Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.
– Dr.Ernest Holmes, Founder of Religious Science

Dear Friends,

As part of my morning meditation and contemplation, I love reading this prayer.  It is the Aramaic version of “The Lord’s Prayer.” After I read it, I ask Spirit, what words or phrases shall guide my life today.  As you read this beautiful version, ask yourself the same question.  You may be surprised what pops out for you, and then what manifests during the day.

The Lord’s Prayer

(Directly translated from Aramaic into English,
rather than from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English)

O cosmic Birther of all radiance & vibration!

Soften the ground of your being & carve out a space
within me where your Presence can abide.

Fill me with your creativity so that I may be empowered
to bear the fruit of your mission.

Let each of my actions bear fruit
in accordance with your desire.

Endow me with the wisdom to produce & share
what each being needs to grow & flourish.

Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind me,
as I release others from the entanglement of past mistakes.

Do not let me be seduced by that which would
divert me from my true purpose,
but illuminate the opportunities of the present moment.

For you are the ground & the fruitful vision,
The birth, power, & fulfillment,
As all is gathered & made whole once again.

Received this from the Center for Richer Living www.Richerliving.org

What guidance did you receive?
Is your heart and mind open to hear and feel the presence of Spirit within?
Is today the day you will be more creative in your life and service?
Are your actions in alignment with your God consciousness?
Will you be ready to share words of wisdom to those who call you for help?
Will you forgive and release others from past hurts and mistakes?
Will you stay true to yourself and to the path Spirit is guiding you on, rather than be pulled into the melodrama of the world?
Regardless of appearances, can you see the wholeness and goodness of all?

As we listen to the message of the Lord’s Prayer, it truly becomes Our Prayer.

This Hijab, This mark of Piety, is an act of faith,
a symbol for all the world to see…”

Dear Friends,
We celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Day all over the United States on Monday, January 18th.  It is a joy to know what an impact his spiritual non-violent philosophy has had on our country. Our country consciousness has risen to one of more respect, friendship and equality with people of all color. However we still have a ways to go.
Also on Monday there was a wonderful rally in  San Diego to raise the consciousness of people concerning the Muslim community and especially the Muslim women who feel so uncomfortable being in the public eye.
SOLIDARITY SOLIDARITY SOLIDARITY…
was the continued mantra at the:“Gathering in Solidarity with Muslim Women”
event at Balboa Park on Monday, Jan. 18th, 2016.
Channel CW6 reported  it at the 10pm news. Rabbi Laurie Coskey was the MC and there were over 400 interfaith people, both men and women, showing support of Muslim women who wear the traditional head scarf and/or hijab. Imam Taha Hassane was there sharing how women in his congregation were afraid to go out. Many are being harassed, spoken rudely to or being accused of terror.
Rev. Dr. Abigail was there and stood with the clergy in solidarity.
It was wonderful to see so many in support of our sisters.

Interfaith Support

Imam Taha Hassane and the Girl Scouts singing.

Leaning how to wrap a headscarf

When you are in a store or public place and there is a Muslim woman, talk to her and let her know you support her and the Muslim community. Offer assistance if she is being harassed.   We must stop this uncalled for hatred and misunderstanding before it escalates further.
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GATHERING in SOLIDARITY

January 12, 2016
Dear Friends,
I was saddened to see on the news, a  Muslim woman by the name of Rose, asked to leave Donald Trumps political rally. What people said to her and accused her of as she was escorted out was at the very least insensitive, disrespectful and unkind.  Incidents like these remind me of the Old West when lynch mobs were formed due to misinformation, hate and hysteria. It also reminded me of the Klu Klux Klan ,the Nazis,  and what is going on in Africa.  Have we learned anything?  Why are we not following the message of the Master Avatars from all religions?
Love, Peace, Forgiveness, Compassion?
On Monday, January 18th, at 2pm, I will be joining women from many faith traditions to stand up with and for my Muslim sisters at a peace rally in Balboa Park. Imam Taha Hassane from the Islamic Center of San Diego said the women in his congregation are terrified to go out in public anymore.  We  will be showing our solidarity by wearing scarfs on our heads.
If you are in the San Diego area please join us at 6th and Laurel Streets.  (See below for more info)
Let us NOT let the actions of a few muddy the water for the majority.
A Salaam Alaikum

Happy New Year Happy New YOU!

     I was talking with my minister friend, Dr. Kathleen Johnson, the other day, and we explored the idea of choice.   Sometimes when a person tries to explain an action he or she may say, “I really didn’t have a choice….”    I don’t agree.
WE ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE.  When a person is involved in a situation he or she doesn’t like, what actions or choices can he or she make to create the highest and best for all concerned?
My friend was telling me a story about a man who always gets up in the morning with a positive attitude, making positive choices.
Here is the story in nutshell…
Jerry always has a positive attitude. He is a restaurant manager and his staff like him so much they follow him from restaurant to restaurant. Jerry wakes up in the morning and makes a choice to be in a good mood or bad mood. When something bad happens he finds the good or lesson in it. When a staff person complains, he helps them have a positive outlook and choose to learn something. Once 3 robbers came into the restaurant with guns. One shot Jerry. He was taken to the hospital and he saw the looks on the medical staff’s faces. They were looks as if he were a dead man. At that moment he made a choice to live. Before he had surgery the nurse asked him if he was allergic to anything. He said “bullets.” In the surgery room he asked the doctors to operate on him as if he were going to LIVE. He recovered and months later he said, “If I were any happier, I would be twins.”
What a beautiful inspirational story.
•How do you want your day to begin and continue?
•Where do you want to put your thoughts, actions and choices?
•What energy choice do you want the world to feel?
•What energy choice do you want to have come back to you?
Today in this New Year, make the choice to USE the Divine Universal Energy  to inspire and uplift  others as well as yourself.
Choose to Have a Happy New Year
and you will have a ….

2016 is rapidly approaching and every year at this time I look forward to setting intentions for the New Year.  I was reading the article, “Passion, Wonder and Awe” in the January issue of the “Science of Mind Magazine.”  I loved what the author, Gregg Levoy, said, ” When we uncover our passion it helps reveal… our life’s purpose.”  Setting intentions are wonderful, however what if we set a PASSION for the New Year, not just what we think we should do. I believe digging deep within to truly, authentically bring forth ideas, actions, and activities that make us feel ALIVE, would take us UP a Joy-filled path in the coming year. Since most of us  have a smart phone with APPs. think of putting into your heart and mind the APP of “Authentic Passion Purpose!”  Write down ALL the things you feel passionate about; big, small, crazy, seemingly unreachable, unlimited ideas. The “unreachable, unlimited ideas” are the BEST, because it allows us to LET GO of how we think we can accomplish it, and LET GOD bring the way to us.   Choose to have a PASSION for LIFE everyday.  Be courageous to follow that passion whether it is taking a Zumba class because you love to dance and/or becoming involved in a cause (whales, homeless, environment, interfaith etc….)  you are passionate about. Time to step out of the “comfort box.”  Put the pedal to the metal and your feet to the floor and DO your passion.  The first step is the most challenging, because you are breaking free from fear of the unknown.  Make that PASSION list, bless the list, put a spiritual symbol on the list and affirmatively pray knowing God within is doing the work, bringing forth the opportunities and all you have to do is say YES!
Down load the APP today!
A- Authentic  
P- Passion
P – Purpose

Yogananda Paramahansa said in Whispers from Eternity:
“O Lord, I have long been engrossed in material things. Enthralled by their outward forms, I failed to perceive within them Thy creative Spirit. The starry single eye of my soul insight is now being opened. Through it may I behold creation ashine with Thy Glory.   Bless me, that I ever see the Eastern star of wisdom. May it gleam before my human eyes, alike in daylight and in gloom. Let my wise thoughts follow the wondrous star that leads to the Christ Child of Infinity.”
Beautiful words from a Beautiful Soul.
Let us move through the holidays and into the New Year as Divine Emissaries of Love.  Let us follow our starry single eye of wisdom and insight as we bring only love and joy to all we meet, our families, friends, and  neighbors . Let us continue to see God’s glory in All People from all faiths, creeds, cultures and traditions.
As we celebrate the birth of our Beloved Master Teacher Jesus, let us celebrate the birth of our own Christ Child within – and BE the Christ Consciousness within the  world.
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We had a fabulous Drumming and Walking the Labyrinth for Mother Earth on Saturday.  It was a sacred event as we Honored the 4 Directions, said individual prayers from Native Indigenous Peoples, drummed, sang, journeyed in a guided meditation and individually drummed our own unique beat. We walked the Labyrinth with intentions to Heal the earth, ourselves and others.   The voice of Wisdom came through to everyone and it was exactly what each one needed to hear.  One lady said, “I am the kind of person who thinks she has to do everything myself.  I don’t seek help. What I received was, to rely on God more and allow Him to come in. I am not alone.”
Her inspiration reminded me of this quote…
Good Morning,  This is God. 
I will be handling all your problems today,
I will not need your help, so have a good day.
What ever healing  is needed, for Mother Earth, our family, friends, political leaders, and/or ourselves, let us rely on God within to fill us up completely with our own wholeness, health, love, joy and peace. As we do this for ourselves,                            we do this for the world.-As Within, So Without
Drumming and Honoring Mother Earth
“Teach your children the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground they spit upon themselves. This we know. The Earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.”
-Chief Seattle

December 8, 2015

Happy Hanukkah
to our Jewish Brothers and Sisters.

Dear Friends,

“I pray for purification that I may stand forth a clear channel for His Will and His Light.”
-Flower Newhouse, from The Sacred Heart of Christmas.

We in New Thought, have our basic beliefs grounded in the Judaic Christian traditions, so we celebrate Christmas with an open heart and mind.
During this Advent season we remember to honor and celebrate the birth of our Master Teacher and Brother, Jesus the Christ.  Flower Newhouse, (Mystic, Clairvoyant, Metaphysical Minister, Founder of Questhaven Christward Ministries) says in her book (see above) “Humanity needs God’s vessels of consecrated men and women. They are links between God’s thought and the world. Every individual can be a way shower to …LOVE. The Christ emphasized our oneness with the Eternal Source and we are here to manifest God’s Will on Earth and to unfold the Godhood within us.”
Many churches and centers celebrate Advent, and light the Advent Candles.   As these candles are lit, let us light the Godhood Candle within us and reflect daily on BEING the GIFT of LOVE for all we meet, know and don’t know.
I love the prayer from Paramahansa Yogananda below.  I believe we need to expand our love beyond our city, county, country and borders. We are all one family on this globe evolving as fast as our consciousness will let us. We have the free will to expand and love those who need loving the most.  Let us replace anger with love,  fear with love, hatred with love.  If we feel these negative emotions about “another,” then there is some place within us we feel anger, fear and hatred about ourselves.  Let us CLEAN up and CLEAR out these deep feelings that no longer serve us.  We can then BE the sacred vessels of Love that will ripple out to heal our fellow earth sojourners and the world.

Be Thou President of a United World

by Paramahansa Yogananda, Whispers from Eternity

Divine Creator, President of the Universe, Chief Executive of Planets, Stars, and Galaxies! Thy democratic rule, giving the rights of free will and self-evolution to Ty citizen children,is bringing them nearer and nearer to Thine ideals.
Created with the consciousness of omnipresence, we had from Thee a birthright of eternal freedom. Alas, we imprisoned our universality behind bars of selfish interests and narrow-heartedness. May we learn to express our soul warmth of love and understanding, melting all icy boundaries of exclusiveness.
Bless us, O Father, that we form a United World, electing Thee as our Perpetual Spiritual President. with Thy guidance, may we govern ourselves rightly through conscience and soul discrimination.
Teach us to enrich our spiritual opportunities and sympathies by enlarging the circle of our patriotic love, including in it all inhabitants of the earth, regardless of color, caste, class, sex or creed.
O cosmic Lord, help us to respect, with kindness the independence of all They freeborn sons ( and daughters). Whether they are good or
temporarily error-intoxicated, may we honor all as Thy children.
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“I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet, The words repeat, Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

December 1, 2015

We just finished decorating our tree and all the house decorations are up. Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly. I am listening to the Christmas Carols on a seasonal radio station. I have wonderful memories of singing and playing them on the piano as my dad accompanied me on his coronet.  I am joyfilled and happy.  Joy to the World. On my walk today I looked up to the clouds and each one looked like a magnificent Angel. Hark the Herald Angels Sing. I believe the veil is thin during this time of year.  The Angels bend closer and we all become a little kinder.  Thanksgiving sets the tone of giving and we carry this through to Christmas and with intentional thought and purpose, continue it every day after.  It doesn’t matter how many people are in the stores, they are brothers and sisters in the Kingdom of God.  Those who celebrate the holiday are busy trying to discover the right gift for a loved one. We Three Kings of Orient Are. This season only comes once a year so let us enjoy it and Be Merry!  The whole reason is to celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ. Away in a Manger. He came to renew our minds and bring LOVE into our hearts. He taught us God is within doing the work. Everything Jesus did, we can do also  and even greater things.  What an amazing idea to ponder. We are powerful beyond measure.
The Christ Light is birthed within us as we know and experience this truth.
My favorite carol is “Oh Holy Night.” Verse 3 says, ” Truly he taught us to love one another, His law is love and his gospel is peace.  Chains shall he break for the slave is our brother. …
Let us remember this truth.  We are our brother. We are our sister. I am you and you are me.
Let us help those in need, here in our city, country and in the world. With this consciousness we can bring forth a Silent Night, Holy Night.
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