Monthly Archives: June 2025

What Are You Seeking?

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Dear Friends,

We will be walking our beautiful LABYRINTH
this Saturday beginning at 10:30am
Our theme will be “What You Are Seeking, Is Also Seeking You.”

What is a Labyrinth?

Labyrinths are a walking meditation that are often seen as metaphors of our life. The walking meditation can be used for reflection, and problem solving with daily issues.

“Walking the Labyrinth has reemerged today as a metaphor for the spiritual journey and as a powerful tool for transformation. This walking meditation is an archetype, a mystical ritual found in all religious traditions.

It quiets the mind and opens the soul. The potential of the labyrinth is to inspire change, and renew. It serves as a guide to help us develop the higher level of human awareness we need to survive in the 21st century.” From Walking a Sacred Path by Lauren Artress.

A labyrinth is not a maze. A maze is designed to confuse you. A labyrinth has only one path that leads in a circuitous way to the center. It is designed to find your way. This is what makes it a path for meditation.

Science has shown when wearing electrodes, and walking the labyrinth, the walkers automatically experience an Alpha brain state (Meditative state of mind). Even sight impaired people using a raised finger labyrinth exhibit the same Alpha wave.

Benefits of Labyrinths

  1. Beneficial in reducing stress.
  2. Helps quiet the mind.
  3. Opens the heart for prayer.
  4. Promotes the interaction of the mind, body and spirit.
  5. Fosters creativity.
  6. Increases personal and community transformation.
  7. Promotes Wellness. Helps heal present and past wounds.
  8. Increases self-awareness.
  9. Contributes to Spiritual Growth.
  10. Increases right brain activity. Balances both spheres.

LOVE IS…

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Dear Friends,

JUNE is a popular month for LOVE and Weddings. Steve and I were honored to officiate a wedding for our friend and neighbor. It was a lovely out door home service and reception. Our wedding ceremony was loved by all who attended. Many came up to us and said how inclusive the words were. We were blessed by so many who shared their warm feelings. The bride follows Buddhism and the groom follows Krishnamuti. Attendees ranged from fundamental Christians to other religions. LOVE was and is the center of it all.

Part of our ceremony says, “To be loved by another inspires one to seek dreams. To give love to another, gives one the comfort of being needed. Life is empty and void without Love’s presence. Love brings companionship, warmth and understanding. It is forgiving angry words which hurt and actions which seem unfair. It is caring for each other unselfishly. Love is letting go, allowing both of you to be yourselves and travel individual paths from time to time. But above all, Love brings two people together as partners through life’s journey.”

We also read the poem by Kahil Gibran, “On Marriage.” Parts of the poem said, “Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each of you be alone.

Even as the strings of a lute are alone, though they quiver with the same music. Stand together yet not too near together: for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the Oak tree and the Cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”

GOD Has given us LIFE through LOVE. Every morning we can stand in GODS Presence and be grateful God’s love pours through us for ourselves, for our family, our friends, and strangers in our midst.

  • LOVE is guidance, not dominance.
  • LOVE is nurturing, not hovering.
  • LOVE is given without strings attached.
  • LOVE is given without expecting a return or favor.
  • LOVE is genuine when we do not make our loved ones always do what WE want them to do. Our input is important and if we are a couple, decisions need to be made by and agreed on by both.
  • LOVE is allowing our children to BE Themselves, follow their hearts and the wisdom of their Spirit, not in their “earthly father’s” footsteps.
  • LOVE is Joy, Freedom, “Patience and Kind” (Bible)
  • LOVE is looking out for the well-being of others as well as oneself.

Loving You All,                                                                                                                  Abigail and Steve

FATHERS DAY

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Dear Friends,

Father’s Day is this Sunday and a time when we honor our dads, adoptive fathers, grandpas, uncles, mothers as fathers, and all who stepped in as a dad for us. This is the day I remember my “daddy” and Steve remembers his dad. Memories flood back and we smile and laugh, cry and pause knowing without that man we would not be where we are today.

My dad taught me how to swim, ice skate, dance, manners, and correct grammar. I used to ask my dad to check my school papers and then we would have to sit there for at least an hour while he perused my paper and help me correct any mistakes. He was an educator and would teach me why I needed to have a comma here or a capital there. When my dad and mother took me on road trips, I remember singing in the car and making up silly rhymes and goofy games. I love my dad and still miss him.

The beauty is, I know he is still with me always. Chief Seattle said, “Death is only a change of worlds.“ I believe life is eternal and our loved ones are always with us. The other side is but a breath and thought away, a door to open and walk through.

Today honor your father and/or the person who cared for you, loved you and wanted the best for you. Every person in our life is meant to be there. I believe we choose our parents, our families and even the seasonal friends along the way. For we are here to learn how to LOVE one another and to forgive one another. Perhaps your father wasn’t the best, so today may be the day you choose to forgive him for all his flaws and faults. Forgiving is not forgetting.

It is a releasing of the hurt to make room in your heart for greater good and love.

Remember GOD is your True Father. Love and worship God. You are God’s child first and foremost.

We wish you all a joyful Father’s Day!

WELCOME

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Dear Friends,
Rev. Dr. Missy Higginbotham talked about how much she liked the word “Welcome” in the book New Thoughts for Today.
She welcomed the new day, new people, new ideas.

I started thinking about the word “Welcome” and I like it too. Very often at faith centers there are “welcomers” for members and newcomers.
It always feels good when someone looks you in the eye and says “Welcome to our church, or Welcome to our community etc.” I have also been to places
where I walk through the door into a service, a meeting or conference where I was pretty much alone to navigate my way through unfamiliar territory.

There are a lot of people who are lonely and feel left out and alone in the world.
How can we make our brothers and sisters feel seen, known and welcomed.
Any time you smile at someone, they feel seen.
Any time you say hello or say a kind word, they feel seen and welcomed.

Our country and our world is divisive right now where so many people feel unloved, unwanted and unwelcomed. It is time to do what we can in our own
little part of the world and to be on the lookout for a person who looks lonely
or left out. BE welcoming to them. Smile and say a kind word. If someone
is on the outskirts of a conversation, bring them in with a gesture or a comment directed to th

And for those who are immigrants, refugees, remember the words from
the Bible. Leviticus 19:33-37 GNBUK
“Do not ill-treat foreigners who are living in your land. Treat them as you would a fellow-Israelite, and love them as you love yourselves.
Remember that you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.”

No one is a stranger. Who you see is who you are, for GOD is in all, and as all people. Be the “welcomer” in your life today.