Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Shiryl Kaplan

Title: “New Year, New Perspective”

Description: Rev. Shiryl shared about how looking over the past year and taking stock of all that was learned is now really helping her to cultivate a new perspective for this year. Her heartfelt sharing was a perfect demonstration of being honest about where ego can keep you stuck in old habit patterns but how the seeing of that is really helping her increase the desire to now choose differently.

Reader: Laura Bedford read excerpts from For Love of the Real by Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Helen Avery

Title: “Are There Really Any Problems?”

Description: Albert Einstein is often quoted as having said, “we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”. Indeed spiritual teachings tell us that all problems, having been created at the level of the mind, are therefore not real and consequently need not receive our attention. Truly the only problem we really have, says A Course in Miracles, is a belief in separation – and that itself is another illusion. Rev. Helen Avery shared on the exploration on if there are really any problems.

Reader: Rev. Toni Fields read A Course in Miracles Workbook lessons 79 and 80.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

Title: “The Power of Faith”

Description: Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said that either everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle. He also said he preferred to think that nothing is a miracle. That might be because he preferred to see the unfolding of manifestation as the natural outcome of our divine nature. Natural, instead of miraculous. Rev. Regina Dawn Akers explored how the power of faith is always at work in our lives; the effects of our faith are natural … or we can see them as miracles, as long as we see everything as a miracle.

Reading: John Wetzel read NTI Hebrews, Chapter 11.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Billy Sintiris

Title: “How You Host”

Description: In the Spirit of the Holiday Season, as we focus on our gift to give unconditional love in every passing moment, we are learning to allow this very moment to flow continually through the mind’s creative obstacles. Rev Billy takes us on a journey with a Robert Frost poem in observing how the mind creates and awareness allows.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Christy Goldsmith

Title: “Christmas Meaning: Am I Naughty or Am I Nice?”

Description: What is the meaning of Christmas, and what does “The I Am Bad Belief” have to do with it? Rev. Christy shared a perspective of how Jesus’ message to the world and how it relates to the need for the release of the ‘I am bad’ belief and how letting go of this belief allows us to love ourselves which helps us to love others and then leads to the ability to love the Christ within which is our True Self. Then ultimately the first commandment, love your God with all your heart, will actually be a real possibility.

Reading: Anne Blanchard read selected passages from The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) Acts.

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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Beverly Toporowski

Title: “Can the Experience Survive the Disappearance of the Experiencer?”

Description: Rev. Beverly explored the questions: What are we as both manifest and unmanifest? What is it to see that there is no separation?  And who is there to see it? With real-life examples, she showed us glimpses of the truth that these inquiries have helped her to uncover and reveal the deeper Reality of Our True Nature.

Reader: Rev. Gerry Scott read Experience of Immortality, Ch. 1, pgs. 67-69 by Ramesh S. Balsekar.

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