For Sunday April 27th, 2025

Hello once again, loving people. I've been dealing with quite a cold for several days, leaving me with a thicker than usual head. Given that, I'm rerunning a meditation from July 23, 2022 which is still astonishingly pertinent today. Here goes:

Hello all, the writer Martha Beck has mentioned the phrase 'extinction burst' in her blog <https://marthabeck.com/2022/07/outlasting-the-extinction-burst/>
It details how when previously learned behaviors no longer provide the expected rewards those behaviors are intensified before ending in failure, much like a child's tantrum will intensify before running its course.

Our world is moving toward the authentic power of the heart. People are realizing their own sacredness and viewing the Earth with increasing reverence. This causes frustration in those who seek to serve themselves through external forms of power; financial, military, political, psychological. They tend to employ previously reliable patterns of external power with increasing intensity, in a classic extinction burst.

 
Ms. Beck suggests that we have to outlast them. We do so by holding our center, being compassionate to all, and observant of our own foibles.

May we sit this Sunday evening as our loving selves, compassionate and observant – engaged but not enraged. May we hold a steady love amongst the storm. May the future be held in all our hearts.

With reverence for all,

Richard

For Sunday April 20th, 2025

Hello to all you loving people. We have all kinds of love in our lives; mother love, father love, sibling love, romantic love, we can even have a love of peanut butter for heaven's sake. These are all aspects of a greater Love, the Love our souls came from and are drawn to. Ok, maybe the peanut butter is a bit iffy on that point, but you get the idea.

However, as long as there is any amount of division between mother, father, sibling, romantic partner, and yes even peanut butter, we won't truly know what that greater Love is.

May we sit Sunday evening aware that we're all being called to that greater love, that we are in a training ground. And, that we are to bring all those aspects of the greater Love right down here to this ground. It is all available.

With a pretty good love for all,

Richard

For Sunday April 5th, 2025

Hello, good people. With protests occurring around the country and world today, it's wise to remember that our relationships and connections are more important than our opinions.

In the long run, it's our hearts which will pull us through.

Let us sit tomorrow evening aware of the difference between what is in our heads and what is in our hearts. May we grow from there.

Blessings for all,

Richard