Warm greetings and a happy Labor Day to you all! To our Jewish spiritual community members, I wish a joyous Rosh Hashana and a good final sealing on Yom Kippur. Our theme for the month of September is “Practices for Living in Spiritual Alignment.” I look forward to sharing with you how making the commitment to live in alignment with Spirit’s Universal Principles results in an ever-deepening fulfillment of each of our unique soul-journeys.

The September 13, 2026 topic is Peace, Poise and Power.  We evolve our inherent self-empowerment when we add peace and poise to the equation. All three of these inner qualities are interconnected, building and ever-expanding one another. When we activate them in our everyday life circumstances, we act with clarity, discernment, integrity and compassion.

Loving greetings to you all, and Shanah tovah to those in our spiritual family who this month will be celebrating the beginning of a new year.

Have you ever considered how we place such absolute trust in those two little sticks revolving around twelve numbers on our watches, or measured by a digital watch? Contemplating my own response led me to creating our September theme, “Spiritual Timekeeping.”

The September 7, 2025 topic is “The Power within a Moment.” As we committedly engage and evolve in our spiritual practice, we come to realize what it means to be a spiritual being having a human experience. Our hearts overflow with awe, joy, wisdom, and gratitude for the capacity we have been given to awaken to our Essential Self, to our Oneness with Spirit and all Life.

As I consider the challenging times we are facing, I realize that they are precisely why we practice: so that in the midst of their appearances and uncertainties we remind ourselves of the truth that Spirit is the one certainty, the one Power and Presence that there is. We practice so that in those moments when the “known” evades us, we have unshakable faith in the Unknown and that from It new possibilities are birthed.

And that takes me directly to our traditional October Friendship Month and this month’s theme, “Celebrating the Power of Friendship.” Although we are not currently meeting in person, there is no distance between souls and the bond of friendship we share as a global spiritual community remains unbroken. I invite you to join us each week this month as we honor this truth principle.

The October 4, 2020 topic is Are You Your Own True Friend? Self-friendship is founded in the True Self, the unconditional love and compassion of the heart. Now we generously offer these qualities to others, but what about ourselves? Ernest Holmes offers us this undisputable fact: “You are the only person you can’t divorce.” This Sunday we will explore what it means to befriend the self spiritually, mentally, and emotionally.

As we celebrate Easter and Passover holidays, they will no doubt be etched in our collective memory as being the most unforgettably unique in our cultural, familial, and spiritual history. While members of the world’s spiritual communities will be gathering together online rather than in person, let us be mindful of the truth that there is no distance between souls. This is the very basis of our trust in why we need not be in one another’s physical presence for spiritual mind treatment to manifest, for the energy of loving-kindness and compassion to embrace and uplift our global family.

It is in this spirit that I invite you to tune into our virtual community—via podcast or on our website—each Sunday as we connect heartfully to this month’s theme, “I Am Your Instrument,” and allow spiritual principle and practice to stir our hearts and move us into a peaceful state of intent and faith.

The topic on April 12, 2020, was Where There is Hatred Let Me Sow Love. Simply hearing, saying, or reading the words “hatred” and “love” have an immediate energetic influence upon us. The good news is that hatred can never override love as the essence of our being. Our part, especially at this time, is to keep before us these words of Dr. Holmes: “Love is the very energy of our existence, for each of us has emerged out of Spirit’s Divine Love.”