For Sunday April 29th, 2012

Hello all, within this realm, which is swirling with chaos, karma, and free will, we make our way. Each decision, each intention, every desire is ours to own. We are in a position of remarkable responsibility and limitless mercy. By experience, and assistance from above, we create the attitudes of our world.

May we sit tonight for wisdom to choose well, energy to choose again, and for love over all - our ultimate destiny.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday April 22nd, 2012

Hello all and welcome to Earth Day. There is an old Sufi saying, "God enters our lives through the wounds in our hearts." It is a path at once difficult and effective. However, God may also enter through gratefulness, before wounding occurs.

Earth Day is to remind us that generations yet to come will live upon the foundations we build now, foundations of gratefulness, helpfulness, sharing, cooperation, concern for others, and for our collective future. May we sit this Sunday for those positive openings through which God may enter, for those foundations which sustain our lives by our actions, and our hearts by our attitudes.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday April 15th, 2012

Hello all, a recent conversation brought up the need for forgiveness in life. It may be that forgiveness leads to humility, with humility being the opening to our natural growth. The diagram below, by Charles and Barbara Whitfield, indicates changes which occur as a victim becomes self-empowered. It's often easy for us to sit and stew in our victimship, however, by forgiveness and humility, that which has been our persecution (bottom triangle) is newly seen as being a motivator of growth (second triangle up). The persecution may be external as imposed by others or our environment, or it may be internal as in guilt from our own past choices and actions.

Forgiveness is a process of the heart, a purposeful opening of the heart toward a more connected life, toward Oneness. This Sunday, may we sit for forgiveness and humility in our lives, that we may arrive at Grace.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday April 8th, 2012

Hello all, National Public Radio (NPR) has been asking people for the past year to try to put their thoughts about race relations into only 6 words. The responses following the Trayvon Martin case in Florida have swamped them as national attention has been focused in that arena. Here's one response with the author taking poetic liberty, expanding it to 6 words at a time.

"Our Human Family: 6 by 6.
Sad that anger and hatred wins.
Are we better than our anger?
See self honestly, see others tolerantly.
Who will throw first stone today?
Do unto others... allow their life.
See others equanimously - so far away..."

May we sit this Sunday for equanimity, to see the world equanimously, to attain the beauty of a loving non-judgement, and the wisdom of proper action.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday April 1st, 2012

Hello all, there is an ancient saying, "Dear Lord, if you will forgive my little jokes on Thee, I will forgive Thy big joke on me." As water is more deeply appreciated at the completion of a long thirst, and breathing goes unnoticed until we are without, Oneness with Divine is sweeter after a sense of separation. And the joke? After all of life is lived and time itself has passed on, we find we were never really separated at all.

May we sit this Sunday, even within the midst of our difficulties, and allow our hearts to dwell upon that which we cannot see, upon that which is closer than breath, upon that which holds us lovingly within the Great Heart, even as we find our way back.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday, March 25th, 2012

Hello all, our human brains tend to see the world in paradigms. The known world was explained with magic before Aristotle, who brought a sense of logic. Around the time of Isaac Newton clockwork perfection and billiard ball physics were the guiding principals. The turn of the last century brought tiny particles and quantum mechanics. Each of these paradigms work to some extent and each has their limits.

What does it take to look not for the next paradigm, which is to say the next broader set of limits, but beyond all paradigms? How is the attitude of being endlessly open attained?

May we sit again this Sunday toward that openness, toward what may be seen, when limits are unknown.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday, March 18th, 2012

Hello all, an old Irish blessing goes...

"May you have a world of wishes at your command.
God and His angels close at hand.
Friends and family their love impart,
and Irish blessings in your heart."

Even a day late it's still worthwhile. May we hold such beauty for all, wherever from.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday, March 11th, 2012

Hello all, these messages are a mixture of intuition, blind hope, and dumb luck, as is much of life. In keeping with the tradition of 'going with what feels right' each week, I would ask your permission this Sunday to focus upon Ed Guerra and his mother Amelia. I have no actual explanation for why their situation has touched me so, whether it's my friendship with Ed, or my own mother having passed, or some underlying sense of timing.

However, if you are so inclined, please join us this Sunday to petition for Divine Light to come down for her healing if appropriate and for their highest good overall.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday March 4th, 2012

Hello all, just as "impossible" can be re-written as "I'm possible" all worldly difficulties have a personal facet. To remove greed from the world we first remove it from ourselves and, not only is greed lessened by just that amount, but there becomes a selfless light. Honesty and love, which heals the distraction of a human frailty, is brought forth and the world becomes a brighter place.

May we sit this Sunday for that brighter place as it comes from Above to glow within and shine about. May we sit for ourselves, and for others who are called, and for those in need.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday, February 26th, 2012

Hello all, we are told the world is most changed by the tiniest of things, and that too much too soon can burn. So, everyone has opportunities to treat others kindly, with patience, love, hope, and faith, during the course of each day. In this way the Light of the Divine is spread gently upon the earth in a simple and easy manner.

May we sit this Sunday for the knowing, the care, the outward-loving desire to be a messenger, in even the tiniest of ways so easily overlooked - with a nod, a smile, a thank you - each absolutely essential.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday, February 19th, 2012

Hello all, watching a one-year-old explore her world is an education. In childhood we have wonder, in adulthood we have opinions. As children we are curious, as grown-ups we are biased. In our early years we leap in for the experience, later on we know better. In youth we make mistakes, with age we gain wisdom.

May we sit this Sunday to reconnect with the openness and wonder we had as children, while maintaining the balance of such wisdom and knowledge as we may have already collected.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday, February 12th, 2012

Hello all, the only true power in the universe is Love. As darkness is not a thing of itself but merely a result of the absence of physical light, so to all earthly power whether political, financial, or physical, is naught but shadows, the result of distance from Original Light. It is within our hearts that we may find access to this power, and answers to the world's problems.

May our searching lead us not to mental thoughts nor to the give and flow of passing emotion, but to deep within where Divine Creation awaits. May we sit this Sunday for that depth, for that honesty, and for the courage which is required to reach our "Heart of Hearts".

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Hello all, humanity's attachment to anger and violence is well pointed out by the deaths which resulted recently from the passions of a soccer match. As we lean toward our more spiritual natures, as we search for alternatives to war in settling national disputes, we must know that it all starts within.

As mind is the builder of attitude and direction, we use it to feed either our selfish desires or the higher callings. We get to choose, moment by moment, which step we will take on our path of learning. Will this next step lean slightly toward our smaller selves, or even just a touch toward our greater?

This Sunday may we sit for that greater, inner, quieter guidance. May we sit for the highest good for all, and for our own next step.

Thank you,

Richard