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Center of Enlightenment
 A Place for Your Spiritual Upliftment

         March 2021
            2724 Goodrich Ave.
            Ferndale, MI 48220
               248-582-0380
            www.coechurch.com

Sunday Services
We start our Sunday with a Silent Healing Service at 10:00 a.m. with
our Center of Enlightenment Certified Healers.
Our Worship Service begins at 10:30 a.m. and is conducted by our
Ministerial Staff.
Due to the pandemic our Healing Service with be meditative music.

                  March 2021
  Date         Chairperson         Speaker
 Mar 7 Rev. David Shaw            Patty Shaw
 Mar 14 Rev. Carol Willis         Guest Rev. Peggy Konkel
 Mar 21 Rev. Keith Norton         Rev. David Shaw
 Mar 28 Rev. Marie Phillips Guest Rev. Kathy Gallmore

Spirit Communication is also part of our services and these are
brought by our Ministers, Center of Enlightenment Certified
Mediums, and select Guest Speakers.

Each Month at CoE
Choir Practice
Center of Enlightenment Choir meets the second and fourth Tuesday
of each month. It is postponed until further notice due to COVID.
Rev. Kathleen Hellenberg is our choir director. All are welcome.
Contact Rev. Kathleen at RevKathleen@coechurch.org

Women of Enlightenment
Women, you are invited to join us and grow in our fellowship with other
women by understanding that we are not alone in our experiences in life.
On the second Friday of each month, we bring treats and share insights.
$5.00 Love Offering.
Contact Lisa Argo at LArgo@coechurch.org.
www.coechurch.com/WoE

Fellowship Potluck
CoE has a Fellowship Potluck after Sunday Services the third Sunday
of each month. It is postponed until further notice due to COVID.
The church provides the main dish, and the ministers, members, and guests
bring dishes to share.

Third Friday Events
Each month on the third Friday we host a fundraiser for the church. We offer
lectures with guest speakers, All Message Night, Healing Night, Game Night,
and other activities. This enables all to learn more about our church and our
church community.
www.coechurch.com/third-fridays

Members and Board of Directors Meeting
The Board of Directors, ministers, and members meet the fourth Sunday
after Worship Services each month. This meeting is open to all: non-
members are welcome and will have the floor for the first 10 minutes;
members are encouraged to come and have input into the decisions
of the Board.

The Spiritual Significance of the Spring Equinox
“Rather than be confronted with an overwhelming proof of the limitations of our
understanding, we accuse our dreams of not making sense.”
— ERICH FROMM
On March 20, 2021 the Northern Hemisphere will welcome Spring with the arrival of
the Vernal Equinox. On Saturday, in Northern Europe, Spring Equinox 2021 will be at
10:37 AM, and 5:37 AM Eastern Standard Time.

Vernal meaning “of the Spring”, “new” and “fresh,” and equinox derived from the Latin
aequus meaning equal and nox meaning night. On the Vernal Equinox, we experience
a balance of the day and the night, equal amounts of light and dark on the same day.
Essentially, the hours of daylight — the period of time each day between sunrise and
sunset — have been growing slightly longer each day since the Winter Solstice in
December, which is the shortest day of the year, in terms of light experienced. Even
after three months of lengthening days, we still see less light than darkness over the
course of a day. The Vernal Equinox marks the turning point when daylight begins to
overtake the darkness, and we experience more life force creative energy within our
minds and bodies. So, what does that mean?

As the darkness diminishes and the light increases, you may feel a building of
imaginative and creative energy, perhaps a lifting of the fog and a dropping of the
sleepy blanket that you have been curled up in for the past few months of winter.
In the darkest months of the year, we are encouraged by the energies to go within and
be in the silence of inner darkness or death. Where we go wrong is in fearing that our
inner world has gone dark, and that the light will not return. Just as the world turns on
its axis and brings about the return of the light turn after turn, we can rely on the return
of our own light & energy and richness of our internal garden.

It’s difficult to trust that your life has purpose and meaning even when you are not
being productive, but it is the rhythms and cycles of Earth that show us and encourage
us to rest in darkness and allow for the light to unfold us and help us blossom without
forcing or making things happen.

Imagine you have internal tides just like the sea. We do live on Earth after all and are
made up of 75% water, so imagine that you are influenced by all the amazing forces at
work here in our Universe, even the ones we have yet to understand or have the
awareness to see. You experience cycles just like the Earth and the Sun and the
Moon, though most of us do not realize how our internal states of being are influenced
by the energies at hand. Often, we feel confused, restless, stuck, or even powerless to
change our mindset and state of being. The return of the light presents us with an
opportunity to take the time to release our fears and surrender into new intentions for
ourselves.

Most of us live our lives so disconnected from our internal guidance that when the pull
of our hearts becomes so strong, and the voice inside has been muffled for so long, the
feeling that arises within us feels more like a life crisis than an emergence into
something more beautiful.

Now is a time of celebrating the freshness of life and of taking the time to raise our
energy to regenerate abundance and manifest our dreams. Physically, we are
experiencing more light right now, and since the beginning of time, our ancestors have
marked this period with ritual and celebration. As you know, there are thousands of
ancient sites created around solstices and equinoxes that were built to honor our
connection to the Sun as the source of our light and life force.

I would invite you to do something symbolic to honor your life in the next few days,
perhaps, light a candle and say a blessing for your life and the life force living in your
body. Make a commitment to go within and be silent each day to let your internal
guidance know that you are listening and intend to have open lines of communication
from here on out. Let your Inner Voice know that she in fact has a very important role
in your life and you're going to be listening a lot more and intend to be in joy.

When we shift into wonder and curiosity, there is an opening to a deeper wisdom. Our
power is a shift from the perspective, where not knowing could be seen as weakness or
being powerless, to a new way of being, where wonder and curiosity are the ultimate
source of power and strength.

Connecting with our deeper desires, does not involve knowing the answers to all of our
questions, because it's only in not knowing that we can be truly receptive, and it's only
in being receptive that we can truly discover, learn, and evolve.

In becoming truly honest with ourselves and learning the practice of unknowing and
non-attachment to the outcome, we are inviting new possibility and natural flow into our
lives.

               Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

You may find yourself asking "Where do I start? How do I begin?" Begin with answering
the call within, listening to the voice of your Inner Guidance.

Fear of change is normal, but there are ways to learn to overcome your fears and start
acting on the guidance within that will lead you to your happiest life and natural way of
being in the world.

 Do something fun, be playful. Invite in your own Divine Spirit to come a
               play for a while. It’s springtime after all...

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