Dawn Fernandez, Author at Awakening Together

Sept. 23 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 246

September 23, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

To love my Father is to love His Son.

Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in my heart. Let me not try to hurt God’s Son, and think that I can know his Father or my Self. Let me not fail to recognize myself, and still believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I return to Him.

I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my Father. For in that will I succeed, because it is Your Will. And I would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only that. And so I choose to love Your Son. Amen.

Sept. 22 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 245

September 22, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Your peace is with me, Father. I am safe.

Your peace surrounds me, Father. Where I go, Your peace goes there with me. It sheds its light on everyone I meet. I bring it to the desolate and lonely and afraid. I give Your peace to those who suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and happiness. Send them to me, my Father. Let me bring Your peace with me. For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may come to recognize my Self.

And so we go in peace. To all the world we give the message that we have received. And thus we come to hear the Voice for God, Who speaks to us as we relate His Word; Whose Love we recognize because we share the Word that He has given unto us.

This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ 9-24-17

September 21, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Join us at 10:15am ET / 7:15am PST for our Weekly Gathering with Rev. Rebecca Gibson

Her topic will be: “Away With Words”.

Description: Silence is the antidote to our dependency upon the most common device for separation that the ego has – – words. It is through the setting aside of words and dropping into the silence of the heart that one becomes more attuned to and aligned with the voice of God.

Reader: Lyn Johnson

Reading: A poem written by Adyashanti: “My Secret is Silence”

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 7:00pm ET / 4:00pm PT for a special sharing with Rev. Hal Seeley.

Hal will be filling in for Regina while she is at a retreat in New Mexico

Join us at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT for our Movie Watchers Group

This month’s movie is Café de Flore. A love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorced, successful DJ in present day Montreal. What binds the two stories together is love – euphoric, obsessive, tragic, youthful, timeless love.

The movie is available on Amazon and Youtube or on DVD Netflix plan (not streaming). Watch the movie with Spirit, then come and share your insights with the group.

Sept. 21 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 244

September 21, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

I am in danger nowhere in the world

Your Son is safe wherever he may be, for You are there with him. He need but call upon Your Name, and he will recollect his safety and Your Love, for they are one. How can he fear or doubt or fail to know he cannot suffer, be endangered, or experience unhappiness, when he belongs to You, beloved and loving, in the safety of Your Fatherly embrace?

And there we are in truth. No storms can come into the hallowed haven of our home. In God we are secure. For what can come to threaten God Himself, or make afraid what will forever be a part of Him?

9-20-17 Michael Langford Study Group

September 20, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

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Chapter 2, Page 33 from “The Importance of Practice and Effort” was read and discussed.

Sept. 20 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 243

September 20, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Today I will judge nothing that occurs

I will be honest with myself today. I will not think that I already know what must remain beyond my present grasp. I will not think I understand the whole from bits of my perception, which are all that I can see. Today I recognize that this is so. And so I am relieved of judgments that I cannot make. Thus do I free myself and what I look upon, to be in peace as God created us.

Father, today I leave creation free to be itself. I honor all its parts, in which I am included. We are one because each part contains Your memory, and truth must shine in all of us as one.

What’s Happening – Wednesday Sept. 20, 2017 – In The Awakening Together Sanctuary

September 20, 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 – Weekly Satsang with Nirmala – Audios

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

3:30pm – Know Thyself – Rev Hal Seeley

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 – Undoing My Imagination – Sharon Slyter

6:00pm – Walking With Peace Pilgrim – Shiryl Kaplan

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 –Michael Langford Study Group – Revs Jay McCormick & Regina Dawn Akers

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/

Growing with NTI ~ Acts, Chapters 5 -7 (v.1-8) ~ 9/19/17

September 19, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

Facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert, Tom Conway & Connie Poole
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Audio & Homework – Week 37 Gentle Healing Group with Regina, 9/19/17

September 19, 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 29-43 (Stop at “Transcending Dualities.”)

Homework for the upcoming week:

Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 243-249. 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 A Course in Miracles, Chapter 11, Section 6, Waking to Redemption

Sept. 19 ~ Daily Contemplation ~ Lesson 242

September 19, 2017 By Dawn Fernandez

This day is God’s. It is my gift to Him

I will not lead my life alone today. I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.

And so we give today to You. We come with wholly open minds. We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. Give us what You would have received by us. You know all our desires and our wants. And You will give us everything we need in helping us to find the way to You.