Speaker Spotlight – Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert
Jacquelyn leads our Gatherings and our “Movie Watchers Group on the fourth Sunday of each month, our Satsangs on the third Sunday of each month and teaches twice weekly in the Sanctuary. On Tuesdays from 7-8pm ET with her sister Connie Poole with their program, “Growing with NTI” and on Wednesdays from 3-4pm ET, with her program “As It Is” where she shares with honesty and passion about the ups, downs, and all-arounds of the spiritual journey. Jacquelyn is transparent as she shares about the impersonal awakening process we all experience. She moves us with stories from her own journey, with direct insight from inner wisdom and with guidance from spiritual masters, both contemporary and legendary.
Jacquelyn is our Vice-President Minister and is on our Member Board of Trustees.
9-9-18 Member Meeting Audio
In this member meeting, Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert, our Vice-President Minister, shared information about:
- Update on the Retreat House
- Update on our move from PalTalk to Zoom
- Update on our search for a new Sanctuary Director
- Update on our Sanctuary Schedule
- Update to our Android Radio App
09-09-18 Weekly Gathering: “Service and Surrender of self-Will”
Topic: “Service and Surrender of self-Will”
Description: Rev. Jay McCormick talked about how confusion comes when there is not yet a clear and complete surrender of the false will. Joy comes from the choice to serve, because the choice to serve is the choice to relinquish conflict. Since there is only one Will in reality, and Will is of love, to be aligned with Reality and God, we must surrender our imaginary will fully. We either choose conflict or love.
Reading: Sonja Spahn read from NTI John, Chapter 13
Thoughts of Awakening # 229
“I don’t know who I am”
is a helpful response
to any thought
that tries to define who you are.
Definitions are closed and limiting.
“I don’t know” opens
to potential and discovery.
“I don’t know who I am”
is a statement
that facilitates Self-discovery,
because it is a statement
that dissolves the idea
that definitions are fact.
~From our Holy Spirit
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 229 – Meditation with Karen Worth
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 229
“I don’t know who I am”
is a helpful response
to any thought
that tries to define who you are.
Definitions are closed and limiting.
“I don’t know” opens
to potential and discovery.
“I don’t know who I am”
is a statement
that facilitates Self-discovery,
because it is a statement
that dissolves the idea
that definitions are fact.
~ From our Holy Spirit
Tips from Regina ~ Day 229, NTI 1 Timothy 6
On Day 179, we learned:
A thinker is one who has an intention regarding thought, so when NTI says “you are the thinker” it means that you get to choose the intention in the mind. You can decide if attention will wander with any thought that arises, or if it has an intention to focus on truth and let other thoughts go.
Today’s reading says:
You are the Mind that Thinks…
And it encourages us to shift our attention—shift our vibration—so that we stay focused on truth.
I recommend contemplating today’s reading in this way:
- Read NTI 1 Timothy 6 slowly and contemplatively.
- Listen to this 30-minute audio, which is a review of NTI Philippians 4.
- Review the tip from Day 179.
- Read NTI 1 Timothy 6 again.
If you do not have time to complete all 4 steps in the morning, use the entire day to complete the steps. For example, complete step 1 this morning, complete step 2 around lunchtime, and then complete steps 3 and 4 this evening. Or, complete the steps in a way that fits with your schedule.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
Thoughts of Awakening # 228
Expansion is the realization of truth
over illusion.
It is the putting aside of limits,
which never existed.
It is seeing beyond false identity
into the unknown
and ungraspable,
which is you.
You are not
to be controlled
or limited,
not even by you.
You are to be discovered,
and discovery happens
through allowing the mystery.
~From our Holy Spirit
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 228 – Meditation with Karen Worth
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 228
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 228
Expansion is the realization of truth
over illusion.
It is the putting aside of limits,
which never existed.
It is seeing beyond false identity
into the unknown
and ungraspable,
which is you.
You are not
to be controlled
or limited,
not even by you.
You are to be discovered,
and discovery happens
through allowing the mystery.
~ From our Holy Spirit
Tips from Regina ~ Day 228, NTI 1 Timothy 5
When we believe manifestation is reality, we are in darkness as opposed to light. (Ref: Day 226.) That could also be called ignorance, as opposed to knowledge. However, that doesn’t mean that manifestation should be disdained. In fact, the opposite is true. The purpose of manifestation is love (joy).
Yesterday, we saw that love loves the whole, not just selected parts or circumstances. Today’s reading guides us to love all of humanity exactly as it is, without asking any part of humanity to be different. The reading is reminiscent of Jesus’ last instructions to his disciples:
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
~ John 13: 34,35
Love loves. That is its nature. It does not select what it will and will not love. Selection and rejection are aspects of judgment, and judgment is the tool that was born out of a desire for something different from truth. (Ref: NTI Romans 2.)
To return to the realization of truth, be truth. Truth is love (joy).
Today’s reading offers a means by which you can genuinely love everyone just as they are. It asks you not to see people through the filter of personhood, which includes rules and expectations that define “good people” and “bad people,” “attractive people” and “unattractive people,” etcetera. Today’s reading recommends that you see all people as expressions of freedom. To see everything as an expression of freedom is to focus on a quality of consciousness. Therefore, to focus on everything as an expression of freedom is letting go of the filter of personhood. (Ref: Day 214.)
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
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