Becky Durango

What if you could be anything you want to be? Create the life you want to live? What if it’s never too late to accomplish your dreams?
I asked myself these questions when I discovered the book, Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes, and began to study and take the classes offered by the Centers for Spiritual Living.
My love of singing and recording began at the tender age of 2, when my folks handed me a microphone and hooked me up to a reel to reel recorder. I still recall the amazement of hearing myself sing ‘Me and My Teddy Bear’! My love of music grew, steeped in the roots of the Anglican tradition. As the daughter of an Episcopal priest I grew up immersed in the rich vocal traditions of morning and evening prayer, in addition to mid-week and Sunday services. Later influenced by Billy Graham, Campus Life, and the Episcopal Youth Community (EYC), I went on the road in my teens as a featured performer with the New Covenant Singers. I also began performing in theater and was accepted by audition into a performing arts program. Many opportunities presented themselves including offers to work professionally. But at 20 years old instead of embracing these opportunities I found myself submerged by the lure of alcohol and drugs.
As the years passed, my lifestyle helped to numb the ache of unfulfilled creative desire and push away ghosts of what might-have-been, but I was a resident of the never-never land of dreams. "Maybe someday" was my mantra: "Someday it will be my turn, someday I'll be good enough, smart enough, lucky enough". At that point in life I did not have a mental equivalent to accept the creative life I desired. Fear, feelings of unworthiness, holding on to painful past experiences and dwelling on memories of shame and blame blocked me from accepting and allowing the joy of fulfillment. I knew I'd been gifted with a lot of potential, but believed my fate was it would always be just out of reach.
Eventually, the dreams of this never-never land became one long nightmare. Traumatic experiences woke me up enough to want help and be open enough to hear and receive the solution. I learned new tools for living through the 12 Steps, and discovered one day at a time (sometimes one moment at a time) a different way to live and think and connect to God as I understood God. I learned to accept responsibility for my actions, the tools to forgive what I believed had been done to me, and to live life in a way that allows me to be of service to others.
Then I was ready to apply the metaphysical principles I'd discovered in the writings of Ernest Holmes and the work of many other great teachers including Gary Zukav, Melody Beattie, Louise Hay, Neale Donald Walsch and Abraham-Hicks to name a few.
As I learned to deliberately and consciously use the Law of Attraction, wonderful people appeared to assist me in the process of creating my own CD. I celebrated my 50th birthday recording at A Wing and A Prayer studio with Ron Davis in Central Point. Exactly where I'd envisioned myself working years before! My dream came true.
The following is my 'gratitude list' of accomplishments gifted to me by Grace: • Published article in American Girl Magazine age 12 • Toured with New Covenant Singers as an ensemble singer and soloist for 2 years • Member of RHS Madrigals, sang in Mexico City 1975 • Accepted by audition into theater arts program, Santa Maria, California • Scholarship recipient, ACT Summer Conservatory, San Francisco, 1976 • Performed with Good Company Players • Numerous community theater and college theater productions • Co-author, co-producer and female leading role in musical comedy: - The Real Lysistrata, (an adaptation) which enjoyed a successful 9-week summer run • Published poet in several independent poetry journals • Music Director, Center for Spiritual Living, Medford, Oregon 2004 - 2007 • Licensed Practitioner (RScP) 2005 • Ukraine Temenos Conference, Fall 2007 - Music Team member and featured performer opening for speaker, Neale Donald Walsch • Created publishing company Morningstar Durango Unlimited and it's first CD in 2008: Remember Who You Are, includes nine original songs by Becky Durango
What a thrill it is to harvest and cultivate the beautiful garden of my dream today. I am so happy to share the fruits with you.
Above all, I am grateful for the infinite, eternal beauty which shines through all as Love. We need only to be willing to look with gratitude to see it in all it’s ‘many disguises’.
May the infinite, eternal beauty which shines always as Love inspire and bless you through this music. Namaste'