Message from Light of God Ministry
Good Day and Blessings!
As I contemplate this week’s message, I am wondering what the greatest message actually is? What is the greatest truth? The greatest inspiration?
For me, the greatest of all things is the notion of God itself. The idea that there is an infinite universe, with unending jewels of creation, galaxies, worlds and life that exists within it, and that the universe exists as an unending space.
The idea that you and I are of the universe, of infinity, of God, and that we are universal beings. That we are not just limited human egos, and that God is no different from the universe itself.
The idea that God is no different than creation, the concept that God is in no way separate from the universe. The knowledge that the universal space of God is eternal, no beginning, nor end.
The truth that all creation comes and goes. That even billions of years is equal to a moment in time. Everything is born from God as God, everything lives in God as God, and all creation dissolves back into God.
The greatest inspiration is what Christ and others have realized, that in truth, they are the exact same essence as God.
“I and the Father are one.”
~John 10:30
The message that through Christ, we too can realize our oneness with God, because our Spirit, our essence is holy, sacred and divine. That your Spirit = God’s Holy Spirit!
Christ did not talk of heaven as being somewhere far away, or in some future time once we are dead.
His message was that the kingdom of heaven, God’s realm, reality and presence is here and now. That God exists inside you, that you are already in the midst of God, that your are not separate from God.
Recognize your Holy Spirit within you as God, just as Christ did.
With Love,
Tyler
YOUNG FAMILY FUN WITH BRENDA PIELLE
Dear Parents, Families and Friends,
As a child growing up my family always went to the same campground in Parksville each year. We went with the same group of family friends, and there were often the same visiting families from other places there at the same time as us each year. Existing friendships were deepened, and new friendships were made, and the memories of those good times live on to present day. I still feel a need to camp in Parksville each year, and I continue to run into people, here in Powell River, and in Courtenay, who date back to those days in my childhood. We recognize each other, and the conversation soon turns to describing some antics in the campground, and those warm feelings come flooding back to my heart as the images of those memories come flooding to my mind.
Do you have favourite summer memories? I encourage you to share them with your children and youth and enjoy the bonding that can happen when we tell stories, in person, with each other.
Brenda Pielle
Reaching Out to Families
Powell River United Church
All are Welcome with Love In-Person Worship • Sundays 11am
P O E M
Forever am I grateful for the opportunity to experience your creation, your life, your world and your universe.
The mystery of your greatness, your majesty, your light and your love is overwhelming to my mind and senses.
Yet, all creation is proof of your existence. The proof of my existence is the only proof I need to know that you exist.
Most experience you far, far, away. But I experience you closer than my breath, my heartbeat, and my very essence.
Some pray that you reveal yourself, yet you have always been revealed since the moment I was conceived, the moment I was born, the moment I became conscious.
Yet now I see through your Grace, that your truth, light and love has always been. Your body is the infinity of space, and your presence is beginning less and the unending eternity of time.
I am but a drop in your ocean, a spec of sand among your limitless beach, a cloud among your infinite sky.
All is you, and you am I.
Be Still and Know That I Am God.
~ Psalm 46:10
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Oudi Burg and Christine Boyd
R E A D I N G
My dearest ones! Do not give up your worldly life, your near and dear ones. Do not waste yourselves away, rushing around in search of God in the four directions, nor lose your own souls while seeking inner peace and comfort.
Live in your own homes with your spouses and children, making full use of your artistic talents, or running your businesses or factories. In whatever position your destiny has placed you, whether you are millionaires or laborers, kings or beggars, God belongs to you all.
If you call Him with love, thinking about Him with devotion, He will reveal Himself to you. He will grant a vision of the divine light of His love. Then you will know that you are an embodiment of bliss.
You will realize, I am Shiva!
Yes I am! Yes I am!"
~ Muktananda
PRUC Online Worship Service
Please join us this Sunday, August 21nd
Share your light with the world.
PRAYER
Dear Lord
I give thanks and praise of Thee.
Your greatness and majesty is unfathomable, yet through Christ I have come to know Thee as my very own self.
May I dedicate my life to Thee, may I serve Thee with love in all my feelings, thoughts and actions.
May I recognize Thee equally within all creation.
Amen
Powell River United Church, 6932 Crofton Street, Powell River, BC, V8A 5H4, Canada