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

For Sunday November 19th, 2023

Hello, loving people. The ancients tell us that life is a manifestation of the divine – and that our minds are the builders of what that life turns out to be. With that responsibility in mind, our options are to follow our selfish desires or the creative forces.

Following our selfish desires brings us into the law of cause and effect, where karma dictates the elements of our lives. Whereas intuitively following the creative forces can lead us into a state of grace, and our higher calling.

May we sit this evening for that intuition where we are called to from the creative forces. May we hear. May we have the courage to follow.

Offered in reverence,

Richard

For Sunday November 12th, 2023

Hello again, beautiful healers. The vast majority of the world's troubles can be boiled down to one thing, a belief in separation. The only way for people to treat each other horribly is to see others as being separate from self.

From individuals to entire countries, hearts break, as the pattern holds terribly true.

May we sit this evening for the awareness of We are One. May God's will be done to lead us to this essential lesson. May broken hearts mend. May separate hearts join.

Reverently offered,

Richard

For Sunday November 5th, 2023

Hello wonderful people, with the understanding that violence begets violence let us sit for peaceful intentions, and God's will, be done in the Middle East.

 
As simple as that.

Thank you and bless you all,

Richard 

For Sunday October 29th, 2023

Hello to one and all, Carl Jung tells us that where there is love, there is no need nor any will for power. And, where lust for power predominates, there love is lacking.

 
This can apply to individuals, countries, and even religions.

 
May we sit this evening for the love which is lacking in the world. May we find it in our hearts. May we spread it across Mother Earth.

 
Love and Light to all,

Richard

For Sunday October 22, 2023 - late again

Hello lately again, due to my foolish lifestyle I'm late once more. So may we please sit for those involved in the tragedy in the middle east.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday October 15th, 2023

Hello to all and sundry, though all of us are important. The tragedy in the middle east can be seen as the current failure of all major religions, the highest teachings of which are 'God is One'.

Minds of separation tend to rely upon external power to fulfill their desires in the world. As in, "My 'rules of life' are paramount. I am entitled to impose them upon you."

However, being separated and being individualized are not the same.

Tomorrow evening, as individualized creations of the One, may we remember our commonalities. We all love our friends, family, and children. We all strive for a contented, satisfying life. We all suffer heart-break.

May we sit for our heart-felt connections in this world.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday October 1st, 2023

Hello fellow seekers, J. Krishnamurti tells us the word 'seeking' implies that we have lost something and intend to find it. And that when we find it we'll be able to recognize it and, if we can recognize it that means – we've already known it.

So we're not so much seeking as recovering what has previously been known to us.

Can we sit so still as to look deeply, clearly into our spiritual beginnings? Can we uncover any degree of that which has been displaced? May we sit this Sunday evening toward that beautiful effort.

Blessings upon us all,

Richard

For Sunday September 24th, 2023

Hello to all, we're told that if we face the Light, the shadows of our burdens will fall behind us. However, constantly facing the Light can take some serious searching of our hearts, as we're all susceptible to human foibles.

Being human we are astonishingly good at justifying anything to ourselves, even in the face of 'love one another'. This is why scrupulous discernment is essential when spiritual progress is our goal.

May we sit Sunday evening in observance, and releasing of, our human foibles. And in remembrance of this – once we're in the Light, there are no shadows.

Blessings on us all,

Richard

For Sunday September 17th, 2023

Hello beautiful people, drawing on the work of Dr. Charles Whitfield in his book Healing the Child Within we learn that people from dysfunctional families are not broken but more accurately are wounded. Rather than needing to be 'fixed' they need to heal.

 
To be honest, we all have something we need to heal from. As we heal we become better healers ourselves, sometimes simply by our presence. And, we need not be fully healed to do this beautiful work. We can still be very helpful by coming from a 'place of healing' and letting spirit guide us when healing is needed for others.

 
May we sit this evening to find that 'place of healing' within us. By setting aside our personal foibles for just a bit, we may well be exactly what others need.

 
May all be well,

Richard