Grandma's God  by Myra Hansen

About the author

I was born Myra Kathryn Dunham in Los Angeles, California in 1939. Until I was married in 1961, my family home had been in South Pasadena, a small, independent city just outside the L.A. city border. I recall a very happy childhood in a loving family. My father owned his own business, building mine and mill equipment, with other talents in welding and house painting. My mother, who had worked since she was 12, became a housewife. A 15-year-old cousin joined the family permanently when I was nearly 6, and my sister was newborn. Our hardworking parents had had to give up formal education during the long depression, but determined their daughters would go to college. The real goal, however, was for us to become wives and mothers, able to stay at home. It was a nice idea, typical of the late 1950's, but I never stopped working. I spent over 35 years in elementary education.    

I have always been a trailblazer, according to my dear sister, slowly, but continually, pursuing my goals, by climbing out of the boxes of conformity in which I found myself. I appreciate her insight, for I realize I have broken through several taboos superimposed by family and social consciousness: I went away to Oregon to finish college. I married a man from Idaho and moved to the northwest, away  from my family.  I gave birth to two beautiful boys  in Washington state without my mother present. Later on in California, I became a significant leader in school, and became one of several women who really shone in Boy Scouting in our council. I eventually left my husband of 20 years and divorced him (a real no-no!), taking the children with me. Then I turned around and married a minister of The Christian Church, who died of cancer after seven months. A few years later I married a third time, which ended in divorce. 

I always felt very immature, and  terribly unworthy. I was the ultimate doormat, the ultimate victim. I had crippled myself. I became very ill with asthma and other problems, stemming from my immature attitudes during my first marriage, but as I was the bread winner, I kept on working and was the all-time volunteer. Actually my volunteering , especially in the Boy Scouts, helped me to recognize my own self-worth. 

Grandma's God explains my search for a happier, healthier life, by moving to Yelm, a very small rural town in western Washington state in 1996. Here I attend Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, a school of ancient wisdom. It is located on JZ Knight's horse ranch, a rustic  but beautiful campus, near Mount Rainier. In that time my life has changed remarkably, and is continuing to do so. Ramtha's teachings, and insistence upon learning through experience, have helped me to mature, to realize I have created everything in my life and why. I have peeled away layers upon layers of life-long burdens I had placed upon myself, becoming freer and freer all the time. I am learning to use my mind to change my life, my body, my destiny, and it is working.

"I am in charge and it is my choice to fear my life or to love it. I choose the love!. God bless your choices!"     Grandma Myra