Light of God Ministry • Good Day and Blessings for the New Year
“God’s time is Eternity. God’s space is Infinite.
Most of what you and I experience is bound by time and space. In order to know God directly as God is, we must transcend our limited concepts of what we believe time and space to be.”
– Author Unknown
As we approach the end of 2021, may we take this time to reflect upon how fortunate we are.
Yes, there have been challenges, there may have been fears, worries and concerns. There may have even been illnesses and death. But these things have always been part of our human experience on earth, not just in the year 2021.
Besides, in a day or two, we will be facing a new dawn: the Year 2022! May we each experience the infinite and eternal depth of God’s love in our minds and hearts throughout the year 2022.
Let us give thanks for our communion with God and each other.
With Love,
Your PRUC Family
Dear Friends:
We were blessed with a white Christmas and this week we have some sunshine to add that sparkle to the beautiful snow all around us. I hope you had a wonderful time with your family during this special time of the year.
This week the parent tot video contains the story book of Frosty the Snowman along with these songs: It's A Happy Day; This is the Way; Frosty the Snowman; and I Can Feel You Near Me God.
The Family Fun video has the story book of Charlie Brown's Christmas and the following songs: This is the Day that God Has Made; Draw the Circle Wide; Winter Wonderland; and Like a Rock.
Happy New Year and best wishes for good health and happiness in 2022.
Brenda Pielle,
Reaching Out to Families
Powell River United Church
A Scientific Approach to God • Meditations by Albert Einstein
I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility. There is no matter.
Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, determined by the external world.
Time does not exist – we invented it. Time is what the clock says. The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.
A human being experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.
When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
Compassionate Leave
Hello all,
I wanted to let everyone know that yesterday I received a telephone call from my family in Nova Scotia that my father has been admitted to acute care in hospital and is non-responsive. He is not expected to recover.
Grant and I are making arrangements to fly to Nova Scotia immediately. We expect to be returning to Powell River January 19.
I will be touch with any future developments.
Blessings and Love
Rev. Mary
Dear Mary
God's speed as you and Grant journey to be with your family during this time of transition. Our prayers and blessings are with you all.
– Love Your PRUC Family
When I Am Still…
I Am or God is the foundation of our existence.
The I Am (Awareness itself) is the creative cause and knowing power existing as the Universe itself, what we also call Consciousness, God or Holy Spirit, and what Einstein calls Energy.
God, the I Am, Love, Energy or Awareness exists within us as our true, and eternal Self.
In-Person Worship Services are Cancelled Due to COVID Safety Concerns
PRUC Online Worship Service • Please join us this Sunday, January 2nd
Experience the uplifting, healing and transformative power of Prayer
A Blessing as You Journey into the New Year
by Lynda Wright
May your eyes be opened to the wonder of the daily miracles around you and your sense of mystery be deepened.
May you be aware of the light that shines in the darkness, and that the darkness can never put out.
May you be blessed with companions on the journey, friends who will listen to you and encourage you with their presence.
May you learn to live with what is unsolved in your heart, daring to face the questions and holding them until, one day, they find their answers.
May you find the still, quiet place inside yourself where you can know and experience the peace that passes understanding.
May love flow in you and through you to those who need your care.
May you continue to dream dreams and to reach out into the future with a deeper understanding of the Creator’s way for you.
Amen
Powell River United Church, 6932 Crofton Street, Powell River, BC, V8A 5H4, Canada