PREFACE

“Once upon a time there was a Little Soul. And this Little Soul knew itself to be the Light, part of ka-gillion Lights that make up the whole of the universe. But the Little Soul wanted to experience itself as the Light. And God said that if the Little Soul wanted to know the Light, it must also know the Darkness. For how else can one know Up without Down, Hot without Cold, Fast without Slow? Then the Little Soul understood that in getting to know Who It Really Is, it would have to know the opposite, “this is a great gift,” God said, “because without it, you could not know what anything is like.” So the Little Soul embarked upon an adventure, and perhaps it is very much like the adventure that we all share on this planet we call Earth.”

-Neale Donald Walsch-The Little Soul and the Sun

     Fifty years ago, I am awaiting birth. As I choose my life’s contract with whom I like to call, God, my little soul is over-the-top excited. Like most of us, my agreement with God contains many challenges and triumphs. My personal mission is to experience oneness. To inevitably be in the world, not of it. To openly share and help those whom ever are willing through the recovery of a wounded heart. 

     God makes sure that I am fully aware that the decision is all mine. We shake on the agreement. This assures that whatever shows up in earth school, I am more than “able” to handle it. The question begs, “Will I be willing?” For Love knows that I am in for an adventurous ride to say the least. It will take me almost fifty years to make the choice to fully awaken and accept the truth of the sacred and powerful heart. 

The Contract: 

     Once I am born into the bright lights of the sterile maternity ward in Hollywood, a pink hat is placed on the few hairs of my head, and I am given the name Kathleen Frances Reynolds. The memory of my soul family, including my truest self, slowly begins to fade away for many self absorbed years, an unconscious reaction to emotional neglect and arrested development. 

     My challenges will not be more than I can manage, and I will be willing to receive help from a loving, no nonsense Italian angel, here on earth. She will be in her mid 60‘s, and her name will be Cinnamon H. Lofton. I will recognize her as a unique gift to those whom are willing to see her all encompassing beauty and receive her words of infinite wisdom. Cinnamon will come to me as a humble servant to mirror my heart and trigger my fears. I will be courageous enough to go against people’s skepticism, and my life will take a dramatic turn down a path of whom most have not traveled. In the most humbled ways, I will experience Cinnamon’s spiritual approach to teaching through her channeled guidelines for loving where love seems not to be. It will not take me long to recognize Cinnamon as my heart “mama.” 

     With my willingness to be reborn to Love through her unyielding patience and grab-me-by-the-neck moments, I will begin to transform my life and create a freedom that I never “thought” possible. This will just be the beginning of an arduous journey. I will be given opportunities to grow and become an example of being who I really am. I will learn the hard way and will often resist the contract, thinking, “WHY IN THE HELL WOULD I SIGN UP FOR THIS?”   

     God had one more question... 

     “Little soul, are you still sure you want to go?”