For Sunday February 26th, 2017

Hello everyone, we understand that bad choices bring experiences, experiences bring wisdom, and wisdom brings better choices. So what are we looking at when we see someone we call wise? We're looking at someone who has made a lot of bad choices, and has learned.

To accept and learn from our own past choices requires forgiveness, which comes from love. In our lifetime we can be shown love; we can share love; and we can give love, even to ourselves.

May we sit this evening for the self-love which brings forgiveness, that we may accept and learn, and move toward wisdom ourselves.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday February 19th, 2017

Hello everyone, the St. Francis saying, "Make me an instrument of your peace" is sometimes unconsciously followed by, "In spite of my own pain." But the message carries far more personal responsibility if it's seen as, "Help me to find the way out of pain, through your Grace, and I will spread what I have learned."

How can we teach that which we have not fully and deeply learned?

May we sit this Sunday for the courage to look deep, to find where we 'miss the mark' spiritually, and for the loving strength needed to heal whatever we find.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday February 12th, 2017

Hello to everyone, may we ask this week that God's Light shine down upon the situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. Atmospheric radiation from the crippled plant has recently increased in a marked way and it could use some assistance. 

Reverently submitted,

Richard

For Sunday February 5th, 2017

Hello everyone, can we treat others with kindness and forbearance even when we drastically disagree with them? Well, Pope Francis says our relationship with the Creator can be seen in our relationship to creation which is to say, how we treat others is a measure of our love.

  

In these times of strife and acrimony can we see how the opinions of the mind are different from the knowledge of the heart? Can we give priority to our 'heart of hearts' rather than to our limited thinking?

If we can then we can build a future. If we cannot, we will copy the past. The choice lies in our hands.

May we sit this evening for our inner courage, our inner peace, and may wisdom come forth.

Thank you all,

Richard