For Sunday July 29th, 2012

Hello all, I'd like to change things up just a bit this week. Instead of focusing upon a large concept I'd like to ask if we could focus upon one person's journey into serving. Barbara Whitfield sent this email today about her son's desire to be a pediatric nurse. I thought that, because of the timing, it would make a fine focus for Sunday evening.

If you would care to, please join me in sitting for Gary's spiritual fulfillment.

Thank you,

Richard

Dear Richard,

Please ask everyone to pray for my son.
He is 43 years old and has asked for these prayers.
He has just spent the last 5 and a half years in college to become a nurse.
His last class is "Complex Diagnosis" and after keeping a B average all through school, he failed this class in the spring and has had
to repeat it. Monday morning at 9 (EST) is the final. His average in this class is in the pass/fail range so everything
depends on this one test on Monday morning. If he fails, he will have to reapply to nursing school and is terrified he will not make it. He is the
sweetest compassionate man and so many patients will benefit if he becomes a nurse. He wants to work with children as a pediatric nurse.

Please pray for Gary Harris to pass his final at 9 on Monday Morning.

And thanks everyone!!

Love,
Barbara Harris Whitfield

For Sunday July 22nd, 2012

Hello all, as we settle into these long days of summer may we also settle into the long days of our inner lives. Each of us has a place within which holds a connection to our Higher Selves, our personal greater guide to be called upon.

This Sunday may we find the warmth of that place, the clarity of it's wisdom, the beauty of it's knowings within, and may we follow in Love.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday July 15th, 2012

Hello all, dis-abled story teller Keven Kling says compassion has a 'shelf life' and people can become worn out over time. However he goes on to say, recognition can last. Born with a withered arm, and his good arm paralyzed from an accident, his stories close the gap. They bring people closer each to other and thereby to themselves.

What is being recognized? Not only self in the other but, at it's best, the Higher Self in each. May we sit this Sunday for that recognition of something of ourselves in others which closes distances and, when done well, warms hearts too.

Here is a link to an interview with Keven Kling: http://www.onbeing.org/program/losses-and-laughter-we-grow/1863

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday July 8th, 2012

Hello all, it is said that in the physical realm the heart is the seat of life and in the mental and spiritual realms the will is the motivating factor. If so, as the heart longs for it's fullest expression, and an unguided will is aimless other than to itself, it is through the joining of these that all good comes.

May we sit this evening for this joining, this alignment within ourselves. May we sit for our 'Heart of Hearts' or 'Seat of the Divine within' to be expressed outwardly into the world. May we sit for our will to be the channel through which God's will is done.

Thank you,

Richard