| December 2005 Newsletter |
- Northern Lights: Canada's Spiritual News - |
Winter Solstice
Humanity's Team Canada and all her sisters and brothers worldwide would like to extend our best wishes during this holiday season. No matter the way we celebrate, winter solstice has been important to mankind since time immemorial. As the cold weather encroaches on our outside world we find our hearts and minds turning introspective. As we check our to do lists, and cross off what's been done, we continue to come together in our passionate commitment to pursue the "Oneness works wonders" theme.
Many, though not all of us are here because of author Neale Donald Walsch and his ongoing " Conversation with God". All of us have joined because we resonate with the many messengers of the New Spirituality. None of us were able to walk past the opportunity to make our one voice, count. In linking together as a chorus we are learning together what "we as one" looks and acts like. When you realize that you are the one person who can make a difference, join Humanity's Team, and Be the Change.
A Message from our Country Coordinator - Toward a Vision of Oneness |
Dear Canadian Humanity's Team Teammates, & Teammates from around the world... I have only just a few words to share with you in this moment of now... Do whatever it takes to live on purpose, create the personal space within yourself to hold onto what is real and true for you, go deep, breathe deep. When everything seems scary, or challenges are mounting up, hold onto your truth, and you will see how each and every time it will set you free. Free from fear, and freedom within, free to choose, and free to grow. Choose your own truth, and live as if you are the truth, become it, and know that it is who you really are. - Love Brandon Klayman
Now I'd like to share with you a vision of oneness that was written by our Worldwide Coordinating Director - Steve Steve Farrell...
Dear Friends, Brothers and Sisters,
I'd like to extend a special hello to each of you as we enter this traditional holiday season around the world. I'm really pleased to be in touch with you! There are exciting things going on in Humanity's Team!
At our Bard College Global Council meeting, we approved a Humanity's Team Purpose Statement. We also asked that it perhaps be slightly adjusted. That slight adjustment has been made -- we added two words -- and we are now ready to release it to the world. I think you will enjoy it! Here it is:
We can now share this very short and powerful Purpose Statement when people ask us why we formed Humanity's Team.... Read the entire article online!
Link: http://www.htnexus.org/clubportal/clubstatic.cfm?clubID=171&pubmenuoptID=2041
Events, Gathering, Retreats, Workshops by Humanity's Team Canada |
May 2006 Humanity's Team & Faith in the Rockies Presents & Hosts a weekend retreat with Neale Donald Walsch
A Special Invitation From Neale Donald Walsch...
My Dear
Friends,
I wonder if you would like to sit down with me and talk in
person about how we can change
our lives and change our world. I will be doing just that with a group of
interested and dedicated people this coming May at a weekend
retreat in Canmore. When we are together we'll look at how we can apply the
extraordinary messages of Conversations
with God to our every day experience, and how we can use those messages to
help heal our global community. I really believe that there IS something that we
can all do about our worldwide situation, notwithstanding that the Conversations
with God books says that there is nothing we have to do. Of course, nothing we
have to do, and being
the change we wish to see in the world, are not mutually exclusive. I do
know for a fact that Conversations
with God can and will change any person's individual life. Let's look at all
of this together. Join
me in May!
EVENT INFO. - REGISTER - CONTACT US
October - 2005 - Humanity's Team Canada October Gathering
Drew House, Elora, Ontario
The first Canadian
Humanity’s team gathering took place at the Drew
House in beautiful Elora, Ontario on October 28th to the 30th. There was a
full
house with team mates from, Ontario,
Alberta, Michigan, Colorado and New York. The program kept us busy. The weekend
was filled with an exciting energy stimulated by speakers, videos, live and
interactive music and the workshops. The networking that was accomplished in all
these forums, plus the superb meals that kept us all sustained meant we
experienced every facet of our oneness in a camaraderie that holds us together
still... read
the full story online!
http://humanitysteamcanada.com/ht/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=91
A Message from Neale Donald Walsch - Honesty as a personal practice |
Honesty as a personal practice
The toughest challenge I have ever
faced in my life is the challenge of honesty.
What makes honesty such a
challenge for me is that there are no halfway measures. A person is either
honest or she is not. It is kind of like being tall, or being a very fast
runner. A person is either tall or she is not. A person is either fast or he is
not. A person is either honest or he is not.
You can't be a little fast.
You can't be a little tall. You can't be tall "most of the time."
You
can't be a little honest, or honest "most of the time." You're either honest or
you're not. ... read the whole article online here:
http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/blog_posting.cfm?bid=172
Humanity's Team Calendars |
Humanity's Team Canada is also proud to present our Oneness 2006 Calendar.
Get the full details online... http://www.goclubexe.com/clubportal/redirect.cfm?ID=32337&MID=3004&LID=235&EID=172750
All of the profits are DONATED to support Humanity's Team.
As a SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL OFFER
receive 20% off each purchase made through this site!!
SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL PRICE: $16.00 CDN, plus s/h
This is a 14-month custom calendar
created with
real photos of
real pets bringing true- to-life
messages of
Love, LIFE
& ONENESS
with all of creation.
Photos are from Gina & Maria Sonsogno.
Wisdom Website For Your Home |
Have you
ever wondered why you feel better in some places than
in
others?
What's
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it's just in time for the holidays. Here is the website so you
can check it
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Mark Brewer, Team Mate from Ontario
Humanity's Team Canada is Really Growing!!! |
Humanity's Team is a grassroots "civil rights movement for the soul". We know we have to start with one person and continually grow to gradually include all people, in sharing the wonderful message that "We are all one". That one person was, and is, Neale Donald Walsch, as many of you know. All Neale's Conversations with God writings have conveyed that message. Now it's our job to spread the message.
To date, Humanity's Team Canada is 1100 teammates strong and growing each week by inspired and willing people who have chosen to re-create our collective global experience into a more loving & accepting world. Congratulations Canada!
The Group Loop
For a listing of all the groups and events being carried out in your area, go to the Humanity's Team Canada website and check the Main Menu. If you have new groups you'd like to start, contact us at connect@humanitysteamcanada.com and we'll be happy to list it for you. You can view Ontario Groups & Alberta Groups online!
Humanity's Team Canada: Being the Change |
Each of
the volunteers who have chosen to take on the responsibility of commitment to
Humanity's team brings a unique and passionate voice. As more join the team
the responsibilities we are able to take on, changes. Imagine the childhood game
we played Musical Chairs. Our voices are the music, and every time the music
stops for a breather instead of finding less chairs, we find more. At this
writing John Sandercock has returned to his role as Steward in Vancouver, B.C.,
with more voices waiting in this wings to take up roles.
Growing and
changing also involves letting go of voices that we have come to know and
love by working as volunteers together. There is no better way to get to know
another human being than through sharing the passion that brings each of us to
this work.
John Ross, Canada's Country Coordinator has moved into another aspect of his journey in the new spirituality. Robbie Hayes, Alberta's Coordinator has moved on to work of a more personal nature. One of our beloved and dear teammates, Gareth Marples who worked very hard each month as the editor and communications coordinator for us has recently decided to lighten his load and focus on inner work. His service to our movement is incredibly appreciated, thanks Gareth! These men will be sorely missed. John, your humility is a wonder to behold, Robbie, your light is an inspiration and Gareth your creative expression is divine.
On behalf
of all the teammates of Humanity's team Canada it is an honour and pleasure
to extend our unending gratitude to you both for your contributions to our well
being. Brandon Klayman has come back as an interim country coordinator and
will work with the coordination team to bring a new country coordinator into
the role.
A Closer Look at our Country
Coordination Team
British Columbia
Coordinator - Anne
Cressy
Saskatchewan Coordinator - John Thompson
Canadian West
Coordinator - Tanya
Dixon
Interim Country Coordinator - Brandon Klayman
We have many opportunities open for provincial coordination roles, please contact us to get involved!
And also
many thanks to our Programs & Support Team:
Abundance Team Coordinator - Yasmin Virani
Education
& Inner Work Team Coordinator - Wilma Lagerwerf
Newsletter
Coordinator - Anne
Cressy
Web/IT Services Team Coordinator - Kevin Watson
Translations
Team Coordinator - Mireille
Cantin
Teammate Care Team - Tanya Dixon & Yasmin
Varani
New -
Special Projects Coordinator - Michael Earl
Words of Vision/Wisdom |
This section of our Newsletter, gives you, the reader,
the opportunity to contribute some words of wisdom to share with all our other
readers. Any kind of input or feedback is welcomed here. We know you're out
there, this newsletter is going out to 1,797 teammates across
Canada.
When To Take A Step Back by Robbie
Hayes
"As some of you know, I was the HT
Alberta Coordinator for a little while. While I thought this was a new
avenue in my life that would take me to new places in general, it turns out to
be a different thing for me. This lesson was about knowing when
to take a step back. Well, not just when to know, but to act upon
it.
Why would anyone need to learn
this? Heck, why would someone step back from something like a role as an
HT Coord? People pleaser. Plain and simple. Ever had trouble
saying no because you don't want to hurt feelings or end up looking bad, but
usually do anyway? lol you are not alone. I realized that I
took the position because part of me thought maybe it was time to try it out,
and another just didn't want to say no. So, using the first rational as my
fuel I went ahead. As time went by I had this empty feeling in my stomach
that kept growing. I knew what it was about. I still wondered what I
should do.
A conference call helped me
make my decision. It really hit me like a ton of bricks. The
realization that I was not ready for, or truly committed to the role I had
undertaken was scary, awakening, and exciting. The scary part is because
of the people pleaser within that wonders what would happen (don't want to anger
anyone!). The awakening was the clarity at the point it occurred.
The excitement was because of an opportunity to Be someone I had denied being
for so long. I knew it was time for me to step down from the role in
fairness to myself and to HT. So, this opportunity provided me with a
reality check about where I was at, and the opportunity to Be who I choose, and
not who I choose to be in order to please. A very important step for me as
a being.
I hope people can understand from this that we are
rounded individuals and we have many things to learn/remember about
ourselves. Sometimes this means being humble, being honest, and also the
willingness to Be (hence do) what is right for you. You can't please
everyone, so at the least do your best to be honest with yourself, so you can
live with a clean conscience, and motivation towards what you really do want out
of life.
Love, Robbie."
Editors note:
Much gratitude to you
Robbie for opening your process up in this way. You've captured well how we
learn to bring our spirituality into our everyday life. Thanks from the
team
The Editorial Section - Being the Change at Christmas |
Letter from the Editor
Being the Change at Christmas
Once upon a time, in a town near us all, lived a young single mother with two of her three sons. Life cut pretty close to the bone for the little family, money was always tight, a combination of social assistance and part time work. Christmas could be the most difficult time of year.
After one stressful Christmas Day, the Mom, that’s me, had to turn to the boys, Jarod and Rory, and ask for their forgiveness. The boys were stumped. First I’d been a bag for most of the day, and now I was telling them I was sorry I had been a “bitch”. The youngest had the courage to agree that I hadn’t been nice, the older had the wisdom to wait. It made me smile, through my tears.
I got down on the floor with them and explained that I’d been trying to do too much and we needed to cut back. Instead of baking, sending cards, decorating the tree, and house, inside and out, buying and wrapping presents, and generally moving in a whirl wind of activity for weeks, we would decide what was most important. The boys agreed whole heartedly that it should be more fun for me, the Mom. We decided that we’d keep the food, presents and Christmas tree, but we would especially not decorate the house inside or out.
We talked about it a couple of times through that year, deciding that not having the lights in and out of the house at Christmas would save energy as well. As a family we had started practicing the three r’s of the environmentalist, reduce, re-use, recycle; turning off the Christmas lights and wrapping our presents in the funny papers or not at all became part of our “good earth policy”. Our next Christmas, I had less to do and more time for the joys of the season. I can not stress the part about joy enough. After that first “reduce the stress” Christmas I pledged to myself that I would end the commercialization of Christmas in our little world.
When my oldest son, Aaron, rejoined our family as a seventeen year old, he was stone blind from a wound to his temple. He was as a stranger to his two younger brothers. They all fell in love with each other, it was a wonder to behold. Our first Christmas together helped me meet my pledge. Aaron’s stories of his first Christmas as a blind person convinced us all instantly that we wouldn’t set up any Christmas “booby traps” for the blind. At first we still did a Christmas tree, no lights, eventually our dream Christmas held few of the standard Christmas traditions.
This doesn’t make a person very popular with those of us who are caught in the morass of the social dysfunction we call Christmas. Some of our neighbours assumed it was because of religious beliefs. I didn’t dissuade them from that way of thinking, it was close enough. I’ve never written this story down. It became my entry point though to ask you the reader to share our pledge toward ending the consumerism surrounding the Christmas Season in one specific way. TURN OFF THE LIGHTS, please.
In the name of God, the way we are treating this planet is not working to preserve it for future generations. Why are we using up the power that the children of our future will need? I have part of the answer to that question. No body has asked us to in just the right way. It’s not about guilt, it’s not about right or wrong, it’s about what will work. If we all save our light’s on event until the day before Christmas, and then off again the day after, we acknowledge that urge inside ourselves to “save the world” and we make turning on the lights special rather than the given it has become. Our children can teach us to cherish moderation as part of all our celebrations.
If your friends and family wonders why, pass my request along to them. This is personal, everyone of us is in this together whether we know it or like it or not. I have complained for years about the waste. This year I realized that I could do something. I can talk. By opening up and sharing my one journey I may be able to prove the old adage about the pen being mightier than the sword. I can also beg, plead, and pray while actively promoting a new way of looking at ourselves.
Ever and truly yours
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