Rev. Ellen Wallace Douglas is a mother of four, grandmother of nine, and great-grandmother of seven. She is an ordained Christian Metaphysical Minister and a retired counselor. Four years after her retirement in 1994, she began writing. In 2004, she published her first book, The Laughing Christ. You are holding her ninth book. Rev. Douglas facilitates a weekly study group of A Course in Miracles, and she continues to write.