My friend Rev. Michelle Ingalls sent me this quote by Father Thomas Keating. Such a beautiful truth stated by a beautiful and wise man. Let us keep that in mind when we meet people of different cultures, ethnicities, and gender preferences.

GOD loves us all. Who are we not to love one another. Remember this idea during this election year. Which candidate lifts people up, not tear them down? Which one is for ALL the people, not just a few rich ones. Which candidate is willing to take away a woman’s rights, the LGTBQ rights, or the elderly’s pension and social security? Read the 2025 Heritage Report and see how our freedoms will gradually be taken away with one of the candidates.

Our FREEDOM is on the line here. I am not willing to live under an authoritarian government when democracy is the heart beat of our country and our Founders vision.

We just watched the movie “American President,” and found it delightful as always. I love the quote, “Look to the CONTENT of His/Her CHARACTER, as a guide for choosing the right President.

Love one another, serve one another, be kind to one another, lift people up with your words and actions, and make ALL people your friends. Judge with Righteous Judgement.

‘MY PRAYER FOR MY COUNTRY’                                                                                by Dr. Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science

“Believing in the Divine destiny of the United States of America and in the preservation of liberty, security, and self-expression, I offer this, my prayer for my country:

I know that Divine Intelligence governs the destiny of the United States of America, directing the thought and the activity of all who guide its affairs.

I know that success, prosperity, and happiness are the gifts of freedom, and are the Divine heritage of everyone in this country.

I know that success, prosperity, and happiness are now operating in the affairs of every individual in this country.

I know that Divine guidance enlightens the collective mind of the people of this country, causing it to know that economic security may come to all without the loss of either personal freedom or individual self-expression.

I know that no one can believe or be led to believe that freedom must be surrendered in order to insure economic security for all.

The All-Knowing Mind of God contains the answer to every problem which confronts    this country.

I know that every leader in this country is now directed to this All-Knowing Mind and has the knowledge of a complete solution to every problem, and each is compelled to act upon this knowledge to the end that abundance, security, and peace shall come to all.

And I know that this spiritual democracy shall endure, guaranteeing to everyone in this country personal liberty, happiness, and self-expression.

And so it is. Amen.”

Dear Friends,

We have just completed our 8th annual Interfaith Awareness Week. Thank you  Rev. Dr. Steve Albert for coordinating this fabulous event with speakers and participants from all over the world (Nigeria, Bosnia, Austria, Spain, Katar, India, England, USA and more.)

We are so grateful to each and every one of you who contributed your time, expertise and insight. We also thank those who got on the website links to listen and participate in these presentations as well. All presenters not only focused on projects, purposes and visions, they all shared the belief that we are ONE HUMAN FAMILY, ONE WORLD, and each life matters and is valued. Everyone saw the Divinity in each other and that we are all expressions of God. Another recurring idea was what happens in one part of the world, affects the whole world. We are all so interconnected. We do not live in a isolated separated world. We may not experience happenings in another part of the world, however we feel the consciousness and the affects in our bodies and minds. We bless zoom, which allowed us to see and talk to people in many countries. New friendships and connections were formed.

Eugene Holden, PScP (SoM) said, ” We are connected to everyone and everything that comes to our conscious awareness.” I want to add even our unconscious awareness. One of our presenters said how safe she felt in a different country and when she returned to her present country she felt fearful and unsafe. It is the consciousness of the people that we live with and move with. Daily we must make a conscious effort to BE the Consciousness of Peace, Love, Compassion and Understanding, so when someone comes into our physical space, he or she can feel a change for good. We are and they are then, “living and moving and having their being in GOD Consciousness.” What a difference we can make on earth. As I said in a previous weekly message, each one person is the Infinite and makes a difference. Eugene Holden also said, “Practicing oneness is living as if everything is connected”  Can you live as if you are one with the tree outside your window, or your neighbor walking down the street, or the person who cut you off in traffic? Yes you can and I thank you for doing it and being it.

At one of the presentations, this video was played and everyone was deeply moved by it. it brought tears to some people’s eyes. Please celebrate and love our brothers and sisters around the world. Remember to be humble and kind.

(If clicking this link does not work, copy and paste it on your browser and it will take you there.)

Tim McGraw – Humble And Kind (Official Music Video) (youtube.com)

Dear Friends,

We are in the midst of Interfaith Awareness Week, loving all the beautiful programs and speakers from different faiths and cultures from all over the world. We can feel our Unity and Oneness.

I have a CD in my car which I love to listen to called “Songs for Humanity” by Cahill & Delene. One of those songs is called” Shades of Brown.”

The basic lyrics are:

“I have never seen a white man.

I have never seen a black man,

I have never seen a yellow woman, purple, red or blue man.

I have never seen a green man, orange or tangerine man…..

We are all just different shades of BROWN and stand on common ground.”

The lyrics go on to say how we are all the same on the inside.To hear the whole song go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6KMmPr1YKM

Edwina Cowan (Spiriutal Playdate.com) says let’s “Celebrate Skin.” We can celebrate our skin color and also know our beautiful skin color does not define us. Our skin only protects what is essential inside our human body, to live here on earth. What is essential is our Godness, our Spirit, our Christ/Buddha Consciousness that guides and directs us everyday in our life as we live inside our human bodies.

Kathy Juline, RScP says, “You have a name but you are not your name. You have a body but you are not your body. You have a story but you are not your story. Who are you? You are a center of God-consciousness, perfect and timeless.” (August Science of Mind Magazine)

Not only do we need to remember this TRUTH for ourselves, we need to remember this TRUTH for everyone we meet. We can recognize the color of people’s skin, recognize their culture, faith and ethnicity and also know their Divinity. I believe each person chooses to live in a particular body for Spiritual Growth, What we must always SEE is the Divine Presence within ALL people, YOU included.

We greet our brothers and sisters this week participating in Interfaith Awareness Week and with love, joy and see them for who they really are:

GOD individualized.

I SEE YOU,

Abigail and Steve

Dear Friends,

When we BLESS people we are bestowing God’s Love upon them. God loves ALL of us, no exceptions.

This poem is written by Mirabai Starr (Spirituality and Health)

BLESSING

Beloved One

You who endlessly create, sustain, transform and rebirth the Universe,

Thank you

For the luminous beings from every wisdom tradition, Known and Unknown,

Whispering secrets from the past and dancing among us right now,

Lighting our way,

With their poetry and tears, their exile and liberation,

Their resounding no and their full-bodied yes.

For the women who step up and take their seat against all odds.

For the men who bend to clear the weeds from their path.

And the ones whose true humanity defies, dissolves and absorbs all gender.

For Black femmes and brown girls, for Native elders and Asian babies.

For the image of God shinning from the faces of the blind and those rolling

in wheelchairs,

The ones who utter wisdom without words or live long lives without partners.

In brokenness and mending, in dismantling and tending.

For the radical rebel who embodies clear-eyes conviction.

Linking arms with those on the margins and making songs for the voiceless.

And the peacemaker who sees beyond duality.

Flowing like water around boulders in the stream, carrying us back home

to love.

For a thousand faces offered into the ground in solidarity with those who cannot breathe.

A thousand bodies rooted like small mountains in meditation.

A thousand pairs of hands weaving prayer rugs, harvesting pumpkins,

brewing tea.

For the lotus flower with its roots reaching unapologetically into the mud.

Its petals opening quietly to the sky.

For our shattered hearts when our loved ones die or choose to love another.

When we behold the suffering of those who do not have clean water to drink or Enough rice to make it through another day.

Of the incarcerated and victims of torture and refugees forced to leave the land they love.

For the blessing of red wine in a clay cup, a loaf of braided bread.

A day of rest

Thank you beloved one, for the ability to give thanks.

To give gratitude in spite of and also because of everything,

To say thank you, thank you, for the way you flower into everything that is.

Penetrating and saturating all that is,

Blessing exactly what is with your boundless, extravagant, impassible Beauty.

Blessings, Abigail and Steve