For Sunday June 27th, 2021

Hello to all of you, the great questions: will humans ever be able to live from our hearts; will we come to see each other as equals; will we finally and truly 'love one another'; is addressed by Rainer Maria Rilke in his comment, "Live into the question in hopes that someday you will live into the answers."

This same response is reworded for modern audiences in the phrase "Fake it 'til you make it." And, whether we think we can or we can't, it behooves us to 'go for it' and love one another anyway.

 
May we sit this evening for our highest response to these callings. May we reach inward to find the courage and strength. May we shine outward with the Light for all.

Offered in reverence,

Richard 

For Sunday June 20th, 2021

Hello everyone, honoring a father on Father's Day: The old man in the nursing home lived 92 years all closed up inside, now waiting for his time to come. Abandoned by his mother at age 4, he bounced from orphanage to foster homes until joining the military in WWII. Ill-equipped for parenting, he still tried marriage and the requirements of a family. Two more marriages and many decades later he finds himself in a nursing home, no longer able to shoo his children away. His question, "What are you doing here?" answered the same way each time, "I love you and you're important to me," always left him speechless.

A month of 2-3 visits per week brought softening. In a gentle three-way hug with his sons he finally, quietly said, "My boys, my boys..." And was reunited with the daughter he hadn't seen in 30 years.

 
There were numerous mini-reunions with his 3 children and with grandkids he had never seen. He cried, perhaps for the very first time in his long life. Nightmares from the war years ended. He smiled often. Pictures show him glowing, bathed in the close relationships he had learned to shun – out of protection – in his childhood.
When his time did come he had opened. He knew the love of his children and found warmth in family. And at the last, he was open to reuniting with the mother he hadn't seen in nearly 90 years.

 
Thank you all for all you do,

Richard

For Sunday June 13th, 2021

Hello to all of you, whether it be in words, music, dance, flowers, calligraphy, or even clowning; when your language speaks of faith, hope, kindness, and love it is the universal language which resonates within us all, the language of the Creative Force.

May we sit this evening to fine tune the many expressions of ourselves. May we align with the Creative Force. May we bring forth 'As Above, So Below' for all time.

Offered with reverence,

Richard

For Sunday June 6th, 2021

Hello to everyone, a big key in life is to love people as they are. Sometimes we love people with the hope of changing them, but the real change is in us. To set aside our opinions, beliefs, thoughts, and biases in favor of loving people just as they are – changes us.

 
Just as our thinking creates our perception of the world, our loving purifies that perception, and we are changed.

Let us sit this evening for the immense loving we are truly capable of. May we change the world by changing the piece that is us. May blossoming occur.

Thank you all,

Richard