The
COSA Newsletter
UPDATES
AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
A
Message from the President of
Spiritual
Awakening Spiritualist Center
Dear
Members and Friends, Season's Greetings!
As
the year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on the moments—both
big and small—that have shaped our journey together. Christmas has a
way of slowing us down, inviting us to pause amid the rush, and reminding
us of what truly matters: connection, kindness, and hope.
This
season, may we choose to see the light in one another, to extend grace
where it’s needed most, and to celebrate the beauty of simply being
present. Whether your days are filled with laughter around a crowded
table or quiet moments by the tree, I hope you feel the warmth of love
and the joy of belonging.
From
my heart to yours, thank you for being part of our story this year.
Wishing you a Christmas wrapped in peace, sprinkled with joy, and overflowing
with hope for the year ahead.
Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year,
Looking
forward to seeing you in 2026!
Blessings,
Love and Light.
Michael
thechurchofspiritualawakening@msn.com
Subject:
It’s time to renew your Spiritual Awakening membership!
Dear
Members and Friends,
Thank
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
Zoom Sunday Services, Tuesday Development Circles, and Saturday Workshops
with you and hope you have, too.
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: https://www.churchofspiritualawakening.com/MembershipForm.html
We
are so grateful for your generosity and sincerely thank you for your
generous support.
Merry
Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
Rev.
Michael Davies
WHAT'S
AROUND THE CORNER?
PLEASE
CHECK THE SPIRITUAL AWAKENING CENTER WEBSITE FOR UPDATES OR CHANGES
TO OUR SCHEDULE BY CLICKING
HERE . THANK
YOU.
Rev.
Michael Davies
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Rev.
Rosie Bouch |
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December
7th
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December
14th
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December
21st
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Other Events and Services:
Printable
Version: Click
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Date
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Events
and Services for December
2025
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Tuesday
2nd
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TUESDAY
CIRCLE December 2nd: Healing, Meditation, Mediumship
A
small love donation of $5.00 would be appreciated. Thank you
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Sunday
7th
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10:30am:
Lecturer
&
Spirit Messages with Medium
Rev. Michael
Davies
- Spiritual Awakening Center Minister
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Tuesday
9th
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TUESDAY
CIRCLE December 9th: Healing, Meditation, Mediumship
A
small love donation of $5.00 would be appreciated. Thank you
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Sunday
14th
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10:30am:
Sunday Christmas Service
Carols, Readings
and Messages
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Tuesday
16th
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TUESDAY
CIRCLE December 16th: Healing, Meditation, Mediumship
A
small love donation of $5.00 would be appreciated. Thank you
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Sunday
21st
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10:30am:
Lecturer
&
Spirit Messages with
Medium
Rev.
Rosie Bouch - Spritual Awakening Minister
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Tuesday
23rd
Sunday
28th
Tuesday
30th
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We
Will Be Closed Over Christmas on
Tuesday
23rd, Sunday 28th, and Tuesday the 30th.
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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
https://www.churchofspiritualawakening.com/BookAReading.html
Please
Click this link for Printer Friendly Schedule/
Calendar
for December 2025 (churchofspiritualawakening.com)
For
more information on any of these events please visit our website at:
https://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.
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At this joyful time of the year we celebrate the memory
of a special child that brought so much hope to a troubled world.
The story is well documented and as children we were brought
up to listen to the many teachings and examples he brought in
his short life time.
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Even
over two thousand years ago, the coming of Jesus was condemned
by many before he even touched the earth plane. The world at
that times was searching for life as it was meant to be, but
many were forced to live the life of those leaders who were
interested in their own control. Men and women were meant to
listen too and learn from the Master, however, those who were
at the top of the political tree were afraid that this man was
more of a threat to them than an asset. How things have changed
very little in the prevailing years, and men and women are still
searching for the the real meaning to life.
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Christmas should be teaching us how to blend our physical
lives with the important values of a spiritual experience, and
yet we are still facing the same old nonsense as that which
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has
plagued us since mankind discovered the values of education.
Today we are facing men and women who are supposed to be the
leaders of this beautiful earth, often highly educated and who
are voted in by us. Christmas always promises us with the hope
that as time goes by, life will become tolerable if we only
listen, instead of voicing our opinions before we ask those
in the higher side of life for their guidance. Yes, let us put
up the Christmas Tree, which has been introduced as with many
other items to lighten up the season, but let us not deny the
value of the intention of the spirit of Christmas bringing hope.
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The life of the baby Jesus was to bring the truth and reality
of life and to take us into the continuous life beyond this earth
plane Jesus said "Let the little children come to me"
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because he knew that they had not yet been influenced by material
thoughts.
For those who believe in eternal life, which was proven by
the appearance of the Master after
his brutal
death, then life gives us the reason why we chose this life,
with all its joys and difficulties. The promise of Christmas
gives us all hope and helps us to lives our lives here understanding
the real reason for this wonderful time .We ask that those
who represent us in each part of the world will take up the
challenge, and be helped to make this life more spiritual,
not just for Christmas, but every day of our lives. Rumi,
the Sufi said "seek those who are searching for the Truth,
run away from those who say they have found it."
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Let
this Christmas time be full of Joy, happiness, and in these
difficult times, full of reason and Hope for all of mankind.
A happy Christmas to all.
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Merry
Christmas!
Rev.
Al Potts.
FOOD
FOR THOUGHT
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It
was December 25, 1914, only 5 months into World War I. German,
British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired of the senseless
killing, disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy"
along two-thirds of the Western Front (a crime punishable by death
in times of war). German troops held Christmas trees up out of
the trenches with signs, "Merry Christmas."
"You
no shoot, we no shoot." Thousands of troops streamed across a
no-man's land strewn with rotting corpses. They sang Christmas
carols, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared
rations, played football, even roasted some pigs.
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Soldiers embraced men they had been trying to kill a few short
hours before. They agreed to warn each other if the top brass
forced them to fire their weapons, and to aim high.
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A
shudder ran through the high command on either side. Here was
disaster in the making: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with
each other and refusing to fight. Generals on both sides declared
this spontaneous peacemaking to be treasonous and subject to court
martial. By March 1915 the fraternization movement had been eradicated
and the killing machine put back in full operation. By the time
of the armistice in 1918, fifteen million would be slaughtered.
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Not
many people have heard the story of the Christmas Truce. On Christmas
Day, 1988, a story in the Boston Globe mentioned that a local
FM radio host played "Christmas in the Trenches," a ballad about
the Christmas Truce, several times and was startled by the effect.
The song became the most requested recording during the holidays
in Boston on several FM stations.
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"Even more startling than the number of requests I get is the
reaction to the ballad afterward by callers who hadn't heard it
before," said the radio host. "They telephone me deeply moved,
sometimes in tears, asking, 'What the hell did I just hear?' "
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You
can probably guess why the callers were in tears. The Christmas
Truce story goes against most of what we have been taught about
people. It gives us a glimpse of the world as we wish it could
be and says, "This really happened once." It reminds us of those
thoughts we keep hidden away, out of range of the TV and newspaper
stories that tell us how trivial and mean human life is. It is
like hearing that our deepest wishes really are true: the world
really could be different.
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This
song is based on a true
story from the front lines of World War I that
I've heard many times. Ian Calhoun, a Scot, was the commanding
officer of the British forces involved in the story. He was subsequently
court-martialed for 'consorting with the enemy' and sentenced
to death. Only George V spared him from that fate. -- John McCutcheon
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THIS
MONTH'S (2) CHRISTMAS MOVIE'S
MOVIE
ONE
Destined
At Christmas | Full Christmas Movie
Starring:
Shae
Robins & Casey Elliott
Synopsis:
Kim
and Theo meet in the midst of Black Friday shopping madness
but there’s a definite spark between them. When a power outage
causes some panic at a store, the couple gets separated. With
Christmas coming, there should be plenty of distractions but
neither Kim nor Theo can forget the other. Both yearn to find
each other but how with so little information to go on? It’ll
take a little Christmas magic and destiny to bring them back
together.
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MOVIE
TWO
Destined
2: Christmas Once More
Full
Christmas Movie
Starring:
Shae
Robins & Casey Elliott
Synopsis:
Theo
still misses connecting with his girlfriend, Kim, as he tries
to find the most romantic way to propose to her on Christmas.
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TV-PG
rating
These
movie's are available for free (with Ads) on YouTube.
SIMPLY
DELICIOUS
Best Fruit Cake Recipe,
Easy quick,
Simple Fruit cake recipe
to make at Home!
Please
click link HERE or picture to watch Video:
Ingredients & Method:
Dried
Fruits and Nuts 300-400g (2-3 cups)
[raisins,
Sultanas, currents, nuts, glazed cherries,
candied
peels, apricot, anything available]
Butter
225g (1 cup)
Sugar
150g (¾ cup)
3
Eggs
Plain
Flour 250g (1 and ? cups)
Baking
powder 1 ½ teaspoons
Milk
60ml (¼ cup) - optional
Vanilla
extract 1 teaspoon
Almond
essence ½ teaspoon (optional)
Measuring
Cup size - 240ml
Baking
pan 25x11x6 cm (3 Lb)
Method:
Whisk
butter and sugar until creamy (for about 3-4 mins)
Add
the eggs and whisk again for about 1-2 minutes.
Sift the flour, baking powder.
Fold
gently.
Add
vanilla extract, almond essence, milk.
Whisk
for about 20 seconds.
Add
the fruits and nuts.
Fold
gently.
Bake
in a preheated oven at 170c (338f) for 50-60 minutes
Enjoy!
THE
FUNNY CORNER
Best
Christmas Ever - Saturday Night Live
To
Watch Video Please Click On Picture Or Link
A couple (Matt Damon, Cecily
Strong) sits down to reflect on a great Christmas with their family
as they quietly remember the horror.
AND
FINALLY
Thank
you for reading the December 2025 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
Michael
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