Dear Friends,

I have been reading a wonderful book Ordinary Mysticism, Your Life As Sacred Ground by Mirabai Starr, one of the presenters at Interfaith Awareness Week.I am finding it “extraordinary” in its ordinary mysticism.

We all, at least some of us, think of a Mystic as a person who is always in touch with God and lives an exemplary life. That may be so, however in Mirabai’s book she brings Mysticism, down the mountain and into ordinary everyday life. An ordinary mystic is YOU and ME.

Life everyday is sacred. The ground we walk on is sacred. Every activity is sacred and holy. Mirabai Starr says,”Mysticism is a way of seeing – beyond the turmoil, the rights and wrongs, the good guys and villains – to the radiant HEART of things. The mystical gaze reveals the miracle in the summer thunderstorm and the bowl of ramen. It glimpses the face of the holy in the withered dahlias and blesses the sound of the siren in the middle of the night. It quickens the heart and soothes the soul. A mystic gazes through the eyes of love and reveals itself as the only true thing.”

As I read the book I am looking at my life, not only the great things that happen, but also the frustrations of life, the anxieties of doing a job, preparing for an event or company. Everything is SACRED. The Mystic part is RECOGNIZING the sacred in the mundane. Taking a moment to breathe and bring God forth in your heart and mind.

• Can you do this when you are stuck in traffic and late for an appointment?
• Can you do this when a friend or family member just got diagnosed with a medical condition?
• Can you do this when you are frustrated with your computer and the irritating technician does not seem to understand or get the job done?

Can you take a moment to breathe in GOD, the Holy Presence, The One and ONLY into the life situation as LOVE for you, for your family and friends, for the technician or any other experience you are having that day? I have had to do this for all three situations above. I look out my window and gaze at the beautiful trees, hills in the back of our house and spend a moment in stillness. I may not be on top of a mountain, however the stillness permeates my body, my soul, my spirit and I can come back with a peaceful centeredness. Everything and everyone is sacred and when we realize all is meant to bless us, we become an ordinary mystic with a heart full of love and kindness.

All is Sacred. All is Holy. You are Sacred. You are Holy. You are a Mystic.

Dear Friends,

Have you ever been to a live performance on stage? Most of us have and sometimes our seats are way in the back or maybe in the balcony. Sometimesit is a long distance to the stage so we bring a pair of binoculars with us to focus better and get a clearer image. Have you done that?

Our prayers are like binoculars. If we don’t’ have a clear vision or feeling in mind, our prayer outcome can be blurry or scattered. Focused prayer is gratefully telling GOD, the Universal Spirit what our heart desires. We release this prayer knowing it will be answered. Affirming Divine Outcome is like watering a seed. It will grow into what we place into the ground. Our focused prayer can be an affirmation everyday, like watering the seed.

“The universe simply says YES to what we focus on and where we use the most energy. Your actions and your words need to be in alignment. Remember who you are (God in form) and that an abundant universe is always working in your favor.” Lauren Martin ( Science of Mind Magazine)

There are also times when our fears, and anxieties get in the way. They are not in alignment with our vision. Put them on the back burner and… Make Your Vision So Clear That Your Fears Become Irrelevant.”-Kerwin Rae

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD…

August 25, 2026

Dear Friends,

I love this Bible Verse, especially when I feel anxious about a new idea to pursue, a new event to plan, a new place to visit, an important meeting, a situation I am hoping to resolve. I take a deep breath and say this verse,”Be Still and Know that I AM GOD.”

This brings me a sense of peace that passes understanding. It reminds me GOD is first and foremost in all my actions with all people. It brings me back to Trust, Faith and Believe God is the still small voice within guiding and directing me and everyone around me. When I JUST KNOW God is guiding me and creating something new and wonderful what is there to be anxious about?

“Still Praying”                                                                                                                       ” So near was I to giving up                                                                                                On God and Answered prayer.                                                                                             I told God how to fill my cup.                                                                                        The what, the when, the where.

Until I sensed by Spirit’s prod                                                                                             a holy phrase to find:                                                                                                          Be still and know that I am God!                                                                                      These words transformed my mind…”

by Devin R Jones. ( Daily Word)

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Dear Friends,

I am still filled up to overflowing from the wonderful Interfaith Awareness Week we had. We met so many new people and were thrilled to see friends from all over the world show up. It was a Global family gathering again.Each presenter was passionate about the wonderful work they are doing to create peace building and bridging around the world.

Our friend Rev. Dr. Ahmondra McClendon really explained the difference between “Interfaith” and “Multifaith.” Multifaith goes beyond known religious traditions to include other ways to come together as people and share sacred space.

Other wonderful topics included and more…:

• Building Bridges
• Ecology
• Instrument for Climate Change
• Heaven on Earth
• Earth Justice
• Civic Engagement
• Interfaith Cooperation
• Two Wings of Leadership – Balance and Partnership of Men and Women
• Interfaith Youth
• Guardians of Creation
• Ubuntu Garden – Global Safe Space
• Wisdom of Belonging
• Peace Concert with Daniel Nahmod
• Wonderful Closing of an incredible week.
• “Meet me There” the Interfaith Musical by Ruth Sharone
• and Reknown Leaders sharing what our NEXT STEP is…INTERSPIRITUALITY!  Talks by Matthew Fox, Kurt Johnson, Mirabai Starr, Ben Bowlen, WOWED us!

ALL Presentations were RECORDED and will be on the website as a YouTube Presentation. As they come in, Steve will post them! Keep checking for your favorites!!!

All this and more resonated in my heart and filled me with “I want to do it all and make more of a difference.” It was almost overwhelming.

Then I remembered a song Daniel Nahmod sang, “Do Just ONE Thing…”I cannot do it all, however everyday I CAN do just ONE thing to bring PEACE, JOY and HARMONY on earth. I do it by listening to my heart and do what I am guided by God to do.If we all did just ONE thing each day to make a difference in someone’s life, just one person, just one activity, just one kind word, just one lending of support, just ONE THING, we will have accomplished a lot and WILL make a difference in this beautiful world.

Blessings, Abigail and Steve

Dear Friends,

So far we have had the most AMAZING two days of IAW! The Global Connection is palpable and sacred.

• POINT Interfaith Team had wonderful breakout sessions to discuss our faiths and deepen our global relationships.
• In the Nuclear Prayer Day program, we prayed for the world to be at peace and not allow what happened at Nagasaki to ever happen again.
• We now know how best to sustain our future and be good to our environment.
• We were shown how important Spiritual Education is for our youth and how we can live our lives compassionately. We can embrace our differences and still respect and honor each other.
• We know that our Divine masculine and Divine feminine sides need to be in balance as wings of leadership.
• We all caught the spirit of “UBUNTU” and know “I Am Because We Are.”

Join us today and the rest of the week through Saturday for the most AMAZING experience of Love, Connection, Leadership and sharing of Compassionate work around the globe.

Today, much of our focus is on PEACE. Read below for Tuesday’s events.

This week is a GIFT to you! It is FREE and all our incredible speakers are GIVING of their time and talent FREE, all over the world. We are meeting our brothers and sisters and discovering the GOD given talent and purpose each one has and is willing to share. There is a Peace Concert tonight by Daniel Nahmod. AMAZING!

Continue to scroll throughout the week to be AMAZED by all the different programs from “Building Bridges,” to Building Heaven on Earth” to youth in Interfaith work, justice, forgiveness, Belonging, musicals and many other explorations in peace building, faith traditions, with a Jewish Shabbat Service. We end with a wonderful program on “Interspiriutality, Heritage and Future” with the renown Matthew Fox and others.

A quote from Matthew Fox’s book, Interspirituality:

“The goal is not to replace religions, but to:

• Identify universal spiritual truths found across all major religions.
• Uphold each religion as a unique exquisite pathway to realization.
• Overcome religious exclusivity and cultivate love and collaboration.
• Reclaim long hidden esoteric spiritual traditions within most religions.
• Establish feminine wisdom lineages and cultivate female mastery.
• Correct gender imbalance and male domination.

Interfaith is evolving and expanding. Come join us this week and be part of the process and path.

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When the week is over the recordings of these amazing seminars, music, discussions will be on the WIN website.

Dear Friends

How do you view your life?

• Is it one continuous journey?
• Is it always a leap of faith?
• Is it fast and explosive?
• Is it slow, and methodical?

No matter how you view your life, it is always One step and then another.

I spoke with a beloved friend the other day and she was ready to begin a new life journey where what she created would work into a prosperous endeavor. Steve and I agreed.

She is an experienced minister, wedding coordinator, wholistic practitioner and a person you can come to for prayer and consultation. She is also a licensed boat Captain and owns her own boat. So many wonderful successful life experiences. You can just see those stepping stones in her life, and now she is ready to move onto a new step in life.

We know no mater what we have done in the past, GOD is never finished with us and continues to give us new Life Directions. We were never made to have just ONE job, one occupation, one purpose. We were meant to put one foot in front of the other on our life road. Complete one step and be ready for the next. We grow, we evolve, we suffer, we grow, we evolve, we celebrate good, we grow, we evolve, we learn continuously and grow spiritually!

Are you feeling there is more out there for you? Are you in the middle of “Divine Discontent?” What is speaking to your heart today?

STOP, Reconnect with your Spirit and LISTEN. The answers are there.                            What makes your heart sing?                                                                                      What brings you excitement?                                                                                             What is joyful for you?

Give yourself QUIET time to open to a NEW IDEA, a NEW THOUGHT.

The next step is waiting for your footstep. Trust and have Faith. For you are on God’s path and all is well.

Dear Friends,

I have 2 questions for you. Have you ever asked yourself,                                         “How Shall I Be Remembered?”“How Have I Imprinted on this world?

Years ago when I was teaching Kindergarten, my co-teacher and I raised ducklings, We took the children on a field trip to a farm and gathered several duck eggs to bring back with us. It was a wonderful learning experience for the children and us. We set up the lights and box with everything the eggs needed to stay warm and cozy until hatching. Ducks immediately Imprint on their mothers when they hatch. Mama duck is the first one they see and it lasts forever. Our three little duckies, Huey, Dewy and Louie imprinted on both my teacher buddie Jamie and me. We became the mamas. When the ducks were big enough we took them outside and let them swim in a tiny children’s pool. When they got out they immediately came running over to me or Jamie. It was so much fun to watch.

This story is really a reminder how much we imprint on people, especially the first introduction. We need to be aware, how we will be remembered, How will our words and actions affect that person. Our feeling tone and words can make a difference in a person’s life at that moment, that day and in the future. Are your words imprinting love, caring, compassion? Does the person you are talking to feel seen, heard and remembered?

How shall I be remembered today as I go about my business, run my errands, speak to my family, run a meeting? How will the words I use imprint on the people I am with?

“Asking yourself how you want to be remembered is a great way to decide how you want to live the rest of your Life!”— AVIS Viswanathan

I really like this quote. How you want to be remembered can be the driving force in how you choose to live the rest of your life! Human Life is short. BE what you want to BE in this world and choose your words to reflect how you imprint YOUR life and on other’s lives.

Hello Everyone,

It is good to be home after a wonderful, yet sad trip to Philly. Steve did the memorial for our sister in law. We were happy to spend time with our niece and her husband. Before we left, of course I did prayer treatment for a safe secure trip to the airport, on the plane, going to our niece’s home and while we were there. Steve of course did a wonderful memorial talk. It was good to reconnect with Lisa’s (sister in law) family and the Albert family.

There were times when all I could do was surrender, surrender, surrender to God for the highest and best for everyone on the plane. On our trip to Philly we encountered storms and rain showers for 6 hours. Needless to say, it was a bumpy ride! I kept knowing God’s Wisdom and Intelligence was in charge guiding the pilots as they meandered around and through the storms.

The ‘Daily Word’ said, “I let go, let God and trust my faith.” There was nothing I could do but trust in God, have faith and surrender to the HIGHEST and INNERMOST GOD within the pilots and navigator.

The trip home was much easier and faster. However we had a glitch when it came to securing an Uber driver. Our phone kept saying he was on his way, then the phone said he was here, however no Uber showed up. We were in a bit of a quandry. We kept seeing people around us waving to their drivers, being picked up and leaving easily. I walked up and down looking for that particular car and license plate. Never found it. I started to feel myself panic! I was tired and just wanted to go home. I could feel the fear arise in me and then I stopped! I said a silent prayer thanking God for bringing us the right Uber driver, quickly and easily and we get home soon. I surrendered the outcome to God for our highest and best. Steve then got a new message on his phone saying another Uber driver was on her way. Sure enough, within minutes she arrived and we were home within 1/2 hour.

One of the Declaration of Principles we believe in is,”We are surrounded by the Creative mind, which receives the direct impress of our thoughts and acts upon it.”
When we CHANGE our thinking we CHANGE our Lives and our Experience!

All I had to do was change my thinking, from fear to faith, knowing God within is receiving my thoughts and acting upon them!

When in doubt, when in fear, when in worry, STOP! SURRENDER TO GOD what you WANT. We can’t always FIX things. We have to allow God be God within us to do what is best for us.

Surrender, Surrender, Surrender

Dear Friends,
Recently I wrote about our ONENESS with God and the beautiful quote by
Thich Hnat Hanh.
“Enlightenment is when the WAVE recognizes and knows
It is the OCEAN.
This beautiful truth of our ONENESS as and of God also is the
Enlightenment of HEALING.
Ernest Holmes said, “Humanity is Divinity in form.”
When we recognize and know this Truth, healing takes on a new meaning.

We all have our healing and health challenges. That is a human experience for many. Ernest Holmes also said,
“Healing is the discovery of the Divinity Within”
“We can hold two things simultaneously; the reality of what’s appearing and the deeper reality of what can never be taken away.” EH

I am going to share some Healing, and Wholeness quotes from leading minister/teachers for you to contemplate and meditate on.
• “Disease is a fact but not a truth. It is an experience but not a reality. We are always whole as the Life of God.”
Rev. Dr. Soni Cantrell Smith
• “Know that Divine Life is present, active and whole as you and/or the person you are praying for, regardless of what the body is doing. In the knowing something is always healed even when the form doesn’t survive.”
Rev. Dr. Soni Cantrell Smith
• ” The body, the faithful, brilliant, blameless body – can only correspond to what the mind BELIEVES is true.”
Rev. Dr. David Ault

Last year when I was going through four bulging discs and excruciating pain in my legs, it was hard to know my truth as God, Spirit. I relied on my Prayer partner, Rev. Kathleen Johnson, my husband Steve and others who prayed for me, knowing my truth. My body heard, responded and got better.
I also took the human footsteps and sought out Physical Therapy and our Chinese Medicine doctor, Dr. Bret Mosher whose incredible treatments helped me go from being in a wheelchair to walking again.

One thing to remember while healing is, THE BODY HEARS YOU. It feels your emotions, anxiety, fears and responds accordingly. If you cannot Spiritually pray for yourself, ask a minister or practitioner to KNOW your truth and then YOU surrender into the TRUTH.
As the wave (human you) knows itself as the ocean (God ), know that truth for yourself.

Dear Friends,

“Choose what freedom means for you, then step into it and celebrate! You have the freedom to create the life of your dreams!Today let freedom ring for you!”   Daily Spark, by Rev. Dr. Bill Marchiony

It is hard to believe we are coming up on 250 years as a country, based on freedom and democracy. It is precious and I am so grateful I live in this country, in spite of its trials, turmoils and troubles, because I can say what I want, think what I want and go where I want. FREEDOM is precious and cannot be taken lightly. Many countries and empires over the years of our worlds’ existance have fallen. We have a responsibility to uphold what we have and what our forefathers gave us in the Declaration of Independence.

Prayer works! Pray each day for the Highest Good for our country. Pray for High Conscious people to guide and lead our country. Pray for the wisdom to know WHO are the best ones to govern. God can only work through people. When you pray, feel and know HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS within yourself first and then know God works in and through all people and High Consciousness is already there within them to be recognized and acted upon.

Everyone is made in God’s image and likeness. Everyone is Divine.Everyone can have a Saul (man killing Jesus’ followers) to Paul ( man who supports the good and beauty of Jesus’s followers) experience on the road of life.

FREEDOM is precious. FREEDOM is God ordained for All people. Let us keep what is right and true by lifting up our hearts, minds and actions in service for the highest good for all.

YOU have the right to SPEAK your truth.                                                                     YOU have a right to SERVE for what ever fills your heart.                                              YOU have a right to WRITE words of power and fulfillment.                                              YOU have a right to be GOD on earth.

“Humanity is Divinity made visible.” -Ernest Holmes