Dawn Fernandez, Author at Awakening Together

Saturday Dec. 16 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 330

December 16, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

I will not hurt myself again today.

Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. Why should we attack our minds, and give them images of pain? Why should we teach them they are powerless, when God holds out His power and His Love, and bids them take what is already theirs? The mind that is made willing to accept God’s gifts has been restored to spirit, and extends its freedom and its joy, as is the Will of God united with its own. The Self which God created cannot sin, and therefore cannot suffer. Let us choose today that He be our Identity, and thus escape forever from all things the dream of fear appears to offer us.

Father, Your Son can not be hurt. And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and to be saved from what we thought we were.

Friday Dec. 15 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 329

December 15, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

I have already chosen what You will.

Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending. This am I, and this will never change. As You are One, so am I one with You. And this I chose in my creation, where my will became forever one with Yours. That choice was made for all eternity. It cannot change, and be in opposition to itself. Father, my will is Yours. And I am safe, untroubled and serene, in endless joy, because it is Your Will that it be so.

Today we will accept our union with each other and our Source. We have no will apart from His, and all of us are one because His Will is shared by all of us. Through it we recognize that we are one. Through it we find our way at last to God.

This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ 12-17-17

December 14, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Join us at 10:15am ET / 7:15am PST for our Weekly Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

The topic will be: “The Secret to Giving”

Description: Rev. Regina Dawn Akers will look at different traditions of “giving” as a means to awakening.

Reading: Kathy Smith will read selected paragraphs from To Have, Give All to All in Chapter 6 of A Course in Miracles.

Our 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 Ken and Rebecca Gibson.

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Join us at 7pm ET (4pm PT) as Rev. Doreen Bonnet introduces us to SoulCollage® as an Awakening Tool.

SoulCollage® as an Awakening Tool is a new class being offered through Awakening Together starting in January.

This class encourages participants to access their inner wisdom using a tactile, creative process as they move through a spiritual purification journey.

Join us as we replay our April Satsang with Jac O’Keeffe, at 7:30 – 9 pm ET (4:30 – 6 pm PST)

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviewed Jac for this program. Jac O’Keeffe experienced a spontaneous awakening in 1997. This gave her access to powerful intuitive and healing capacities and influenced her change in career from pioneering community arts policy at the national level in Ireland to opening a healing practice. She worked closely with a team of medical doctors researching the spiritual causes underpinning clinical depression. Findings culminated in a residential program that Jac developed which successfully treated depression. In 2003, she left Ireland to deepen her spiritual practice. After a two-year period of no thoughts, the self-referencing mechanism that creates the sense of a personal ‘I’ had dissolved. Jac began to work as a spiritual teacher in 2008. Jac now guides others in her teachings and publications to share what she has learned and assists others to transcend both dual and non-dual perspectives. Jac also prepares spiritual teachers for liberation.

Thursday Dec. 14 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 328

December 14, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

I choose the second place to gain the first.

What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive are upside down until we listen to the Voice for God. It seems that we will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our independence from the rest of God’s creation is the way in which salvation is obtained. Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss and death. This is not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any second to His Will. To join with His is but to find our own. And since our will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recognize our will.

There is no will but Yours. And I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be. It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace. And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave as part of me.

A Course of Love Study Group ~ 12/13/17

December 13, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Rev. Carrie Christiansen and our ACOL Study Group take turns reading and discussing the book.

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Wednesday Dec. 13 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 327

December 13, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

I need but call and You will answer me.

I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported faith. For God has promised He will hear my call, and answer me Himself. Let me but learn from my experience that this is true, and faith in Him must surely come to me. This is the faith that will endure, and take me farther and still farther on the road that leads to Him. For thus I will be sure that He has not abandoned me and loves me still, awaiting but my call to give me all the help I need to come to Him.

Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience, if I but test them out. Let me attempt therefore to try them, and to judge them not. Your Word is one with You. You give the means whereby conviction comes, and surety of Your abiding Love is gained at last.

What’s Happening – Wednesday Dec. 13, 2017 – In The Awakening Together Sanctuary

December 13, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

All Times are Eastern Standard Time – – – – See helpful links below

11:30am – A Course of Love Group – Rev. Carrie Christiansen

12:30pm – Weekly Mashup – Laurell Eden

1:00pm – Prayer Circle – Rev. Carrie Christiansen

1:30pm – Undoing My Imagination – Sharon Slyter

2:30pm – The Guiding Light – Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

3:30pm – This Time Slot is Open for a New Program

4:00pm – Inspired Sharings – Carla Mahle

4:30pm – Messages from My Heart – Rev Ken Gibson

5:00pm – Contemplating the Nature of Enlightenment – Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

5:30pm –Walking With Peace Pilgrim – Shiryl Kaplan

6:30pm – This Time Slot is Open for a New Program

7:00pm – Love’s Voice – Gentle Healing Tips – Revs George Maddox & Karen Stemmler

8:00pm – The Different Paths to Truth – Rev Aracelly Torres-Champagne

8:30pm – A Journey to Unconditional Love – Zita Schmidt

9:00pm – NTI Discussion – Rev’s Regina Dawn Akers, Nancy Sullivan and Stephan Mead

10:00pm – Causeless Joy – Maggie Rund

10:30pm – ACIM Hour – Larry Lawhorn

How to Enter the Sanctuary: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/interact/gathering-room-how-do-i-access-the-room/

Awakening Together Internet Broadcast: https://awakening-together.org/dev2/info-about-our-gathering-room/listen-live/

Audio & Homework – Week 49 Gentle Healing Group with Regina, 12/12/17

December 12, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

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Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love.

The reading tonight was In the World But Not of It by Gina Lake, pages 138-147 & Conclusion

Homework for the upcoming week:

Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 327-333. Practice daily awareness-watching-awareness, Loving Consciousness or Abandon Release Method meditation for 20-40 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.

Homework Assignment B: Read NTI Revelation, Chapters 7, 16, 19-22. These chapters are found within pages 470-490. Read the Bible whenever a Bible icon is provided.

Growing with NTI ~ Romans Chapters 4 – 6, (v,1-14) ~ 12/12/17

December 12, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert & Connie Poole
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Tuesday Dec. 12 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 326

December 12, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

I am forever an Effect of God.

Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. As You created me I have remained. Where You established me I still abide. And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. Let me know that I am an Effect of God, and so I have the power to create like You. And as it is in Heaven, so on earth. Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.

Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then, forgiven, fade entirely into God’s holy Will.