A.R.E. Meeting for 9/30/13

Leader:   Marsha  

Reader:   Marsha & Greg

We finished the “God the Father and His Manifestations” chapter in the Experiments book, so next week we start the chapter on “Desire.”

The experiment is:

Make it a discipline to smile frequently, communicating to others your sense of hope and joy about life. If there are times when you don’t feel like it, try smiling occasionally and see if the consciousness follows the action.

A.R.E. Meeting for 9/23/13

Leader:   Marsha 
Reader:   Greg

We listened to Elsie Sechrist talk about the “God the Father and His Manifestations” chapter, then discussed temptation, forgiveness, and world affairs. We read the next section in the Experiments book, and will do this experiment for the week:

Try living your life as a recognition that you are Jesus’ friend, not just an obedient servant.

Example: Be a friend to someone who needs a friend. Offer to go for a walk, have lunch with or simply listen to someone.

A.R.E. Meeting for 9/16/13

Leader: Cindi  

Readers: Greg

We finished reading the chapter “God the Father and His Manifestations” in the SFG book. Our experiment for the coming week is:

Select one area of your life in which you often feel tempted. It may be a temptation to act in a certain way or to hold particular thoughts or feelings. Try to look upon the situation as a way in which you are challenged: “Will you use the resources which you have available to benefit (or please) just yourself or yourself and others?” Then try to act in such a way that benefits are derived by the greater whole.

Example: When you feel tempted to eat more, consider how that resource can best be used to benefit the whole. If you are just going to eat to please yourself, then wait. However, if that food represents energy you need now in order to be about the work of living and serving others, then you have affirmed a purposefulness to your action.

A.R.E. Meeting for 9/9/13

Leader:  Cindi 
Readers:  Marsha & Greg

We read two sections in the Experiments book (up to page 37), and are offered a choice of one of these experiments:

Experiment 1: "Replace any thoughts that God may be punishing you or making you repay an old wrong, with the understanding that it is mankind that chooses the way of trial and suffering. Pick an area of your life where there tends to be some suffering on your part (physically, mentally, emotionally) and see if you can determine what lesson it is teaching you. Then see if you can find some way to put that lesson into application through loving and serving others."

Experiment 2: “Observe how you evaluate the greatness of others. Work at recognizing and reinforcing (or reflecting) greatness in the lives of ordinary people who give of themselves and love.”