A.R.E. Meeting for 3/8/21

Leader: Cindi

Experiment: Choose one thing in which you wish to experience greater faith (e.g. faith in God, faith in your own divine nature, faith in another specific person). First consider where your rational, intellectual mind has taken you in this desire. Perhaps you will find that this part of the mind has led you to a paradox or confusion; perhaps you will find that it has provided all the right answers and yet an inner experience of faith is missing. Write down whatever it is your intellect tells you about this concern. Now allow yourself to move beyond just the intellect. Each day for a week be open for an experience of faith in this part of your life. Pray that you will be given whatever experience is best for you at this time. Listen to the promptings of your intuitive mind through your meditations, through your dreams, and by listening to and feeling your intuitive self in your daily activities. Record any of your experiences that may give you a deeper sense of what it means to live your faith in this specific area of my life.

Group Ideal: Oneness
Action: Affirm daily our oneness with group members.
Books: A Search For God, Book one and accompanying experiments book. 

Six prayerful searchers gathered for our weekly connection, this time to study faith. Our Leader, Cindi, opened with an inspirational poem written by Karen Kininger, “A Poem to God.” We prayed, meditated, sent out love, light, and healing energy. We reported on our ideals. Depth of thought and work in setting our Spiritual Ideal was excellent. One even presented experiment results in neatly typed columns with easy to read screen sharing format (by no means required). We discussed what faith is and what it is not. We answered the questions in further discussion, e.g., can faith be taught? Or is it a spiritual gift? We read the first section of our ASFG book, lesson IV, “What is Faith?”
 
Then we read the first page on Faith in our experiments book. It explained that our mind provides good reasons why we should have faith and a definition of faith, and still have doubt and a feeling of emptiness. Cayce confirmed that keeping the faith mentally could enable it to grow. (920-11) But he further advised to letting ” ...the faith in the divine in self ever respond to that known innately within self.” And for “...the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive results (are created ) ... when one has been impelled more and more by reliance upon the soul force within, the intuitive.” (972-2)
 
This week our challenge is doing an experiment in an area of life where greater faith is desired. Until next week.
 
In Loving oneness,
Sylvia Raye