Compassion

This month we are celebrating a world that works for everyone with our August theme, Compassion. This is one of my favorite words because it contains the word “passion” and that is something I feel very deeply about God, Great Spirit, Divine Mind, Creator, Unified Field, whatever one chooses to call the only One Life, One Love, One Source, One Power.

Love is at the root of passion and when we take this holy love affair and turn it toward our brothers and sisters, then we are One Love in action.

Action is so important these days and each of us is being called now to take action in some way for greater Love. Greater self-love, greater love for each other is also the action of Spiritual Truth Principles.

When one starts studying these principles of truth, often it is to relieve personal suffering in some way. Continuing, one may learn how to use the laws of metaphysics and manifestation to improve conditions. It works. But as one keeps studying Truth Principles, the sense of little self expands into Higher Self, Consciousness extends Itself to embrace ALL as integral to our own freedom.

This month, Let’s imagine a world that really is working for all, as we use our understanding of Truth and our Love in action to make other lives better than just our own. That’s compassion.

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria

Catching the Vision

This month at Agape East we are celebrating the theme of Catching the Vision!  Vision is a beautiful gift. It is an inner sight of what is possible, and with Love all things are possible. To be able to have an idea held in mind, consistently and clearly held, is true vision. The idea may seem unlikely or impossible, the steps may not be obvious, but the metaphysician understands that what is visible had its origin in the invisible, as vision and applies the principle and practice of seeing, feeling and speaking it into form.

But we are more than metaphysicians. We are here for more than just being able to use the principles and laws of metaphysics to manifest what we need and what will help us thrive. We are vessels also. We are also here to evolve our consciousness and lives and the human species, and that evolution requires catching the Vision of a Divine Intelligence, the Creative Force, the Primal Source of all Life so that we can move forward open and interested in what is trying to be revealed and manifested. If we are evolving based upon our own current thinking, our best ideas and intentions only, then we may not be actually evolving, we might even be accidentally devolving. We must Catch the Vision of Spirit, beyond our present paradigm.

Catching a Vision requires making it welcome because the Vision is always broadcasting. It is our own receptors that need the tuning. There are many ways we may do this naturally in our own lives. Meditation, yoga, exercise, time in nature, gardening, being creative, chanting, affirmative prayer, sacred study, vision quests are all ways we make ourselves available for a Divine Download. The clearer the intentions and questions, the clearer the Vision.

At Agape we tune in and make it welcome together with the Life Visioning Process, as taught by my teacher, Michael Bernard Beckwith. This community practice creates an environment for individuals to receive guidance and inspiration in a shared group setting and we do this on a regular basis. With practice and sharing, we begin to develop the spiritual muscles of intuition, inner listening, trusting the still small voice within, trusting the download, so that we can be led to the Highest Unfoldment, beyond what our limited rational minds think is best.

I hope you will join us Wednesday, July 14, for our Life Visioning meeting at 7pm Eastern in our Zoom Sanctuary! Join me, our Agape Licensed Spiritual Practitioners, our Board of Trustees and catch the vision of the next stage of evolution for Agape East together!          

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria

Radiance

This June we celebrate Radiance as out monthly theme. We awaken fully now, from a seeming long slumber, emerging into the fullness of the Summer Sun. Let us find ways to step into the game of living our own lives fully now, stepping out from the sidelines of playing small and dimming our light. Life and our time here together is more precious than ever.

The Freedom to fully shine, fully Radiate our greatness, our compassion, our generosity, our understanding, our creative gifts and talents, without a sense of withhold or embarrassment, without compromise or defensiveness is at hand now. This is Radiance, unabashed courage and love.

Happy Pride! Happy Juneteenth! Happy Father’s Day and Happy Summer Solstice!

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria

The Divine Feminine

May is here and with it, an enjoyment of the new baby birds and wild animals, new tree growth and beautiful flowers of Spring! It is no wonder we celebrate Mother’s Day this month, for the Divine Feminine is making Herself known and available to all with Nature’s magnificence in the play of the circle of Life.

Our theme this month is The Divine Feminine, giving us an opportunity to lean into a greater awareness of the qualities of the Goddess: Creativity, Intuition, Compassion, Wisdom, Sensuality, Gentleness, Receptivity, Nurture and Nature.

Whether we are born into masculine or feminine bodies, we all have access to the embodiment of the Divine Feminine and Her qualities. Let’s celebrate!

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria

Delight

This month let us rejoice in the Light of our Consciousness  for we are pure Consciousness, created from Love and for Love.

During the last year, retreat, seclusion and even isolation brought forth new priorities in our hearts. We have all been reformed internally in one way or another. Now we are Resurrection.

As in Nature, everything is born again. We too are raised up by a Power and a Presence that created us out of Itself and placed all of Its Beauty, Grace and Bounty in us. Now we are Ascension. We say YES to new opportunities to Love again, to bring Peace and Hope and the Light of our own Consciousness to the world.

And so it is.

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria

The Quickening

This month we celebrate Women’s History and the time of our Spring Equinox, that point of balance between the movements of dark and light, between the movements of our Mother Earth and our Father Sun.

The root systems and seeds that have lain dormant in the cold soil will begin to feel the Quickening of Spirit upon them, and the Holy Life Force will tremble inside and begin to demonstrate outward again in manifestation as Spring, welcomed and nurtured by the warm Sun.

It is the same experience inside the womb of the Mother. The baby is still, held in the womb, a dark and Holy place, and after a time, the Quickening of Spirit causes a tremble, and the mother feels the first kick. Pure Life Force. First Cause. Spirit moving into form. And so it is for us, even now. We are Pure Spirit, ever evolving into new life, new form. New miracles, revelations, insights, deep recognition of our own Name and Nature are available.

We can’t make the Quickening happen, but we can make It welcome by conditioning our consciousness. If we can spiritually exercise and spiritually practice, work toward becoming more open and available for Love to have its Way with us, to reform us, to renew us, to give us new Life energy, to give us breath, to transform our hearts and minds, to help us see with the eyes of Wholeness and Unconditional Love, then we have made ourselves available and conditioned our consciousness for the Holy moment that comes by Grace. The Quickening.

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria

Openings

February‘s theme is Openings. This month we celebrate Black History month, offering a powerful book study group, reading #1 New York Times Bestseller, Stamped, and a transformational 4-week workshop, learning and activating the Orishas!

Have you begun to see the red hearts, boxed candy, pink balloons, and red roses in the grocery stores, as I have? Valentine’s Day is always a good time to take inventory of our Heart, the innate purity of our Heart. A personal inventory requires tremendous willingness and availability and….Openness. When we’re Open, we’re willing to expose, at least a little bit, the parts of us that are calling for more love, more forgiveness, compassion, understanding and generosity to the Light of our awareness. Once the matters of the Heart are honestly and vulnerably brought out into the Open, consciously, we stand at the Crossroads. With choice. Fear or Love? Victim or Blessing? And this is power. Openings are power.

When we intend the quality of Opening, even to be willing to be willing to Open, to an Eternal Power, a Divine Intelligence, a Presence of Grace, Beauty, Wisdom and Complete Unconditional Love, for ourselves and for another, our Soul is then given permission to lead. Our gut, heart and frontal lobe may then become energetically available for intuitions, insights, and Revelations, and we see the Presence of Love and hear the Voice of Love and feel the Power of Love…we’re available for transformation.

In Love and Light,

Rev. Victoria