The most essential thing is that we support each other to bring out the potential and positive that exists in spirituality: the hope of an agreeable world, belief in the authority of love, the wisdom that we all belong together as sisters and brothers.

But the inner longing for fulfillment that fuels our reaching, the hunger for wholeness, the craving for gratification, the homesickness for what is ultimate is universal, for each one of us is essentially spiritual; each one of us is made to have it all.

With more leisure time, rather than losing our awareness to mindlessly watching television, I invite you each day to spend 30 minutes walking in nature and then another 30 minutes sitting in prayer and/or in quiet meditation. Connecting with the body-self and the mind-self feeds your spirit-self.

Remain within us as we discern who we are and whose we are. May we as church throw our nets on the other side as we explore new ways to enhance our spiritual being.

Through love, as individuals, we can make a huge difference in the lives of those with whom we connect in our daily life. It takes awareness and compassion to the needs of others in order to connect with their soul and to observe the self in another.

God’s Spirit is on me; he’s chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free, to announce, “This is God’s time to shine!”
– Luke 4:16-21 (MSG)

‘Stop and smell the roses’ is not just a cliché that is meaningless. The deeper meaning to this saying is that we must be awake to life in order to live it fully and experience a Presence whose abundance surrounds us from within and outside our very being.

“Love your neighbour as yourself” is the commandment that guides us toward right relations. This directive begs the question: ‘who is my neighbour?’ If we all conclude that my neighbour is anyone with whom I come in contact, then we fulfill our innate need to be in relationships and greet others from a place of Love.

“All are welcome” is a statement that we take very seriously. It means that we accept all unconditionally and without prejudice. It also requires that we are responsible to ensure that we fulfill the spiritual needs of all who reach out.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Happy New Year to You! May 2022 be a year of thanksgiving, good health, happiness, prosperity, generosity and fulfillment.

As we approach the end of 2021, may we take this time to reflect upon how fortunate we are. Yes, there have been challenges, there may have been fears, worries and concerns. There may have even been illnesses and death. But these things have always been part of our human experience on earth, not just in the year 2021.

This shared humanity like any disaster unites us, bringing us together in a common experience. So, let us rejoice this Christmas as children of the cosmos knowing that others, like us, are also celebrating at the same time.

Christmas is only days away and there are many who are alone during this time of year. For some reason, we are tempted to project our own values onto those who wish to be alone.

How can we deny having a Spirit within? Like the wind, the breath of the earth, our Spirit can be changeable, rising and decreasing in energy. We sense euphoria and we sense despair depending on our external experiences, and our self-talk.

We need this time of year, Advent and Christmas seasons, to remind us that the gifts of hope, peace, joy and love are always within each one.

If we are blessed with children in our lives, we are blessed with a different perspective of the world and opened to receive the pure Love and joy they lay upon us.

Jack Kornfield wrote “When love moves through us it inspires all we do.” May we be inspired to sing joyfully as the Spirit moves in each one.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and Love your neighbour as yourself.

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you” (John 14:27). The contradiction is resolved when you realize that, for Jesus, peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love.