For Sunday September 27th, 2020

Hello to one and all, while in prayer we may be petitioning our Source for help, guidance, intercession on ours or someone else's behalf, and personal spiritual communication, among other things. Yet, underneath all that, it has been said that prayer is 'the desire, continually expressed, to remind oneself of one's spiritual goals.' 

These are stressful times for sure, often combining social, political, financial, and personal upheavals. Individual, practical answers will vary but the general rule, as we've been told by many teachers over the ages, is to look above ourselves, to take the time to remind ourselves of our spiritual goals.

May we sit this Sunday evening in remembrance of spiritual goals. May we sit in wonder of our Source. May we take some time to simply 'be'.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday September 20th, 2020

Hello everyone, we are subjected to, and encouraged to subscribe to, many varied views and opinions as social and political turmoil rolls through our land. The temptations of anger, frustration, hopelessness, and bitterness are many. How do we know which are true and perhaps worthy of our support? 

Edgar Cayce gives guidance on this:
"According to Cayce, if you test any information in your life and it makes you a better husband, mother, daughter neighbor—if it creates in you love, joy, obedience to God, brotherly love to others or kindness in your life then you can tell by these fruits in your life that the information is true."
"If it creates in your life peace, harmony, and patience in your dealings with your fellow man, it is truth, and ye know it by those fruits."
"He said the fruits of the spirit of truth are showing mercy, showing grace, showing kindness under the most trying circumstances to your fellow man."

May we sit this evening with the 'fruits of the spirit' in mind. May we apply them in our lives. May they be the harbingers of the world to come.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday September 13th, 2020

Hello to all of you, Edgar Cayce gives the advice of making three people laugh each day, for the spreading of joy. One of those people ought to be you, yourself - especially if you don't feel like laughing. 

During times of stress the act of forcing yourself to laugh helps break up stuck energies. You start out forcing a dry, inauthentic laugh but find out it leads to a rolling combination of real laughter, crying, and yawning as the energies are set loose and released. This allows a new vision, perhaps a new version of yourself, to come through. 

May we sit on Sunday the 13th, or perhaps anytime it's needed, for self-care. May the world improve by the same amount which we improve ourselves. May the embrace of our love include our own hearts. 

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday September 6th, 2020

Hello everyone, the saying goes, "A scalpel must be honed to a very fine edge before it can be used as intended – in the hands of the Great Healer."

In these turbulent times it is our dedication to practicing the 'fruits of the spirit' which hones us, makes us ready to be used. We often think of troubles as tests but on a deeper and subtler level, they may also be preparations.

May we sit this Sunday for this perspective; these times are not simply to be endured or fought against but, as we conduct ourselves with beauty, are shaping us toward a greater Divine goal.

Thank you all for all you do,

Richard

For Sunday August 30th, 2020

Hello everyone, as our political world becomes discordant and personal communication occasionally strained, it becomes all the more important to treat each person we meet with the best of our human grace. 

We have no idea what kind of miles they have traveled, nor how well our feet might fit into their shoes.

May we sit this Sunday to be the gentle spot which moves the world toward kindness, to be a relieving moment of laughter, or give an honest smile. May the discord of this era be eased by our grace.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday August 23rd, 2020

Hello to everyone, our human consciousness is often filled with pleasure, fear, anger, suffering, concern, and thankfully some compassion. However, as you attune yourself to the Divine, and the answers to be found within, you are quickened to know your true purpose. 

As your consciousness is cleared you have that exact same positive effect upon the consciousness of the world.

May we sit this Sunday to recognize the human frailties which teach us so much about who we are. May we bless and release these frailties for all they have taught us. May we see beyond them to the small still voice which blesses us with who we may become. 

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday August 16th, 2020

Hello everyone, if we can indeed and truly release our fears and angers we'll find we have opened ourselves to another voice. With the circular chattering of the mind out of the way our hearts become free to speak, sometimes with surprising wisdom. 

It may require some effort over quite some time before finding a moment of peace. But from that peace can come a voice at once familiar, seemingly new, and greatly needed in this world.

May we sit this Sunday for that quieting of mind which allows so much more than thought could ever produce to come lovingly through.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday August 9th, 2020

Hello everyone, we live on this Earth in relationship, relationship to each other, relationship to our environment, relationship to ourselves. When seen correctly these relationships are our greatest mirrors because the way we look at anything tells us exactly who we are while observing. Whether we look upon something or someone with anger, fear, paranoia, or love – that is exactly where we are at that moment.

Whether we believe our internal justifications for how we see things or whether we use them as a process of self-examination, of measuring how far we are from being unconditionally loving, will make a huge difference in our spiritual evolvement.

May we sit this Sunday evening for self-honesty; courageous, unflinching, and always in search of the greatest overall loving perspective. 

Respectfully,

Richard

For Sunday August 2nd, 2002

Hello to all of you, forgiveness is essential. Without the forgiveness of transgressions there can be no Oneness. You cannot hold another entity in anger, regret, suspicion, or fear, and experience Oneness, for you will have caused separation by doing so. This includes within our own selves. 

So, we hold the key to the gate in our hearts, and the gate is always right before us. 

May we sit this evening to search ourselves for those sometimes large and immediate; and sometimes tiny and ancient bits which hold us apart from one another. The line from the prayer which goes, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" can be understood to mean 'in equal measure.' That we ask to be forgiven to the same extent which we are willing to forgive. Let's give it our all.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday July 26th, 2020

Hello to everyone, we create ourselves by our thoughts. So, it's important to watch on a daily, hourly basis, what we hold in our minds, especially in this time of strife and division. 

"What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon." - Edgar Cayce reading 3744-5

To hold as a true living thing, not just as rote repetition, the feel and experience of "Our Father" meaning every single person on Earth is a child of Divine Source, of Omnipotent Wisdom, and is loved accordingly, can bring us closer together. Bringing ourselves closer together in our own hearts is an invitation to Oneness.

May we sit Sunday evening for the openness to receive all others into our hearts. It's that simple.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday July 19th, 2020

Hello everyone, for each of us – whether tyrant, despot, saint, garbage collector, tiny baby, or total fool – our lives, everything we know, and our very existence, has been created by and is enclosed within a living, loving Omnipotent Wisdom. It is the base of everything we touch, taste, smell, love, hate, feel for, and interact with. No matter who we are or what we do, say, or think, we are eternally pulled home. Whatever we may create in this bubble of three dimensions; it is used as a lesson to reach us, to teach us truth, over and over again.

To meditate on the concept of existing within a living, loving, Omnipotent Wisdom can change you. Thereby, the world is changed.

May we sit on Sunday for this simple, vast awareness – we were created by and are engulfed within a living, loving Omnipotent Wisdom.

Thank you,

Richard

For Sunday July 12th, 2020

Hello all, calamitous situations have been faced before. In 1835 a full forty acres of the prime Manhattan merchant district was leveled in a fire, during a vicious cold snap. Wells and cisterns were soon pumped dry as the rivers were thickly frozen over. They finally stopped the fire by blowing up a line of buildings to deprive the fire of fuel, a 'fire break' it would be called today.

In the ensuing years a river was dammed to create a reservoir. The water was pumped underground, so pipes wouldn't freeze and that gave clean drinking water to the population. This stopped the cyclic cholera epidemics as outhouses no longer leached into nearby drinking wells. The city was rebuilt with fire-proof stone. The subway and electrical systems were put underground. It was built back better for the population of the future.

Building for the future is still possible. There are still visionaries among us. World wide pandemics can be imagined and prepared for. 

May we sit this Sunday for our future. With honesty and foresight spiritual truths can be expressed in this three dimensional world. The phrase "Attitude Changes Everything" still applies.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday June 5th, 2020

Hello to everyone, on a personal level our worlds are only as large as our hearts can embrace. Yes, there are those whose worlds are small, hard, and tightly bound. But, change is coming. The lessons which are intended to open our hearts are as difficult to endure as our unwillingness to learn them. 

The Covid virus shows us the importance of working together, of caring for and taking care of each other by our own personal choices and behavior. 

May we sit this Sunday for the enlargement of our hearts/worlds, and that we may present an invitation to others by example.

Thank you all,

Richard