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1-6-19 Weekly Gathering: “Living from Practice.”

Title: “Living from Practice.”
Description: Rev. Helen Avery shared on how we can stop ‘doing’ our spiritual practice, and instead live from it. One of the main ways to move from doing to being is to be self-honest. Using self-honesty to really check in before even applying or using our spiritual tools is paramount. Ask “why” am I doing this spiritual practice. The “why” then propels you on the journey and moves you forward with even more inspiration.
Reading: Ron Raitz read Practice as an Expression of Realization by Adyashanti.
Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15am ET in the Awakening Together Sanctuary.

12-30-18 Weekly Gathering: “The Gift of Rest”

Title: “The Gift of Rest.”
Description: Rev. Kelly Barber shared with us about looking at the need for, and obstacles to, the rest that is required for remembering who we are.
Reading: Hall Seeley read A Course in Miracles Workbook lesson 109.
Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15am ET in the Awakening Together Sanctuary.

12-23-18 Weekly Gathering: “Detaching from the Denial of Truth”

Title: Detaching from the Denial of Truth.
Description: Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert will discuss her experience of obstacles to fully stepping into Truth and review Inner Ramana’s instructions for letting go of these seeming obstacles.
Reading: Lyn Johnson will read “Extinguishment of the I Thought” from The Teachings of Inner Ramana.
Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15am ET in the Awakening Together Sanctuary.

12-9-18 Weekly Gathering: “Walking in Faith”

Title: “Walking in Faith”
Description: Jay McCormick shares that,  “Walking by faith means not always knowing where you are being led – it means loving and trusting the Voice Within above my own voice.  It is making choices based not on reason and understanding, but on trusting THAT which calls us.  Both in times of great loss as well in times of choices that make a directional shift in your life, these are times when the faith we have is tested and with trust and willingness we can have confidence not based on a sure outcome, but a sure state of mind – peace.  This becomes the new measure of success, the currency of awakening, PEACE.”

Reading: Kathy Smith read from NTI Matthew, Chapter 11

Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15am ET in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. Join us after the Gathering for our Fellowship Time, hosted by Kate Brennan.

12-2-18 Weekly Gathering: “Exploring the Dream State”

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Topic : “Exploring the Dream State”

Reading : Rev. Geri Scott read the Way of Liberation by Adyashanti – Dream State

11-25-18 Weekly Gathering: “Loving Kindness”

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Topic: “Loving Kindness”

Description: Rev. Jacquelyn talked about learning how to extend kindness in relationships.

Reading: Rev. Jay McCormick read the Metta Sutta — Buddha’s discourse on Loving Kindness. (see below)

Karaniya Metta Sutta:

The Buddha’s Words on Loving-Kindness

This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace:

Let them be able and upright, Straightforward and gentle in speech, Humble and not conceited, Contented and easily satisfied, Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.

Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful, Not proud or demanding in nature.

Let them not do the slightest thing That the wise would later reprove.

Wishing: In gladness and in safety, May all beings be at ease. Whatever living beings there may be; Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, The great or the mighty, medium, short or small, The seen and the unseen, Those living near and far away, Those born and to-be-born — May all beings be at ease! Let none deceive another, Or despise any being in any state.

Let none through anger or ill-will Wish harm upon another. Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart Should one cherish all living beings; Radiating kindness over the entire world: Spreading upwards to the skies, And downwards to the depths; Outwards and unbounded, Freed from hatred and ill-will.

Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down Free from drowsiness, One should sustain this recollection.

This is said to be the sublime abiding. By not holding to fixed views, The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision, Being freed from all sense desires, Is not born again into this world.

11-18-18 Weekly Gathering: “Treasures from the Italy Pilgrimage”

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Topic: “Treasures from the Italy Pilgrimage”

Description: Rev. Regina Dawn Akers shared the spiritual treasures that have stayed with her from Awakening Together’s Contemplative Pilgrimage through Italy.

Reading: Shiryl Kaplan read selected quotes from a variety of sources including several Italian saints.

11-11-18 Weekly Gathering: “What you See Is Your Greatest Gift”

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Topic: “What you See Is Your Greatest Gift”

Description: Rev. Jay McCormick talked about how everything that you see, and the way in which you see it, is a reflection of your feelings and beliefs about you.  Emphasizing that the ‘you’ in the sentence includes everything, including the body and personality is identfied as ‘mine’.  This opens the door for us to approach life in a different way, a way to seeing all the THINGS I see as mirrors for me to gain awareness of my misperceptions of the mind.  If you goal is awakening or enlightenment, then the people, places, and situations you find any manner of unpleasantness or judgemnt with, or ‘not ok-ness’ become now a wonderful way for you to allow to be healed that which stands in the way of being in full awakening.

Reading:   Michelle Hojnacki read from NTI 1 Peter, Chapter 2

11-4-18 Weekly Gathering: “Living as the question”

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Topic: “Living as the question”

Rev. Gloria discussed looking at awakening through the lens of curiosity.

Reading: Toni Fields read from NTI Acts Chapter 15

10-14-18 Weekly Gathering: “The Miracle of Compassion and Grace in Purification”

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Topic: “The Miracle of Compassion and Grace in Purification”

Description: Rev. Carl discussed how Compassion and Grace are an integral part of the purification process and when fully embraced and internalized can “super charge” the process.

Reader : Rev. Nyki Dobson

Reading:  NTI 2 Timothy, Chapter 2 (v1-26) and  Chapter 3 (v1-5)

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