A universal assembly for true discernment
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Gloria Wells Title: “Thought Is the Linchpin”
Description: Rev. Gloria shared how our thought life and hidden beliefs keep us mired in suffering/separation.
Reading: Rubye Nasser read from The Possibility Principal by Mel Schwartz.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly BarberTitle: “Each Day Contains All We Need”
Description: We all know the importance of stopping to smell the roses in the course of a day, but it is also important to stop and smell the fertilizer! We looked at the value of taking each day as it comes and slowing down enough to see what it holds. Embrace it and Love it up!
Reading: Stephanie Baquerizo read selections from Lesson 3 of Way of Mastery.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn AkersTopic: Meaning Projection
Description: At some point or another, we’ve all learned that we project our thoughts onto the world, but have you ever taken the time to notice just how much projection is really going on? In this Weekly Gathering, Regina shared a new spiritual practice that we can use to become aware of the projections we may not be aware of.
Reading: Audrey Whitehead read excerpts from NTI Luke.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Billy Sintiris Title: “The World is Too Full To Talk About”
Description: What is the Sin of the World? There is no Sin. Rumi says: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there”. Rev. Billy shared about the idea of matter, the world, and presence.
Reading: Kate Brennan read from the poet Rumi.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Meghan ReinhartTitle: “What I Want, I Am Not, What I Am, I Cannot Want”
Description: An eye cannot “want” to see, yet its purpose is sight. It may use its free will to blink, stare, poke itself out, put shades on, it may even be blind or cry, yet its function has a preordained fate; to see. Likewise, our free will toward peace is the Will of God. Does an eye want to see or can it already be? Rev. Meghan shared about freedom, waking up, waking down, and how being weird seem to play a part in this healing and awakening process.
Reading: Rev. Shawna Summers read the Introduction to A Course in Miracles, Lessons 181-200, and Lesson 185.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn AkersTitle: “Preparing to Awaken”
Description: It’s natural for us to prepare for important events that come our way in a lifetime. For example, we prepare for tests when we are in school. We prepare for job interviews. We prepare to go on dates with cute guys or girls. We prepare to get married; we prepare to have our first baby. We prepare to bury loved ones. But have we prepared for awakening? Rev. Regina Dawn Akers shared, based on the teachings of Peace Pilgrim, about the steps we can take to prepare for awakening.
Reading: Joe Schmitz read an excerpt from Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Works in Her Own Words.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. George MaddoxTitle: “Roll the Stone Away; Going from Death to Life”
Description: Rev. George shared about how the Easter story is a template for awakening.
Reading: Sherry Daves read The Way of Mastery, pg. 184 starting at “Accepting the Resurrection for Yourself” to the end of the chapter.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Meghan ReinhartTitle: “Beyond this World There Is a World I Want”
Description: Rev. Meg Reinhart gave an inspiring talk around the spiritual person becoming presence awareness while purifying the attributes associated with I am.
Reading: Rev. Regina Dawn Akers read an article titled: “Opening Us to the Fourth Dimension of Existence and Beyond.”
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn AkersTitle: “What Was Moses’ Sin?”
Description: For centuries, people have expressed concern over the little mistake Moses made, which led God to punish him by not letting him enter into the promised land. God looks pretty bad in this story, because Moses was a faithful servant for years and years and years, yet one little mistake and God comes down hard! In this homily, Rev. Regina Dawn Akers shared that Moses didn’t get to make it to the promised land because he listened to his own self-will.
Reading: Anne Blanchard shared a summary about Moses’ life, read an excerpt from Numbers 20, and read excerpts from NTI 1 Corinthians.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Beverly ToporowskiTitle: “All of me, the End of Two”
Description: Rev. Beverly expounded on how inquiry of what it means to learn to fall in love with what is as the Self is helping her on the path of Awakening.
Reading: Anne Blanchard read The Way of Liberation by Adyashanti, Chapter 3 (page 25-28).
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