Lisa Curtis
Lisa Curtis drove into the Mile Hi parking lot and thought, “We have a problem here.”
Then, she heard in her mind the voice of her philanthropist dad saying, “Lisa, you can do something about this!” The “problem” was an area of trees on our nearly 15-acre campus in great need of pruning or cutting down. Lisa’s immediate decision was to make a legacy gift to begin some expensive tree trimming and removal.
“My parents taught us to donate some of our allowance for Sunday school every week. Since that time, no matter my income as a struggling server to a CEO of a non-profit organization, I have given back. Abundance comes naturally. I always feel blessed.”
Lisa says that one of life’s greatest blessings was discovering Mile Hi Church in 2000. “I attended a Unitarian church for 25 years but was ready for a deeper connection to God. I was recuperating from breast cancer, and my boyfriend and future husband David Little took me to Mile Hi. At that first service, I felt the connection immediately!”
She has stayed ever since. “My spirituality started to deepen. My heart opened. My soul became front and center.”
When David’s health deteriorated a decade before his passing, “my spirituality kept me centered.” Despite David’s medical challenges, they enjoyed connecting trips with Mile Hi’ers including rafting down the Grand Canyon and attending an opening session of a conference with His Holiness the Dalai Lama; participating in The Action Center where she is a major donor, and growing their friendships with other congregants. “Mile HI’ers have such open hearts.”
Now that David has passed, “he constantly guides me,” Lisa states, adding she used the law of attraction to call in a wonderful man that she is now dating.
“After almost two years of grieving the physical loss of David, I decided to ‘put it out there’ and on a walk, I asked for an interesting, intelligent man who lived in the neighborhood. There he was, working outside his home five blocks away! Tim attends church with me and believes it has changed his life as well.”
Lisa also gives generously to the National Park Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Save the Elephants, animal shelters, food banks, and many others.
She says, “Life is just a blink. Make the most of it. Give back, even if you don’t think you have enough. That’s thinking abundantly!”
