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Lecture - Shelia Morgan

Sunday 7th September 2025

Miracles, Synchronicity, Co-incidences, Gratitude, Personal Responsibility

Let us start with the definition of Miracles: 

  1. An event which is believed to have a supernatural or Divine cause. 
  2. Any wonderful or surprising event.

We need to acknowledge our Miracles of either variety because, we know that the more we pay attention to the positive things in our lives, the more positive things will be attracted to our lives. I also want to add that when two or more are gathered there is God and the Divine.

As many of you know, these last couple of months haven’t been the easiest for me mentally, emotionally and physically. What started as a small and unassuming enquiry about noticing that a small cyst on my nose was getting a little bigger turned out to be a lot more than I certainly bargained for. Nothing life threatening, but very, very inconvenient to my health and wellbeing. 

I went into day surgery full of confidence that I would be out and about in no time at all, but apparently, I am allergic to the cocktail of drugs they give you in a general anaesthetic. As the weeks went by, my wound recovered well, but my health? not so much. I had to cancel all my work and appointments for the next six weeks slowly recovering from brain fog, depression, low energy, PTSD. I couldn’t drive or do much of anything. Thank goodness that son Toby and daughter-in-law Rowena were with me to help me through. Just as I was recovering, the news came in that I had to have another surgery as they didn’t get everything. As I wondered what the heck had hit me, I read a leaflet about Delirium, which fitted all the symptoms I had apart from hallucinations. I had had them before, but other drugs were blamed for that. Apparently, I am a sensitive not only Spiritually as a Medium but also in my physical body.

On talking to my surgeon, a lovely and very competent lady, I was advised that having a general anaesthetic was the better option because of the pain of a local one. The Anaesthetist also called me apologizing that the anaesthetic had caused such complications saying he had never heard of someone suffering from a light anaesthetic and only rarely in
long operations. However, he still recommended the general, but he would alter the cocktail of drugs to see if that helped. As you can imagine, this was not that comforting.

As it happened, due to co-incidences and synchronicity on the day of the operation things conspired for me to be given a local anaesthetic. They wanted to finish early so the local was the way to go. I went into my routine of explaining to them that I will just go into a deep meditation. I can hear you and will reply to your questions but don’t think you have to chat with me as I will just be in an altered state. They were fascinated so I didn’t even mention that I was also giving myself Reiki. All the fearful tactics of how terrible it was to have a local were totally unfounded and, instead of weeks of recovery, I was able to get back to normal fairly quickly, unlike the last time. I am the type of person who, when something bad happens, retreats from the world and turn inward to get on with it. I hunker down especially when it is something that I can do nothing about. I know it is a lesson sent to not only test me, my patience and my beliefs, but also to share as I come through these ordeals. I share what I have learnt with others when the time is right. This one has left me with more understanding not only of myself but how important our relationships are with family, friendships, groups, and communities we belong to, and made me more aware of the miracles too.

The first thing I look at when I am in extreme situations is how and why did I create this situation? What am I learning? How can I help myself to recover? By understanding and accepting responsibility and having a plan that I know will work for me.

So, my process is:-

  1. Acknowledge that I have had a part in creating this situation.
  2. Forgive myself, and all others concerned. 
  3. Make a practical plan towards wellness; mentally, physically,
    emotionally and spiritually. 
  4. Have gratitude for the lessons and for the wellness that I have. 
  5. Acknowledge the miraculous way things turned out.
  6. Thank everyone involved with my healing, from the family that cared for me practically and emotionally, the doctors and nurses involved, Julie who gave me Reiki, and all the members of my Circles, friends and Community that I am so very fortunate to be blessed by.

I had to recognise that both grief and anger were a part of this story. My older sister Loraine passed away just before Christmas, and I truly grieved for her; we had so much unfinished business which meant that we were estranged for a long time. I felt we had all suffered in our childhood because my Mum, bless her, was unwell mentally, but apparently Loraine held to a different story; it was only she who suffered, and she felt I had an easy time of it.

During Meditation time it came to me that we hold onto stories that sometimes are not altogether true. Loraine was holding on to stories about me that I had no clue about and therefore could not address with her. I had a few stories myself concerning Mum. She wrapped me up in cotton wool and I couldn’t breathe but, on enquiry to Mum, she said it was because I was so sensitive, I always needed protecting. And I also believed that my Dad didn’t love me because Mum always said Loraine was his favourite and I was a Mummy’s girl. On enquiring as an adult, my Dad got very upset that I had felt that way and it was just that Loraine was not his biological child and so they went out of their way to compensate for that.

How much pain could have been saved by some open conversations. Instead of the silence that kept everything secret, hidden and underground. I felt angry that I had been robbed of my Sister because of the secrets and here it was too late to do anything about it. So, what did I do I created a BCC on my nose? How appropriate! It is the least of all the cancers and one that doesn’t spread, and we both suffered because we couldn’t see what was in front of our noses, the opportunity lost to have a close and loving relationship.

Part of my emotional recovery came through studying Ursula Roberts book of ‘Channelled Writings of Ramadhan’ in Circle. It is about the importance of Gratitude as it physically opens the heart and allows the blood to circulate around our systems more quickly. The opposite is true. When we are not grateful, our blood becomes thickened and slow,
ultimately affecting our heart and other organs. 

I had a perfect example of this as my beautiful cat Opal also had a health trial and I know our animals help us with our Karma, so Opal had an operation for a growth on her thyroid, and we had to wait for news if it was benign or aggressive. Thank goodness it was benign, and she is back on track with her health but the gratitude I felt was amazing. A
weight I was unaware that I was carrying was lifted. and I definitely felt so grateful that she will still be with us. Too often we look at what we don’t have, what we don’t want. We perceive things that others have done to us or have things better than us, instead of always being grateful for the many blessings, connections, synchronicity, co-incidences and miracles that happen in our lives. Do not wait to be loved rather, be a beacon of love for as you do this you are helping to create the world that you long for, the world evident in your blueprint and DNA, and the world you know you deserve.

How can we do this? By loving ourselves. Loving everyone, yes everyone, in our lives and by taking responsibility for what we have created and, when we see how we can do things better, by having the courage to go ahead and do it. This is how, person by person, we can make a difference in our beautiful world.

Take note of all your personal Miracles, big and small. Let Love be the thing that guides you and grows within you. Our world is changing, we are changing, our Spirits are strong., Have gratitude in your heart and see all before you and around you as a great river of Love.

Thank you for all your prayers, good wishes and healing that have come towards me at this time. I bless each thought, prayer and action and shine it back to you and into the world for the greater good of humanity.

Sheila Morgan
Reiki Master and Medium
The Light Workers Way


 

Homily - Sunday 7th September 2025

Why are We Here?

Do you ever wonder why you are here, at this time on the planet? Some people may say, yes, they know, and others may
have a big question mark over their head. We are all here because we chose to be at this time. There are many Spirits leaving this world now, friends, family, relatives, and lovers, and that may be the contract they made before they came back to the earth plane. But for those who are still here, you and me, we have a job to do. We are here to help the world transition into the next dimension or phase of earth’s journey. It is important that we understand what it is we are meant to be doing. As an individual you may wonder, what can l do, but it is more as a collective, that we can help bring the planet back into harmony. We look at what is going on in the world now and it seems like the world has gone mad (it may well have done). Could it be a case of black verses white (not the colour of your skin) or good versus evil? In a sense that is what it is. But it is up to us, you and me to ensure that only good survives in this world. As hard as it seems, it can be done. We need to send Love, Light and Healing to all the leaders of this world that they may see that war for greed, money or land is not the answer. That wars between religions is not the answer.

We as Spiritualists, can help to bring a balance to the world by lifting our vibration. Everything is energy. Energy causes
vibration. This is our job, our purpose for being here now, for letting our light shine to attract others to our cause for Peace on Earth.

So, don’t hide your light under a bushel, show it to the world. There may not be as many shining their lights now, but miracles do happen. Maybe not overnight but, they will happen. We can make a difference. We just have to believe it and know that we are not alone

- Spirit knows all.


 

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