Rev. LeRoy Lowell

Sunday Message by Rev. Pat Bessey

This past week Rev. LeRoy and I celebrated, and it wasn’t for Valentine’s Day. We were three years out from February 13, 2017, which is when LeRoy was admitted into Massachusetts General Hospital after being in and out of the hospital here in Maine since November of 2016. After spending 40 days in the hospital, he was released the day before Easter, and we saw it then, and do today, as his own resurrection experience.

Three years out, we have not forgotten the enormous support we got from this community. We both were in your prayers daily and that kept us buoyed up when test after test didn’t give us an answer to his medical need. The cards, texts, and phone calls were such a source of comfort to us.

Once home he continued to improve, only to find himself back in the hospital in May of 2017 with congested heart failure… nearly three years out from that you are seeing him get stronger and stronger every week. Your love, service, and prayers have been priceless. THANK YOU!

This leads me to the message from Sunday. Over the last four weeks, I have been inviting you to say yes, to let 2020 be the year that you awaken, truly awaken, to the life of beauty and wonder that Spirit intends for you. Rev. LeRoy’s experience reminds us that life is precious, and we have no guarantees, so the time is now to live from our Divine self.

It is time that we live in a conscious space of absolute union with the Divine with no thoughts of separation, no belief in division, no feelings of less than and no self-judgment, self-recrimination or self-doubt.

The 20th Century Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher Osho reminds us of our divinity with this quote: “Drop the idea of becoming someone because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”

If you were not at the service on Sunday, I invite you to listen to it and to listen to the meditation. It is a great visioning process to assist you to step into your Divine self and let go of any baggage you might be carrying.

Rosa Parks

Next Sunday, join me as we look at the first lady of civil rights, Rosa Parks, and five unsung heroes of the civil rights movement during Black History Month.

You are a blessing in my life,
Rev. Patricia Bessey

P.S. The Season for Nonviolence began on January 30, which is the anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi.Each day from then until April 4, which is the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., I am posting quotes and other information pertinent to nonviolence on our Facebook page. I hope you check it out.