Love, acceptance and resignation

Posted on November 7, 2024 by new desert

Dear Ones,

In light of the recent political events in the United States, I feel called to share a portion of a teaching from Master Djwhal Kuhl, going back to April of 2011.

It addresses the concepts of love, acceptance and the difference between acceptance and resignation.

I found it particularly fit to the evolutionary times we are now experiencing.

And who knows what soon-to-knock-at-our-door 2025 will bring in its sack?

Another reason to polish our ‘acceptance skill’ as we near the end of another 365-day cycle.

Love & much Light

Topic: Love, acceptance and resignation

Time: Nov 7 @ 3:30 PM Eastern Time

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Meeting ID: 880 6576 7304

“How would you rate the force of love operating in your life these days? I know that probably sounds like a loaded question, but just consider it for a moment. Clearly, love should help you move through your day, should it not? Love should support your center (or your core) as you take your place in a world that seems to lack any real equanimity. Further, love should bring you more self-acceptance. It should also offer a great capacity to accept all the things in the world you cannot change. As you engage in true acceptance, you will undoubtedly become softer – both toward yourself and toward others.

There is a definite difference between “acceptance” and “resignation” and since many folks confuse these two, an explanation is in order. Acceptance is a highly engaged state of mind and heart – which is just the opposite condition of resignation. Many well-intentioned spiritual aspirants confuse these two states of mind. They do so even though the energetic imprints of the two emotional conditions are radically divergent. Resignation is a state of reluctantly conforming to a situation while really wishing things could be another way. Acceptance, on the other hand, is simply a natural and open response to the things that happen, or to things as they are.

The first step to mastering acceptance turns out to be learning how to cultivate neutrality, or what my teachers called “impartiality.” One of the commonly held misperceptions about neutrality is that when one is neutral one simply doesn’t care about anything. That sounds a lot like resignation and not so much like acceptance, but it is the way many people think. If one truly doesn’t care about anything, then neither the events of the world, nor the events in the lives of other people seem to have any meaning, nor do they seem to require any attention. This is a bit on the nihilistic side, isn’t it? It might also be narcissistic, but it is certainly nihilistic. I want to emphasize that nihilism is not neutrality. I don’t care how someone tries to sell it. The neutrality or impartiality that I’m talking about here is a refined spiritual state of mind.

This mental state is learned over time with a lot of practice. It is a cultivated mental state in which a person cares very deeply about the world and all its beings. One does not deny this caring to any being on Earth. In fact, most people who learn to surround themselves with this refined mental state are amazed at how much their caring quotient deepens from prior states. The capacity to care is naturally deepened in a spiritually neutral state. The difference from prior states of caring lies completely in the absence of the ego-charge that may have been previously interpreted as caring. You might need to think about that a little bit.”

Master Djwhal Kuhl

April 2011

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An event in the air!

Posted on October 23, 2024 by new desert

Dear Ones,

On October 21 and October 23, I received a post from my friend CJ that was similar. The very same post two days apart, yet with different titles. Might there be a reason for that?

It mentioned the absolute necessity of what I sometimes call “a spiritual earthquake.”

Given what the world is experiencing right now in terms of tension and conflicts, and the amount of greed, lust and deception that floods our planet, it is difficult to envision a saner world without a complete reset.

Back to zero point. A fresh start, with a clean slate. The past wiped out.

I agree with CJ and, honestly, do not see any other possibility.

Do you?

A Grand Event, an Awakening has to occur

We are responsible for all we have created. C.J.

Heck If humanity is to evolve and survive, then a grand event, or Awakening, has to occur.  It has to be strong enough that any excuses from fear and Ego/Pride have no place to run, or any capacity to hide through deceptions all too common to us in daily life.

It will have to be fearful enough to shake us from our sleep, so we realize we are responsible for all we have created. It’s the only hope and the only power that can save the path we’ve chosen, until now.

It won’t stop until the wealthy, the famous and the royal realize that greed not only steals from people, but from a living Universe.  Things will never change and both sides grow closer in Wisdom and Awareness, until the poor and the ignorant stop blaming the rich and famous for their conditions in life and take responsibility for themselves.

Power is only real power when it is wrapped in Awareness. Power that grows through manipulation, control, and greed isn’t lasting. It has a seed of erosion and destruction within and it creates jealousy and anger from those who feel powerless. It takes from others and leaves nothing behind of value for anyone to appreciate.

Power becomes an enemy to existence and others. We are no longer seen as a flesh and blood creation, but a vile pestilence of existence, eating the insides of humanity. This isn’t the true purpose and intent of power.

Real power reveals the true nature of things and shows a unity of all Existence. It teaches us that one power exists beyond the greed of humanity. Only when we surrender to it and the guidance of our Heart and Feelings do we have a chance to avoid destruction to us and others.

We are given the freedom to choose whether or not we surrender to a greater wisdom, one that created everything, or … go our own way and see what happens.

It is the hope of the Heart of Existence that we’ll choose the way back Home but the Heart of Existence will always allow us to leave and return however long it might take us, even forever. Namaste

Topic: An event in the air!

Time: Oct 24 @ 4:30 PM Eastern Time

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Meeting ID: 836 0201 8011

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When the Divine reroutes us!

Posted on October 21, 2024 by new desert

Dear Ones,

I usually do not share much about my musings and goings but this one is too good, and too incredible, to be kept silent.

I work as a substitute teacher, usually in elementary schools. I like to schedule my shifts ahead of time, based on grade levels and schools I enjoy working at.

I had scheduled a shift in a school southeast of where we live for Monday, October 21. This was a new school for me. It was an ESOL job, meaning I would be teaching nonnative students of English.

Twice last Friday, when I went over my schedule, I felt the need to cancel that shift. As if a little voice was murmuring in the background, yet more of a gentle nudge. I got intrigued the first time, paid attention yet didn’t do anything. When the whisper came back a few hours later, I heeded it and canceled my shift.

Out of the blue, later that Friday morning, a teacher in a different school (let’s call it AD) where I worked two or three times, emailed me and asked about my availability. I was suddenly available and agreed. She had to confirm my shift and book me. Yet she didn’t. Some two hours later, another teacher for whom I had subbed for two days in mid-September, emailed me. She said she had talked to her colleague (both are 6th grade teachers) and she had agreed to a sub exchange, with me working in her class. This second person’s class is a tough challenge, with a high level of noise, some troublemakers and other students drawing and studying nothing. I knew about the class and thought it would be a good idea to go back and witness any possible progress. I said, yes.

I was also available on October 24th & 25th and mentioned it to the teacher; she booked me immediately. That was good, yet a little strange. She had told me she would be leaving the school, but not until November 8th. I thought she might need time to search for a new job.

When I got to AD school on Monday morning, October 21, I learned that the teacher I was subbing for had resigned that Friday prior. She apparently had a most difficult time in class and left early that afternoon, never to return. It must have been very tense because there was an extra-long message of apology from one of the students on the board. One that still stands, at 3 pm on Monday.

Prior to class, I learned that the teacher was not coming back from one of her colleagues and the principal later came to class to share the news. “Your teacher won’t be back and we’ll find a replacement as soon as we can.”

One student knowingly asked, “Is it our fault?”

The morning was interesting and a bit chaotic, with several teachers coming in and the program altered; at some point, the students cleaned the classroom and rearranged their chairs and desks. It gave the class a bit of a respite and more space to navigate throughout.

I found myself in the middle of that situation, with information that I needed to gather to make sense of what had happened, and I asked myself,

Why am I here, “guided” that I was by circumstances beyond my imagining and a persistent inner voice?

To experience chaos?

Or test my inner fortitude?

Or teach me unattachment to outcome?

Or, who knows, to clear something at a much deeper level?

The answer hasn’t been forthcoming and yet there ought to be one. Or two.

As we know, the Universe doesn’t orchestrate life in a rational manner, does it?

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What world starting January 20, 2025?

Posted on October 6, 2024 by new desert

Dear Ones,

I rarely publish a post in both French and English; in fact, this will be my second one.

I wrote an editorial and sent it to a French newspaper, Le Monde, and although it won’t be published, I believe I’m asking an important question, that goes beyond the borders of the United States:

What world do we desire and opt for starting January 20th?

What world starting January 20, 2025?

Monday, January 20, 2025, is the day when the new president of the United States will be inaugurated.

Come to think of it as a sign of destiny, or a possible wink from the Universe, the third Monday of January marks in the United States the public holiday dedicated to the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., a black pastor, born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929, who worked greatly to level the human landscape of one of the most powerful countries on our planet.

There is no denying the fact that a large number of people around the world have their eyes glued and ears tuned to the “US” during this fall season. The stakes are certainly important, for the United States first of all, divided as the country finds itself between the supporters of an “old white man” and those of a “woman of color” with bicultural origins—a Jamaican father, and an Indian mother. A perfect example of the multicultural patchwork that is woven more and more every day in this multifaceted country, and which is far from being accepted by the entire population.

Beyond the program of the two candidates, which remains unclear and whose impact of key measures remains difficult to assess, this internal struggle offers two diametrically opposed perspectives and its outcome will influence the next four years of our fragile planet. Let’s go back in time some four years for a moment.

The assassination in May 2020 of George Floyd, a black American man brutalized by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, created an unprecedented shock wave which led to numerous uprisings, more or less peaceful, across the world. Strong symbols of a stormy and bloody past have fallen, as evidenced by the numerous statues of leaders from the Civil War or the European colonial period which have been dislodged or decapitated here and there. Even though this evolutionary current is now unconscious and silent, could this “global liberation of mentalities” linked to the social movements of the spring of 2020 have influenced the advent of a woman of color as a presidential candidate? Knowing that the United States has never seen a woman reaching the highest levels of office, much less a woman of color.

It would seem that, slowly and with some difficulty, the evolution of mentalities has made its way forward, following the many human experiences which mark the development of this extraordinary nation—a nation where everything seems possible, and where the most incongruous and adventurous ideas often take root.

At the dawn of the twenty-sixth year of the twenty-first century, is the prospect of a fairer, more balanced, healthier world, where certain fundamental decisions will no longer depend (or depend less, let us say) on the skin color of an individual, his or her level of education or her or his socio-economic status, possible?

This promise, if it is indeed an unspoken promise—or perhaps simply a universal desire—, was not given by either of the two presidential candidates who set out, during their only encounter, to debate proposals devoid of “human egalitarian meaning,” focusing or limiting themselves to the major “front lines” which affect the economy, immigration or even abortion. Areas which are essential to address in order to convince the many voters who are still undecided. This does not mean that, in an underground and unconscious fashion, things are not evolving in the right or upward direction.

By ripple effect, movements generated or decisions taken on this side of the Atlantic can have a significant impact on the lives of citizens on the other side of the world.

Imagine then, even for a moment, the meaning of the message that America would send to the rest of the world by electing a woman of color as president?

It would be, beyond internal or global conflicts, a magnificent snub to movements of slavery and European colonization, Kamala’s father, Donald Harris, having been born in 1938 in a country, Jamaica, which was under British rule; as well as “a bit of raspberry,” to use the American expression, with regard to representatives of “white power.” Winston Churchill would perhaps be the first to turn in his grave, a British prime minister who had no tender words towards the inhabitants of the former Indian colony.

This shows that the karma of a nation cannot be blatantly ignored because it enjoys to visit us, sometimes ironically, during an election or a nomination, such as that of Rishi Sunak in England barely two years ago.

The repercussions of this message could be multiple, with a domino effect, and the aim here is not to consider them, even less to list them. Perhaps it is more important to generate a certain “goodwill” for the future of the planet; a “goodwill” which would go well beyond the geopolitical borders that human beings have deemed useful to erect, in a more or less distant past, in order to preserve their goods and their territory, war after war, conflict after conflict, invasion after invasion.

This “post-January 20, 2025” world is a world that we must create, mentally, both individually and collectively, if we want planet Earth to regenerate itself and evolve in the direction of its preservation and its sustainable development.

Coming back to this timely “Martin Luther King Jr. Day,” it would not be surprising if the Universe had decided to put in its little grain of salt in order to amplify human and terrestrial evolution.

Will 2025 finally be the year of planetary renewal?

Gilles Asselin

Quel monde à partir du 20 janvier 2025 ?

Le lundi 20 janvier 2025 est le jour où sera intronisé(e) le nouveau président—ou la nouvelle présidente—des Etats-Unis.

Signe du destin, ou possible clin d’œil de l’Univers, le troisième lundi du mois de janvier marque aux Etats-Unis le jour férié dédié à la mémoire de Martin Luther King Jr., ce pasteur noir, né à Atlanta le 15 janvier 1929, qui a grandement œuvré au nivellement du paysage humain de l’un des états les plus puissants de notre planète.

On ne peut nier le fait que bon nombre de personnes à travers le monde ont les yeux rivés et les oreilles branchées sur les « US » en cette saison automnale. L’enjeu est certes important, pour les Etats-Unis tout d’abord, divisé que le pays se trouve entre les partisans d’un « vieil homme blanc » et ceux d’une « femme de couleur » aux origines biculturelles—père Jamaïcain, mère Indienne. Un exemple parfait du patchwork multiculturel qui se tisse chaque jour de plus en plus dans ce pays aux multiples facettes, et qui est loin d’être accepté par l’ensemble de la population.

Au-delà du programme des deux candidats, qui reste peu clair et dont l’impact des mesures phares reste difficile à évaluer, cette lutte interne offre deux perspectives diamétralement opposées et son dénouement va influencer les quatre années à venir de notre fragile planète. Revenons un instant quatre ans en arrière.

L’assassinat en mai 2020 de George Floyd, noir-américain brutalisé par un policier à Minneapolis dans le Minnesota, a créé une onde de choc sans précédent qui a entrainé de nombreux soulèvements, plus ou moins pacifiques, à travers le monde. Quelques symboles forts d’un passé houleux et sanglant sont tombés comme en témoignent les nombreuses statues de leaders de la guerre de Sécession ou de la période coloniale européenne qui ont été délogées ou décapitées ici ou là. Même si ce courant est désormais pour le moins inconscient et silencieux, cet « affranchissement mondial des mentalités » lié aux mouvements sociaux du printemps 2020 aurait-il pu influer sur l’avènement d’une femme de couleur candidate à la présidentielle ? Sachant que les Etats-Unis n’ont jamais connu de femme ayant accédé à la fonction suprême, encore moins une femme de couleur.

Il semblerait que cahin-caha l’évolution des mentalités ait fait son chemin, au gré des expériences humaines qui jalonnent le développement de cette nation hors du commun—une nation où tout semble être possible, et où les idées les plus incongrues et les plus aventureuses prennent souvent racine.

A l’aube de la vingt-sixième année du vingt et unième siècle, cette perspective d’un monde plus juste, plus équilibré, plus sain, où certaines décisions fondamentales ne dépendront plus (ou moins, dirons-nous) de la couleur de la peau d’un individu, de son niveau d’études ou de son niveau socio-économique, est-elle envisageable ?

Cette promesse, s’il s’agit bien d’une promesse—inavouée, ou peut-être simplement d’un désir universel—, n’a été faite par aucun des deux candidats qui se sont attelés, lors de leur unique débat, à débattre de propositions dénuées de « sens égalitaire humain, » s’attachant ou se limitant aux grandes « lignes de front » qui touchent à l’économie, à l’immigration ou encore à l’avortement. Des points qui sont essentiels dans l’optique de convaincre les nombreux électeurs encore indécis. Cela ne signifie pas que, d’une façon souterraine et inconsciente, les choses n’évoluent pas dans le bon sens.

Par effet de ricochet, des mouvements engendrés ou des décisions prises de ce côté-ci de l’Atlantique peuvent avoir un impact important sur la vie de citoyens à l’autre bout du monde.

Imaginez ainsi, ne serait-ce qu’un instant, le sens du message que l’Amérique pourrait envoyer au reste du monde en élisant une femme de couleur présidente ?

Ce serait, au-delà des conflits internes ou planétaires, un magnifique pied de nez à l’esclavage et à la colonisation européenne, le père de Kamala, Donald Harris, étant né en 1938 dans une Jamaïque sous tutelle britannique ; et « un peu de framboise, » (a bit of raspberry, pour reprendre l’expression américaine) à l’égard des représentants du « pouvoir blanc. » Winston Churchill serait peut-être le premier à se retourner dans sa tombe, lui qui n’a pas eu des mots tendres à l’égard des habitants de l’ex-colonie indienne.

Comme quoi le karma d’une nation ne peut être ignoré car il aime nous rendre visite, parfois ironiquement, au détour d’une élection ou d’une nomination, telle celle de Rishi Sunak en Angleterre il y a à peine deux ans.

Les répercussions de ce message pourraient être multiples, avec un effet domino, mais le but n’est pas ici de les envisager, encore moins de les énumérer. Peut-être est-il plus important de générer un certain « vouloir » pour le futur de la planète ; un « vouloir » qui irait bien au-delà des frontières géopolitiques que l’être humain a jugé utile d’ériger, dans un passé plus ou moins lointain, afin de préserver ses biens et son territoire, guère après guerre, conflit après conflit, invasion après invasion.

Ce monde « post-20-janvier-2025 » est un monde que nous nous devons de créer, mentalement, à la fois individuellement et collectivement, si nous souhaitons que la planète Terre se régénère et évolue dans le sens de sa sauvegarde et de son développement durable.

Pour en revenir à ce « Martin Luther King Jr. Day, » qui tombe à pic il ne serait pas surprenant que l’Univers ait décidé d’y mettre son petit grain de sel afin d’amplifier l’évolution humaine.

L’année 2025 sera-t-elle enfin celle du renouveau planétaire ?

Gilles Asselin

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Are the times ripening?

Posted on September 18, 2024 by new desert

Dear Ones,

We have a lot on our energetic plate these days.

We just passed through a lunar eclipse, are about to enter a seasonal change with equal amount of light on “both sides” and we’ll decorate our cake with a solar eclipse on the second of October 2nd.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-october-2

What is the meaning of this? Could it be a final exit out the womb? The womb of the universe?

Let’s stay tuned while we buckle up!

Topic: Are the times ripening?

Time: Sep 19 @ 3:45 PM Eastern Time

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89716583391

Meeting ID: 897 1658 3391


THE ECLIPSE EFFECT: A Lunar Eclipse is sometimes called a “mega Full Moon” because of its amplified effect on our human psyches and experience. What has been unconscious rises to the surface at the time of a Lunar Eclipse. 

The term “lunacy,” coined in the mid-sixteenth century, originally referred to the kind of “temporary insanity” that was often observed at the time of a Full Moon. Some forms of lunacy are sure to be heightened around the time of this week’s Lunar Eclipse, especially since it occurs in imaginative, other-worldly, and psychically sensitive Pisces.

A Lunar Eclipse corresponds with a time of major transitions, sometimes personally and often globally. With the water element emphasized, both through the sign Pisces and the planet Neptune, some of those major shifts could be related to dramas involving oceans, floods, excessive rains, and other water-related events. 

Eclipses are always linked energetically to the Nodes of the Moon, which represent humanity’s highest evolutionary path (North Node) and those traits that we must leave behind if we are to advance (South Node). As a result, the changes that occur this week may feel somehow fated or karmic. Situations could seem to take on a life of their own, beyond our control. Events that occur will likely have long-lasting effect, and may even change the course of human history.

From Pam Youghans’ latest newsletter

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Let’s love a bit more

Posted on September 2, 2024 by new desert

Dear Ones,

Here is an excerpt from Master Hilarion’s guidance for the month of September.

Love, kindness, and our loving thoughts, will continue to change the world. Let’s redouble our efforts.

https://www.therainbowscribe.com/hilarion-september-2024/

“You asked what more could be done, what more should be done. Problems that emerge overtime gestate and form, hidden at first, unseen, brought about by human greed, allowed to be by human ignorance, cannot be resolved within days or minutes or hours, not even by the forces of miracles themselves—it is time and persistency that will enable love to prevail. You must encourage people to focus their loving thoughts, to focus their thoughts of Light upon this ascending world; each and every day, this must be done. This ascending world must be consistently bombarded with Love! People must not grow faint hearted believing that it is not working; people must acknowledge, must see that such forces will need to build slowly overtime, that such forces need to be consistently applied if they are to have effect; that such forces must come from a united and focused legion of people who believe, trust and know the truth.”

Let’s be part of that legion, dear Ones!

Topic: Let’s love a bit more

Time: Sep 5 @ 4:00 PM Eastern Time

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Meeting ID: 833 8620 1894

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Intensification

Posted on August 29, 2024 by new desert

Dear Ones,

It feels like something is intensifying, perhaps the order of things and the pace of life itself.

It appears that something is speeding up;

Something about the dismantlement of the old?

Yet it is hard to tell more about this new “influx” of dis-order, or mis-order, besides the fact it is impacting us all, consciously or not so consciously.

As a tiny example, I could not remember yesterday the first three digits of the code that opens our apartment door. I drew a blank—and nothing would come.

Let’s explore this together this evening!

Topic: Intensification

Time: Aug 29 @ 5:00 PM Eastern Time

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Meeting ID: 895 4145 7943

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For the sake of a peaceful world

Posted on August 21, 2024 by new desert

Dear Ones,

In my meditation this evening, a dove descended upon our planet to dispel the dark clouds of discord, envy and manipulation—syndromes that have afflicted the world for a very long time.

May we “simply” hold, together and individually, a vision of humanity moving toward a peaceful state.

One where peace and kindness reign unchallenged.

We can make this world happen. This is why we are high witnesses to this huge transformative process.

Topic: For the sake of a peaceful world!

Time: Aug 22 @ 4:00 PM Eastern Time

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Meeting ID: 883 0406 9269

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An imperative to find joy and evolve every day

Posted on July 24, 2024 by new desert

Dear Ones,

Here is the intention that I shared in a meeting this evening.

“Regardless of whatever motivates our desire to gather as human beings, progress and evolve, as a person or as a species, let’s connect with that evolutionary imperative right now.

Let’s bring it forward in consciousness and, in this very moment, may we wholeheartedly embrace this noble intention.

For the sake of a better, saner world.”

It is imperative to evolve, dear Ones, despite what we witness around us; events or attitudes that do not seem to serve or uplift humanity.

It is imperative to evolve and find joy every day in the minutest things we do. A smile, a gentle word, a high five, a kiss, you name it.

This attitude of ours matters and does make a difference in a tormented world.

Thank you for what you do!

Topic: An imperative to find joy and evolve every day

Time: Jul 25 @ 4:00 PM Eastern Time

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Pulling our hearts together

Posted on June 26, 2024 by new desert

Good evening dear Ones,

How are you these days?

We know there is a lot of violence in the world—forever or since the ‘night of times’ as we say on French—and the days we are living are no exception.

Yet violence and cruelty sometimes defy our comprehension, especially when hurting is done for the sake of hurting and damaging one young soul.

About ten days ago, a group of three French youngsters (12 and 13 years old) in the Paris area abducted, brutalized and raped a 12-year-old girl, pretexting that she never told them she was Jewish.

Events and blind bombings in the Middle East certainly have an impact on everyone of us, helpless that most of us are, but how is it possible that young souls would be dehumanized to the point of committing such an abominable crime?

What does humanity have to gain in the process, if not sinking into a deeper layer of demonic darkness?

Through this event, one young girl lost her childhood (as her parents asserted on French TV) and three young boys tarnished their destiny forever.

Where is Consciousness, evolving and maturing Consciousness?

And, as a people, can we pull our hearts together to make this kind—and any other kinds—of inhibited violence stop?

Looking forward to sharing our Light one more time this Thursday.

Topic: Pulling our hearts together

Time: Jun 27 @ 4:00 PM Eastern Time

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Meeting ID: 881 9393 2702

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