At the retreat there were about thirty friends I hadn't yet met. The people I knew were leading an intensive study in A Course In Miracles. We went through the introductions and everybody joined in singing and marching around the meeting room. Jack and Eulelia led us on and soon we all pretended to play a musical instrument as we marched to the music that Joy had written. She taught us the words easily - something about the National Parks Tour - and soon I found myself setting across from her as we drew our interpretations of a figure who was hugging a mirror image. Cake was passed out later and Eulelia said that we should share it with a person at the table. Joy and I fed each other and called it our communion.

That's how it began. We became partners through the weekend and everybody seemed to know something that I didn't know. A lot of smiling and nodding of heads. The next weekend Joy and I spent together on the island of Kauai where we told each other our deepest secrets. Joy wrote a song about it - One Saturday On Saturn - and when the rainbow formed over our heads as we drove under it we knew that something was happening. Our encounter led to the marriage of our souls and we have been together now for over ten years. It just keeps getting better!

--- (c) Ray Hart