I and my wife had a wonderful afternoon talking with Ray Temmerman of interchurchfamilies.org who was passing through Toronto! Small world that as he mapquested where we live, Ray’s niece lives about 5 minutes from our house so fitting several stops in one day became easier for him and he could spend a more relaxing time with all before catching a plane!

J-M

2 parts as I do not know how make it just one short paragraph.

1)While I find that conscious change is hard/scary yet necessary to fulfill our true positive destiny, in fact change happens with our blessing and participation or inspite of us or our resistance or lack of participation.

I guess I am trying to say, I can change and grow or change will be done for me or to me and that will shrink my self esteem plus I may like the change or hate it but it was up to me to sieze the opportunities and take responsibility for the result.

I have been fortunate to have mostly had the good result and when the result was not good, by being involved in the process and through prayer, I feel I learned from Him how to share with others the good and the bad, that with others we may find better ways for the future.

2)My recent involvement with InterchurchFamilies.org has let me find a way that my wife and I may again celebrate Communion together in my wife’s Roman Catholic Church though I am not RC myself. It involved writing the Archbishop of Toronto who answered but asked I write also to the Papal Household. They answered but asked I write the Secretariat at The Vatican and finally a call came from my wife’s priest welcoming my participation at Communion in RC church anytime I so wished.

To ensure I could speak to The Vatican and the Bishop and the priest fully versed in their process I had contacted Presentation Ministries which sent me cassettes on the RC beliefs and processes.

This weekend I am being visited by the head of Canadian Interchurch Families to go over my story and the process that turned out so well.

Change to achieve a better spiritual life for my marriage of 37 years which was now being affected by new limitations that separated us at the wonderful time of Communion in my church or my wife’s church led me to learn of thousands of hurting couples and an opportunity to help those who want to know the procedure.

Thanks for patience of all who read my long post. I promiss to be more brief next time;)

Jan-Michael