Hello Everyone,
It was a pleasure to welcome Bill Mitchell to his first meeting with us. Bill has belonged to other study groups previously and has made about three trips to ARE Headquarters in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Our Experiment is located on pages 113-114. Our challenge is to identify an area of life in which we feel burdened, to scrutinize ourselves for behaviors and attitudes on which we work to keep feeling burdened. That is to say, write down a burden you feel, and list behaviors or attitudes that maintain that sense of feeling burdened. Now choose one attitude or behavior from your list to replace with a constructive one. Work daily at least a week on expressing the replacement.
Example:
burdened by: frequent arguments with Richard
attitudes and behaviors
I work at: work to recall past instances I thought he was selfish
work to feel resentful
work to speak unkindly of him to others
replacement: begin now to speak in a more positive way of him to others
Can it really be that simple to transform a feeling of being burdened by daily practice of a positive attitude or behavior? If we accept this challenge, we will know in a week, won’t we?
Our discussion of our lesson was good. We read down to the heading on page 114 of ASFG on “The Cross and The Crown." It is, “Why was it Necessary That He, The Maker of Heaven and Earth, Should Bear a Cross?”
Step by step, day by day working to develop ourselves spiritually can seem tedious, discouraging and uninteresting; primarily, I think, because progress is so difficult to see and measure. But having a group, this group, to take that walk with me step by step is inspiring, stimulating, fun. Thank you Every One for being such an important part of this endeavor.
Your “elephant fingers” typist,
Sylvia
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