This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ April 27, 2025

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

Join us at 9:30 am ET/ 7:30 am MT for “Devotional Attention to Stillness” with Rev. Abigail Edwards 

Experience the restful practice of sitting in the stillness of the heart, connected in Being with Rev. Abigail Edwards. Together, we will release the mental chatter by embracing the Divine as our natural state and reconnect with the Reality of the Self.

This meditative process will draw on the Truth writings of Dr. David R. Hawkins, Inner Ramana, Nisargadatta, NTI and other teachers encountered on this spiritual path. We will come together as a supportive group to meditate, embodying the core values of Awakening Together.

Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT
for Our Weekly Gathering with Rev. Melody Brauninger

Topic: “Staying Open” 

Description: In order to give and receive the Divine Love that we are, we must learn to keep our Hearts open to the flow of Life. This is a challenge for as long as we experience ourselves as vulnerable separate ones. Melody will discuss her recent experience with 3 bridges to staying open as awareness: Happiness, gratitude, and forgiveness/innocence.

Reading: Marlyna Los will read from NTI, Luke, Chapters 12 & 17.

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*Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15 am ET/8:15 am MT in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. Join us after the Gathering for our Fellowship Time hosted by Rona Marren.

Join us at 12:00 pm ET/ 10:00 am MT for “Transcending the Addiction to Mind” with Rev. David Hemphill 

David invites us to explore the belief in separation through the lens of addiction to the mind! On this journey we will explore many topics such as:

1. What does it really mean to have spiritual awakening as part of my path?
2. What is my unique path?
3. Why do parts of my path feel uncomfortable?
4. How do I navigate the uncomfortable parts?
5. Where is the inherent bliss and joy on my path that spiritual awakening says is there? How do I access it now?
6. Why does my bliss come and go? Why do the bad parts always come back?
7. How do I get “unstuck” if I’ve been on this path many years and yet still have the same issues I’ve always had?
8. What is “Self-will” and why do I need to pay attention to it in order to get unstuck?
9. What is the nature of “desire” and “aversion,” and how are they related to stuckness?
10.  Once I understand everything, or if I already understand everything, how do I actually make the realization happen?
11.  What are paradoxes and how should I react when I find one?
12.  What specifically is it that will permanently lead to spiritual awakening? How do I cultivate this?

Join us at 1:30 pm ET/ 11:30 am MT for Our Minister Ordination Ceremony hosted by Rev. Rhoda Makled

Please join us for the ordination ceremony of our Ministerial candidates. It will be a joyful celebration of their dedication and achievement. President-Minister Rhoda Makled will host the ceremony, with Board Chair Rev. Joanne Schneider as our guest speaker.

The Ministerial candidates who will be ordained are:

Mary Dugan
Fran Hamilton
Rona Marren
Elaine Wilson

We look forward to honoring their commitment and successful completion of the Ministerial Preparation Program (MPP). Come be a part of this meaningful and momentous occasion!

Join us at 5:00 pm ET/ 3:00 pm MT for “The Mighty Companions Hour – The Voice That likes You” with Rev. Yolanda Mapes

Join Rev. Yolanda as she continues to share her beautiful voice and heart during The Mighty Companions Hour. This is a program she and her late, beloved husband, Rev. Glen Ganaway began in 2020.

Rev. Yolanda Mapes, who is an interfaith minister, shares a delightful, funny, and inspiring hour of A Course in Miracles. Come join in on the fun, the laughs, and the music while unlearning the ego through the lessons and chapters of ACIM.

You can discover more about the Mighty Companions on this website: www.themightycompanions.com. Also, Rev. Yolanda has a site where you can purchase her beautiful, spiritually uplifting music: www.Yolanda.net/audio If you feel to contribute to her ministry, you can do so here: www.patreon.com/RevYolanda

Join us at 6:00 pm ET/ 4:00 pm MT for “Deepening Into Clarifying the Teachings Together” with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

During this program, we will listen to a portion of each previously recorded “Clarifying the Teachings” program. Afterward, we will spend time contemplating and teaching ourselves what is most alive for us at the moment. We may also spend time practicing what Regina is teaching. And…we will start at the very beginning.

Bring your journals, openness, and curiosity as we explore what is most alive in us and ready to be seen. We hope you feel inspired to join.

Join us at 7:00 pm ET/ 5:00 pm MT for “Resting in Our Immaculate Nature” with Jill Grace & Rev. Joy Bedford

Jill and Joy invite us to gently rest and welcome our immaculate nature into full awareness. As we rest into our natural state, we relax beyond fear—letting go of the energy, beliefs, and egoic desires that contribute to suffering. Together, as a sangha, we cultivate a deepened recognition of our True nature, allowing the energy tied to false beliefs about ourselves to return to its natural state of Pure Divine Light.

Gathering as a sangha heightens our ability to detect obstacles–blocks to our immaculate nature…dense, lower frequency Light–so that these aspects of our being that we made up are welcomed into awareness, hastening their return to the original state as Pure Divine Light. As a sangha, we will use practical examples from our lives. Notably, resting in our True, immaculate nature supports noticing how the false identity that isn’t really what we are, enjoys, even wants!… to believe limiting beliefs (the false/unreal) until we realize what we actually are, immaculate, unaffected Divine Spirit. Join us as we put obstacles on the altar of Truth and free light that has been blocking our palpable awareness of Divine Love. Pointings from The Way of Mastery, ACIM, NTI and more will be used

Join us at 8:00 pm ET/ 6:00 pm MT for Movie Watchers Discussion Group with Rev. Joy Bedford 

Movies are modern day parables. Watching movies with your inner guide can inform rather than just entertain you. This Spirit Led Movie Watchers Discussion Group, facilitates the participants’ ability to identify spiritual themes in everyday movies and to use movies as a way of uncovering unconscious beliefs about ourselves and the world we live in.

Free Guy is a 2021 action film starring the ever-delightful Ryan Reynolds playing Guy (“Blue Shirt Guy”). Guy is an “NPC, ”a non-playable character in a video game, who realizes and lives his True Nature as Love.

It would be wonderful to have you with us for our movie watchers discussion group. Here’s how it works: Watch the film on your own, then tune in on the last Sunday in April to share your insights and hear the insights of others on the film Free Guy.

Witness Guy opening beyond his programming and becoming increasingly curious, filling with a deep sense of love and wonder, accompanied by an emerging awareness of something greater. He begins exercising the ability to choose something different than his programming… expanding…stepping outside the box…and, along the way, affecting not only himself, but everyone around him.

Themes such as the ages-old identity question, “What exactly am I?” “What is awareness?” “What is the phenomenal world?” and, “What is possible?” are explored.

As Guy fearlessly embarks on being his True Self (Love), and naturally extending love, he returns over and over to his programmed conditioning, yet still remembering something so powerful.

The film includes many more themes than mentioned here. It addresses what can happen when the creative impulse is transmuted through the egoic filter. Witness the innocent, yet painful, egoic-hunger for validation due to not remembering what we are already…which is already and always unimaginably whole, perfect, complete and inherently valuable.

Observe a being who longs to be seen and validated by the “bigger ego,” believing that this mixed-up kind of validation is where happiness “is.” The film is also a beautiful example of an innocent, yet ego-identified being becoming vicious when its personal kingdom feels threatened, which is a call for Love by a soul in who cherishes the egoic wish and is not yet interested in awakening to Oneness, our Divine nature. Witness how the ego listening being responds to life and how Love responds to life.

Guy symbolizes the ever-potent realization that there must be another way to live. If you’re feeling called to attend, you’re invited to don a blue shirt (optional, of course 😊) and head into the sanctuary at 8 PM ET/6 PM MT.

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