What Keeps You Awake?

December 3, 2023
Office & delivery address: 165 Avenue Road, Unit 402, Toronto ON, M5R 3S4
Weekly Sunday Services on Zoom and in person at 10:30am at 729 St. Clair Ave. W
Praise the Beloved, Heart of all hearts!
We are blessed as we sing praises to the Beloved;
for as we give ourselves to love, so we receive Love.
The Beloved abides in our heart, in every open heart that welcomes Love.
Sing to the Beloved with thanksgiving; mingle with the melodies of the spheres!
Awaken to your inheritance in all the universe!
For you belong to heaven, to the stars and galaxies.
You come also from the earth, from mineral and plant,
pure water courses through your veins.
For every creature – those that swim and fly and walk on land –
knows you as of old.
And each human – in body or in spirit –
welcomes you in the heart-song of Love,
where we know we are all One Being.
Praise the Beloved, Life of all life!
Invite Love into your heart!
For Divine Love gives strength to the weak, with courage to face their fears.
Divine Love brings peace to the heart, peace that is beyond our knowledge.
Divine Love cuts through the ignorance that fosters greed and arrogance,
humbling and breaking open the heart.
Divine Love sever the veil that separates realms of the profane and sacred;
holiness radiates through all touched by Divine Love, a refining Fire!
When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness was called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together were called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.” So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind and the cattle of every kind and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.