For Sunday June 30th, 2024

Hello, and a gracious 'good day' to all of you. Donna Gulick lovingly provided me with these beautiful words to sum up a story I'd written on healing, "Anytime I was trying to exert my will and not letting go into "thy" will, I was not only draining myself, but trying to impose on someone else's energy in a way that did not respect their boundaries. I have learned to say, "May this healing work be for the Highest Good of all concerned within their will and Divine Will.""

This particular wording is an excellent enjoinment to avoid the karmic cycling of self-driven decisions and actions.

 
May we sit Sunday evening to find the paths of Grace in our lives. It may require courage to follow but the paths of Grace will lead us to our higher calling, and to who we truly are.

Blessings upon us all,

Richard 

For Sunday June 23rd, 2024

Hello good people, we're told that as we walk the path appears. This of course depends upon us taking the steps of grace. Obstacles become stepping stones when taken with grace. And, as we do more, we are offered more to do. Bigger stepping stones, right?

We are not promised an easy path. We are promised an opportunity to show what we're made of, and to be of help.

May we sit this evening aware that difficulties may come, that courage may be needed. May we be aware that there is always a guiding hand available for us to find. May we find and use the many variations of grace presented before us.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday June 16th, 2024

Hello and apologies to you all. I'm sorry to have missed last Tuesday's meditation. As I think about it, I have only excuses, no actual reasons for missing it. I didn't die. I didn't have another stroke. I simply missed it. So I humbly apologize.

Now, for tonight. John Denver had a poem and a song about peace, about living peace in our lives. It's a choice we can make, which includes recognizing the parts of ourselves that are not at peace. If we, internally, are forcing ourselves into peace then we are not truly at peace. True peace requires discerning where we are not at peace with ourselves, then resolving that.

This evening may we look within, find our tangled internals, and gently release them.

Reverently submitted,

Richard

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For Sunday June 9th, 2024

Hello wonderful people. Life is a physical manifestation of Divinity, of the Source. With our free will we are allowed to direct our lives up or down any path we desire. Speaking in rough generalities, our choices are between karma and grace.

The path of karma, driven by selfish desires, is cyclical. The path of grace, the desire to be outwardly loving, leads us on to our higher callings.

May we sit this evening for the ability to discern our individual paths, for the courage to choose wisely, and for the ability to release that which no longer serves us.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday June 2nd, 2024

Hello beautiful people. We are told that to go into a problem, any problem, to go into that problem very deeply then we must be free to inquire, truly free. However, if we hold opinions, biases, assume structures, imagine forms, or listen to what others have said, then we are not free enough to truly inquire.

 
To truly inquire we must look, listen, and pay attention with a loving intensity which wants to know completely, wants to fully comprehend, whatever person or situation we're facing.

May we sit this evening and just listen, listen to the outside, listen to our inner side. May we simply note what we find, then continue listening. Who knows what we may find if we end up listening beyond ourselves?

With blessed beauty,

Richard