Global Community Communications Alliance Member Profile
Nieem
I was born and raised on a farm in Iowa, moving only twenty miles from there when I was married at the age of eighteen. We lived on my husband's family farm, where he worked the farm. We raised five children at this location. When our youngest son was five years old, we moved about seven miles away to start a new business on the Missouri River. We had purchased sixty acres, and with the help of the FHA we were able to build a restaurant with living quarters on the lower floor. This was our first venture. We then built a large boat storage building with a shop on one end. Our next project to follow was a campground with electric, water, and sewer hookups. This was a very beautiful, scenic area with all of the windows in the restaurant offering a view of the Missouri River as it flowed towards New Orleans.
Before our move to the river location I was a full-time mother trying to help our children have a well-rounded life. I taught Sunday school at the nearby Congregational Church, wishing the children to love Jesus as much as I did. Many of the lessons were about the life of Jesus. As a child my own life was void of spiritual teachings until at the age of thirteen when my grandmother gave me a Bible. At this time I began attending the Congregational Church, going to Sunday school, church services, and singing in the choir. My father was very supportive in my spiritual venture and took me to church every Sunday. I continued to attend this church until I was married, at which time I switched my membership to a church closer to our home.
The opening of our business, being a seven-days-a-week job, greatly interfered with my church functions. The years that followed this big move and challenge were very hard for me. I felt like I was in a sense neglecting our children, but all the while I was trying to be a "supermom." I felt as if I had been put into this situation as a test; could I do it? Many times in the years that flew by, as our children graduated from high school, went on to college, then moved away to start their own struggle and find their life challenges, I wondered if I had done the best job that I could of raising them. In all of this realization I knew that my marriage was not made in heaven. I felt there was an insurmountable distance between my husband and myself in the venture we had started, but I was too scared to move on at the time. I was also a very loyal person to my friends, my husband, and the business which I was engrossed in. I now know I have a problem with misplaced compassion; I did not realize this until I had been here at Global Community Communications Alliance Community for awhile. It has been a struggle to come to the realization on how this harms the person receiving it as much as it harms the person giving it.
I have also learned from being here at Global Community Communications Alliance that God had intended me to have the experience of running the business that I had managed for so many years. I learned more about managing the business than I would have ever learned going to the traditional college and studying about how to run a business, how to help make people happy. This was done in a good part by listening to others and asking them if they had asked for God's help or prayed to Him about their problem. The many things I learned while in the restaurant business have been of great help to me in serving in my functions here.
We closed the restaurant on October 31, 1993, after thirty some years of operation. I had promised my husband I would travel with him for a couple of years, thinking that some of the problems with our marriage were because of our disagreements about our business. However, after the first trip, I knew that wasn't the problem. It was definitely clear to me that I needed to move on in my life, but at that time I really did not know where I was going or how.
It was about this time that one of my daughters along with her two boys moved to Sedona and joined Global Community Communications Alliance. It wasn't long after when she sent me The URANTIA Book . This changed my life in a big way. All of a sudden I had a direction to look toward. I focused on reading the Jesus papers. This was a rewarding experience; it answered so many of my questions that had been dancing around in my head ever since I was in Bible study classes. I had always known there had to be a place where I could learn more about Jesus and His teachings. There is, and it is The URANTIA Book . In 1994 I drove a pickup to Sedona for my daughter, after which I flew to Texas to meet my husband. My studying The URANTIA BOOK was sustaining and nurturing me at that time. I made arrangements to attend the next seminar which was held the last weekend in January, 1995. This was a wonderful experience for me. I felt very close to many of the people I met there even though I had not met them before in this life.
At that time, I was unaware that I was an ovan soul and that I had lived in the first century. Later it was revealed that I am a second time Urantian, which explained my feelings of familiarity. I learned that I was very close to Jesus and His family. I also discovered that I was in the Women's Corp that was implemented by Jesus. I realize my feelings for a lot of women here are special because we shared our lives together in the first century and a few also shared the honor of being in the Women's Corp.
After the seminar I made plans to come to Global Community Communications Alliance as soon as possible. I prayed constantly for help in making the decisions necessary for this move. You have to realize that moving for me was not an easy thing to do; I had lived in the same place for thirty three years. I was so thankful when everything flowed so smoothly—my prayers had been answered, even helping me decide on a date I would be leaving Iowa. I arrived in Sedona on September 22, 1995, very glad that long journey was over and thankful to be here where so much love flowed. I had been in touch with my daughter every day while making this trip; I felt the prayers of everyone here at Global Community Communications Alliance as well as the celestial spirit beings that traveled with me.
It wasn't long after my arrival here that I realized how many bad habits I had brought with me. I am so very thankful for eldership, mandated individuals, and many in the cosmic family who are helping me change those patterns and habits that are not in divine pattern. Some of the patterns that I am continually working on are misplaced compassion, lack of patience, and judgmentalness. I find that knowing these patterns and habits, and doing the very best I can to change them, has brought me much closer to God. What feels so good for me is the way I feel—like a big load has been removed from my heart—and realizing how much everyone here cares about me. When any of the old patterns and habits want to surface, I take time to wonder why—are my thoughts creating this? If I think this is the reason, I immediately change my thinking to pure thoughts of why I am here.
I left Iowa, and my husband, after fifty years of marriage to come to Sedona and join Global Community Communications Alliance, a spiritual religious group, to fulfill some of the many dreams I had experienced for years. I feel so blessed to have the blessings of my children in my endeavors. This may be because I tried to encourage them to follow their dreams at the time they were making big decisions concerning their life-long plans.
My health since I have been here has improved at least 90% better than it was when I was in Iowa. It is hard to believe that I no longer have to take antibiotics for my sinus infections or visit the chiropractor every week; these are just a few of the great improvements in my well-being. I live in a beautifully relaxing area with my office in my room. This gives me the opportunity to work on my studies as well as my functions whenever I want to. The climate here agrees with me; I pace myself in the extreme heat of the summer. I also realize how much more suited I am to the kind of weather we have here than I was to the heat and humidity in Iowa.
I have classes two nights a week; in my classes I study The URANTIA Book and The Cosmic Family volumes. I am so excited with our course of study because of how it challenges my mind. It may take forever for me to really learn all of the material available; however, every week I learn more about the exciting way God's plans enfold around all of us and how our responses to the challenges we face affect everyone in our cosmic family as well as the universe we live in.
I want to encourage everyone reading my profile to realize that it is never too
late in your life to move on and seek your way in God's plan for you and your
destiny. Many go through their whole life not aware of their destiny.
Nieem,
Minister
Vicegerent Second Assistant
to Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase and the Mandate of the Bright and Morning Star