Berwick Masonic Hall, 106 High Street, Berwick, Victoria, 3806.
	Services: Every second Sunday 2:30pm (see Schedule), with Healing and Absent Healing during Service. President: Rev. Dorothy McLean. Phone 9702 1662. Naming’s, weddings and funerals by appointment.
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	UP AND COMING EVENTS... The Next Church Service for 2010 will be held at 2.30pm on Sunday 5^th Sep. Speaker –Joan Row, Platform – Flo Dickinson and pupils . Healing will continue to be held on the first Wednesday after our Church Services. The next Committee Meeting and Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday the 18^th September 2010; address – Mandi’s. “Next Function” Readers/Medium’s Day 2^nd Oct 2010 held at Berwick Masonic Hall. A SENSE OF HOPE For those of us going through the tunnel of depression, the first thing we must know is that we are always dearly loved and cherished, even in this state that we find ourselves in. We are not bound by the despair of darkness, but rather, we raise our eyes to behold the Light ahead of us. Keeping our gaze fixed upon the light, we realize that we are in constant motion, as life is moving constantly—ever moving forward toward the Light. Whatever troubles beset us, we remember that these, too, will pass. Soon we will emerge from the darkness and be bathed in the Light, where there is an abundance of hope, joy and peace. Janet Adcock MY SECRET FRIEND I have a little friend who lives in my toilet. I have even named her: Wazoo. The more I feel her and the more I speak to her, the more she comes alive. I can actually see her materializing before my eyes. She tells me about herself, and where she has come from; she is a very wise being. I look at her when I am sitting on the toilet, and I talk to her about my life and all the things that happen inside of me that I can’t explain to anyone else. She listens intently. Sometimes, if I listen really carefully, I can hear her talk to me. She tells me what happened to her. Her story is that she comes from the planet Etron, which is far, far from our galaxy, unknown to mankind at this time. She was the daughter of the King and Queen who ruled a peaceful and loving community on their planet. Everybody lived just doing their own thing. Another planet known as Neptoo, not so far away, was not so happy. They had unrest, and everyone argued and fought amongst themselves. All this planet wanted to do was to take over all the other planets in the galaxy, because they reveled in dramas and arguments, and thrived on being negative. So one day the Government of Neptoo decided to take over Etron. They had the army and they had the will. They threatened the King and Queen: “If you don’t surrender your planet to us, we will take your daughter, and she will be stuck to a plank of wood and sent to the planet Earth for eternity. She may even be burned to death on a fire. Is this what you want for your child?” The King and Queen did not know what to do. Their army was not strong enough to fight the army of Neptoo, but they did not want to let down the people who they had taught to live in such harmony and understanding of each other, but they did not want to lose their beloved daughter, Wazoo, either. It was such a hard decision: save our child, or save the planet? They decided to save the planet, and fought the Neptoo army with devastating results. However, Wazoo was cast in a spell, and sent to live for eternity in a plank of wood that ended up somehow in my toilet, where she talks to me, and I can truly understand everything she says to me, as she understands all I say to her. I would like to do something to help her, but I don’t know where to start. I can see she must have been very beautiful, but now she is just wasting away, embalmed in a plank of wood for eternity. I know as long as I live, no harm will ever come to her. I think that maybe when I leave this house, I will take my plank, Wazoo, with me wherever I go. I will never allow anything to happen to her. When I move into another house, I will build her somewhere special, maybe make a shrine for her, with a beautiful garden around, so she can live for eternity feeling safe, and knowing nothing will ever happen to her. I can live the rest of my life with my beautiful secret friend. Lynne Cook
	Dawn Hill speaks on 2012. Many of you may have read books by Australian author and psychic, Dawn Hill (now Shelley). Among her titles are ‘Reaching For the Other Side’ and ‘Edge of Reality’. She now lives in the U.S. with her partner, Tony, and we are pleased to present a small section of a recent interview with this gifted lady. “What are your views about 2012 and the state of collective awakening? I do indeed respect the views around 2012 as they have been brought forward by the Hopi, Mayan and other sources. I do not think that year will bring about the end of all life on this planet, but there are powerful tides of change already moving through this world. I do believe they will reach a culmination point around that time. My impression is that 2012 marks a point of no return in some way. As for what lies beyond that point, I believe it will be the unfolding of another cycle in our collective lives. A lot of physical changes are now inevitable, in terms of climate change and its consequences; how the human race will respond to those changes remains to be seen. To survive, and even prosper in the cycle to come, we will have to do a great deal of adapting, very quickly. It cannot be denied millions upon millions of living beings will be swept away in the tide. Whether the human race will be swept into extinction remains to be seen. There have been, and will continue to be, cataclysms as a consequence of cycles that were set in motion long before our time and some that our generation has exacerbated. Natural disasters will continue to occur, volcanoes will blow, glaciers will melt, tsunami waves will ravage shorelines, freak storms will increase….all of these seem inevitable at this time. The changes in the weather patterns represent powerful cosmic cycles that we cannot hope to halt or even impede. The outcome for each of us will depend on how well we are able to ride the waves in the tides of change. I’ve seen wave upon wave of awakenings sweeping this planet in the last few decades...people all over opening up to ‘alternative’ ways of thinking in far more numbers now than there used to be. This too is an unstoppable tide, and it cannot help but lead to significant change. I don’t think that 2012 will bring a total end to the world, but I think it will very likely mark the beginning of a new cycle.” Dr. Liara Covert (The full interview and many other interesting articles may be read on Liara’s website: http://blog.dreambuilders.com.au )						[Painting inset: "Peace" Mandala by Dot Essex]

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