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"It took lifetimes of putting stuff into my subconscious and it takes work to be restored to my original perfection but I'm worth it. I have so much work to do. I can't express enough how helpful this workshop is to me. . . I am still overflowing with joy from my healing experience. . . My soul has been touched in such a way that I want to do everything that I possibly can to ensure that others have the opportunity to receive their healing just as I have. Please feel free to share any comments that I make with anyone and in whatever forum you choose. I really want as many people as possible to "get theirs" too. I'm still holding a vision that one of these workshops will be in a retreat format and I'm certainly willing to help with making it happen."
June16, 2008
I have a wonderful testimony about
the goodness of God. Scripture says and Rev. Eric reminded us
that the Father knows what we have need of before we ask. I
discovered that in a very real way yesterday. First, I have to
give you a little background so that you really "get" what I mean.
This past Thursday, I was finishing some last minute materials to
bring to Milwaukee plus I was so anxious about coming that I
didn't go to bed at all that night. I thought I would sleep on
the plane but I was so excited and bursting with ideas that I
couldn't rest. I slept very soundly Friday night but I didn't
turn in until late---again, trying to perfect everything. (Yes,
Ms. Dorothy, I remember that I'm special but not perfect. Smile)
Saturday night, still more to be done in preparation for
Sunday...Of course you realize that it was definitely a labor of
love. Nevertheless, I was abusing my body by not giving it time
to regenerate and it showed because I was making a lot of
mistakes.
On Sunday, Ms. Dorothy got me to the airport in more than enough
time to make my flight but just when it was time to board, they
announced that the flight had been cancelled due to mechanical
problems. I immediately tried to get on another flight but
everything was booked. So they put me up in a hotel so I could
fly out this morning. The Lord knew that I needed the rest and
what seemed like an inconvenience allowed me to get the rest that
I needed. I didn't pray for it but I recognized the blessing when
it arrived. That's another part of healing process. You have to
recognize the things that show up as opportunities to restore you
to your original perfection ...So please be on the lookout for
your seeming challenges. And trust me, they will come.
June 26, 2008
"The miracles of the church seem to
me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power
coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions
being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our
ears can hear what is there about us always."
Willa Cather
Thank you all for holding me in consciousness.
I was sharing with Rev. Eric how much I really appreciate this new
family that God has given me. I also shared that there was a time
that I would not have shared what was going on with me---that I
would have carried the seeming load all by myself. So my ability
to share with you is really a healing that I had not consciously
asked for but My Father knew what I was in need of. I am so
grateful. What I just got present to, however, is that during the
time I was trying to carry the load all by myself, I wouldn't even
give my seeming burdens to God. Sure I prayed, well sometimes, but
it was really one or more of the seven begs, and even then I
didn't trust God to help---I
could do/fix it all by myself. My help...my healing was always at
hand but I was too independent to acknowledge that "of myself I
can nothing." Praise God that my perceptions are being made finer
so that I know the Truth.
So, I'm in this place of acknowledgement and I recognize that had
I gotten present to something like this prior to my healing that
occurred in Wisconsin, I would have beat myself up and gone all in
my head with all the coulda, woulda, shouldas and I would have
judged myself about it. What I now understand is that I was in
that place of independence because of learned behaviors. I was an
oldest child of four siblings and I was taught to carry not only
the responsibility for self but for my brothers and sister and
sometimes my mother and father, too---I was always supposed to be
strong. Also, my father was an alcoholic and as a child, I was
taught by both parents that what happened in our house,
stayed in our house. So it's not surprising that I don't share
much about myself with others.
I have a new thought today. I crossed the line. I know where I was
but I know that it doesn't define who I am today.
Reverend Eric, thank you for saying, "yes" to this wonderful
assignment from God and for drawing this new family of healers
together.
Abiding in God's Healing Love,
LaVonne
June 26, 2008
A Request for Affirmative Prayer for Love, Wisdom and Substance:
Peace and Rich Blessings,
I want to close on the refinancing of a townhouse before records
indicate that I am unemployed. Bank of America has already given
me a one-week extension (at a cost) so I really need to be at
closing by next Friday. It is a rental property that will require
a change of the joint deed to my name only. I have already agreed
to do that for my husband on the residence that we shared.
I ask that you pray multiple prayers because:
1) Love harmonizes. Mutual cooperation is critical during the
settlement of our joint affairs.
2) With Wisdom comes discernment. I am open to the living
arrangement that is for my highest good. I don't want to be
attached to the outcome of having the townhouse and the mortgage
payment that is cheaper than the rent on my apartment.
3) Substance for the abundance. God is my source and I have faith
that if it becomes necessary for me to go through any kind of
application process after the October divorce, all the resources
necessary will be available to me.
Thanks so much for holding me in your consciousness. It is all
done. And so it is. I look forward to sharing the testimony.
June 30, 2008
July 1, 2008 [Rev. Eric] As soon as I hung up from talking to you, Tracy
and I left. I pulled out of the driveway, made the right-hand
turn and almost at CVS, I saw Aroncia walking towards the
Divinity Center. I immediately pulled over and jumped out to
hug her and she started crying and said she was glad to see me
because she needed that hug. So we ended up going back to the
Divinity Center to talk. Rev. Eric,
"Peace and Love LaVonne,
It’s Celestine! I
am just calling to give thanks and let you know how grateful I
am that God had me be there on Sunday in Richmond, VA. I
came for a healing and I always get exactly what I need. Even
though I know that I am whole, perfect and complete, there is
always something there for me to take back with me or to also
bring and give. It
was such an awesome, awesome event. I
just give thanks to God and I know the glory be to God. The
Glory is for God and the Glory is God.
I just love the work that you and Rev.
Eric and everyone else has put into this Healing Workshop and
I am so grateful to be such a wonderful part of it. So
I give thanks and I appreciate you and I love you. You
just continue to do the work that God wants you to do. I love
you. I love
myself. I see
myself in you and I see you in me so I give thanks. God
bless you.
Much Light, Peace and Love because you
are so, so huge of a light and I’m so happy that you’re
shining as bright and I think I’m shining---Not that I think
I’m shining, but I know I’m shining because I see my light
shining in you as yours is shining in me.
God bless you." Phyllis, her mom
Elizabeth and Susan came to OGOT today. Rev. Bernette
acknowledged them and had them stand. I seized that opportunity
after service to share with people that we just had the workshop
in Richmond last weekend, now they've traveled for hours to be
in service, and we're going back to do the workshop the middle
of this month. August 5, 2008 August 25, 2008 Beloved, September 26, 2008 October 13, 2008 Good morning,
January 15, 2009 Dear Rev. Eric, My heart is so filled
right now…Spirit is always revealing something to me about
this “Movement” and the true value of this Healing Workshop
and I must share it. Rev. Eric, back in early
2003, I took one of your classes. “The Perfect Power Within
You” was our text. One of our homework assignments was to
study each lesson and write out each statement of Truth on an
index card. I still have them---in fact they were tucked in a
drawer and were so dusty that handling them made me cough. I
also pulled out a journal that I kept at that time. While in that class, I
experienced one of the worst emotional times in my adult
life. I became part of the praying beggars that Charles
Fillmore talked about. In my journal entries for the first
week of January, 2003, I started out praising God but then
within a couple of sentences, I went through six of the seven
begs that you discuss during the Healing Workshop. Reading
those journal entries now and being in my restorative state of
consciousness, it’s hard to believe the things that I wrote.
I pretty much continued in that state of begging during most
of the class but I did the homework and I got through it---but
that’s all. Rev. Eric you are a
wonderful teacher and I learned some things in that class and
this is no reflection on you, but I wasn’t motivated to change
my life. After the class, I went back to all my old ways. I
didn’t practice what I learned to the point where I could
really “Stand” in my very Being. Looking back I can see that
a pattern of going to the classes but not really applying what
I learned to my life had developed. It was in the Healing
Workshop that I became motivated to restore to my original
purity, purpose and perfection. The work that I did in the
Workshop prompted me to continue my healing and to help others
do the same. After the Workshop you continued to minister to
me and support my spiritual growth to the point where I was
considering changing my membership from the One God One
Thought Center for Better Living to the Divinity Center for
Better Living. I am so grateful that when I approached you
about changing, you encouraged me to speak with Rev. Bernette
before making any decisions. Of course, Rev. Bernette was
just as supportive as you had been and advised me to listen to
Spirit. Spirit led me to remain a
part of both ministries and I was obedient. In the process, I
have grown in so many ways. The Stand that I selected for the
Workshop and adopted for my life is, “I commit my works to
Jehovah and my purposes shall be established.” I am not the
same person that I was a year ago. I journal on a regular
basis and share my testimonies with all the participants of
the Healing Workshop as well as many others. I stay in the
conversation of healing and I repeatedly see the
demonstration. You have taught me and ministered to me in so
many ways and continue to do so and I am so appreciative. I
want to tell you about some of those times that have greatly
influenced who I am today and who I am becoming. On Sunday, January 27,
2008 you delivered your lesson sermon, “Liberty or Bondage,
Which?” at the Divinity Center. It was there that you
introduced, “The Principles of Healing: Experiencing the
Forthright Perfection of God” Healing Workshop. Prior to the
day you taught that lesson, I was in denial about being in
bondage. Not only did you assist me in recognizing the fact
that I had chosen bondage but you also showed me how to choose
liberty and I began my healing journey. About two months later
during a service at the Divinity Center, you called
individuals up; asked them to sit down and you publicly
thanked them and prayed for them. I was one of those people.
You sat down at my feet and you explained that it was symbolic
because that it was what the disciples did around our
Wayshower and Teacher Jesus. You told me that you had learned
a lot from me and you wanted me to understand that I am a
teacher. Now I stand on who and
Whose I am but it hasn’t been easy. Thanks for always being
available to minister to me during those storms even though
there are so many miles between us. You promptly respond to
my email, text messages and phone calls. You always remind me
to do my forgiveness work; to use affirmative prayer; to give
praise; and to remain in service to God. By your example, I
learned that because there is infinite supply, ministry is not
limited by distance and that the church is truly within us. I
have begun to embrace technology even more and have been using
it to reach out to hundreds of people to share my
testimonies. As a result, I have been open to receive the
blessings as God enlarges my territory. Just before the
holidays I went back to Light Streams for Better Living to
worship and celebrate with them. I wouldn’t even have
considered that a year ago. I have a special
testimony that I plan to send this morning. Remember me
mentioning the young woman that I met on the plane on my way
to the Healing Workshop that you facilitated at Unity
Southeast? She came to the mini workshop on relationships
that Rev. Bernette facilitated last night at OGOT and she
brought a friend! I pointed them out to Rev. Bernette and she
gave them a personal invitation to return. They promised to
do so. God never fails. God put me on a plane going to
Kansas City so I could meet someone that lives in Towson,
Maryland and God spoke through me so she could find the way to
New Thought teaching. Prior to my conversation on the plane,
Mina had never heard of One God One Thought even though she
works less than three miles from it. Thank you, God. I am
that, I AM.
Abiding in Infinite and Wondrous Love,
LaVonne April 13, 2009
HW Alum LaVonne Sumler Publishes New Journal!
Restoration to My Perfection: Daily Affirmations and
Journal Check out June 22, 2009
Hi Rev. Eric,
Tracy and I facilitated a 6-hour workshop and there were some
breakthroughs. In the interest of confidence, I won't say much
but we went from "I don't have anything that I need to let go
of" to "well maybe I do need to forgive my
mother...father...sister." I remembered what you said and for
most of the time I let Tracy minister to her and I wish you
had been present to witness this one thing.
Tracy asked Aroncia to uncross her leg and she got into the
eye dyad with Aroncia. Initially, Aroncia kept looking down
but Tracy called her on it and said, "let's start again" and
I'm sure they were in it for a couple of minutes. Tracy
explained that she was sending Aroncia love. For the next 1/2
hour at least, as we were talking Aroncia kept looking into
Tracy's eyes. It occurred to me that when Aroncia took the
workshop, the structure was different and she didn't
experience Cross the Line, so I'm sponsoring her for Richmond.
August 3, 2008
September 10, 2008
I want to acknowledge that the event was a perfect example of
what
happens when we each allow our individual talents to be used.
Carol, it
was no accident that Van put you on that email. Although
we wanted to
acknowledge you because you give so much and are so much to
this ministry, I
needed your help. I know how to do a lot of things and I
know a lot of
people that can do a lot of things and I tapped into some of
my outside
resources (to maintain the integrity of the surprise) but no
one was
available to do what I needed. And you don't hear me say
this often but
I was overwhelmed (not with joy). I began to cry out
(there were two
times that I mean it literally) and I thank God for using
Van's
"Oooooooooooops" to bless me with your willing and skilled
hands. Your
choice of food, the blindfolds, the gifts and everything was
right
on---no one could have done it better. And because I
knew that once you
said, "I will handle that", I no longer needed to give it
another
thought, I could then turn my attention to the parts that I do
best. So
I thank you so much for your commitment and your love.
Rev. Eric, you are such a blessing. Carol and I
experience the same
thing whenever we have to publicly speak about you. We
start out
talking more about ourselves and then we turn it to you.
That's because
our lives have been so profoundly impacted from working with
God
expressing as you. Yes, we know you have an impressive
bio and we
really try to sprinkle some of that in for the folks that find
it
important. Nevertheless, we have touched the hem of your
garment and we
have watched others do the same and we're all forever changed.
So it's
challenging to not mention who we have becomes and who we are
still
becoming when we speak of you.
There is so much more that I can say but it's time to take my
braids out
so they can part my hair at the sleep clinic.
Love you both more than I can say,
LaVonne
by LaVonne Sumler
www.buybooksontheweb.com/product.aspx?ISBN=0-7414-5300-2.
If you need some guidance rather than a blank page, this is
the perfect journal for you. Start journaling today to create
the you that your soul is longing to be.
Abstract:
If you need a jumpstart instead of a blank page, RESTORATION
TO MY PERFECTION: Daily Affirmations and Personal Journal is
the perfect journal for you. RESTORATION TO MY PERFECTION is
designed to assist you in organizing your thoughts and tapping
into your inner voice to reveal your true feelings,
motivations, and desires which allows you to discover and
accept your divine purpose and perfection. Suggested daily
affirmations, monthly readings and ways to practice spiritual
attributes are provided as therapeutic and spiritual tools
that will enable you to live an abundant and purposeful life,
day-by-day.
LaVonne Sumler has committed her life to the emotional healing
of the world. She is the Founder of Voice of Significance
Seminars, LLC. LaVonne is the creator and co-facilitator of
“This Woman’s Work” a series of workshops dedicated to women’s
issues. She is the Workshop Coordinator for the Healing
Workshop under the Healing Ministries of The Reverend Eric
Ovid Donaldson. Look for her next writing project, “There Are
Wounds in the Way: Reflections of A Woman Healing From Abuse.”
For more information, visit LaVonne’s website
www.voiceofsignificance.com .
Things are happening so fast and I'm so excited!
On Saturday, June 13th, Roshann and I facilitated the second,
"This Woman's Work: Learning to Trust My Voice". Our
different styles created a wonderful balance that was very
effective. One of the participants is working with me to
create another workshop under the "This Woman's Work" series.
My first Empowerment Mimosa Mingle was an absolute success.
We had some very frank, healing discussion. It can only get
better. Dr. Renee, self-proclaimed "self-help guru", a very
dynamic woman and owner of the Lakeview Mansion has expressed
an interest in collaborating with me on a project.
Sabrina and I team up this Saturday for the very first "Shift
Happens". Then I head over to the Bahamas for the very first
time to promote my book at P.O.T.
I've made some adjustments to event dates based on P.O.T and
space. My second Empowerment Mimosa Mingle will be on July
26th and every third Sunday thereafter. I have a workshop
scheduled the 4th Saturday of every month through the end of
the year and I hope to be adding more. I'm creating a
portfolio before taking this show on the road.
Oh, what a feeling and a healing!
LaVonne Sumler, Founder & CEO
Voice of Significance Seminars, LLC