Reverend Lori’s Speech

After telling Andrea’s circle of friends about the Parable of the Baby, the Frog and the Rice wherein a young girl who is cooking rice is given a baby to hold and care for and then is told to keep a hopping frog from leaving a circle drawn on the floor, the Rev. Lori shared these thoughts...

The question I want to ask you today is: What is your rice to Andrea?

In other words, what’s the most important thing for you to do for Andrea?

We can think of this in terms of our life and what’s going on in our life.

Because we can be distracted easily by those “frog” kind of activities trying to get our attention and divert us from what we’re supposed to do.

And It’s nice to take care of the baby things, but it’s not the essence of what is important:

It’s the rice that is important.rice

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

How are we asked to be with this beautiful woman?

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

When I was thinking about this and Andrea asked me to say a few words, I was thinking how easy it is to look at someone who is going through a challenging health experience and it’s easy to think of them as sick.

It’s easy to enter into a place of “Oh my gosh, this is so sad…

It’s easy to tell people who are ill what to do.

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

What I would suggest that our rice with Andrea is, is because the universe is made up of vibrations – so we are physical beings, but also spiritual – and the way that we relate to the universe isthrough vibrations.

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.And so, when we

are thinking of our beloved Andrea, what I would like to invite you to do is to raise your view – whatever it is that you’re holding of her.

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

The other day when we were talking and she was saying “I am sick ” and I was inviting her to know that a diagnoses is one thing – a diagnosis says, yes, this is what has shown up – but when somebody gives us a prognosis, we don’t have to buy into that; we don’t have to believe it.

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

So we want to see the highest and the best for this beautiful person. We want to think of her as whole and healed. That is our responsibility.

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

And if you know that we are all one mind, then every time I think that, it’s like the boat’s in the harbor and the tide comes in and all ships rise up. We raise everyone’s

vibration up when we’re in that place of raising our own vibration.

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

So I’m inviting you today to know that your rice to cook is to raise your vibration around how you

hold this beloved woman; how we see her. And of course that’s work for her to

do as well.

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

And we know too that we are praying and holding that idea for wholeness and health and healing and I know that

healing takes many shapes; it looks many different ways.

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

The soul is on a journey and it’s doing whatever it needs to do and so we want to bless and honour that.

But our task is to see this situation as whole and healed. And no goodbyes.

No goodbyes

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

Someone once said to me: “When the soul

enters into the physical body, that is death and

when the soul leaves the physical body, that is

birth.

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

And when you think about that, it is quite poignant because in Unity we teach that the soul is eternal;

that there is no death.

It’s like putting your clothes aside at the end of the day

when you get into bed

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

So if you think of this spiritual being, this energy, entering into a physical body, how does that feel when we are born? We’re free energy and we’re put into this physical body

which is very confining and heavy and dense. But when we die, it’s like, Wow, we’re free again...

We’re free again...

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

So we don’t know what Andrea’s journey is; we don’t

know what our journey is.

I could leave here today and that could be it: we don’t know…

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

But if we hold that place of just seeing today – of living in this now moment of appreciation and gratitude for all that she has been, and who she is, and who we are

with her ,and what she has taught us and what we have taught her…

So in the context of why we’re here today, my question is, “what is our rice to do around Andrea… this beloved, spiritual being”.

And no goodbye’s and no “seven months” stuff. Just throw all that away.

Just know that life is eternal and it’s our job to see the highest and the greatest and the best.

And no “poor you”… none of that.

That would be my invitation to you.

Reverend Lori