Several years back I woke up in the middle of the night to the message, “You need to make a movie about polygamy.”
These four-o’clock wake up calls sometimes happen when my soul has a message for me that needs my attention. This one took me by complete surprise. At the time I knew nothing about the film industry, only that I had dabbled in in for a few months in the late 1980’s and quickly discovered it was a slimy business I wanted nothing to do with.
Why then, more than twenty-five years later, did I suddenly get the middle-of the night call to make a movie? I thought that crazy idea of fame and fortune in the film industry had sailed decades ago.
The next morning I sat on my couch, asking myself what the message was all about. The response was simply, “keep your eyes and ears open today.” A little later I hoped onto Facebook and into a private group I rarely visited. It was a group full of anger and suffering as the result of polygamy and when I did visit, it was to spread love and healing. That morning it became for a completely different reason.
Yes, I’m highly intuitive, and my inner-guidance is spot on!
Another uncommon visitor to the group asked if I knew anyone with the last name of Lithgow or Mackelroy. The first name I knew all too well. This was the last name of the girl that I ran away from home with. I haven’t seen or heard from her in 30 years, but I will never forget her name.
I mentioned that I knew the last name Lithgow, and was met with a response that a filmmaker in Los Angeles was looking to make a movie about polygamy and looking for someone to help. Within 24 hours I was sitting down with that filmmaker, who just happened to have an opening in her very busy schedule, and within a week we were filming on location in Colorado City.
Yes, that middle of the night wake-up call was the real deal, as was the nudge to keep my eyes and ears open.
Amber Dawn Lee was that filmmaker, and although the movie itself still sits on the cutting room floor as they say, Amber and I have become life-long friends. A few days ago she dug up some of the footage we shot and has posted it on her You Tube channel.
Checkout the footage and be sure to subscribe to her channel. She is finding a way to blend film-making with stand-up comedy and cult survival. She has just started adding some of our footage so there are only a couple of them. Stay tuned for more as she loads them up!
As for me, that the meeting with Amber has taken me on a completely new trajectory for my life in alignment with my soul’s higher purpose. I will share those details with you once I have contracts in hand.
As always, Be Fearless, Be Fabulous and Be Free!
The Polygamist's Daughter 
interesting, My Dad NEVER spanked me. AND ABUSE WAS NOT ACCEPTABLE because they held the priesthood! You were sure taught something totally different than I was about black people. I was taught all people ARE children of God and that we all have different missions and roles here on earth. So glad you’re not the only authority.
I don’t profess to be an expert on polygamy – you will need to find a historian for that. I only share my own personal experiences and perceptions, and those of a few who share their personal stories with me, of growing up in my particular belief system with the men who ran it when I was a child. I ran away from home as a teenager and have no idea what they teach now. Comparing my childhood religion to yours is much like comparing one brand of Christianity to another. They may all use the same label but teach very different things.