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MAY CLASSES & EVENTS
Sunday Morning Inspiration Service 10:30 am
MAY SPECIAL EVENTS
DANIEL NAHMOD LIVE ~ 1st & 3rd Wednesdays in May, 7:30 to 8:45 pm ~ $10 per person
MAY LUNCHEON IN THE SALON ~ Celebrating Community ~ Sunday, May 27, Immediately following service ~ Everyone Welcome ~ $5 Suggested Donation ~ No one refused
Celebrating Spirit, presented by Father Leo Booth and Team ~ Sunday, May 27, 7 to 8:30 pm ~ Love Offering
WHAT'S NEW?
A COURSE IN MIRACLES, facilitated by Karen Akers (co-facilitated by Ken Radcliff) ~ Tuesdays, Weekly, 12 Noon (Okay to bring lunch)
Young Adults' Book Study, facilitated by Lyla Ramirez & Lissette Garcia ~ 2nd & 4th Wednesdays in May, 7 to 8:30 pm ~ Love Offering
KID'S CALENDAR
Kids' Enrichment Program ~ ages infant thru 5th grade ~ Weekly, Sundays, 10:30 am
OUTREACH
GET ON THE BUS PROJECT
FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT
RECYCLE SUNDAY ~ Third Sunday of the Month, May 20
Local Certified Farmers' Markets
ONGOING
Eckhart Tolle Book Study ~ Power of Now ~ Fridays, Weekly,12:30 to 1:30 pm ~ Love Offering
Reiki Healing Circle ~ Tuesdays, May 8 & 22, 7 to 8:30 pm ~ Love Offering
Women's Wisdom Circle ~ Tuesdays, May 8 & 22, 10 to 11:30 am ~ Love Offering
VENUE EVENTS
Orange County Spiritualist Gathering, with Medium Kathleen Vance ~ Wednesdays, May 9 & 23 ~ $10 suggested donation
Intenders' Circle & Conscious Enterprise, facilitated by Judith Freyer & team ~ Wednesday, May 2 , 7 to 8:30 pm ~ $5 suggested
Development 1: Developing your spiritual path & intuition, with Bob Lewis ~ Saturday, May 12 , 9:30 am to 12:30 pm ~ $20 per person
Development 2: Advanced students in spiritual and psychic awareness, with Bob Lewis ~ Saturday, May 26, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm ~ $20 per person
Be sure to look for updates and details of activities in weekly email notices.
Ongoing weekly classes continue as scheduled. Check our At-a-Glance Calendar for information.
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OUTREACH
A Priceless Opportunity for Hugs
Under the team leadership of Nancy Berg, Common Ground is once again pleased to support the efforts of Get on the Bus.
Free of cost to those being served by the program, Get On The Bus brings children and their guardians/caregivers from throughout the state of California to visit their mothers and fathers in prison.
Get On The Bus provides travel bags for the children, comfort care bags for the caregivers, a photo of each child with his or her parent, and meals for the day (breakfast, snacks on the bus, lunch at the prison, and dinner on the way home).
On the bus trip home, following a four-hour visit, each child receives a teddy bear with a letter from their parent and post-event counseling.
Details for Common Ground's participation will be released soon. Thank you for taking part in this meaningful outreach effort.
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PRAYER & MEDITATION
Contemplate This
Being born a human being is a precious opportunity.
The following Buddhist teaching story illustrates the great gift of human birth.
Suppose that this great earth were totally covered with water, and a person were to toss a yoke with a single hole into the vast ocean.
Now consider that a wind from the east would push the yoke west, a wind from the west would push it east, a wind from the north would push it south, and a wind from the south would push it north.
Now imagine a blind sea-turtle swimming in the wide sea. Consider that the sea-turtle comes to the surface only once every one hundred years.
What do you think? Would that blind sea-turtle, coming to the surface only once every one hundred years, stick his neck into the yoke with a single hole?
Probably not, but, it is more likely for the sea-turtle to accidentally poke its head through that ring than to be born a human being.
It would be a sheer coincidence. It is likewise a sheer coincidence that one obtains the gift of precious human birth.
"Since you have a precious human birth, you should not waste it. If you waste this time, then you are wasting something very great. Even were you to waste a billion dollars, it doesn't matter. You can make it up. You can do something, and you can make it up. But if you waste this precious human birth, it is very, very difficult. You cannot make it up."
(from a teaching by Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche)
Life is
prayer
at Common Ground.
If you need comfort and inspiration please visit our website and click on Prayer.
Those needing prayer support are invited to
make
Prayer Requests on-line at info@embracehumanity.com or by placing a
request in the prayer box in the
Lobby.
There are no fees for
prayer at
Common Ground.
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TITHING 2012
As We Give, So Shall We Receive ~ Common Ground is truly blessed and in turn becomes a blessing in the world
Common Ground
reaches
out to the global community through our
spiritual
practice of conscious giving.
Giving back
to the
world
is an important aspect of our mission and
vision. A
balanced integral approach is reflected in
conscious
selection of 501c3 qualified programs and
institutions
to which Common Ground provides tithes each
month.
Recipients of Common Ground 2012
tithes
include:
IONS
(Institute of
Noetic Sciences), advancing the science of
consciousness and human experience to serve
individual and collective transformation; Kiva,
empowering people to lift themselves out of
poverty; Disability
Rights California, affirmatively
addressing the needs of the traditionally
underserved and underrepresented disability
community; Project
HOPE School, (Homeless
Outreach Program in Education), helping
children without permanent homes transition
into the mainstream educational system;
Walking
Shield, helping to improve the
quality of life for American Indian families;
Direct
Relief International, supporting the
immediate medical needs of earthquake
victims in Haiti; Direct Relief International, supporting the immediate medical needs of earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan; and, Get on the Bus, serving as a conduit to assist children in crossing barriers that separate them from parents in prison.
The organizations to
which
Common Ground tithes are meaningful programs
where people from the spiritual community and
its
friends are already serving with heart and
hand, and
supporting with time and treasure.
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Common Ground is a Teaching-Learning
Center where people bring their very
souls
where people grow one another by sharing what
they
know where people learn spiritual
practices to
support them in working with the complex
possibilities
of today's world
May you realize that you are blessed
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