A.R.E. Meeting for 3/22/21

Leader: Cindi

Experiment 1: Choose and write down the name of one person with whom you frequently feel frustrated or irritated because you don’t think they behave in a way that would be best for their own growth. Each day for a week replace such thoughts and feelings of frustration or irritation with an affirmation that divine forces are active in the person’s life, God DOES care about that person, and He will guide him or her in the experiences which s/he needs. Make a record of situations in which you are able to experience this kind of faith in another person.

Experiment 2: Select a situation in your life in which you feel a need for greater faith to bridge the gulf between your conscious perspective and a deeper, more insightful awareness. Pray at night before retiring that you will have dream experiences which will strengthen your faith in this part of your life and lead to healing of any difficulty. Keep a record of any dreams you feel may one in response to this effort.

Group Ideal: Oneness

Action: Affirm daily our oneness with each other.

A discussion on why we have extended the meeting time started this meeting tonight. Our previous leader’s suggestion that we meet two hours as we had at the library was agreed upon by email over a month ago. A suggestion to socialize or discuss other than spiritual topics had been rejected by members when presented last year (and possibly again this year?) .

Our two hour meetings, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, have been adopted again recently because it allows us to follow our format: opening and closing with prayer, reporting on the experiment, 15 minutes group meditation, read our ASFG lesson, read in our “experiments book,” and choose an experiment. In other words, it’s working beautifully, smoothly, just as it did before Covid-19.

Our weekly unison meditation, and sending out the love, light and healing energy continues to be a significant part of our seeking-knowing spiritual group process, well appreciated, if not loved by all members.

In our experiments on faith, we saw results. We are starting to dream again with good recall. Vague comprehension of a dream was clarified with a second dream confirming, "yes, this is the guidance sought, the same information as in your first dream." When a company’s plan to proceed fell into chaos, a writer’s faith provided a serene confidence that his part of the intended project would still be fine. Consistent application of attending meetings, meditating on the affirmation, focusing on doing the experiment, brought a telling dream and a realization “This is all coming together”; and I’m being shown the brightness of my inner light.

Our reader read to us from the red book, two sections from our lesson on Faith, “Need of Faith” and “How Faith is developed.” Another read for us from our experiments book, the last part on page 47 through a second experiment on page 49. We agreed to pick one of them to do this week.

Members are also seeking greater understanding outside of group thru other books, “Mindset,” working with manifesting, “The Law of Attraction.” We were inspired and uplifted by a member sharing favorite quotes from an Arkansas minister, Rev. Charles Capps, first encountered on the authors’s 15 minute radio program. Of two books, validating Cayce’s familiar “thoughts are things” quote on thoughts creative nature, Rev. Capps’ “The Tongue’s Creative Power” was the one quoted from. It was mostly direct quotes from Proverbs (13:3), Job, Mark (11:13), and a favorite phrase coined by Rev. Capps himself, a paraphrase of a New Testament teaching of Jesus, “I have told my people they can have what they say, but they are saying what they have.”

However it is stated, and regardless of whoever says it; Cayce, Capps, Jesus, scripture, or student of spiritual truth, it is profound. And after listening to 6-8 inspiring ways to hear the spoken word is creative, our excellent meeting of five minds ended.

Sylvia Raye