We met a beautiful soul that worked at the health food store—and every time I went shopping here she was so kind, helpful and truly living in the spirit of service. Her presence and essence touched me. I want to share an inspiring story about her!
The qualities I appreciate about our friend Olvin (pronounced similar to Dolphin!) is her purity of heart & soul, humility, wholesomeness, faith, strength of spirit, kindness, and a Christian nun soul essence where she treats everyone as a fellow sister or brother. She has so much goodness and light in her being!
Olvin is someone who went through many challenges in her life, and had to grow up very quickly because both her parents left her and her younger siblings after they divorced at a young age. She missed out on her childhood, and had to grow up much quicker than normal. She didn’t have any support from her family. She had to make it on her own, on an isolated island in Indonesia and she flew to Java with only a few dollars in her pocket as a young adult. All she had was a strong incredible faith and connection to God and a higher power—which has truly led and guided her on her path.
Meeting Olvin, reminded me of what it means to be a true Christian at heart, not as a religious dogma, but as someone who truly lives to serve others in a selfless way. What also inspired me is how truly and deeply she was able to forgive her parents—and have a clean and pure heart regardless of the pain she went through. She would have every "reason" to hate her parents for their failure as parents and abandonment, yet she doesn’t have a bone of hatred, grievance or resentment within her. She is fully free, with an unblemished heart. This is rare to encounter and feel in another!
She told me once, “Nicole, I want for others to see Christ within me (and working through her).” And with her, I truly see and feel the Christ essence / consciousness embodied in a deep way. And I realized through her, that Christ is not just within people—some souls have actually matured and grown up into Christ—and are living in Christ essence. It’s not just that a piece of Christ is within all of us, it’s also about the journey of the soul growing into Christ through letting go of selfishness, ignorance, egocentrism, pride and layers of human blindness. It’s not enough to have a small piece of Christ within us, it’s about the journey of our soul growing and maturing into the Christ light—and when we are living in the Christ light no pain, resentment, hurt and grievances can exist in the purity of the light of Christ—because there is only true love, true understanding, true compassion and true forgiveness.
Most people in this day and age, especially in contemporary spirituality, personal development and the online social media world is a lot focused on “me” and look how amazing “I am”. A lot of it is so self focused, self obsessed and we put ourselves on a pedestal of self importance. This has nothing to do with true spirituality! It’s a lot of ego gratification and reinforcing and building up a strong self identity and sense of personal importance.
With Olvin, she doesn’t care about herself in this way—there is no glorifying herself in anyway, and she wants to honour Christ and give herself fully to something higher than herself—and not just devotion to the ego (which is so common in our modern day world). She is a modern day undercover Nun, reminding me of the original and pure essence of what religion really stands for—devotion to something greater than ourselves.
When I invited her to our place to have a tea together with Jonas and I, I immediately noticed that she sits with such a perfect and dignified upright posture the whole time, not even leaning back once on the couch or chair where she sits throughout the 2-3 hours we were together! This was awe inspiring and impressive for me to observe. Such a petite and small young woman physically, who is a spiritual giant in a small body. She has so much strength of spirit (spiritual strength) and I can feel God has her back—almost literally—with never needing to lean back against the chair or couch the whole time! I could feel that her backbone is one of undeniable and unyielding faith!
Through her I was able to see and feel that some souls ARE IN CHRIST, and not just a piece of Christ being within them. There’s a difference. All of us have a piece of Christ within our hearts, but not all of us have truly grown up into the Christ essence, where our soul is merged and One with the Christ Nature and Light.
When I spent these last 3 months offline, and was in a time of deep inner retreat, feeling a strong connection to Mystical Christianity and this lineage of Light that I feel a strong connection with, I also could feel a strong Christian Nun soul essence within me. It was in this time that I met Olvin!
After being in a strong inner spiritual deepening and purification process these past 4 years, meeting Olvin was giving me one of the last pieces for my puzzle. At the end of our tea together, she looked at me, and it was one of those moments when you feel God speaking directly through someone to the core of your soul. She said, “Nicole, we need to share and give! Thats why we are here.”
It wasn’t exactly what she said, but HOW she said it when she looked at me that I felt the truth burning into my heart. It’s time to come back, and share and give the fruits that have been germinating within my soul these last 4 years of being in a time of inner retreat, since I released and published my book back in 2019. I felt her message and words, were summoning me back to the world…sometimes it not what people say, but the energy in which someone says something, and the place in which its spoken from, that can strike a cord deep within!
I want to honour Olvin in this sharing as a woman of God, sister in Christ, and spiritual giant. So much spiritual strength & maturity! A true Christian in mind, body, heart and soul. I’ve been inspired by her presence! It’s been more rare for me to meet women who are strong and clear embodiments of Christ nature and essence, and up until this point I’ve met more men who have strong Christ like nature’s. I know some spiritual teachers that are men who have strong Christ essence and energy, yet meeting Olvin was reminding me of what it means to be a modern day Nun living, serving and working in the world.
It doesn’t matter what form of job she does in this lifetime, because regardless of her position, she will always minister light, faith, and Christian principles through her very being and example. So many people came to this health food store because of Olvin’s light and presence! She made a difference in so many people’s lives, simply by working at this health food store in a very humble and down to earth way—because it’s who and what she is that is more rare to see and feel in this world.
It’s not what we DO, but who we ARE in the process of our “doing” that truly matters. What is the quality in which we live, work, serve and do? From where are we motivated and driven? Who are we truly serving, “ourself” or “others”? We have to be brutally honest with ourselves. Now that she has left the health food store, it’s like a big presence and light is missing. She was the spirit and soul of this place!
I also realized that certain souls who really live from the place of serving others before themselves, are people that you naturally feel a desire and inclination to support and give to—because you know that by supporting and giving to them, you are supporting more Light, Goodness, Selflessness and True Service on this Earth. By supporting these souls, we support God on this Earth, and the Divine that works through them!
Her presence, spiritual maturity, her lived example of the difficulties and challenges she went through and how she surmounted painful human experiences touched something deep within me, and it’s the Christ essence that I see and feel in her presence. It burns and dissolves any remnants of pain in the human heart, and purifies it into light. Thanks to Olvin, she reminded me of what it means to live with an unblemished heart!
A heart that has truly RISEN beyond human pain and personal suffering, and is much vaster than any transgression that was experienced or endured. The power of the pristine heart, that is unblemished, that only knows love and forgiveness in every way—hence what it means to have purity of heart and soul. Darkness can’t fester in a clean heart that has truly forgiven others.
I hope my sharing and story can inspire—and maybe nourish and touch something within you…..it definitely touches something deep within me!
Love, Nicole ❤️