For Sunday March 3rd, 2024

Greetings again, good people. Tonight let's focus our loving hearts on the people in Gaza who are left without food, as well as those who could be delivering food. May God's Light shine down upon all.

It's just that simple,

Richard

For Sunday February 25th, 2024

Hello everyone, in her book Nine Days of Eternity, Anke Evertz mentions that we don't need our bodies, that we continue on afterward just fine anyway. However, she also goes on to say that our bodies need us. As fantastic as our bodies are at the automatic things of breathing, healing, and heart beating, it still needs us to clip its toenails, keep it clean, and motivate it to get up and go spread the work of our souls.

It's a tough job.

Our souls know the work we need to do, and our bodies need our love.

May we sit this evening in reverence for the bodies we've been given. May we love our bodies as we find them. May 'putting our house in order first' be our guide.

Reverently submitted,

Richard

For Sunday February 18th, 2024

Hello good people, tonight's meditation will be simple. Let us petition God to send Its Light down upon all those involved in the invasion of Ukraine.

May the greatest good be done for all.

With reverence,

Richard 

For Sunday February 11th, 2024

Hello and a gracious good day to you all. The heart wave is much more than a method of communication. It also contains wisdom, intelligence, empathy, and connection. Like an old fashioned party line telephone, or a Zoom call of the heart, if we could all be on at once it would change the world.

 
Connecting to the heart wave comes from intense listening, with everything you've got. To pay absolutely full attention with our full selves, without biases, comparisons, attitudes, beliefs, judgements, or any kind of prejudice, to another person is rare. The operations of the mind have to stay completely out of it as we observe fully, with complete freedom.

May we sit this evening with that complete freedom. May we simply observe, even if it's only as a practice. Even if there's no apparent thing to observe, observe anyway. You might be surprised.

With patient love for us all,

Richard 

For Sunday February 4th, 2024

Hello and good evening, fine folks. If it is true that one of the greatest bulwarks against societal degradation is social connections, then our responsibilities to humanity are clear.

 
Talk to people, smile at people, hold a door open, let someone go first – the stuff we learned in kindergarten – is essential for the entirety of our lives.

May we sit this evening to find what blocks us from this. May we respond when it is offered. May the world improve by our presence.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday January 28th, 2024

Hello again loving people. The life lessons which are ours to learn often come in the form of storms and trials. The heartbreak which follows is the opening needed to allow the lessons inside. As we adjust, adapt, and absorb the lessons on all levels – healing occurs.

 
It is in this more contented, healed state that we manifest those lessons into physical reality, put them to work.

May we sit this evening for that healing, that contentment, which allows the Creative Forces to work through us, for ourselves and for humanity at large.

With Blessings for all,

Richard 

For Sunday January 21st, 2024

Hello again beautiful people. We have 3 new people on our list tonight. So, as a reminder, we sit for 20 minutes beginning at 9pm, for which we are all grateful. Here goes:

We sometimes ask, "What are we doing here in this world, dealing with such strife, chaos, and anguish?" The answer is profoundly simple – we are learning the value of divinity.

Our Divine Source knows its own divinity – is only divinity. In order to have the experience of not being divine, and to then experience the amazing transformation of regaining divinity it created our physical universe – and we decided to come along. Probably because it looked like fun at the time.

So here we are, desperately striving for our own divinity, and valiantly dragging along those not interested in divinity at all. We're workhorses so to speak.

May we sit this evening for the strength and courage to carry on. May we shine our lights from where we are. May the Divine reach down to assist us.

Bless you all for all you do,

Richard

For Sunday January 14th, 2024

Hello bright and beautiful people. As we understand it no one is promised perfect health. When our souls come into a body we, on a spiritual level, willingly take on all the chaos that can come with inhabiting materiality.

 
The difference is all in how lovingly we attend to the chaos. Not to say that we instantly love all variations of dis-ease. We may well have to go through the many steps of grieving for lost health before coming to acceptance.

It's knowing that we're working our way toward acceptance, which helps smooth the path, even as we keep working on it.

May we sit this evening for all facets of life which require acceptance, and further work, whether it be internal or external to us.

Bless you all for all you do,

Richard 

For Sunday January 7th, 2024

Hello to one and all. The 'great replacement' is a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory which purports the idea that non-whites are being assisted in taking over society. While being widely ridiculed for its blatant absurdity, the paranoia and fear of it has taken hold of a large section of the population. 

Fully one half of the 1200 people who were arrested for the January 6th insurrection were doctors, lawyers, and business owners who subscribed to that theory. They felt they had something to lose.

While the theory flies in the face of 'all men are created equal' and 'everyone is a child of God' the fear and paranoia of it has been pushed by self-serving leaders around the world.

This evening may we petition God to send down its Light on all concerned, that we may find compassionate answers to today's complex problems. May cooler heads and warmer hearts prevail.

Offered in reverence for all,

Richard 

For Sunday December 31st, 2023

Gracious greetings to all, what a treat to be able to connect textually with you all.
As we understand it all things are connected anyway in an all encompassing spiritual fabric. This includes the grand, outwardly loving things as well as the personally meager and selfish.

So, weaving in the golden threads of your life promotes the overall beauty of the universe. Also, since all the difficulties of the world are equally connected, tugging and pulling on those threads helps to unravel the entire gol-darn thing.

May we sit on the evening of the last day of this year and do our part, as it comes to us, to finish off whatever bit of hemming may be needed.

With many blessings,

Richard

PS I've been asked to give a presentation on Tom Sawyer at a Gathering of Angels event up here in East Rochester on January 20th. Here's a link for those who may be interested:
https://www.vickisnyder.com/about-1?utm_campaign=c80ee821-c077-4989-983f-f6914fb4723c&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=49e870af-4110-4fe4-877a-e9f6d5c9d180  

For Sunday December 17th, 2023

Hello once more loving people. We can see the human foible of desire for external power playing out in the national and international news, and the admonishment to love one another finding slight traction.

 
As in all things, there are lessons here. How difficultly those lessons are applied is a matter of our collective consciousness. It is always appropriate to clear our own consciousness. And, it's always righteous to petition God for Divine Light to come down upon those involved.

Let us petition God this Sunday. May Divine Light shine down upon the leaders, and their followers, of the various factions involved.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday December 10th, 2023

Hello beautiful, loving people. My recent medical escapade has brought home to me the beauty of humility. I kept saying I'd been very fortunate throughout my life but a friend has corrected me by saying that I was blessed in this event. While I would not be so bold as to claim to know God's will for me, I also cannot argue against it. To have had a stroke which paralyzed the entire left side of my body then, two weeks later, to have no sign of it is beyond remarkable.

From modern medical science, to amazingly dedicated and professional EMTs, doctors, and nurses, to the numbers of people praying for me – I was blessed.

So this evening I humbly request we sit for all the helpers, visible and invisible, who come to the aid of others, and do so out of pure Love. May we continue to be visible helpers, each in our own way, to humanity.

Reverently offered,

Richard

For Sunday December 3rd, 2023

Hello to all. Good to be typing to you again! If you're ever wondering if you're loved just do something dumb and see who turns out to help.The response has put me in tears more than once this past week.

We would all benefit from being grateful for those who do now, and have before, assisted us in life.

And, the idea that humanity is healing can be seen in the growing number of people who are more concerned with the welfare of innocents in a war zone than in who is winning. As Jimmy Carter said, "You don't create peace by killing each other's children."

So, may we sit this evening with warmly thankful hearts, which is what brings true healing – to us and to the world.

Bless you always,

Richard