A universal assembly for true discernment
Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly BarberTitle: “Letting Go of Obligation”
Description: Rev. Kelly discussed how the joy of living has a better chance of being discovered when we release ourselves from the burden of obligation.
Reading: Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert read an excerpt from the novel Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Gloria WellsTitle: “Embracing the Speck – The Power of Nonjudgment”
Description: Rev. Gloria shared on the miraculous power and healing that is available when we are able to see past judgments.
Reading: Helena Monteiro read The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) Luke Ch. 6 v. 27-42.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Anne Blanchard, LMTitle: “You Gotta Feel It To Heal It: Cultivating an Undefended Heart”
Description: Sometimes it seems like the best we can do when we feel hurt is to “turn the other cheek” and move on. And while choosing not to react, not to defend, not to engage outwardly is no doubt a great first step, that may not actually be the best we can do. Whenever we feel hurt, we are in reality being given a much more profound healing opportunity, that is, a chance to free our heart from what blocks its natural open loving flow. Anne Blanchard shared the secrets of the spiritual heart, how and why it closes, and how we can actively cultivate a genuinely open and undefended heart.
Reading: Rev. Sherry Daves read selected passages from Chapter 6 of Micheal Singer’s epic tome of purification, The Untethered Soul.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Saina FernandezTitle: “Using Uncomfortable Feelings to Wake Up”
Description: Rev. Saina shared how uncomfortable feelings can be used to help us to awaken. She also shared how we are not our emotions and how knowing this helps us to feel the Truth of our Being.
Reading: Melody Brauninger read Ch. 9, VII. The Two Evaluations from A Course in Miracles.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. George MaddoxTitle: “How Do You Know if You Are Truly Being Guided?”
Description: Rev. George discussed how Spirit guides each one of us in a way that is custom designed specifically for the way we can best learn and understand to recognize that connection to the Truth of who we really are. Everything we experience in this life is guiding us step by step to our own awakening, and to the realization that this life we think is separate is just an illusion.
Reading: Susan Bacon read Lesson 9, Question 1 from the Way of Mastery.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly BarberTitle: “The Greatest Freedom is the Freedom from Self”
Description: To BE the freedom we desire, we must be willing to go through the uncomfortable, but essential fire of purification. Awareness of our triggers, and being willingness to sit still with the discomfort are fundamental teachings. Rev. Kelly shared a teaching from Pema Chodron that addresses this topic in a beautiful, clear way.
Reading: Michelle Costa read an article entitled, “How We Get Hooked and How We Get Unhooked” by Pema Chodron.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn EckertTitle: “The Pursuit of Happiness vs. The Gratitude of Now”
Description: Rev. Jacquelyn discussed how the pursuit of happiness carries with it, its own destined failure. Happiness is simply not something that can be pursued. It can only be recognized in the moment. That in-the-moment recognition is what we know as gratitude.
Reading: Connie Poole read a selection from Jan Frazier’s book, “The Freedom of Being at ease with what is.”
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Kelly BarberTitle: “The Choice We Are Asked to Make”
Description: Rev. Kelly shared how every once in a while, a word can show up for us that we may have thought we understood and yet when we sit with it for a while there’s a real ongoing exploration and evolution behind that word. The word “choice”, for her, keeps returning and is asking to be explored. We explored the word “choice” together and what it means for us now.
Reading: Glenda Carberry read NTI Matthew Chapter 13.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Beverly ToporowskiTitle: “Traveling Lighter”
Description: Rev. Beverly discussed the topic of discarding what you are not and resting in your inherent ever-present nature as the Self.
Reading: Rev. Beverly read Paul Hedderman’s “The Escape to Nowhere”.
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Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Shiryl KaplanTitle: “I Don’t Know Much, But I Know I love you…And That’s All You Need to Know.”
Description: Rev. Shiryl shared on the topic of trusting this glorious and sometimes unpleasant process, about putting down the ‘mask”, the personality, the ideas of who this personality thinks it is, IS the undoing of the “mask”. Shiryl also shared how it can also be a playful experience and how she is discovering and witnessing this currently in her life.
Reading: Tawonda Chase read from NTI 1 Corinthians, Chapters 12, 13 & 14.
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