For Sunday July 18th, 2021

A gracious good day to all of you, we are told conducting our lives in harmony with spirituality will bring beauty, joy, and a life worthwhile. Learning to live in that harmony is sometimes challenging.

Beleaguered as we are by outside pressures, inward biases, and conflicting emotions the path of harmony may at times appear only dimly. However, the Light is always in our hearts.

May we sit this evening for the ability to find that Light. May we have the strength to set aside distractions of the mind. May we listen closely to find the truth whose physical residence is in our hearts, within the chest cavity. May we use that truth as our guiding Light.

Bless you all,

Richard 

Ripple Effect video of Sunday, July 11th

This session is a great reminder that although we can be heavily engrossed in life at times, our issues, etc., that the work we did throughout our life has resulted in a major shift in attitude, values and beliefs, and is strong enough to withstand these storms and keep us moving forward.

Video:

https://youtu.be/5LUesYEyhR4

Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/growhumanpotential/episodes/Our-Lives-Post-Enlightenment-e14ej3q 

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday July 11th, 2021

Hello to all of you, history shows that as humans we are remarkable at justifying whatever desires and impulses appeal to us, oftentimes with disastrous results. When we give priority to our justifications we lock ourselves into circular thought processes which can be difficult to break.

That is why the teachings of Buddha and others tell us to sit back and watch what our minds are doing. There is always a wise, outwardly loving path available. To get outside of ourselves and search for that path is always righteous.

May we sit this evening for the awareness of our own inner workings. May our biases, angers, grievances, and habitual thought patterns become clear. May we search for the wiser way.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday July 4th, 2021

Hello everyone, to paraphrase; "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans are created equal, endowed with free will, and the ability to be at one with their Creator."

These are big words to live up to as we struggle to love one another, and ourselves.

Along with all the flashy celebrations of this day and evening let us recall this quietly; the phrase 'made in the image of' translates easily into 'capable of being at one with' the Creator.

With Love and Blessings for all,

Richard 

For Sunday June 27th, 2021

Hello to all of you, the great questions: will humans ever be able to live from our hearts; will we come to see each other as equals; will we finally and truly 'love one another'; is addressed by Rainer Maria Rilke in his comment, "Live into the question in hopes that someday you will live into the answers."

This same response is reworded for modern audiences in the phrase "Fake it 'til you make it." And, whether we think we can or we can't, it behooves us to 'go for it' and love one another anyway.

 
May we sit this evening for our highest response to these callings. May we reach inward to find the courage and strength. May we shine outward with the Light for all.

Offered in reverence,

Richard 

For Sunday June 20th, 2021

Hello everyone, honoring a father on Father's Day: The old man in the nursing home lived 92 years all closed up inside, now waiting for his time to come. Abandoned by his mother at age 4, he bounced from orphanage to foster homes until joining the military in WWII. Ill-equipped for parenting, he still tried marriage and the requirements of a family. Two more marriages and many decades later he finds himself in a nursing home, no longer able to shoo his children away. His question, "What are you doing here?" answered the same way each time, "I love you and you're important to me," always left him speechless.

A month of 2-3 visits per week brought softening. In a gentle three-way hug with his sons he finally, quietly said, "My boys, my boys..." And was reunited with the daughter he hadn't seen in 30 years.

 
There were numerous mini-reunions with his 3 children and with grandkids he had never seen. He cried, perhaps for the very first time in his long life. Nightmares from the war years ended. He smiled often. Pictures show him glowing, bathed in the close relationships he had learned to shun – out of protection – in his childhood.
When his time did come he had opened. He knew the love of his children and found warmth in family. And at the last, he was open to reuniting with the mother he hadn't seen in nearly 90 years.

 
Thank you all for all you do,

Richard

For Sunday June 13th, 2021

Hello to all of you, whether it be in words, music, dance, flowers, calligraphy, or even clowning; when your language speaks of faith, hope, kindness, and love it is the universal language which resonates within us all, the language of the Creative Force.

May we sit this evening to fine tune the many expressions of ourselves. May we align with the Creative Force. May we bring forth 'As Above, So Below' for all time.

Offered with reverence,

Richard

For Sunday June 6th, 2021

Hello to everyone, a big key in life is to love people as they are. Sometimes we love people with the hope of changing them, but the real change is in us. To set aside our opinions, beliefs, thoughts, and biases in favor of loving people just as they are – changes us.

 
Just as our thinking creates our perception of the world, our loving purifies that perception, and we are changed.

Let us sit this evening for the immense loving we are truly capable of. May we change the world by changing the piece that is us. May blossoming occur.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday May 30th, 2021

Hello everyone, If you've watched the latest Ripple Effect video: https://youtu.be/dtVwqJGeyO8  
where we are talking to Krista Gorman who had an NDE over 20 years ago, you'll hear her say the phrase, "I'm a pretty powerful creator" at the 40 minute mark. The look on her face at that moment tells you she knows the truth of that from actual experience.

What does she create? When faced with people or situations which could benefit from spiritual upliftment – she sends love to that person or event, and creates an improved outcome from what it otherwise would have been.

Doing such things is her purpose in life.

 
So for Sunday night it behooves us to find something which is either a) difficult for us, or b) difficult for others, or c) a person with whom we are having personal trouble. Let's each give Love to the personal difficulty we have found.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday May 23rd, 2021

Hello to everyone, it was 43 years ago today that Tom Sawyer had his Near Death Experience, in 1978. He was laying under his pick-up truck adjusting the transmission linkage when the entire driveway collapsed due to an air pocket beneath it. He was crushed to only three inches thick for over 15 minutes. 

His experience in the spiritual realm has changed the lives of many since then. This Heart-Session Meditation list is an outgrowth of the times he would ask his friends to sit and 'give energy' to one thing or another over his remaining years on Earth. He finally 'died for good' at the end of April, 2006. 

When explaining spiritual laws or situations he often said, "Don't take my word for it. Find out for yourself." He didn't mean to go out and have an NDE. He meant to go meditate, train your mind to be able to find spiritual answers, learn the truth yourself. 

So tonight, let us meditate for our meditation. May we find a deeper truth. May we find the deeper answers we all need.

Thank you all for all you do,

Richard

For Sunday May 16th, 2021

Hello everyone, while listening to Lono Ho'ala speak <hunawisdom.com> he mentioned this – 'pain induces the gift of humility.'

 
Humanity has long been caught up in the arrogance of believing our own thinking or of prioritizing our feelings. But without the balancing influence of wisdom, thinking and feeling are rudderless.

Tonight, as Covid 19 brings a degree of humility to the world, may we view our thoughts and our feelings through the lens of wisdom. May we learn from the results of our own actions. May we bring our most divine lessons into the world.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday May 9th, 2021

Hello again to all, as we understand it everything which exists in the material world began as spiritual impulses, vibrations in spirit and desire in the soul. Responding to these impulses we bring them into the mind, transforming them into thought. Then, by degrees of effort, these thoughts are brought into physical actions and things.

Whether we judge the result as positive or negative the process is the same. It behooves us to choose wisely as we bring these impulses into physicality.

 
May we sit this Sunday for the discernment and self-honesty to choose lovingly. May we view our choices with reverence for everything they may affect. May the world benefit from our efforts.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday May 2nd, 2021

Hello to all, here I am furiously trying to get this out in the next 5 minutes. So, I'm stealing a thought which came up in the Ripple Effect video which we've just finished. Can I blame Mike McGinnis for my lateness? Nope, I ought to have done this earlier. Here we go:

Imagine the experience of being loved, loved all the way down to the cellular level – and even if it's only by a passing thought from someone. Do that for people, no matter what opinion you may be challenged to form of them. Try doing it for each and every person you meet for some matter of time, 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day, just try. See what it brings to you right then, without looking for anything in return, and in your life-review you'll see what it brought to them.

For this evening, sit for the strength to release what gets in the way of doing the above.

Thank you all,

Richard