Dawn Fernandez, Author at Awakening Together

What’s Happening – Sunday Nov. 26, 2017 – In The Awakening Together Sanctuary

November 26, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

All Times are Eastern Standard Time – See links below to join us in the Sanctuary

9:30am – Sunday Meditation – Rev. Karen Worth

10:15am – Weekly Gathering – Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

11:30am – Weekly Fellowship – Revs Ken and Rebecca Gibson

12:00pm – This Time Slot is open for a new program. Until then, we will play a recording

12:30pm – Reflections on a Spiritual Journey – Barbara Deurwaarder

1:30pm – No Fluff – Kathy Smith

2:30pm – Uncharted Territory – Rev. Rebecca Gibson

3:00pm – Contemplation Out Loud – Kerry Palm

3:30pm – A Pilgrim’s Grace – Ann-Marie Carr

4:00pm – Giving Up with Kate! – Kate Brennan

4:30pm – Description of Miracle Journeys – Dr. Sorah and Larry Dubitsky

5:00pm – The Mighty Companions – Revs Glen Ganaway and Yolanda Mapes

6:00pm – Cate’s Hour of Miracles – Cate Grieves

7:00pm – Seven Steps to Awakening – Rev Regina Dawn Akers

8:00pm – Movie Watcher Group – The Game and The Man Who Knew to Little

9:00pm – Fully Human, Fully Divine Satsang – Craig Holliday

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/

Nov. 25 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 309

November 25, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

I will not fear to look within today.

Within me is eternal innocence, because it is God’s Will that it be there forever and forever. I, His Son, whose will is limitless as is His Own, can will no change in this. For to deny my Father’s Will is to deny my own. To look within is but to find my will as God created it, and as it is. I fear to look within because I think I made another will that is not true, and made it real. Yet it has no effects. Within me is the Holiness of God. Within me is the memory of Him.

The step I take today, my Father, is my sure release from idle dreams of sin. Your altar stands serene and undefiled. It is the holy altar to my Self, and there I find my true Identity.

Nov. 24 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 308

November 24, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

This instant is the only time there is.

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for. Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future. He has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. And love is ever-present, here and now.

Thanks for this instant, Father. It is now I am redeemed. This instant is the time You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for salvation of the world in him.

Nov. 23 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 307

November 23, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Conflicting wishes cannot be my will.

Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. There is no other will for me to have. Let me not try to make another will, for it is senseless and will cause me pain. Your Will alone can bring me happiness, and only Yours exists. If I would have what only You can give, I must accept Your Will for me, and enter into peace where conflict is impossible. Your Son is one with You in being and in will, and nothing contradicts the holy truth that I remain as You created me.

And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict cannot come, because we join our holy will with God’s, in recognition that they are the same.

Nov. 22 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 306

November 22, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

The gift of Christ is all I seek today.

What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.

And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. We cannot make an offering sufficient for Your Son. But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his.

Audio & Homework – Week 46 Gentle Healing Group with Regina, 11/21/17

November 21, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Listen to this audio

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

Tonight the group was led by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

The reading tonight was In the World But Not of It by Gina Lake, pages 113-118. (Stop at “Following Your Heart”.)

Homework for the upcoming week:

Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 306-312. 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 1 John, Chapters 1-5, pgs 443-451

Growing with NTI ~ Acts, Chapters 18 – 23 ~ 11/21/17

November 21, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert & Connie Poole
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Nov. 21 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 305

November 21, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.

Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. Comparisons are still before this peace. And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves.

What’s Happening – Tuesday Nov. 21, 2017 – In The Awakening Together Sanctuary

November 21, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

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

7:00PM – Growing with NTI – Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert, Tom Conway and Connie Poole

8:00pm – Consistent, Gentle Healing with Regina Dawn Akers

10:00pm – Open Book Sharing with Everyone – Larry Lawhorn

10:30pm –Across the Bridge – Rev Tom Vargas

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/

Nov. 20 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 304

November 20, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.

I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it. Nor can I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I use. Perception is a mirror, not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ. And I will look upon the certain signs that all my sins have been forgiven me.

You lead me from the darkness to the light; from sin to holiness. Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the world. It is Your gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your holy Son, that he may find again the memory of You, and of Your Son as You created him.