by Nadine Marie V. Niguidula, M.A.
In November 1999, I participated in a retreat conducted by Bro. Bo Sanchez in Manila, Philippines. Bo is a preacher, a best-selling author and lay evangelist who started preaching at the age of 13.
I was still in the corporate world then but had already started my healing journey. To my pleasant surprise, the retreat gave me my first glimpse of what was probably my deeply and unconsciously repressed dream: to have my own retreat center or a center for healing and spirituality.
While I was taken aback with my discovery and the vision that I received, I welcomed it with excitement as well as some level of doubt, quite understandably. But I trusted and I have held on to that dream ever since.
After I left the corporate world in 2000, one year after that pivotal retreat, I participated and got involved in a number of non-profit organizations and associations. I focused on healing, spirituality, metaphysics and paranormal phenomena. My primary intention though was on healing myself.
Along the way, I met individuals and groups who shared my dream and passion for a center for healing. Yet there was something that would always come up that would make me doubt if that individual or group is the one that I would work with in fulfilling my dream. It was either not the right people or not the right time.
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet;
A healing center by any other shape or form would still be a place for
healing
Today, that center has not quite manifested in the shape and form that I had been envisioning it. But I continue to hold on to my dream. And I continue to have faith and to trust in the process. I continue to believe that to everything, there is a season. And everything is in divine and perfect order and timing, at any given moment.
I continue to hold that vision that I first had in November 1999. I continue to hold it with much sacredness and loving anticipation and gentle nurturance.
People who have known about this dream have even viewed my process to be quite lengthy. They’ve asked me, What is taking it so long? What is taking you so long?
Admittedly, there were moments when I’d entertain those questions and I’d have the same doubts. Yet there has been this constant voice in me that’s telling me not to give up, and especially not to be influenced by others’ thoughts and opinions. Someone once told me, “Do not give up just before the miracle shows up.“
Perhaps there is something else in the vast horizon that my limited human capacity has yet to see. All I know is when all the elements are ready, that’s when it will materialize.
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Besides, who is to say when something is taking too long (or too soon for that matter). Time after all is relative. Our concept of time is even debatable. In fact, in the subtler realms, time as we know it, does not even exist. What takes a hundred years in human concept, can be just a fleeting moment in the higher dimensions.
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As I redefine myself and what truly matters to me, I continue to refine the details of my dream and my vision. Just as I am work-in-progress, so is the center. I need to go through my own healing and transformation first before I can take my work and my learning out into the world. The Universe has been teaching me a lesson that I am still mastering: patience.
Had I allowed myself to succumb to the pressure from other people and forced myself to establish a center, that center would most certainly have closed shop by now. I have learned that I needed to reinvent myself first. I needed to first fill in my bag of tools that helped me in healing myself before I could even start helping others.
I have also shifted my focus from the form to the essence of my dream. After all, it is the essence rather than the form that’s of utmost importance.
My personal vision is to be a channel for the healing and transformation of humanity, in remembrance of one’s Divinity and oneness with all of creation. A physical center is only one way through which this vision can materialize and my mission can be accomplished.
Aligning With Truth – a virtual center for healing
Today, the site Aligning With Truth serves as a virtual center for healing. As we connect with each other and gather and meet as a community, virtually and telepathically, healing and transformation can take place.
In time, my dream will manifest in the shape and form that is for the highest interest of everyone concerned.
I am now allowing it to take the shape it deems fitting. And as I surrender my vision and offer it to the Universe, I pray, “Father-Mother God, this, or something better.”
In October 2011, I caught a replay of an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show that featured a woman who gave birth, not to her daughter, but to her daughter’s child. Yes, she was a surrogate mother to her grandson.
Retired at the age of 60, she wondered what it was that she could do in her life that would truly make a difference. Her daughter had a number of miscarriages and was no longer fit to bear a child. Believing that it was a spiritual calling, she decided to carry the baby in her womb for her daughter. She became an instrument for a miracle birth.
As I watched this woman glow from her laudable and heroic act, I heard my inner voice utter, ”You’re never too old and it’s never too late for anything.”
It was a gentle reminder. That message couldn’t have come more aptly. Indeed, everything has its own Divine Timing. And more than merely patiently waiting, I am now consciously practicing the art of allowing.
When all the elements are ready, I will see the fruition of my dream. And when sufficient nurturance has been given to what I have been carrying in my womb, I will give birth to my center for healing.
And that is my deepest Truth, and I am aligning with it.
Nadine Marie V. Niguidula, M.A., 16 December 2011
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This very much resonated with me, as I too, have been carrying a vision. I too, have often contemplated laying that vision down. But God does not put a desire in our hearts that cannot be realized, and every time I would consider letting go of the vision I had been inspired with, external circumstances would encourage me to carry it just a little while longer, to have just a little more faith. And so I have continued doing the work as it has presented itself. It has been 20 years now. I will say that just within the last two months, there have been shiftings that indicate the vision that God gave me is beginning to manifest in the physical. I know, somehow that this is the result of the work and my willingness to persevere despite the ‘apparent’ impossibility. I say this to you to offer support of you and your vision. Continue to do what you are guided to do in the moment, and the day will come – probably when you least expect it – that you will begin to see the stirrings of your vision manifesting in the physical as well. Namaste.
Julie Marie, God has indeed spoken!!!
I can’t thank you enough for your very kind and loving words! Wow, I don’t even think any of my “friends” have given me as much support and especially in the way you did. I could just feel this loving, angelic energy through your words, thank you! If I could only just reach out to you physically and hug you, I’m so sure tears would start rolling down my cheeks. In fact, as I’m writing this, I find myself crying…thank you for the tears of joy, thank you for being an angel, and thank you for following the call to deliver this message to me! Much blessings, love and light, namaste….
In the realm of Spirit, there is no distance, space or time. I can feel the energy of that hug right now just as if you were physically present in this room with me. So thank you for that. And never give up…
hi nadine. you’re blog is very interesting. may God bless you with your advocacy.
Thank you Dean for your visit and supportive words. Much blessings to you as well, love & light, namaste! ~NM
Hi Nadine, great blog you have here! What a wonderful coincidence that I was lead to your blog because I happen to be a newbie Reiki practitioner and am interested in different types of healing. I hope you be able to realize your dream one day. In fact, if I may be able to help in any way, I would love to get involved
Kay, thank you for your lovely words! That’s very kind of you and I feel so honored to receive such supportive energies! Let’s continue this dialogue in private if you like. Please email me at nadinemarie33@ymail.com so I can share some more of my thoughts and see where this conversation will lead us.
I’m happy to hear about your attunement to Reiki. Welcome to the exciting world of the healing arts!!!
Your healing touch is much needed in this world especially during these confusing times! Do you offer your services as you travel?
Much blessings to you, Love & Light, Peace & Joy, namaste…Nadine Marie
Very inspiring. I resonate with this a lot. How do you picture your center being in physical reality?
Joe, I’m glad you found it inspiring and you resonate with it. I’m not quite sure though that I fully understand your question. Do you mean, what am I doing to manifest/materialize this? Or, are you asking what are the details and specifics such as location, how it looks like, product/service offerings, etc.?
No, not like location, etc. More like what kind of center? Like do you picture a big building with plants, helpers, etc. Basically, if I was sick and came to your center; what would happen =)
Hi Nadine. This is new to me and I am very much interested in natural cures and healing. I pray that you will realize this dream of yours. Meanwhile, can you share in a nutshell what alternatives we have to follow this path? ( i.e. Homeopathy, Reiki, yoga ?)
Hi Nadine. Reading your vision brought a warm healing energy into my body. It is encased with the light of truth and affection.
Everything I just read is exactly what I have been thinking since childhood!
Every moment, I think that we’re different, and there are people all across the globe waiting for answers….waiting to feel this connection.
I feel, as you feel, an energy vibrates within the every element of nature, an energy that protects and heals the wounded, an energy that is the very source of creation.
Let us get together (virtually as you say) through this web that connects the energies of mother nature to feel each others presence, to feel each others oneness, to tell the ailing mother nature that we are sorry for all the harm we have done to her, and we are sorry for pain inflicted to her gentle creatures.
To tell her that we vow to protect her, to join hands with her in restoring the vibrant balance of life.
We’ll ask mother nature to share her power and aid us through our path
Decide a date and time when we and our kin can sit together and connect and bring your vision to a new level of reality
Mail me when you have decided.
Yea, I am so glad I found you again after initially connecting on Brenda’s site. I totally resonate with what you are doing here and love this idea. I write a blog too and love seeing people from all around the world reading my blog yet regret that there is little interaction. A virtual center- how perfect. I am sending much energy and appreciation for you idea, knowing we are all One.
much love
savannah
Savannah, I too am so glad that we’re connecting again, thanks!
I visited your blog briefly and will spend more time after sending this. I started reminiscing about my days at the East Bay Area. I so miss it! 
Your visit is, as with anything, divinely timed. I was just about to change the description of this site in the header from “a virtual healing center” to “a sacred oasis (or sanctuary, haven’t quite made up my mind yet) for sharing reflections, lessons, teachings, tools & resources as I move along the path of healing and awakening.” I was thinking of making it more of my personal space. I guess the Universe just gave its stamp of disapproval, thanks to your comment!
No pressure there….
Like you, there is much, a little bit, to be desired as far as the level of interaction goes. I’m not complaining. I’ve simply often wondered why that is so. I think I kinda know and it has a lot to do with the cleaning and clearing that I’m doing with my situation with my family, as I had been sharing recently in my posts. And there are still quite a number of things and offerings thatI had originally envisioned for this site, and which I haven’t quite fully put in place yet. It will really become a full time endeavor then, if it isn’t yet. Perhaps the Universe is waiting for me to fully embrace that concept and take that to heart, and then the interactions and connections that I’m looking for will happen. Hmmm…sounds like a plan? Might the Universe be speaking to me again and giving me this time its nod of approval?
Like you Savannah, I love that people from all over the world visit, comment, and find solace in what I’m sharing. And I haven’t even met any of them — not in this lifetime at least, and not in the denser, physical realm.
I don’t know if I ever will but would love to meet some of them personally. Like you. Oh Savannah, if I were still in the Bay Area, I sure would be driving up to Grass Valley in no time! 
I so appreciate that you looked for me and left that note at Brenda’s site. So glad we found each other and yes, let’s stay connected!
We can even have tea, even virtually. Hey, nowadays, and with the internet, a lot of what used to be unimaginable and impossible are now coming to fruition! 
Thank you Savannah for leaving your loving energy and sending your support and blessings for this virtual center.
Much Blessings and Much Love to you and your work…Namaste…♥♥♥Nadine Marie♥♥♥