For Sunday November 29th, 2015

Hello everyone, here's a quote from Christopher Reeve: "At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable." The spiritual transformation of the Earth is just such a dream. Over the past century over 150 million humans have died at the hands of other humans, with that in mind a spiritual transformation seems impossible. 

Looking at the anger and divisions in the world today it still seems improbable. 

Yet, in time and for each of us, the illusion of our separateness will melt into the truth of our connectedness and it will be seen as inevitable.

May we sit this Sunday for that melting. May we sit for the melting of walls in the world. May we sit for the melting of the walls within our hearts.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday November 22nd, 2015

Hello everyone, the refugee crisis stemming from the difficulties in Syria is large, and certainly more complex than we can see. It can however be simplified down to this; there are those who want peace and those who want war. 

This evening may we petition for Divine Light to come down on all who are involved. May the peaceful find strength. May the warring find their hearts. May the lost find home.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday November 15th, 2015

Hello everyone, in his talks and writings Jeff Foster <http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/> often makes a distinction between where the mind goes and what the heart knows. With the attacks on Friday in Paris the mind easily goes to retribution, retaliation, justice, protection, and so on. And yet the heart knows it is profoundly sad. 

It's sad that people were terrified, maimed, and died. It's sad that there are those who are so lost as to perpetrate such horrible sadness upon others. It is further sad that all this sadness is claimed as a retaliation for a previous sadness. 

The human condition can bring you to tears.

Yet there is always hope. In our tears we often turn to something higher than ourselves, something beyond our minds and in touch with our hearts, something closer to us than breath itself. 

May we sit this Sunday for that closeness. May we sit for it within ourselves and may we sit for all who are hurting.

In Reverence,

Richard

For Sunday November 8th, 2015

Hello everyone, as we all long deeply for that relationship to the Creative Forces, we make our way toward it with little steps – little human steps. Without the opening blast of an enlightening experience there is no other way. 

Step by step, day by day, we apply our free will toward the more loving path. We make our tiny movements as individuals, as rain drops, wearing down a mountain of ignorance and self-delusion. 

May we sit this evening for our little loving steps. May we find each in turn. May we see our way forward as a beauty unfolding. 

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday November 1st, 2015

Hello all, the crisis in Syria, the diplomatic attempts at resolution, and the ongoing difficulties of the refugees continue to tug at the heart. May we petition God this evening to shine it's Light down upon all involved. 

May we lend our own internal resolutions to the ongoing Light of the world as well.

Thank you all,

Richard