It’s Memorial Day weekend 2021, a time to remember soldiers who have died in the service of the U.S. military. It was initiated 150 years ago, after the Civil War, which claimed more lives (750,000) than any war in American history.
This Memorial Day Sunday, Rev. Kitty’s message centered on the power of love. There is some irony here, considering the Civil War pitted family, friends and brethren against each other, while the primary Christian commandment dictates “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” But the nature of love is one of the most misunderstood human concepts, misperceived to be a sort of quid pro quo emotionalism and sentiment which can be doled out or withheld on whim.
Practical mystic, Joel Goldsmith, wrote, “Love is not a sentimental attachment to mankind: love is a law; love is a mode of conduct, an attitude. Love does not come to us. Love is within us, and we must open out a way for it to escape by fulfilling the commands of the Master.”
Pure love is God itself, the Power that literally created and sustains the universe. And – every one of us (nearly 8 billion people) inhabiting this planet today is an individualized atomic field expressing the conscious, vibrating energy of love at the level of our understanding. As John Randolph Price wrote, “Within each individual’s atomic field is the Permanent Atom of Universal Love, the One that (has the capability to) trigger a self-sustaining chain reaction to produce a total transformation of the individual, and ultimately the entire collective consciousness.”
This Memorial Day weekend, may we each affirm, “I AM the Power of One. I now choose to live and move and have my being as Love.”
Mary Beth Speer
Board Member
