Dear Friends,

Summer is here! Needless to say we finally have our warm weather in the San Diego/Poway area. Summer is also the time so many people are traveling to see friends, family or on an adventure vacation. Steve and I had a whirlwind trip to Omaha to visit family a week and a half ago. We had a great time! In four days we were on 4 planes, in two states with two families. There was so much laughter and so much fun! Although our trip was great, it could have taken a very different turn of events, unplanned and scattered. Have you seen the movie, “Sliding Doors?”

It is a story about “Helen who is fired from her position in a PR company. While returning home, she does not catch the train in the subway. But in another possibility of her life, she catches the train in the subway. The story shows two parallel lives of Helen… The story ponders the idea of the near-misses and what-ifs that occur in our lives and how easily it can change the course, for better or for worse, of our own.”

I believe Steve and I had a sliding door incident while traveling.

A few days before our trip I had this nagging feeling, intuition, that we might have trouble connecting with our plane in Phoenix, going to Omaha. There wasn’t a big window of time to get from one Gate to another. We only had 45 minutes. Needless to say our gates in San Diego kept getting switched and our plane was late in taking off. I thought, “Uh Oh…” What if we don’t make the plane, who knows when the next plane will go to Omaha? What will happen to our luggage? We may not have time to spend the day with our niece and family. Everyone’s plans would definitely change, be unplanned and scattered!

I believe the preferred sliding door scenario of “catching” the connecting flight was based on several things.

1.PRAYER

Before any trip, I always sit down and write out a Prayer Treatment for exactly how I wish the trip would go from the time the Uber arrives to the time we actually get home. I write it, I vision it, then I surrender it to God for the highest good of all

2.Purchasing Seats at the front of the San Diego flight

Steve and I have decided our plane trips will be comfortable so we opted to pay more to sit close to the front of the plane. When our letter and number were called, we were able to secure the very first two seats on the plane.

Best decision ever! We arrived late in Phoenix and once we got off the plane, we had maybe 10 minutes to get to the gate before it took off. I practically ran and kept watching Steve to be sure he could keep up. Since the connecting gate was 1/4 mile away I started to go faster and told Steve I would make then hold the plane!

3.Angel in a Captains uniform came in from nowhere.

God provides help exactly when we need it! On my way a pilot asked if he could help me. I said I am looking for B5 gate. He told me to take a right and all the way down. I started to sprint and heard the speaker say, “B5 gate is closing and all are on board.” Luckily when I got to the gate, the door was still open. I told the lady taking tickets, our San Diego plane was late and we are here. I told her my husband Steve was coming and cannot run due to a stroke. She was kind and we waited still Steve got there. We both went down the ramp and the door closed behind us. Needless to say                  WE MADE THE PLANE! All the “What ifs…” no longer mattered.

Helen in one scenario did not catch her train because a child delayed her by stepping in front of her. Our late flight almost stopped us from our connecting flight. What was the difference here?

FIRST and foremost was PRAYER!!!! I truly believe the Prayer, Vision, and Faith in God made our destiny’s outcome Good, good and very good.

Without the prayer, I do not believe we would have made it. Every step along the way was guidance. I believe God helped us with the decision to purchase better tickets. I believe the front 2 seats were meant for us. I believe the angel pilot helped me know exactly where to go and not waste time looking at Gate signs. ALL was in DIVINE ORDER and TIMING due to Prayer!

On your TRIPS and VACATIONS remember to PRAY and put GOD FIRST and in charge. Visualize what you want to happen, so the energy is out there waiting to manifest for your highest good!

Abigail and Steve

Dear Friends,

It is PRIDE month, celebrating the LGTBQ community, and I was asked to write an article for the Opinion Section of the San Diego Union Tribune.
I included how important it is for us to love, accept and stand up for ALL people, for we are all children of God.
Here is the article.

“I am the executive director of the Poway Interfaith Team (POINT), which has been a nonprofit since 2006.
POINT has individual and faith organization memberships, from all over the San Diego County. Members are people from many different faiths,
backgrounds and cultures. They are people of color, and people who are in the LGTBQ community. We are an interfaith organization which recognizes
the beauty and importance of a wide variety of people working, playing, and enjoying meals together. Our uniqueness is what benefits POINT and the
community as well as the programs we organize such as our annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Services, Interfaith Harmony Breakfasts, Interfaith Awareness Week,
and other events and symposiums co-hosted with different organizations. We all believe our differences and similarities are what make us strong,
compassionate, and effective. We honor each one’s strengths and help each other’s weaknesses.

Many POINT members show up to support faith groups that have been victimized by anti-Semitic actions, such as graffiti and/or harm to people’s lives.
We have formed prayer circles and prayer vigils for our Muslim, Sikh and Jewish brothers and sisters who were victimized in their homes and places of worship.
We have showed up at press conferences and marches for those who need our support. We are appalled by people who display such criminal behaviors.

I speak for myself and for many other people in POINT about how shocked and dismayed we are by the recent outlandish behaviors of people in political power
who are trying to de-evolve us as human beings. Human beings are not just White Anglo Saxon Protestant. Human beings are uniquely diverse in faith, culture,
ethnicity, race, nationality, gender and sexual preference. Those who are trying to stop diversity education, such as the Carlsbad council members and their
3-2 vote on flags at city hall, and the Texas leaders banning education on diversity equity and inclusion, is cruelly sending us back to the days of Nazi Germany.
Our children are suffering and do not feel safe in their skin, at home or at school. The White nationalist philosophy is infiltrating our country at all levels.

This has got to stop! We must open our eyes, and recognize this as an in-home terrorist activity.

As a New Thought minister, I believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God.
“Each person is an individualization of Spirit/God and that all people are individualizations of the one Spirit. God is Divinity made visible.”
(Quote from Dr. Ernest Holmes) Every man, woman, child regardless of faith, color, culture, ethnicity, transgender or gender identification are all
connected by the essence of God within. There is no other, there is only one (God) expressing in different forms.

I believe in a God of love, compassion, and nonjudgment. I believe God created us to be uniquely different for the purpose of our spiritual growth
to learn how to love and serve God, by loving and serving all people, all faiths, all nationalities, all cultures, all ethnicities, all races,
all genders and all people including the LGBTQ community. Love is love and who we choose to love is our choice on Earth. Let us judge not and condemn not; l
et us love with open hearts and minds. We are here to serve others, love others, find compassion and joy in life. It is time we devote our time to those values
and qualities.

Rev. Dr. Abigail Albert
Executive Director of the Poway Interfaith Team (POINT)”

Dear Friends,

Do you remember the nursery rhyme, “Humpty Dumpty”? It is a sad poem saying Humpty could not be put together again after falling off the wall.
I have a Positively Mother Goose nursery rhyme book by Dianne & Julia Loomans and Karen Kolberg. I plan to read these lovely rhymes to our granddaughter.
Many of the original nursery rhymes were scary and negative. This new book is delightful. Here is the Humpty Dumpty rhyme.

“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall:
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Helped to put Humpty together again.”

In the book there is a cute picture of Humpty as a jigsaw puzzle. I thought of myself and all the pieces of my life and how with time and patience
every piece brought me to my understanding and purpose in life. I would not be who I am without the journey of all those jigsaw experiences. For example,
one puzzle piece of my life was a divorce. Although it was an emotional draining time, it was necessary to start me on my journey to discover New Thought.
Once the New Thought piece was in place, it brought be to an AGNT (Association for Global New Thought) conference where I met Steve.
Once the Steve piece was in place, our journey and purpose led us to the Interfaith Movement, and the founding of POINT Poway Interfaith Team.
There are more puzzle pieces to come, and I am excited for them to be in my life. Each part completes the whole. All glued together with love.❤

Humpty -Symbolizes you and me.
Fall – We all have fallen in faith, health, hope, dreams, crisis’s.
King’s horses and men – God as Love, in and though each of us and others, have brought us the guidance, the purpose, the answers, the hope, the health,
the solutions to all situations in our lives.
Each helped to put the pieces back together again as we recognize our original wholeness in, as and of God.

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle. Each piece, whether we label it good or bad, is necessary for our spiritual growth, understanding and contribution to the whole.
LOVE is the glue necessary for all the pieces to be in place. We can be grateful and value each piece of our life puzzle for each piece is GOD in action,
as we learn and become self realized in our lives.

Everything you have experienced has been necessary to bring you to where you are today!
Which puzzle pieces are in your life?
Can you recognize how each piece was important in your life journey?
What have you learned from each piece to create the Wonderful You?

All of God’s Love brought us together again,
Abigail and Steve