Bio

I am Texie Camp Marks, I was born July 26, 1957 the youngest of six on a farm in Southeast Virginia.  Growing up in rural Virginia was a delight.  It was a simple life…one of vegetable gardens, church on Sunday then lunch after with grandparents, small, local elementary schools, adults playing bridge, making homemade ice cream and stewed sugar, swimming with town friends in the Nottoway River, riding bikes, picking watermelons and celebrating Christmas with cousins.  It was idyllic, really.

I was born with a gift, but I didn’t realize it until many years later.  The youngest of six, I pretty much had to “fall in line”.  My parents were amazing and loving.  But, as a lot of people experience, childhood innocence began to wane as I grew up.  I began to slowly forget the magic, the pure joy, the light of life.  I began to conform to society….to the stories taught by family, friends and teachers.

By age 16, I had largely forgotten the innocence and joy of life.

I was told to “fit in”…to downplay myself.  I became someone who aimed to please others and forgot my relationship to my heart and spirit.  When this happened, the real growth began.

At the age of 26, I married David.   Our marriage ended in 2002 and David lifted out of the Earth plane in 2011.  But, we have three amazing and wonderful sons.  They are great lights and loves in my life.  Thank God for them!  This journey for me and them has not been easy; but, because of deep love, I have grown in ways I could have never imagined.

My “gift” began showing up, again, in 1986.  David and I moved to Chestertown, Maryland, and the energy of a ghost showed up in our new home.  I was surprised by the feeling but not afraid.  Over a five year period this ghost followed me around….mostly at night when I finally had the home calm and quiet.  I helped her release in 1991.  The release wasn’t planned, but it was powerful.  Energy began playing a powerful and wonderful part in my life.  It would come at unexpected times….always a gift….always a reminder that there was more to life than what meets the eye or the traditional five senses.

Even though spirit energy was showing herself to me, I largely continued to be disconnected to my heart and soul until 1998 when the dark night of my soul presented herself to me.  I had experienced a dis-ease called fibromyalgia…I was so sick….didn’t sleep, ached all over…the pain was so great that, at times, it felt excruciating.  I was cut off from family and friends.  But, as life sometimes does, the pain became so great, I had to decide to live or die.  I chose life.

During this lonely and difficult 12-year period, I had the great pleasure of meeting every other week with a group of ladies.  We called ourselves “Tapestry, the Weaving of a Conscious Life”.  They were my true lifeline to the outside world.  Thank God for these strong women….they helped me grow and find my true inner strength, again.

As with many, life is not always easy.  But, I think that it’s the “hard times” that actually give us the biggest opportunity for growth.  The gift of energy…that of spirit…that of Divine Source….that of God… showed up in my life and gave me another chance….a chance to delve more and more into the heart…more and more into the true gift of love….the love of God.