Happy Sunday, patient people

I have to apologize, again. I've been repairing the foundation and sill plate of my garage for the past three days. I not only lost track of the days, but got completely worn out as well.

Please accept my apologies, and I'll be back again on Tuesday.

Thank you all,

A humbled Richard

For Sunday June 22nd, 2025

Hello again, blessed people. Our history is replete with examples of leaders who have been willing to sacrifice human lives in service to their greed and ego desires.

It seems to be an endless human frailty.

May we sit this evening to petition God to shine its light down on the current leaders of our world.

Submitted in reverence,

Richard

For Sunday June 15th, 2025

Hello people of the future, at least the people beyond the moment of this writing. We are told the root of contradiction is the division between the thinker and the thought, as the two cannot be integrated. But, if you observe the structure of the thinker - you will see that the thinker is not, when thought is not. It is thought which creates the thinker, the experiencer. It is this entity which creates time, and is the source of fear.

So, we know that life experience is a manifestation of divinity, that the mind of an individual is the builder. And, when an individual can observe without thought; without judgement, desire, wants, prejudice, wishes, and regrets, but instead sets itself to do or to accomplish that which is creative, from that place they come under the interpretation of the law between karma and grace. From that place the individual is no longer under the law of cause and effect - karma, but rather in grace they may go on to their higher calling.

May we search for that place this evening. May we set aside the process of thinking. May we find what lies beyond.

With blessings for all,

Richard

For Sunday June 8th, 2025

Hello everyone, it has been said that meditation is not for eliminating the ego, but for understanding it, for grasping it fully. With this understanding we remember that we came here for a purpose, a purpose to be fulfilled by and with that same ego.

The trick is discerning how much we let the ego run our material lives, and how well we use the ego to serve the higher purpose of our material life.

May we sit this Sunday for the continued 'enlightenment' of ourselves. May we see ourselves clearly, without judgement, but with wisdom. May we use the best of ourselves for the best of all.

Blessings upon you all,

Richard

For Sunday June 1st, 2025

Gracious greetings again to all of you. While there are those who are adept enough to actually place a thought into another person's mind. The vast majority of us cannot. Such abilities are reserved for those whose wisdom is great enough to drop their mustard seeds with restraint. Otherwise we'd simply be conducting other people's lives for them, ignoring their free will choice of paths. 

But we are not left empty handed. Praying for the awakening of another is fully righteous. Praying for their development is also available.

This evening may we give energy to our political system as it grapples with its direction. Much is at stake and we do not know the full divine plan. Yet we can add our love at any time.

Bless you all for being here at this time,

Richard

For Sunday May 25th, 2025

Hello, springtime people. As we strive to bring a new flowering of spirituality to the world it's well to be reminded of the basics. In our human psychology we tend to see the differences between ourselves and others. We would do well to view these differences with open curiosity, rather than judgmentally.

Doing so would open the door to seeing others in terms of harmony. Who do we harmonize with in a heart-felt way, regardless of differences in physicality or opinions.

May we sit this evening aware of our hearts. Where can we find harmony? How can we find connection? For if spirituality is to flower, it has to come from within.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday May 18th, 2025

Hello, good people. We are told "to trust in the Divine, even when the path is unseen, is the purest form of faith" but the fun part is – the path is always unseen – as it needs to be. If we clearly saw every step before us the path would only be an intellectual exercise. It is in surrendering the heart, releasing fears and biases, that we are clear enough for guidance to come.

If we can truly do that, we will walk in grace.

Let us sit this evening in all the grace we can afford.

 
Bless you all,

Richard

An additional comment for Sunday May 11th, 2025 - Mother's Day

From: Tessa Thomas who lives in Britain

Subject: Re: For Sunday May 11th, 2025 - Mother's Day

"Hi Richard. 

It's not mother's day here but I take the sentiments to heart and thank you anyway. 

On an aside. May I add my own words re mothers. 

Here as in other countries in Europe,  we have big celebrations going on. 

It's 80 yrs since VE Day. 'Victory in Europe'...  the celebration of the defeat by Allied forces against the tyranny of Fascism/ Hitler. 

On your mothers day, I hope we can combine the two.  I pray we can remember the Mothers on all sides, who also made the ultimate sacrifice. The love and life of their sons, who never made it back home. 

Thank you 🙏

Tessa"

On Sun, 11 May 2025, 7:03 pm Richard Hughson, <loopyrich@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello to all. I've racked my limited brain trying to come up with something appropriate for Mother's Day, and come up with nothing.

So, I'm stealing this from my friend Yvonne Sneeden. I promise to ask for permission to share it the next time I see her.  😄

"Happy Mother's Day to the real-life heroes who risked their own life with pain and wonder to bring to earth a soul who left the peace of heaven and chose You as their first home. You gave of your body, your time, your dreams, to raise a soul with love and courage through sleepless nights and selfless days, the thousand silent sacrifices no one sees but God and you still show love every single day. You carried an eternal miracle worthy of it all."

May a mother's love be with you all,

Richard

For Sunday May 11th, 2025 - Mother's Day

Hello to all. I've racked my limited brain trying to come up with something appropriate for Mother's Day, and come up with nothing.

So, I'm stealing this from my friend Yvonne Sneeden. I promise to ask for permission to share it the next time I see her.  😄

"Happy Mother's Day to the real-life heroes who risked their own life with pain and wonder to bring to earth a soul who left the peace of heaven and chose You as their first home. You gave of your body, your time, your dreams, to raise a soul with love and courage through sleepless nights and selfless days, the thousand silent sacrifices no one sees but God and you still show love every single day. You carried an eternal miracle worthy of it all."

May a mother's love be with you all,

Richard

An apology for Sunday May 4th, 2025

Hello, hopefully forgiving people. I forgot. I have a lot of things I can blame it on, but I'm the one who forgot. So I apologize. 

If you're interested; my son had scheduling difficulties with the kids; my performance partner and I have three new shows to do on Friday, a Bookfest performance on Saturday, which she runs; and - she broke her foot yesterday.

It ain't pretty.

But still, I'm the thick-headed one who forgot. I'm sorry, but I'll get right back to it again. Human foibles have to kick in sometimes, right?

Bless you all - and keep on trying,

Richard

For Sunday April 27th, 2025

Hello once again, loving people. I've been dealing with quite a cold for several days, leaving me with a thicker than usual head. Given that, I'm rerunning a meditation from July 23, 2022 which is still astonishingly pertinent today. Here goes:

Hello all, the writer Martha Beck has mentioned the phrase 'extinction burst' in her blog <https://marthabeck.com/2022/07/outlasting-the-extinction-burst/>
It details how when previously learned behaviors no longer provide the expected rewards those behaviors are intensified before ending in failure, much like a child's tantrum will intensify before running its course.

Our world is moving toward the authentic power of the heart. People are realizing their own sacredness and viewing the Earth with increasing reverence. This causes frustration in those who seek to serve themselves through external forms of power; financial, military, political, psychological. They tend to employ previously reliable patterns of external power with increasing intensity, in a classic extinction burst.

 
Ms. Beck suggests that we have to outlast them. We do so by holding our center, being compassionate to all, and observant of our own foibles.

May we sit this Sunday evening as our loving selves, compassionate and observant – engaged but not enraged. May we hold a steady love amongst the storm. May the future be held in all our hearts.

With reverence for all,

Richard

For Sunday April 20th, 2025

Hello to all you loving people. We have all kinds of love in our lives; mother love, father love, sibling love, romantic love, we can even have a love of peanut butter for heaven's sake. These are all aspects of a greater Love, the Love our souls came from and are drawn to. Ok, maybe the peanut butter is a bit iffy on that point, but you get the idea.

However, as long as there is any amount of division between mother, father, sibling, romantic partner, and yes even peanut butter, we won't truly know what that greater Love is.

May we sit Sunday evening aware that we're all being called to that greater love, that we are in a training ground. And, that we are to bring all those aspects of the greater Love right down here to this ground. It is all available.

With a pretty good love for all,

Richard

For Sunday April 5th, 2025

Hello, good people. With protests occurring around the country and world today, it's wise to remember that our relationships and connections are more important than our opinions.

In the long run, it's our hearts which will pull us through.

Let us sit tomorrow evening aware of the difference between what is in our heads and what is in our hearts. May we grow from there.

Blessings for all,

Richard