Carol,

Thank You So Much for the newsletters and book (In Due Season) the newsletters never fail to inspire me to a greater place inside of me that (not long ago) I’d forgotten existed and your book “In Due Season” truly challenged me- again and again-to be all that divine guidance would lead me to be- to be receptive enough to hear the still small voice within & to have the courage of spirit to follow that call… WHENEVER! WHATEVER! HOWEVER!!

You are one of the most powerful writers I’ve known/read who convey their personal experience and spiritual knowledge and pours it out onto the reader in the form of motivation and in-spirit-action of the spiritual kind. You make me believe I can, make me want you to become, and dig deeper within to find that which you have found.

Deep, Deep in the dungeon of this county jail, where I (at the present) reside; I’ve found peace amidst chaos & constant violence, I’ve found compassion in the faces I once despised but most valuable of what I’ve found in this place is the ability to perceive correctly & to transform who I am by changing MY thought process- I AM A NEW CREATION & ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW!!! NOT when I regain my freedom-or find a new job-but RIGHT HERE! RIGHT NOW!

Carol I can’t thank you enough for the part you played in my transformation with the correspondence, newsletters & IN DUE SEASON, can’t wait for “Poised for the Runway”

Eternally Grateful, one with all

Chuck

Chuck letter part 2

Your newsletter came first into experience in this jail cell where I’ve lived for the past 7 months.  Always seeming to be relevant to the experience I was in at the moment.  (How eerie I use to think that was, now I know it’s just the universe responding to my thought.)  They’ve provided Guidance in moments in moments of uncertainty and deep truth at times of needed correction.

 “In Due Season,” book like the newsletters, came at a time when direction was needed.  The first chapter began for it’s operation on my soul by giving this Verse to plant within my mind….”Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect.”  (Romans 12:12)  How appropriate for an “umpteenth   loser.”  (Transform who I am by New Thoughts…hmm…she might have something here.)  I’ve been so fortunate as to have Rev. Woody, Becky, Gene and Yourself to shed light and insight on the thoughts your books and newsletters brought to my soul and through them each day a renewal took place.  Sometimes subtle other times not so subtle yet always transforming.

Her Destiny book, the Poise book, “saying I’ve learned are not simply books to read once and lay aside “Good Read.”  They are tools to use over and over – too re-read, as situations change, with a new perspective, God through these books and newsletters have been an essential part of my transformation and continue to be a Source of Inspiration and Guidance in my Spiritual journey. 

At 43 years young God gave me the message (a tough one at that.)  To do the inner child work, the message, the time and the tools all provided by God.  This was the Pandora’s box that originated all the self destructive behavior, the low self esteem, the wrong thought process, that has kept me chained to the child where it all begin.  One of God’s tools-your book began this.  I dove head  first into this pool of murky water of childhood pain and countless times flicked to a perspective- like I’d never read this before and the works Glowed to this experience of inner child work.  Chapter 3 “Get Ready My soul; I’m Diving In, (repeat), to the deepest kind of love, to the sweetest kind of life.  Get ready my soul. (Repeat) Everything I’ve ever done, everything I’ve ever dreams, here I go, deeper, deeper, deeper, than I’ve ever been before.  Here I go, closer to my Sacred Source.”  (Daniel Nahmod)  After a life of deeply painful close relationships and a total of 23 years of jail and prison – Love was forgotten, even the Love of self.  Love once buried is harder to reclaim than love newly discovered, but Love was the first key to unlock the pain and the only way to unbury it was to go deeper than I’d ever gone before –to My Sacred Source!

That love has been reborn and how sweet it is having released a turmoil filled, pain soaked childhood by denying the age old fear of “not being good enough” the child now can trust enough to LOVE and MOVE FORWARD.  No matter how many times I read Carol Batey’s  books I will continue to gain a new perspective, they’re just designed through Spirit that way.

In closing…pg 65 of “In Due Season” the sermon written “Called to Greatness,” I said,   “God I Get the Message.”  I surrendered to my situation and put my trust in God.”  Pg 83   Chapter 4 of the same book it is written, “He who conceals His Disease can not expect to be cured.”  Chapter 4 of “Poise for the Runway” Do not ask for love unless your ready to be healed enough to give and receive and release your pain, so you can feel joy.  Do not ask for success unless you’re ready to conquer the Behaviors that would sabotage success.”   How could I expand on something so complete?  On my way to total Healing of age old pains, Carol provided me with a treasure of wisdom and guidance in this even important task of God’s put before me.  Blessings Chuck and inmate in the Metro Nashville County Jail.  He’s been ministered to by the Music City Center for Spiritual Living in Brentwood, TN