has threads of gold running through it.”  
 My life first started to change after meeting gorgeous Jeanette Macdonald about ten years ago. I had for a number of years prior, been trying different spiritual paths only to find that I was still full of anger, deep hurts and was very emotional. Once I had some massages and different healing techniques from Jeanette, I gradually started to feel calmer within myself. I was so excited about these inner changes, because this was what I had been looking for all these years! 
 
Over the past ten years I have been like a chrysalis breaking out into this beautiful butterfly, learning to fly further and explore the big, wide world. 
 

Not so long after meeting Jeanette, I met another similarly gorgeous woman, Ingrid Ward.  Both Jeanette and Ingrid have been a huge support for me. In time, I also met other beautiful students of life such as Chris James, who have also been there for me.
 
In 2009 I went to Australia to attend a Universal Medicine workshop and met Serge Benhayon and his amazing family who have been a real inspiration for me as the way they live is the complete opposite of what I have experienced in life. Gradually my extended family of Universal Medicine students has increased. Life has increasingly been making sense to me and I now understand more what life is truly about.
 
Just before I turned 85 I started learning to type for the first time in my life, as well as learning to use a computer. Since then, life has really been going ahead in leaps and bounds.  I am starting to feel so much more confident within myself. I have now learned to use Skype and I have just bought a cell phone, which I am still learning how to use.  
 
I had a Bernina sewing machine, which was a ton weight so I have changed it for a second-hand Brother, which is so much lighter.  The first time I used it I discovered that it has a needle-threader, before that I did not know that such a thing existed. This afternoon with the help of my lovely friend next door, we sorted out how to use it. I kept practising until I felt comfortable with how it works. It is never too late to discover and learn new things!
 
I am still able to do volunteer work one morning a week at the hospice shop in the sorting department.  At this stage in my life I have found that one morning is enough for me to volunteer. On the first of June, this year, 2017, I had been a volunteer with the hospice for twenty years. On that day, our manager put on a lovely morning tea for me as well as presenting me with a beautiful bunch of flowers by getting down on one knee and asking me if I would marry him. Well, we all laughed as he is young enough to be my son and is already married! However, I did so appreciate the special morning tea in my honour as it was completely unexpected and we had a fun time!
 
Some people say, “Bring back the good old days!”but I am not sure what was good about them as I did not have an understanding of the journey of life until fairly recently!
 
I now say that I feel that life is great. Funny that, as being so old people do not expect that and I do get some funny looks.
 
Dorothy C., New Zealand   
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