 I'm going to go ahead and introduce David from the program, so I don't miss anything. So here we go. He came off Meister. He applied, of course, a miracle, intensively in his transformation of consciousness. He brings to discussions a depth of thought and the ability to use a variety of metaphors and examples to shed light on an array of uplifting ideas. For several years, he investigated the writings, dates, foundations, and groups which ran up around the course of miracles, and sought out to help others and devoted their lives to the course of miracles path. So he's been his own understanding. In 1988, something that dirty begins, right? In 1988, David began sharing his ideas from the course, sprinkled with experiences from his own inward journey. And in 1990, he began traveling to dialogue with others who devoted their lives to the awakening process. In the summer of 1991, David began traveling and speaking on the course across the country. He entered to Canada. In 1992, he was just the first ever ACIM duration conference near Logan, Ohio. In 1993-94, he toured the Midwest conducting a gathering and a tenses which were reported on audio tape. In 1995, David spent many hours in silence at a secluded furniture and in 1960, he founded the Peace House in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1999, the Foundation for the Awakening Mind was established as a publicly supported, nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching and learning true forgiveness and awakening to reality. The Foundation makes journals, audio cassettes, video cassettes, and they have talks and gatherings and retreats available to the public on a donation basis. So everything on David's website is on a donation basis. So he's my kind of guy. In 2003, David became an international lecturer on the course and now shares his inspirational ideas on a worldwide basis. So David, come on up. Thank you everyone. It's just wonderful being here at the One Center. To me, One is just such an expressive idea, an experience of what we really are. And I've used the Course in Miracles in my life, but that's great. I've used the Course in Miracles in my transformation. And what I've gone through is what Robin was talking about, a surrender of control of trying to direct my life and giving it over to the Holy Spirit, to higher power, whatever you'd like to call it. And we're going for an experience because I got to the point where I really started to see that we really don't need more theologies in the world. We have a lot of religions and theologies. But what everybody is going for is that experience of peace of mind, of inner peace. And as we were talking about even the drumming that started off about cleaning, removing the obstacles, that's what the whole journey to peace is. It's just going with your mind to start to realize that there's obstacles in there, that there's grievances, that there's hurts. That's a deep seated, very unconscious belief system in separation. And separation and wonders don't go together. So that's why when you work with the Course or any spiritual path that takes you inward to removing the obstacles for the works of lost persons, then you really are getting into this experience of inner peace and joy. I travel around the world now and all of the United States and Canada, and I would say that I call these gatherings we have enlightenment intentions because it's not any particular path. In fact, it's a joy when I find I just go meet myself over and over and over wherever I go. And it doesn't matter what culture I'm in. It doesn't matter whether the people even seem to speak the language that I speak. When I've been down to Argentina, they've had, I just did 19 consecutive gatherings down in Argentina in the last March. And they had translators following me around speaking in Spanish, sometimes two translators at a gathering. When the translator gets stuck on a word, people would call out words from the audience. This was a culture down there in Argentina where there was like probably 85% Catholic. So Jesus is a very powerful symbol. But their economy has collapsed. Children are starving. They're kind of reaching a point in consciousness that a lot of people around the world are reaching where they're desperate for an authentic spiritual experience. They don't want another theology or to pray to some statue or to some painting or to somebody in the sky. They want the actual experience. So what I noticed in all of my gatherings in Argentina was that people came and it was almost like the Bible. There was lots of tears. People were crying. There was lots of healing going on, spontaneous healing. There was one woman, a psychologist who had such a deep-seated heart that she was crying so much that another woman had to come behind her and put her arms around her and place her so the woman could even get her question out. But it was really a powerful experience for me because it just shows how when you really have a passion for healing and you really, really want to have that air of peace, your life may get thrown into singing habit or chaos, but as we've just heard, it turns around. And what Robin was sharing, too, is that I can so much relate to what her husband is going through right now as a human in the sense that that's what my life was back around the turn of about 1990, 1991 because I would be guided. I received a call like, too, to just go around and shine my life and share my joy. And initially my biggest concern was that I didn't have any financial backing. I didn't have C.D. in my markets. I was not affiliated with any kind of organization or religion or anything. And the plus, I mean, I used to talk to Jesus a lot and say, I don't know about where you live, but down here, money doesn't grow on trees. You can't just throw in your back yard and take the tree. They have $100 bills coming down. But I kept hearing, just have faith in my child. You know, just go shine your life, share your joy, and I'll take care of the rest. And Jesus had said that 2,000 years ago about, you know, looking at the lilies in the field, they matter, spin their coil, and to keep verse the kingdom of heaven and all things else will be added. And so when I got to the chorus, it was kind of like he was saying, in case you missed it, I've been saying this for the 2,000 years, but there's a message in the chorus that says, once you have accepted this plan, God's the voice for you. And it's the one function you would fulfill. There will be nothing else the voice pair will not arrange for you without your effort. It will go before you making straight your path and leaving in your way no stone to trip on, no obstacles to bar your way. Nothing you need will be denied you, not one seeming difficulty, but will melt away before you reach it. You need to take thought for nothing except the only purpose you would fulfill. And when I read that passage, it was almost like people were saying, did you get it? Did you get it? That was fake. So some of it I just thought, well, I'm going to put all my eggs in one basket. Mine will be in the basket of faith. That's the trust. And after 10 years of college and lots of education and jobs, experiences and whatever, I just felt it's cold to start traveling the country. And what happened to me in my very first trip was a five-and-a-half-week trip that came out here to California and Israel over the United States to Canada. I had so many miracles that just kind of knocked my sock out. I mean, it just absolutely blew me away that I would be so well taken care of. You know, I had thoughts about maybe ending up like a bag lady on the street somewhere and, you know, but none of that. I went to a lot of portion of miracles gatherings. I was taken in.