For Sunday December 31st, 2023

Gracious greetings to all, what a treat to be able to connect textually with you all.
As we understand it all things are connected anyway in an all encompassing spiritual fabric. This includes the grand, outwardly loving things as well as the personally meager and selfish.

So, weaving in the golden threads of your life promotes the overall beauty of the universe. Also, since all the difficulties of the world are equally connected, tugging and pulling on those threads helps to unravel the entire gol-darn thing.

May we sit on the evening of the last day of this year and do our part, as it comes to us, to finish off whatever bit of hemming may be needed.

With many blessings,

Richard

PS I've been asked to give a presentation on Tom Sawyer at a Gathering of Angels event up here in East Rochester on January 20th. Here's a link for those who may be interested:
https://www.vickisnyder.com/about-1?utm_campaign=c80ee821-c077-4989-983f-f6914fb4723c&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=49e870af-4110-4fe4-877a-e9f6d5c9d180  

For Sunday December 17th, 2023

Hello once more loving people. We can see the human foible of desire for external power playing out in the national and international news, and the admonishment to love one another finding slight traction.

 
As in all things, there are lessons here. How difficultly those lessons are applied is a matter of our collective consciousness. It is always appropriate to clear our own consciousness. And, it's always righteous to petition God for Divine Light to come down upon those involved.

Let us petition God this Sunday. May Divine Light shine down upon the leaders, and their followers, of the various factions involved.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday December 10th, 2023

Hello beautiful, loving people. My recent medical escapade has brought home to me the beauty of humility. I kept saying I'd been very fortunate throughout my life but a friend has corrected me by saying that I was blessed in this event. While I would not be so bold as to claim to know God's will for me, I also cannot argue against it. To have had a stroke which paralyzed the entire left side of my body then, two weeks later, to have no sign of it is beyond remarkable.

From modern medical science, to amazingly dedicated and professional EMTs, doctors, and nurses, to the numbers of people praying for me – I was blessed.

So this evening I humbly request we sit for all the helpers, visible and invisible, who come to the aid of others, and do so out of pure Love. May we continue to be visible helpers, each in our own way, to humanity.

Reverently offered,

Richard

For Sunday December 3rd, 2023

Hello to all. Good to be typing to you again! If you're ever wondering if you're loved just do something dumb and see who turns out to help.The response has put me in tears more than once this past week.

We would all benefit from being grateful for those who do now, and have before, assisted us in life.

And, the idea that humanity is healing can be seen in the growing number of people who are more concerned with the welfare of innocents in a war zone than in who is winning. As Jimmy Carter said, "You don't create peace by killing each other's children."

So, may we sit this evening with warmly thankful hearts, which is what brings true healing – to us and to the world.

Bless you always,

Richard