For Sunday May 10th, 2026

Because I'll be away from my computer for a few days I'll send this out tonight. (rather than being late)

Hello, and thank you for all the beauty you bring to this world. The phrase 'to forgive someone' is often seen as giving something valuable to someone who has hurt or harmed you in some way, and does not seem to deserve it.

 
There is a far better way to consider it.

Forgiveness is about releasing the pain and anger within ourselves which was triggered by their words or actions. It's not 'it's ok that you did that to me'. It was wrong and will always have been wrong.

 
You are forgiving yourself for carrying destructive pain and anger within you.
You are forgiving yourself for carrying a feeling of righteous power over those who wronged you.
You are forgiving yourself for playing a victim role when you are actually a beautiful child of God.

May we sit Sunday evening for the spiritual clarity which comes of forgiveness. May we see hurtful people as being lost. May we be loving of ourselves enough to love others in turn.

Revertently offered,

Richard

for Sunday May 3rd, 2026

Hello, and welcome once again to my hopefully genial jabberings. It has been suggested that all transitions have three general stages: the long goodbye; the messy middle; and the new beginning. We're clearly in the 'long goodbye' section of this spiritual transition as we watch those who cling to external power grasp ever more desperately to keep it.

 
There is a time for every season under heaven, and we're in this one. Therefore courage, tolerance, and resilience are essential elements of our love.

May we continue our journey from karmic law to the law of Grace; internally for ourselves, and externally for others. May our energies be put this evening to God's will, and our abilities to fulfill it.

Thank you all on this sacred journey,

Richard

For Sunday April 26th, 2026

Welcome to this beautiful day. As political turmoil mounts once again let us sit this evening petitioning God to send down light upon all involved in it.

 
And, may we continue to treat each person we meet as being the expression of God they truly are.

Bless you all for all the beauty you create,

Richard

For Sunday April 19th, 2026

Hello to all once again. A two year old child has no concept of there being consequences for its actions. It responds to its own impulses in innocence. Humanity at large is no longer in the innocent stage. We know we're burning Mother Earth's skin with our chemical pollutants, our electronics, and our attitudes.

 
April 22nd, celebrated as Earth Day, is approaching. Let's do something for our physical and spiritual Mother, who gives us our bodies, our sustenance, and our opportunities to love.

May we sit this evening in loving embrace of The Big Blue Marble, our Mother Earth, the only home our bodies know.

Reverently offered,

Richard

For Sunday April 12th, 2026

Hello, wonderful people. J. Krishnamurti tells us that repeating a mantra to quiet the mind doesn't really work. The repetition of a mantra, as beautiful as it may be, is more a matter of not letting the mind get a word in. So a part of your mind is quiet while another part is forcing that quietness.

 
Two things; it's not a truly quiet mind because part of it is working and; it removes the self-awareness of seeing how our mind works. A truly quiet mind watches the chatter without engaging in it, as if watching from afar and without judgement.

May we try once again this evening to attain a quiet mind which simply observes. We don't recall the difficulties of learning to walk and talk as children, we simply kept trying naturally. Let's use that same innocent beauty tonight.

 
With blessings for all,

Richard

For Sunday March 6th, 2026

Hello all, we may be asked to do hard things as this spiritual transition progresses. Think of the effort involved in personal transitions, relationships ending, working to control weight gain, overcoming addictions, all of which have very difficult moments. Now expand that to an entire planet changing its orientation from material to spiritual.

It's big, and we all have a part to play in it. No matter how large or small your part may appear to you, it's still essential in completing the whole.

May we sit this evening pondering Tom Sawyer's essential guidance – "keep breathing and be willing."

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday March 29th, 2026

Hello to all in this ongoing transition. We're watching forces and sources work to maintain their positions of external power; financial, political, and military. We also see those who are responding from their hearts; reaching out to those in need, helping neighbors, supporting each other.

It's a desperate balance at the moment.

Let us sit this Sunday evening giving energy to those who respond from their hearts, who are hopefully 'looking upward' for guidance. May we cushion the difficulties, enhance the beautiful, and always be willing.

Bless you all for all you do,

Richard

For Sunday March 22nd, 2026

Hello, loving lights. We are told that true meditation is not musing nor daydreaming but, as your body is made up of the physical, mental, and the spiritual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source.

As millions of practitioners can tell you, it doesn't come easily.

However, shall we try again? Any one or two second flash of pure quietness, in between all the chattering, just like any honest effort, is righteous and worthwhile.

 
With blessings and encouragement for all,

Richard

For Sunday March 15th, 2026

Hello, and grateful greetings to all. In this life it's easy to follow rules which define virtue and humility for us. But true virtue and humility is not learned, not something to be practiced. But rather, in seeing vanity, pride, greed, and all the rest of that nonsense create disorder for us, in the observing of that disorder we come to choose different directions which, when viewed in total, are called virtue and humility.

We learn who we are as we go.

May we sit this evening being lovingly aware of our disorder. May we see ourselves clearly, and choose new paths.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday March 8th, 2026

Hello once again, beautiful people. At this moment humanity is still burning Mother Earth's skin with pollutants, killing each other for power and profit, and allowing starvation to occur while resources are hoarded.

 
As a general grouping, we are lost.

May we sit this evening asking that Divine Light shine down upon us all, that God's will be done, and we find our way home.

With reverence for all,

Richard

For Sunday March 1st, 2026

Hello to all those who 'look upward' for assistance. Whatever help may be coming from the spiritual realms, it can only have an effect where there is receptivity. Otherwise, nothing gets through.

So it behooves all of us to practice openness, in whatever way we find fitting.

May we sit with loving desire to be used as best suits our positions and talents. May we offer loving hearts, that God's will be done within us and through us.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday February 22nd, 026

Hello to all once more. Fervent prayer comes from a disciplined mind, one which can focus upon a single thing, person, event, or situation, without distraction. It can take years to develop the focused discipline required to set 'monkey mind' aside. Yet it can also arise out of intense, immediate need.

It is possible to increase our sense of immediacy by examining the fullness of a situation when we find something deserving of fervent prayer. Looking into who benefits right now, how that ripples into the future, and all those who will benefit then, can make it extremely important thereby focusing our attention. This expansion of awareness benefits us as well.

May we sit this evening for the greater good of setting our own houses in order. May we employ self-honesty like a scalpel, cutting to the core of our impulses. May we 'know ourselves' clearly, each and every whim of thought and desire as they occur. May we brighten the world from the inside to the out.

Bless you all for all you do,

Richard

For Sunday February 15th, 2026

Welcome and a warm hello to all. As has been noted, it's easy to be a holy man on top of a mountain where temptations are few. Given that most of us don't have that opportunity, perhaps we're meant to do the difficult work of being holy right where we are, in spite of the chaos and stumbling blocks of modern society.

 
It helps to know ourselves. This is not just self-knowledge. It is watching each and every movement of our thought process then, knowing where each one leads us, we choose which to follow and which to discard. In that, it's our honesty which matters.

May we make the effort to be good neighbors and helpers to all we encounter, trusting that honest efforts are righteous, and that we will learn to do better as we go along.

Bless you all,

Richard