One year is ending and another year is starting. These few pictures are a small attempt to capture the breath and depth of life during the year of 2016. So many good times. So many good times.
Yet we are now embarking upon a new year when a usurper would be president. The danger is imminent for all of us and for all that we hold dear. Once America was the shining light of democracy and what could be...now it is not. So the new year is filled with danger and filled with fear.
So, on this New Year's evening I turn to my faith...my belief...that nothing but good will come out of this time of travesty and disillusionment. After all 65 million of us did not vote for usurper. The 62 million people that did...well, may God forgive them...for they know not what they have done.
The Unity minister and poet James Dillet Freeman said it best in this wonderful poem titled "I am There":
Do you need Me?
I am there.
You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by.
You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.
You cannot feel Me, yet I am the power at work in your hands.
I am at work, though you do not understand My ways.
I am at work, though you do not recognize My works.
I am not strange visions. I am not mysteries.
Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know Me as I am, and then but as a feeling and a faith.
Yet I am there. Yet I hear. Yet I answer.
When you need Me, I am there.
Even if you deny Me, I am there.
Even when you feel most alone, I am there.
Even in your fears, I am there.
Even in your pain, I am there.
I am there when you pray and when you do not pray.
I am in you, and you are in Me.
Only in your mind can you feel separate from Me, for only in your mind are the mists of “yours” and “mine.”
Yet only with your mind can you know Me and experience Me.
Empty your heart of empty fears.
When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.
You can of yourself do nothing, but I can do all.
And I am in all.
Though you may not see the good, good is there, for I am there.
I am there because I have to be, because I am.
Only in Me does the world have meaning; only out of Me does the world take form; only because of Me does the world go forward.
I am the law on which the movement of the stars and the growth of living cells are founded.
I am the love that is the law's fulfilling. I am assurance. I am peace. I am oneness. I am the law that you can live by. I am the love that you can cling to. I am your assurance. I am your peace. I am one with you. I am.
Though you fail to find Me, I do not fail you.
Though your faith in Me is unsure, My faith in you never wavers, because I know you, because I love you.
Beloved, I am there.
On this New Year's Evening, then, I wish all of you a New Year filled with love, laughter and prosperity. May the power of the Universe hold us, surround us, protect us...
Yet we are now embarking upon a new year when a usurper would be president. The danger is imminent for all of us and for all that we hold dear. Once America was the shining light of democracy and what could be...now it is not. So the new year is filled with danger and filled with fear.
So, on this New Year's evening I turn to my faith...my belief...that nothing but good will come out of this time of travesty and disillusionment. After all 65 million of us did not vote for usurper. The 62 million people that did...well, may God forgive them...for they know not what they have done.
The Unity minister and poet James Dillet Freeman said it best in this wonderful poem titled "I am There":
Do you need Me?
I am there.
You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by.
You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.
You cannot feel Me, yet I am the power at work in your hands.
I am at work, though you do not understand My ways.
I am at work, though you do not recognize My works.
I am not strange visions. I am not mysteries.
Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know Me as I am, and then but as a feeling and a faith.
Yet I am there. Yet I hear. Yet I answer.
When you need Me, I am there.
Even if you deny Me, I am there.
Even when you feel most alone, I am there.
Even in your fears, I am there.
Even in your pain, I am there.
I am there when you pray and when you do not pray.
I am in you, and you are in Me.
Only in your mind can you feel separate from Me, for only in your mind are the mists of “yours” and “mine.”
Yet only with your mind can you know Me and experience Me.
Empty your heart of empty fears.
When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.
You can of yourself do nothing, but I can do all.
And I am in all.
Though you may not see the good, good is there, for I am there.
I am there because I have to be, because I am.
Only in Me does the world have meaning; only out of Me does the world take form; only because of Me does the world go forward.
I am the law on which the movement of the stars and the growth of living cells are founded.
I am the love that is the law's fulfilling. I am assurance. I am peace. I am oneness. I am the law that you can live by. I am the love that you can cling to. I am your assurance. I am your peace. I am one with you. I am.
Though you fail to find Me, I do not fail you.
Though your faith in Me is unsure, My faith in you never wavers, because I know you, because I love you.
Beloved, I am there.
On this New Year's Evening, then, I wish all of you a New Year filled with love, laughter and prosperity. May the power of the Universe hold us, surround us, protect us...
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