{"id":87827,"date":"2017-01-03T15:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T23:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=87827"},"modified":"2020-08-24T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:40:39","slug":"msia-christmas-eve-seminar-2016-family-gathering-loving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/87827-msia-christmas-eve-seminar-2016-family-gathering-loving","title":{"rendered":"MSIA Christmas Eve Seminar 2016:  A Family Gathering of Loving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MSIA Christmas Eve event on Dec 24, 2016, had that glorious feeling of MSIA family gathering in celebration of the Christ consciousness in all of us.<\/p>\n<p>The tone was set by our Master of Ceremonies, Nathaniel Sharratt.\u00a0 Rather than do all of the introductions and explanations himself, he asked many of our Beloved MSIA friends to share a key MSIA teaching that they use when facing challenges.\u00a0 Ron and Mary Hulnick, Paul Kaye, Phil Danza, Pauli Sanderson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Sat Hari Khalsa and Jsu Garcia all shared with us from their loving hearts and often their humor too!\u00a0 The keys they shared all seemed to come back to Loving &#8212; loving ourselves, loving one another, loving it all.<\/p>\n<p>The musical performances and annual Hugs \u201cLight story\u201d also had that family gathering feel.\u00a0 We experienced: \u00a0a lovely group of young women singing acapella Christmas songs led by LeAnna Sharp, the Hugs story guided by John Hruby, Matt VanFossan performing a charming song requested by John Morton, Gabe Morgan\u2019s moving original song, and Erik Lumiere with Gabe Morgan performing \u201cLove Song\u201d by Elton John.\u00a0 Simply beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>We also had a demonstration of how our MSIA family reaches out far and wide.\u00a0 Several MSIA communities around the world participated with us online via Live Stream.\u00a0 And, we met a lovely lady who had traveled all the way from Russia to be in-person at our Christmas Eve event!<\/p>\n<p>Our Beloved Traveler John Morton also brought us into our hearts and into the awareness of the Christ in each of us and in our lives.\u00a0 His seminar was profound and a blessing for all of us, and a reminder of who we are as a loving MSIA family.<\/p>\n<p>We also enjoyed short videos of our Beloved John-Roger, inspiring and practical as always, opening our hearts to even greater blessings of the Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful event and time simply flew by, as it does when we are having fun together.<\/p>\n<p>God bless us all in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH THE RECORDING<br \/>\n<div style=\"max-width: 1280px;\"><video-js data-account=\"6057277728001\" data-player=\"default\" data-embed=\"default\" controls=\"\" data-video-id=\"6083184968001\" data-playlist-id=\"\" data-application-id=\"\" class=\"vjs-fluid\"><\/video-js><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/6057277728001\/default_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>VIEW THE PHOTOS<br \/>\n<div style=\"max-width: 640px; height: 400px\" class=\"fshow-wrapper\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/fshow_orbit_568f69558d682?photosetid=72157674967211893&user_id=71628367%40N07&gallery_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2F71628367%40N07%2Fsets%2F72157674967211893%2F\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 400px\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" border=\"0\">\n<\/iframe>\n<noscript>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHskLhvbb2\" target=\"_blank\">Click to View<\/a><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MSIA Christmas Eve event on Dec 24, 2016, had that glorious feeling of MSIA family gathering in celebration of the Christ consciousness in all of us. 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