Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Cyndi Krupp

Title: “Surrender Happens”

Description: In this Weekly Gathering, Rev. Cyndi shared how unless you were born into and fully embraced the Spiritual Path there was a time (or times) in your life when you chose to find another way – and in that way, there was a surrender, a letting go of your old way of being. Rev. Cyndi also shared some of her own stories of surrender and shared the spiritual tool of S.T.O.P. (Surrender, Trust, Open, Purpose) which all inspired can use while resting and allowing the healing to happen.

Reader: Rico Cruz read The Way of Liberation – The Epilogue (pp 41-44) by Adyashanti.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Billy Sintiris

Title: “Looking at the Word Serenity”

Description: Rev. Billy shared about how everyone is getting a wake-up call at this point in history and how this relates to the topic of serenity. He also shared some personal experiences and takeaways from recent insights that have come about from reading The Seven Steps to Awakening, AA literature, and I Am That.

Reader: Rev. Megan Reinhart read the AA promises.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Marisol Landin

Title: “Dropping into the Heart”

Description: Rev. Marisol shared how through a difficult life situation, she came to understand that clarity and peace cannot be found in the stories and “solutions” the mind has to offer. Clarity and peace became available only when she sat in the Heart and opened to what was.

Reader: Manuela Giaroli read from The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 4, v8-17, 1-12.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Joanne Schneider

Title: “I Live as a Fraud and So Do You”

Description: Being a fraud is an ego experience. Being a fraud, or feeling unworthy or not good enough, are ego thoughts. All egoic experiences are fraudulent because your experience comes out of the belief that you are a body/personality. Thus, everything you tell yourself that you are in your world experience is fraudulent. So yes, in this world you are living a fraudulent life. You are living from the belief that you are a body/personality.

Reader: Rev. Rayla Daniels read The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 14.

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Rev. Joanne’s written contemplation for this week’s homily:

Contemplation behind the Weekly Gathering of 3/13/2022 with Rev. Joanne Schneider

3/9/2022

Holy Spirit Inner Wisdom, sometimes I feel inadequate, not good enough, unworthy; sometimes I feel like a fraud.  I know these times are learning opportunities for me. And I have been presented a learning opportunity this week. In fact, I see it as a healing opportunity.

Holy Spirit Inner Wisdom, how am I a fraud?

Being a fraud is an ego experience. Being a fraud, or feeling unworthy or not good enough, are ego thoughts. All egoic experiences are fraudulent because your experience comes out of the belief that you are a body/personality. Thus, everything you tell yourself that you are in your world experience is fraudulent. In your world experience, you get wrapped up into being right, perfect, and in control. You do not realize how impossible that is within the temporary, ever-changing experience that you created. Being right, perfect, and in control is simply not possible in your world experience. The feeling of being a fraud within that experience is simply part of the turbulent human experience that is presented to you to again practice letting go. And what adds to your distress is your belief in judgment. You believe that you are judged as wrong, imperfect, and out of control. You may well be judged, by others as wrong, imperfect, out of control personalities. Do you see how ridiculous your mind is? It feeds you crazy thoughts to keep you clinging to your personality in the world. It totally distracts you from seeing your True Self. In fact, your mind highjacks the direct path to your spiritual aspiration.

So yes, in this world you are living a fraudulent life. You are living from the belief that you are a body/personality. That is fraudulent. You are Truly the image and likeness of Eternal Love and Perfection; You are the Light. So, when the ego-mind tells you that you are a fraud, smile and agree and remember what you truly are. You are the Light, trying to reduce yourself to impossible standards in an imperfect, temporary experience. Then chuckle to yourself and ask, “What were you thinking?”

Let’s take this one step further. Every body/personality in your world experience is living a fraudulent life. They too are the Light covered by a disguise, a similar disguise to the one you wear. To straighten your path, take off your disguise and see through theirs; see them without theirs. Don’t be fooled by what they want you to see. Refuse to see them as anything other than the Light and Love that is their True Self.

Holy Spirit Inner Wisdom, thank you for teaching me about THE Light that is shining in my world experience. Help me live from this lesson. I am willing to see Light from Light, the One Light.

Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Christy Goldsmith

Title: “Out of My Mind and Into My Heart”

Description: Rev. Christy vanquished her mind’s shenanigans, and smashed the walls of her spiritual heart. She will be sharing exactly how she did it.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Beverly Toporowski

Title: “Abiding as a Way of Life”

Description: Rev. Beverly explored the theme of how the living of this moment looks as we abide as the Self and surrender from the perspective of being rather than doing.

Reader: Francine Wright read Explorations into the Eternal Ch. 14, “Where God Abides” pgs. 164-167 written by Ramesh Balsekar.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly Barber

Title: “The True Valentine”

Description: In honor of Valentine’s Day, Rev. Kelly Barber took a look at relationships and the movement from seeking love from the one beloved to Giving Love to THE ONE BELOVED.

Reader: Andy Walker read from “The Reality of Relationships” which is an entry from Regina Dawn Aker’s personal journal written with Inner Wisdom in 2006.

Here’s a link to the original article from Regina Dawn Akers: Click Here

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

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Title: “Accepting Your Expression of the Atonement”

Description: Rev. Jacquelyn shared how the Atonement is merely a “correction” of the impossible thought of not-God. It can be said, symbolically, that we are living in the space between the impossible thought and its immediate correction. Thus, “Your mind and your life in the world are an expression of the Atonement.” Because the outcome of the seeming journey of the One Mind is certain, the flow of the universe (or of God) is always ever and only the flow towards Oneness, Wholeness, and Healing. Because the individual body-mind-personality is the thought of not-God that never was, there can be no individual will, as separate and apart from the One Will toward correction despite our insistence to the contrary. Accepting the Atonement for oneself is, thus, a matter of recognizing your part in the universal flow and learning to relate to yourself as merely that expression.

Reader: Rhoda Makled read, The Ontology, from Liz Cronkhite’s, A Memoir of Christ: A Student of A Course in Miracles Awakens.

Rev. Jacquelyn’s Message From Inner Wisdom:

Accepting your Expression of the Atonement

The Atonement is merely a “correction” of the impossible thought of not-God. It can be said, symbolically, that we are living in the space between the impossible thought and its immediate correction. Thus, “Your mind and your life in the world are an expression of the Atonement.” Because the outcome of the seeming journey of the One Mind is certain, the flow of the universe (or of God) is always ever and only the flow towards Oneness, Wholeness and Healing. Because the individual personality is the thought of not-God that never was, there can be no individual will, as separate and apart from the One Will toward correction despite our insistence to the contrary. Accepting the Atonement for oneself is, thus, a matter of recognizing your part in the universal flow and learning to relate to yourself as merely that expression.

The individual will never awaken: the awakening is awakening from the belief in the individual (not God). If this is true, how can we ever measure the “progress” of the individual towards awakening? That one cannot awaken. Rather, as Spirit, we can learn to appreciate the seeming individual expression of the awakening or atonement as it is expressed through the body-mind-personality with which we most closely identify as our self. It would be a miracle, indeed, if an individual “awoke”. What would it awake to? It could only ever awake to the knowledge of its lack of existence. So let’s start there. Let’s go ahead and make the assumption that you don’t exist. Doesn’t that make questions along the lines of “how am I (the individual) doing” quite absurd?

At the same time, let us acknowledge that all suffering is brought about by our identification with (belief that we are an) individual self. Doesn’t recognition that there is actually no separate person remove the cause of suffering? Isn’t the only practice then to root out and unbelieve those thoughts where we are identifying with the individual person? What if we were to identify with the flow instead. What if our only job were to allow everything that is appearing as part of the flow or the expression of the atonement instead?

From this vantage point, it is easy to see that there is nothing to gain and nowhere to go. If this moment and every aspect of it, including how I am showing up (or what thoughts led me to this very moment in time) are a part of the flow towards correction – an expression of the atonement – what else is there to do but to love, accept and allow what is?

For instance, to think, “oh, I shouldn’t have judged him/her/myself” is to entirely miss the point. Judgment is what showed up. Shouldn’t I love that as an expression of the flow toward correction? The thinking mind would argue that if we all go around just allowing whatever shows up, we never correct anything.

Our only choice (read free will) is our choice as to how we will experience what shows up. This choice then becomes part of the everything that creates everything and allowance becomes the predominant way of being. This complete allowance thus completely undoes fear, resistance, lack, limitation, or, in other words, undoes the tiny mad idea of “not-God.”

Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Susan Bacon

Title: “Living the Questions That Point to Truth”

Description: Through inspiration from the poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan explored “The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, even without noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

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