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.

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.

Elementary teacher and her students using laptop during computer class at school.

The end of the school year is almost here. Children, teens, young adults will be happy to graduate to the next phase of their life, whether it be the next grade,a new school, college or their first professional job. We are happy for all of them. Let us be happy for our blessed teachers who give their life to that profession. It is truly a calling and a service.

As a retired elementary school teacher, I still love the idea of classrooms. I loved creating interesting and appealing bulletin boards, revising lessons, bringing new ideas to the academics as well as art, music and fun. I always prayed I made a difference in the lives of the children and parents. I always appreciated the parents for their support and help in the classroom. I tried to make the parent conferences enjoyable even if I had a concern about a student. I remember my principal telling me every time he walked by my classroom during conference week he heard laughter!

LIFE is our classroom and our teacher. Everyday is a new day and if we are open and receptive, we will learn something new. Every person we meet, everyone in our family, every co-worker, every committee team is our teacher. Our pets are our teachers as well. We are teachers to others. When we realize this truth, our actions, words and deeds become more inspired, purposeful, kind, and considerate. When you are kind, you are teaching kindness. When you are helpful you are teaching the importance of supporting someone. YOU are the teacher in your life. Everyone else is a teacher in YOUR life. Life lessons are learned with, by and through each other.

We know when we speak hurtful words or do hurtful actions, they go right into the person’s consciousness and this person may then react with others in a hurtful way. We also know the Law of Circulation takes place and is a great teacher. What you PUT OUT to others in the Universe, always comes back to you. The Eastern tradition calls this Karma.

Teachers are often those we do not get along with. When we have difficulty relating to a particular person, we are in the position to stop, pause and ask ourselves, what is this person teaching us? We may not be able to figure it out and if not our heart, mind response can be, they are suffering in some way in their life. Put an invisible shield of LIGHT and LOVE around yourself. Send them thought energies of love, kindness and prayers.

Treat darkness with light,

Treat hurtfulness with kindness.

Treat confusion with inspiration

See the God within becoming known to them and act accordingly.

Always Forgive!

If you have a teacher, thank them for their service, and their kindness. Appreciate what they do. Become the teacher you would like to have in the past your life.

Blessings, Abigail and Steve

Dear Friends,

We have several friends going through extreme health challenges right now and I keep them in my prayers everyday. As I went through my health challenges, they held me up and now it is my honor to hold them up.

The May Daily Word said, “No matter what their need, I remember my role is to hold the high watch for them. I affirm God’s presence and power. divine order is established and right and perfect outcomes are already unfolding.”

As I sat in my special chair during my morning meditation these words came to me, “I live in a human body. I am not my body. I AM Spirit living in a human body. God lives LIFE in and through me, as me. We are eternally intertwined and ONE.”

I realize this truth for all those I pray for. Spirit within them is their True Reality. What is Spirit? What is God? What is Divine Consciousness? IT is always wholeness, health, joy, wisdom, intelligence, guidance in them. Once we realize the body is the effect of who we are, we declare the truth that God is the cause of who we are. When we pray we focus on the Mighty I AM within us. That is our reality. It is not what is seen, but what is unseen that is REAL.

“Whether I have a cold or am coping with a serious illness can be restored to wholeness. Knowing the power of my thought and their effect. I keep my words positive and focused on truth. Thoughts of illness diminish as I relax and attune to the divine life flowing throughout my body and envision it renewing each cell.”(May Daily Word)

Focus on the Truth of YOU. See God/Spirit flowing in each cell glowing with health, love and joy. Your reality is God living and reigning within you as God lives life through you.

“God within me is mighty to heal. He healeth me of all my diseases and removes all fear from me. My God within is now healing me of all sickness and pain, and is bringing comfort to my soul. God is my Life, I cannot be sick. I hear the voice of Truth telling me to arise and walk, for I am healed.” Dr. Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind

Dear Friends,

In the ‘Science of Mind’ magazine, don Miguel Ruiz was quoted,

“Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally…Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”

Diana Ensign says, “We live from a place of authenticity, where the opinions of other people no longer control our emotions.”

About 4 months ago I experienced a harsh letter from an Interfaith colleague of mine. It was a long detailed email with everything she thought I did wrong on a team preparing for an event and even more. I read it and at first I was a bit shocked. I read it again and asked God to show me a new perspective on this letter. As I read it, coming from her point of view, Yes, I did step in and shared thoughts about how the program should be handled. I had been coordinator of many of these programs for years so I thought I knew the ins and outs and possible downfalls of how this team was coordinating the event. Problem was,

I was NOT the chair of this team. The chair felt threatened. I admit I overstepped when the team thought everything was in place and I proceeded to say it needed to be another way. I realized she had valid points and it was time for me to LET GO and allow others to proceed in their own way.

I chose not to take it personally. I chose to come from her point of view and look at it from a different perspective. I could see how I needed to let go and let the committee be what it needed to be.

I also chose to not let the letter control my emotions. I recognized I felt a bit hurt at first, because from my point of view, I was coming from a place of caring and wanted the event to be a success. However, I read her words carefully so I could see her perspective.

In my response to her, I “agreed with mine adversary” as Jesus taught. I chose to make amends and reconcile with her. I said I saw her point of view and thanked her. I also said I apologize for over stepping and I was only coming from a place of Love wanting the highest and best for the event. With that, we resolved this issue.

We all can resolve conflict without anger. There is truth in conflicting words on both sides. It is up to us to look carefully for the truth, view from a different perspective and make amends when necessary. Come from a place of Love and the Divine Solution will present itself.

Dear Friends,

Happy Mother’s Day coming up this Sunday, May 11th .

Mother’s Day is a beautiful celebration of love, compassion, caring, forgiveness, sadness and many other emotions. Everyone has a special relationship to the mother who raised them, whether it be a biological, adoptive, grandmother, aunt or older sister. A mother’s love can also come from a dad, grandfather, uncle or brother who were instrumental in raising and teaching us. Although we focus on moms and grandmas, many people in our lives have shaped us into who we are today. We acknowledge them and we love them for their guidance.

Sometimes there is sadness on Mother’s Day for the moms and caregivers we have lost. He honor and remember them on this day. It is also a time for forgiveness for the moms who we feel did not care for us as we needed, or are estranged from us now. We can love and forgive them for maybe they did not know what they did. Does this sound familiar? In pain and on the cross, Jesus asked God to Forgive those who persecuted him. He set the supreme example of forgiveness. Mothers Day is the perfect day to let go of sadness and to love and forgive.

Another Mother we want to bless is our dear Mother Earth who provides us with all we need to live on this planet; food, water, shelter, beauty. Not long ago we had an earthquake here in Southern CA and it reminded us Mother Earth needs to shake and move. We want to Bless her and Love her and help take care of her as she provides    for us.

“Earth is our Mother, nourishing and protecting us in every moment – giving us air to breathe, fresh water to drink food to eat and healing herbs to cure us, when we are sick.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

This Sunday we bless Mother Earth and pray everyone is able to be with their mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and/or those we love dearly. We honor all mothers in the human family of life.

“The tenderness of mothers’ love shows me the presence of God on earth.”              -May Daily Word

Love and Blessings, Abigail and Steve

Dear Friends,

In the May edition of the ‘Science of Mind’ magazine, Diana J Ensign talked about “Believing Mirrors.” I love that term. She quoted Julia Cameron, “Find people who you can go to for encouragement. Find those who are optimistic and reflect back to you your gifts, and embolden you to envision for yourselves what you may not yet have discovered within.”.” Sometimes we need our believer friends to reflect back to us who we are and encourage us in all we do. Having family and friends that are supportive is a gift of love.

When I was going through my back and leg pain challenge, I had to rely on Steve and my friends as Believing Mirrors, knowing my Truth. I am a divine child of the most high, forever perfect, whole and complete. I was in too much pain to pray and know the truth for myself. Because so many people were praying and declaring my truth for me, I was able to pray and see it for myself.

There will be naysayers in our life and unfortunately when we listen to the “you can’t, you shouldn’t, it won’t work” words of discouragement, we fall off our purposeful path where a God Given Idea falls away. My husband Steve is a Creative Visionary and Writer. He has said over the years, when he has an idea and someone says “you couldn’t possibly do that,” he goes ahead and does it.

Not only can supportive family and friends help us, we can become our own“believing mirror.” Stand in front of a mirror and say affirmations confirming your hearts desire, dream and goal. We know the more we say what we want, and feel it is ours already, the Universe (as our subconscious mind) will say YES.

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what they think into it.” –   Ernest Holmes

“Believing in Our Dreams,                                                                                                 Abigail and Steve

POPE FRANCIS

We are very saddened to hear of Pope Francis’s passing. He was beautiful soul, compassionate, caring and beloved. Our heartfelt prayers are with our Catholic brothers and sisters all over the world.  We know there is no death, just a doorway to the Divine Realm.  Be Glorious and filled with Joy.                                                                              With Love, Abigail and Steve Albert

“The People’s Pope.   The first Latin American Pontiff. Francis led with humility and simplicity while advocating for economic and social justice.”                                             San Diego Union Tribune 4.22.25

“We join the world in both mourning the death of Pope Francis and thanking God for his loving heart. We who carry an interfaith instinct for peace among religions, thank God for his generous spirit and wide embrace. ”                                                                    – Bishop Swing, Founder and President Emeritus of URI

Dear Friends,

Holy Week is here and Sunday is Easter, the day Jesus the Christ changed the world by rising up from death to show there is no death. Life is eternal.God through Jesus brought a new vision, new commandments and new understanding of God’s Love, Forgiveness and Will for all people.

Three verses come to mind.                                                                                               “I give to you a new commandment…Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” John 13:34

 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”Mark 12: 30-31

“Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” Luke 23:34

As humans we are here to unfold Spiritually, and learn from our mistakes.Jesus, as a brilliant teacher laid out what we are to do:

• Love and put God first
• Love everyone,
• Love ourselves,
• Forgive those who hurt us,
• Forgive ourselves for past mistakes and wrong doings,

Simply put, GOD LOVES us and we are to Love as GOD Loves. GOD FORGIVES us. We are to Forgive as GOD forgives.

All is meant to bless us. I mean ALL. When we are facing issues and heartaches with health, house, family, friends, let us put a blanket of LOVE around ALL people and situations including us. Call forth LOVE and watch GOD be God in the outcome. Miracles happen when you put God first, Love your neighbor as yourself and forgive all.

Let hurt and anger go. It no longer serves you. Our Master Teacher, Jesus the Christ, loved his torturers, forgave them and surrendered to his Highest Good!

HAPPY EASTER.

May you Rise in Love, Faith, Forgiveness and Peace,                                                        Abigail and Steve