For Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Hello all, a recent newspaper article brought my attention once again to the amount of saber-rattling occurring around the Korean peninsula. With each side taking a show-of-force stance there can little room left for exploring other options. Open mindedness is lost when the focus becomes a demonstration of resolve.

 

This Sunday may we sit for God's Light to come down on those involved in the situation. May we sit for Thy Will Be Done. May we sit for the highest and greatest good for all concerned.

 

Thank you,

 

Richard

For Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Hello all, there is an Edgar Cayce quote which goes something like this "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that we ought not judge anyone." I am inclined to extend this to include situations. It's easy to assume that when we are at our 'best ever goodness' there is still more purity and more beauty available, yet to be attained. Also, even in the most humanly tragic of times we may miss that which is being served, being attended to and toward completion.

Even with an intellectual understanding that life on this big blue marble, our Mother the Earth, is for learning and graduating beyond, we may still deal with our human sense of sadness and loss.

This Sunday may we sit for the grace, the courage, the insight which sustains us in difficult times. May dis-comforts and dis-ease be seen through the eyes of a Loving higher perspective.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday, July 18th, 2010

Hello all, the phrase "the teachers shall be known by the fruits of their labors" came to mind recently. It's useful when looking for gurus, mentors, helpers, like minded friends, and trusted acquaintances. But more personally, it's useful for checking our own efforts and progress.

The common human frailties of ego, fame, greed, and plain old showing off to impress someone, even internally showing off to impress ourselves, can be obstacles for us. When we reach out to help someone we can have many hidden agendas riding right alongside of the desire to be of assistance. The more pure our desires, the more altruistic, the more pure may be the assistance. Self-honesty is tantamount here, along with feedback from trusted friends.

When done right the process of recognizing our own frailties allows us to see those same frailties when present in others, and it allows us to see their true strengths as well, their inner beauty.

I've just realized that the acronym for 'fruits of our labors' is FOOL. While it's wonderful to be a fool in the world, let's not fool ourselves. This Sunday may we sit for that purity, that clarity which comes from Above when our humanness is not in the way.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Hello all, I know of a couple in their late 80's, married for 60-some years, who live separate lives inside of the same house. Indelibly married, inexplicably split, they recycle their days and years with little growth. How their situation may fit into the vast karma and chaos of a grand overall plan is not for me to say. I will leave that to God, spirituality, and their individual life reviews.

However, the concept of 'learning from what I see' falls within my personal domain. What is my relationship to those closest to me? Those nearby? Those who share our house the Earth? My hope is to be loving and beneficial.

Doing so requires the excising of personal foibles, the internal growth of what is loving, and a beneficial balance between personal and outward care. This Sunday may we sit for that simple, complex beauty of actions, and their tightly linked attitudes, that are loving and beneficial to all.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Hello all, this week I was stumped for what to write about until I saw the date. The celebrated anniversary of the birth of something new. Birth is to wrest ourselves from the usual and to launch into the unknown. Sometimes we go with guidance. Sometimes we just go.

This Sunday let's drop everything and "just go". Let's put our trust in providence that it'll all be here when we get back - and it'll all be right. For a simple twenty minutes, not very long in the course of a week, or a life, just let go.

Thank you,

Richard