The
COSA Newsletter
UPDATES
AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
A
Message from the President of
Spiritual
Awakening Spiritualist Center
Dear
Members and Friends, Season's Greetings!
The
season of giving is upon us. Remember that during the holiday season
let us be mindful of those who are alone, sad and/or have challenges
during this time of year. Let us be benevolent in Spirit, Kind in words
and show grace in our actions.
As
2024 draws to a close, I wish you all a 'Very Merry Christmas' filled
with Happiness and Joy. Let us all look forward to 2025 with Hope, Peace,
Amazing Possibilities', and Wonderful Adventures, in a World where Good
conquers Evil, and Compassion and Tolerance abound.
Looking
forward to seeing you in 2025!
Blessings,
Love and Light.
Michael
thechurchofspiritualawakening@msn.com
Subject:
It’s time to renew your Spiritual Awakening membership!
Dear
Members,
We
wanted to start off by thanking you for your support over the past year.
With your help, we’ve been able to hold together our Spiritual family.
We’ve also enjoyed many In-person and Zoom Sunday Services, Tuesday
Development Circles, and Saturday Workshops with you and hope you have,
too.
We
have even bigger plans for this year as we get closer to securing a
larger permanent facility for our spiritual home. However, we need your
help to make it happen!
Please
consider continuing to support The Spiritual Awakening Spiritualist
Center by renewing your membership today. If you have been attending
our services and circles and would be interested in joining our spiritual
family we'd love to welcome you onboard. The membership renewal link
as well as an application form for new membership is attached below.
If
you have any questions or concerns about the renewal process, please
feel free to contact me at email: thechurchofspiritualawakening@msn.com.
Alternatively, for more information you can visit our website at: http://www.churchofspiritualawakening.com/MembershipForm.html
We
are so grateful for your generosity and sincerely thank you for your
generous support. We hope to continue working together to keep and grow
a Spiritualist presence in the Kissimmee, St Cloud, Celebration, and
South Orlando area!
Merry
Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
WHAT'S
AROUND THE CORNER?
PLEASE
CHECK THE SPIRITUAL AWAKENING CENTER WEBSITE FOR UPDATES OR CHANGES
TO OUR SCHEDULE BY CLICKING
HERE . THANK
YOU.
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Tanya Soper
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Rev.
Rosie Bouch
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December
8th
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December
15th
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Other Events and Services:
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Date
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Events
and Services for December
2024
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Sunday
1st
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We
Will Be Closed
Sunday, December 1st
Have a Wonderful Holiday
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Tuesday
3rd
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TUESDAY
CIRCLE December 3rd: Healing, Meditation, Mediumship
A
small love donation of $5.00 would be appreciated. Thank you
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Sunday
8th
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From
10:00am to 10:25am: Laying
On Of Hands Spiritual Healing.
10:30am:
Lecturer
and
Spirit Messages with Medium
Tanya
Soper - Spiritual Awakening Center V.P.
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Tuesday
10th
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TUESDAY
CIRCLE December 10th: Healing, Meditation, Mediumship
A
small love donation of $5.00 would be appreciated. Thank you
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Sunday
15th
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From
10:00am to 10:25am: Laying
On Of Hands Spiritual Healing.
10:30am:
Lecturer
&
Spirit Messages with Medium
Rev.
Rosie Bouch - Spiritual
Awakening Minister
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Tuesday
17th
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TUESDAY
CIRCLE December 17th: Healing, Meditation, Mediumship
A
small love donation of $5.00 would be appreciated. Thank you
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Sunday
22nd
Tuesday
24th
Sunday
29th
Tuesday
31st
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We
Will Be Closed Over Christmas and The New Year
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PLEASE
CHECK THE SPIRITUAL AWAKENING CENTER WEBSITE FOR UPDATES OR CHANGES
TO OUR SCHEDULE.
For
more information on any of these events please visit our website at:
http://www.churchofspiritualawakening.com
PRIVATE
READINGS
Private Readings will be available on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays &
Saturday mornings, starting at 10:00am.
To book, please go to the booking page on our
website or click
here
http://www.churchofspiritualawakening.com/BookAReading.html
Please
Click this link for Printer Friendly Schedule/
Calendar
for December 2024 (churchofspiritualawakening.com)
For
more information on any of these events please visit our website at:
http://www.churchofspiritualawakening.com
FRIENDS
OLD AND NEW
Happy
Birthday To Members:
Rev.
Rosie Bouch,
on the 20th.
Rev.
Al Potts, on the 23rd. And
Rev.
Geoff Potts,
on the 23rd.
Cheryl
Williams, on
the 26th.
A
Very Happy December
Birthday to you All!
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If
you feel that you would like to become a member of our Spiritual Awakening
Family and have been a
regular for a while. Please click on the Membership link below for more
information. Thank You!
Membership
MEDITATION
Please
click on the picture to watch and hear Meditation:
GUIDED
MEDITATION: A Dream
Before Christmas
(GUIDED SLEEP MEDITATION STORY)
Create
the perfect Christmas eve atmosphere in the run-up to the festive season.
This
gentle guided sleep meditation story will take you to a peaceful village
on the night before Christmas. When you close the door to the cold night
and prepare to relax and sleep, you may be transported into a very festive
dream...
It's
perfect for insomnia, general stress relief and for people with overactive
minds, especially during the festive season.
Professionally
recorded, with a carefully chosen blend of high-quality music, sound
effects and a calming English male narrator's voice, this superb audio
production will make relaxing and/or falling asleep, a quick, pleasurable
and effortless experience.
SPIRITUALISM
AND SPIRITUALISTS
- What we Believe:
Featured
Article Contributed by Rev. Al Potts.
'Twas
the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the
chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon
would be there'
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Christmas
should be a time of joy and goodwill, full of hope and happiness
spent with those that we love. Preparations have been made a
few months ahead and the memory of a little child spoken of,
who came with hope. Hope that we can all understand the true
purpose of life, not only at this time of the year, but every
day of our life on this earth. The simple story of Jesus is
remembered by many who wish to celebrate his teachings of spiritual
growth through selfless acts in this physical world. A world
that is going through many changes
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at this time and makes every day life a little more hard to
endure. Yet, around about October, we start to think about preparing
for this great occasion. The commercials on television urge
us to go out and spend money that we yet don't have, and instead
put it all on the plastic card to pay later. 50% OFF is the
cry that goes up and we rush to grab a bargain before it's too
late. The prophet makers sit back and count the results of a
misguided love of parents at the Chrithman time. It seems that
love means buying the best and most expensive gifts, even if
it means extending the loans already taken. Parents spend the
next year paying off the huge amounts of money that were unnecessary in
the first place, but have to be paid for. Then the whole debacle begins
again as Christmas raises its head once again. We seem to think
that buying expensive gifts buys the love of children, when
the satisfaction is generally just momentary. How do we then
take the birth of Jesus and show the simplicity of his birth
and the love that the child attracted through his short life.
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The
understanding of the Christmas message has become influenced
by big businesses who make a mockery of the true reason to celebrate
Christmas. So many gifts are disregarded once the attraction
of Christmas is over, and the love shared by the occasion has
all but disappeared. Jesus was born in a simple cattle shed,
so we're told, so at this time of the year, let us look to a
christmas of firstly love, followed by gifts given from the
heart, and not from a never ending purse, which is never ending
because there was very little in it in the first place.
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Give
us the courage to think of those who are much less fortunate
than ourselves, and reach out to them with spiritual love and
kindness. This costs us very little and is the true meaning
of the Christmas message. Our world needs love at this time,
so may we be the first to show our love, a special gift on its
own, that is priceless, and let there be Peace on Earth, and
let it begin with all of us..
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Merry
Christmas!
Rev.
Al Potts.
THE
TEACHINGS OF SILVER BIRCH
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The Wisdom
of Silver Birch
Silver
Birch is arguably the most famous guide and prolific teacher
in the history of Spiritualism. Though presenting himself as
a North American Indian the wisdom of this timeless master transcends
both history and culture.
The
philosophy of Silver Birch was channeled over an incredible
61 years by trance medium and founder of Psychic News, Maurice
Barbanell.
Silver
Birch not only provides us with a comprehensive description
of the Spirit realm and its relation to the material plane we
temporarily call home, his words also provide a blueprint for
living a purposeful and ultimately satisfying life.
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The
message of Silver Birch is an excellent introduction for newcomers
to Spiritualism, an ongoing source of inspiration for established
Spiritualists, and food for thought for even the most hardened
skeptics.
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On
The Spirit World
Silver Birch
made it clear that the spirit world is not “dreamy or nebulous.”
Spirits are busy with activities just as they are in the physical
world. In the spirit world, the mental is real and the physical
is a shadow. For example, when one dreams, things seem real at
the time. The dream only becomes ethereal when the person wakes
up.
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On
Healing
He emphasized
that the Great Spirit, the apex of love and wisdom and compassion,
provides everyone with the opportunity to find themselves and
begin to live, not in superstition, ignorance, or darkness, but
in the full light of knowledge, with serenity and confidence as
their constant companions.
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'QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS' by Silver Birch
Every
Month we will post different Teaching's and Questions which were
Asked and Answered by Silver Birch.
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Silver Birch spoke
about both the winter solstice season and Jesus Christ.
He
said that the solstice season is an important of time of regrowth
and resurrection, a time that the spirits receive “the greatest
communion from the Great Spirit.” A festival that focuses on
the rebirth of the sun is important because it represents the
beginning of a new cycle. Festivals held in the physical world
are also held in the spirit world. “You do not yet understand
very much the influence of the sun,” he said. “At these times,
we held for many days what you call séances. We received at
those festivals much inspiration.”
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Even
though he spoke of the importance of celebrations that predate Christianity,
Silver Birch also spoke about the “Nazarene.” He said that advanced
spirits take advice from more developed ones. Among those spirits “is
the great figure of the Nazarene, who is still imbued with the task
of teaching humanity age-old truth enshrined in all that we seek to
do, that love is the fulfilling of the law.”
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Silver
Birch explained that the Nazarene is not the deified version
one sees portrayed in the churches. He explained that, “The
Nazarene was a messenger of the Great Spirit who came into your
world in order to fulfill a mission of the Great Spirit. He
fulfilled his mission on earth, but he has not yet fulfilled
the rest of his mission, which is still being directed from
the world of spirit.”
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Jesus that we read about in the Bible “has since evolved and there is
now a far greater spiritual consciousness expressed through him than
there was in the earthly incarnation, for the amount that he expressed
then had to be in consonance with the limitations of his day.” He is
now a great spirit teacher who encourages them on their missions and
gives them new hope.
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Silver
Birch also warned that it was wrong to worship the Nazarene. He
said that worship should be given only to the Great Spirit. “The
Nazarene came into your world by fulfilling the natural laws which
the Great Spirit had ordained,” he said. “The same natural laws
which all must fulfill in order to be born into your world.”
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Silver
Birch’s one wish was that “you could see and hear the Nazarene and feel
that great love as he encourages us to go forward with new strength,
with new hope, with new vision and with new purpose.” The Christmas
season embodies the expectation of new growth and rebirth. Let’s keep
that in mind as we celebrate the holidays with family and friends.
FOOD
FOR THOUGHT
The
Wisdom Codes by Gregg Braden
We
thank Shari Dworkin-Smith for a very interesting and enlightening
talk at our Sunday, November 10th Morning Service. During her
lecture she left us with a strong life affirmation from Gregg
Braden's Book "The Wisdom Codes" which I have included
below. I hope you enjoy reading it and that it brings upliftment
to you as we close 2024 and enter a new year.
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Speak
Your Gratitude This Morning! Speak
it Out - Loud & Long!
Forgive
Everybody - especially YOU!
Start
today with the Power of Forgiveness & Love!
Ask
for Guidance - it is always available to us!
Say
what you want! Shout
it out Loud! Visualize
being it - having it!
Feel
It! See It! Know It! Be
Excited in the Knowing! Follow
your Intuition & Guidance!
Do
not even worry for one second about
HOW It will happen!
HOW
is what stops you - the "reasoning mind"!
Be
Unreasonable today for a change & See Miracles!
HOW
is really & truly None of Your Business! God
is handling The How of It Today!
Even
when you think you know, it never unfolds as you thought anyway!
So
do not fret today – the
How will be Powerful & Perfect!
You
stir it up, be thankful & creative & unstoppable &
do it all
with
Great Joy & Expectancy & Enthusiasm!
Laugh
& Sing & Dance & watch the
Law of Attraction in Action – watch
the Miracles Happen!
Give Thanks & Be the Love that rocks the world today!
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THIS
MONTH'S MOVIE
Please
click picture or link below to watch Movie:
Scrooge,
A Christmas Carol
TV-PG
rating - Release date - Running time 1:59:52
Synopsis:
Scrooge
is a 1970 musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 story A
Christmas Carol. It was filmed in London between January and May 1970
and directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney as Ebenezer
Scrooge. The film's score was composed by Leslie Bricusse and arranged
and conducted by Ian Fraser. With eleven musical arrangements interspersed
throughout, the award-winning motion picture is a faithful musical
retelling of the original.
This
movie is available for free (with Ads) on YouTube. CLICK
HERE
SIMPLY
DELICIOUS
Mincemeat & Whole Orange
Easy 'Alternative'
Christmas Cake
Please
click link HERE or picture to watch Video:
An
easy to make Christmas Cake which is a great alternative to a more traditional
heavy fruit cake. Made using a whole orange and a jar of mincemeat,
this cake is delicious and tastes just like Christmas!
Recipe: Ingredients:
115g butter
50g caster sugar
1 small orange with a thin skin
2 eggs
175g self raising flour
1 jar of mincemeat
Decoration
175g icing sugar
cold water
flaked almonds
Method:
Place the orange in a pan and cover with boiling water and boil for
30 minutes until the skin softens. Be careful not to allow the pan to
run out of water
Once softened remove from the pan and allow to cool until just warm
to the touch
Pre-heat your oven to 180oC / 160o C (fan) and grease and line a loose
bottomed 8 inch round cake tin
Slice the orange in half and remove the pips. Place the pipless orange
into a processor or blender and blitz to make a chunky textured orange
sauce.
Then into your food processor add your butter and sugar and mix well
to cream them until soft and pale
Add the eggs and beat again
Finally add the flour and mincemeat and fold until combined
Pour in to your prepared ti and bake for 45-50 mins
When your cake has cooled, remove from your tin
Make your icing by adding small drops of cold water to the icing sugar
-you want a nice thick paste
Spread over your now cold cake
Decorate with flaked almonds (optional)
THE
FUNNY CORNER
 
AND
FINALLY
Thank
you for reading the December 2024 COSA Newsletter, we hope you enjoyed
it and found the articles and videos interesting.
Further
details of services and events listed in this newsletter, together with
suggested love donation and Zoom log-in details, will be emailed directly
to you prior to the event dates.
Merry
Christmas!
Blessings,
Love and Light
Tanya
and Michael
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