DECEMBER 3, 2008
F.R.O.G. NOTES
This is the time of year when the kitchen takes on the sweet smell of cookies, apple cider, ginger bread and pies, while the other rooms in the house waft the scents of fur and pine or maybe wood smoke and popcorn from the green tree. The unmistakable beauty of bright bows of all colors adorning stair ways, banisters, doorways, lamp posts and balcony----well of course---packages of all sizes. (pssst. The mail must be slow I haven't received yours yet)
The excitement in the air among children and adult alike is all most reaches an epidemic proportion.
Santa Claus--Saint Nicholas--the great uniter of young and old the world over is coming! Do you believe it? Can you dig it? "You Betcha" I can! Enjoy these days! Enjoy your family !
Put aside absolute reality for just a little while and enjoy the freedom of a little imagination in your life.
View this time of the year from your heart for what it really is--rather it be "Kris Kringle" time or the joy of celebrating of the birth of Jesus, this still remains a time for mankind to once again reach out a receptive hand to this world over....forget the icons of your worship, the titles of Jew, Muslim, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist Protestant or Metaphysical, remember, Trust, the Joy, the Peace, the Love, Beauty of the heavens under one Loving Universal God.
It is not up to any one else to determine if you are to reach paradise or not only you can bring the true peace in your heart.
Blessings fred

WHAT A WONDERFUL EVENT THANKSGIVING WAS...MORE THAN FORTY PEOPLE SHARED WONDERFUL FOOD AS A FAMILY AND ENJOYED A RELAXED TIME.
OUR CHAMPION BUNKO PLAYER WAS A FOUR YEAR OLD! (groan)
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ABRAHAM MEET-UP 7:00 PM, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008

MAKE A NOTE DECEMBER 24, 7 PM CANDLE LIGHT SERVICE
A CHRISTMAS DAY MEDITATION AT 11 AM TO HONOR THE BIRTH OF THE CHRIST WITHIN.
NO SERVICE JUST MEDITATIVE TIME TO COME IN LIGHT A CANDLE OF REMEMBERANCE OF A LOVED ONE OR SPECIAL PURPOSE AND ENJOY PRAYER IN YOUR LANGUAGE WITHIN THE SILENCE.
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HEALING CIRCLE
Join Cathy and Angela at 9:30 am just prior to the Sunday Celebration as they facilitate a healing circle. We have had some remarkable reports from this powerful circle.
There is a pastor on site every weekday from 11am to 2pm


AMRIT YOGA BY LENEKE SATURDAYS AT 9 AM

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November 26, 2008
F.R.O.G. NOTES
Who cares if the Pilgrims and Indians served cranberries or not?
"Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for all his goodness"-j.r.miller
We should be emphasizing the fact they ate Together! Side by Side! In Peace! Two different nations achieved a unity--a oneness of mankind fro a power greater then themselves.
It is recorded fact that the Native Americans have all ways been very spiritual people that celebrated the Great Spirit's abundance of the land, long before the arrival of Pilgrims and ---while the Pilgrims might have brought a traditional time of "Michaelmos" to the table we truly underestimate the tribute Chief Santos made to the absolute welfare and survival of those Pilgrims.
Regardless mankind showed praise to one God, one power in the universe with two different names. This thanksgiving act could be so easily repeated today if we will only set out National Ego's aside and believe in the words of Romans 12: 15-16
"Rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those that weep, but be of the same mind towards one another"
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Blessings fred