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Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #333

Please read quotes 1125-1128 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

I am peace.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Tip for Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 355 – The Love of Discipline

Thoughts of Awakening # 355

Rejection is not a part of me.
I rest in acceptance now.
I rest in the bliss of pure acceptance. 

~A thought of awakening

Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 9: NTI Matthew 12

Today’s reading is about death and life. One might say it teaches why we die and how we can gain eternal life, but those words are not the correct expression of the teaching. Those words are not the correct expression of the teaching, because that which dies cannot gain eternal life, and that which has eternal life cannot die.In short, we are confused about what we are.

Humans tend to believe that we are individual body-mind-personalities in a world filled with other body-mind-personalities. This is the belief in separation. But as NTI points out, “The Spirit of God is one,” and “What is one cannot be separate and live.”

Let’s imagine that a person takes a knife and begins to dissect a living body. (I know, it’s not pretty to imagine this, but stay with me. I have a point to make.) The person cuts open the body cavity and takes the internal organs out of the body, and places them in separate places on a large table. Will those separated organs live?

Of course, the answer is ‘no.’ As NTI says, “What is one cannot be separate and live.”

When we believe we are individual body-mind-personalities in a world filled with other body-mind-personalities, we metaphorically cut up the Spirit of God in separate pieces, placing each piece in a separate location. (For example, this is me, here. That is John, over there.) Like the organs separated from the body, these separated beings cannot live.

“But the good news is that separateness is but illusion, and so death is illusion too.”

It’s not the separate body-mind-personality that lives. It’s the truth that lives, and it lives because separation has never occurred. “This is the truth I would have you learn.”

Humans identify with the body-mind-personality they appear to be. Typically when humans become involved in spirituality, they think they are on a path that will lead to ‘me’ being eternal. But ‘me’ is like a separated organ lying on a table. It has no hope of being eternal.

The spiritual path isn’t a means to eternal life for ‘me.’ The spiritual path is the means to discovering that I am not ‘me.’ It is the means to waking up from the idea that I am ‘me.’ And in this awakening, we realize what we truly are and that is eternal. The temporary body-mind-personality will come to an end, but the Spirit of God (life) continues, and I am that.

At a deep level, we all know this is true. This is what my dad explained to me on a hike in Southern Missouri. (Reference the tip for ACIM Workbook Lesson 358.) However, to the degree that we are identified with the body-mind-personality, we don’t want the truth to be true. That’s why NTI says:

If you choose to be blind, you will be blind, but blindness is your choice. I come to help you see, if you are willing. There is so much I want to show you! I want to show you the truth of who you are, the sweetness of your freedom and the glory of Heaven! But you must choose to open your eyes. I cannot do that for you.

The body-mind-personality is a temporary manifestation. Like a beautiful flower, it will die. However, just as we can enjoy beautiful flowers, we can love body-mind-personalities. It is our joy to do so! But loving something and thinking it is ‘me’ is not the same thing. We are here to “find the truth, and your truth will be you.”

Today’s reading promises a movement from the way we see now, to a new way of seeing, to truth realization. What we need to do to proceed is let go of our current way of thinking. The Inner Teacher will help with that, if we are willing.

Thoughts of Awakening # 9

The loveless-ness within your mind
is a grievance that you hold
against yourself.
And yet, forgiveness lives
within your mind also.

The Holy Spirit
is the manifestation
of your own forgiveness
of yourself.

Embrace the Holy Spirit,
and let all past grievances go.

~From our Holy Spirit

Herein Lies the Peace of God ~ February 17, 2022

In this program, Reverends Jacquelyn Eckert and Glen Ganaway review and discuss A Course In Miracles from a non-dual, interfaith perspective. The two of them discuss the main themes and key principles of the Course and how they are lived in our shared lives.

 

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Minutes for Member Board of Trustees Meeting ~ 2/07/22

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500 Days with NTI ~ Day 412

Day 412 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI Hebrews 12 (v14-17) to the end of the chapter.

Tomorrow:

  1. Set a timer for the amount of time you want to meditate, and then meditate with this Loving Consciousness audio.
  2. Let this contemplation be the filter of how you see today:
    (a) Put faith in your spiritual purpose and the mystery of consciousness.
    (b) Trust that your spiritual purpose and consciousness work together to awaken you.
    (c) When you find that your attention has strayed from this contemplation, simply return to it.

Sometime this weekend:

Listen to these teachings from NTI James:

  1. 31-minute teaching
  2. 29-minute teaching

Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #332

Please read quotes 1121-1124 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

One alone is, the pure consciousness. Nothing in the three worlds is ever born or dies. The infinite consciousness alone exists.

Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.

Tip for Gentle Healing Year 2 – Day 354 – s/Self-Inquiry

Thoughts of Awakening # 354

Today is a day of stillness,
focused stillness,
on the Heart.

~A thought of awakening

QR code, New in the Sanctuary for Easy Donations

If you’ve been in the sanctuary lately you may be wondering what this image is that you’re seeing in one of the Zoom squares.  This is a Quick Response code (aka QR code) which is used to direct users quickly to the Awakening Together donations page. If you’re not familiar with how a QR code works, here’s a quick tutorial from Wiki-how that details how to use QR codes with both iPhones and Androids.

QR codes are black-and-white squares similar to bar codes that store information such as links, phone numbers, images, and so on.

iPhone

1. Open your iPhone’s Camera.[1] Tap the Camera app icon, which resembles a black camera on a grey background.
2. Point the camera at the QR code. Your phone should focus in on the QR code after a brief moment.[2]
  • If your front-facing camera is on, first tap the camera-shaped icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen to flip the camera to the main camera.
3. Make sure the QR code is centered on your iPhone’s screen. All four edges of the QR code should be on your iPhone’s screen.
4. Wait for the code to scan. Once the QR code is centered on your iPhone’s screen, it should scan almost immediately.
5. Open the QR code’s content. Tap the Safari notification that appears at the top of the screen to open the QR code’s webpage or other information.[3]

Android

1. Open your Android’s
Image titled Androidgoogleplay.png Google Play Store. Tap the Google Play Store app icon, which resembles a multicolored triangle.
2. Tap the search bar. It’s at the top of the screen.
3. Type in qr code reader no ads. This will prompt a drop-down menu with search results.
4. Tap QR Code Reader – No Ads. It should be at the top of the drop-down menu. Doing so opens the app’s page.
5. Tap INSTALL. This button is on the right side of the screen.
6. Tap ACCEPT. It’s in the middle of the pop-up. The QR Code Reader app will begin downloading.
7. Tap OPEN. This button will appear in place of the INSTALL button as soon as the app finishes installing. Tapping it will open QR Code Reader.
8. Point your Android’s camera at the QR code.[4] It will focus on the code after a moment.
9. Make sure that the QR code is centered in the screen. Your QR code should fit between the four brackets in the middle of your Android’s screen.
10. Wait for the code to scan. Once the code scans, you’ll see an image of the QR code on the screen, along with whatever the QR code’s content is (e.g., a link) listed below the image.

For more information on how QR codes work check out this article on Wiki-how.

500 Days with NTI ~ Day 411

Day 411 Assignment

This evening (or tomorrow morning):

Read NTI Hebrews 12 (v1-3) thru (v12,13).

Tomorrow:

  1. Set a timer for the amount of time you want to meditate, and then meditate with this Loving Consciousness audio.
  2. Carry this contemplation in your heart today:
    (a) Feel happy (grateful) that awakening is occurring.
    (b) Have compassion for yourself whenever you slip into egoic thinking.
    (c) When you find that your mind has strayed from this contemplation, simply return to it.
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