That is question I asked my daughter Mackenzie when she was seven years old. I was shocked by her deep immediate response. She said, "So people can watch me and learn."

I asked, "Do you mean to be a teacher?"

"No," was her reply.

"Do you mean to be an example?"

"Yes," she said. "I am here to be an example. I am here so people can watch me and learn."

Those were probably most profound words Mackenzie has ever spoken. Like I mentioned so many times in my book, "Message Sent," she is a great teacher for me. By her example, I see and learn more about myself each and every day.

Mackenzie is almost twelve now and is separating from her dad and me. My spirit says this is normal, but my ego says, "Wait! Hold on! I miss you. You can't grow up quite so fast. I love you and don"t want to let you go."

If you have ever had children, you know how painful this separation process can be. You feel as if a part of your heart is ripping out. That's why you want to control it. But because I know that everything is a reflection to me, I have to go within and see what Mackenzie's spirit is showing me.

I imagine myself as a girl Mackenzie's age and ask her what is this sadness she is feeling. I am surprised by answer. Terri, pre-teen within me says, "I miss little girl that I was. I am so torn. I just want to be hugged. But I can't. I have to grow up and be strong."

I said variations of this prayer for a very long time. I wanted my family to feel whole and I knew it had to start with me. I knew before I could love them unconditionally, I had to heal turmoil inside of me. I discovered over time that as I followed God's path and grew in my truth, it has allowed my family to grow, too.

A year-and-a-half ago I picked up a tape at library by Deepak Chopra regarding seven levels of consciousness. The levels start with innocence, then move on to ego, to achiever, to seeker, and on into different levels of union consciousness. My gut told me tape was for my husband, Steve, to see.

Steve watched tape, got very emotional and then told me he no longer wanted to be an achiever. He wanted to be a seeker of truth. He wanted to take time off and let everything go. Some might have called this a mid-life crisis...he is a FEW years older than me... but what we both knew was that he wanted to find his purpose and inner peace.

I was thrilled for about a split second until he said, "I want to let everything go. I want to sell house."

Yikes! Be careful what you ask for. I had prayed for some time that Steve would find inner peace. I just didn't know it was going to shake up my world so much. He wanted to get rid of my home. So much for my world of peace and stability!

As always, God works in beautiful, wondrous ways. I finally got past my tears and fears and agreed that this would be best path for us to take. We sold our house without it ever going on market, for full price I might add, and then found ourselves on an adventure that we would have never imagined.

We thought me wanted to move to country, but then found ourselves confused because television industry was revealing itself to me as an avenue to share my message. We decided to stay in Southern California, but had no idea where we would live. We knew we wanted to rent a home, but soon discovered it to be very difficult to find one that was big enough for our whole family, including our little Maltese. Then, out of blue, a realtor called us and said, "I heard you decided to stay here for awhile. I just sold a home to a man who has now decided to go abroad. It is five years old, has four bedrooms, three baths and is five blocks from beach. He would like a family to rent it. Would you be interested?"

Would we be interested? We couldn't believe our good fortune.

For next year-and-a-half we realized it wasn't just good fortune, but it was God guiding us and taking care of us. We set an intention for ourselves that we were fully surrendering to God, so that we might live for highest good, bringing light and love into world.