A Lesson at age 12: "You are better than that"

I played football on my grade school football team. I really wasn't very good. I didn't understand the game except for the most basic aspects of it. I did apply myself and I did try to put forth an honest effort... most of the time. One day, I did something or failed to do something that I should have done..I really don't remember, but the coach said something to me that I have remembered now for fifty-five years. I believe what he said was the ultimate discipline/wake-up call that can be put into words. I also believe it is what the Ascended Masters have been trying to get through my outer mind over all these years as well. What did he say?  It was just the simple truth, "Son, you are better than that!"...The Masters might say, "Son, you are more than this.".

Early Religion

I was raised as a Roman Catholic. I attended a parochial grade school on the South side of Chicago in a blue collar, steel worker neighborhood. I owe a great debt to those Dominican Sisters who taught me. I was lazy, always looking for an easy way out. I soon learned that with the nuns, the easiest way was their way. Their authority was unquestionable and consistently enforced. I owe them a debt, because that was what I needed at the time to overcome my lazy ways.

Childhood

The picture in the header was me when I was six. You might never guess it just to look at me, but I was spiritual from a very young age.  I always had an unquenchable curiosity of how things worked. I was in no way any brilliant child prodigy, just curious, but not in a cavalier way. It was like I just had to know how things worked. I often took things apart to see what made them work, even if I knew I was going to get into trouble I just had to take it apart. Later in childhood this need to know naturally began to extend into the spiritual realm.