Leader: Sylvia
Lesson: ASFG Book I , Lesson
six, sec. "Fellowship with God, the Need of the world",
Experiments Book-Chapter 7, pgs. 68, 69.
Bible verse John I, 1:17 “If
we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with
another."
Experiment 1. Give of your
life to someone else. Select a person and write down his or her
name. Then choose one of the three approaches to giving your life which
have been described: (1) making a special effort to give of your life
energy to that person through whatever energies are needed most, (2) making a
special effort to share with that person the truths of your life which you have
discovered through experience, or (3) giving up one of "your' habits,
desires, opinions that is causing that person difficulty. Decide which of the
three approaches you will use and write that down. Keep a record of your
experiences in giving of your life to this person.
Experiment 2. Choose one difficult
relationship in your life and work each day to express in that relationship a
living kind of love. Through meditation and prayer allow the energy of states of
consciousness which are less than your ideal to be transformed. Affirm in your
life that you are not stuck with the responses you have been feeling to this
person, because you are alive, you can grow. Record the experiences in
which you successfully transform energy associated with old patterns to new,
constructive ways of responding.
Just as Jesus gave up his life in
service, we can emulate him by sharing (1) the TRUTH we have learned or lived
so others can enjoy being "in the Presence", or by sharing (2)
FRIENDSHIP, being the best friend, one that remains closer than a
sibling. We can give our lives in (3) SERVICE to a cause or to a
person. By letting go of a (3) HABIT, DESIRE, or OPINION that hinders or causes someone else difficulty or physical or emotional hurt,
we give of our life too.
"Let us help our fellow man by
our patience and forbearance and show him that love is a living thing."
p.67, or 72.
(Forbearance= "Holding
back". 1. Tolerance and restraint in the face of provocation; patience. 2.
Self control, patience. 3. Law, ..giving a debtor more time to repay a loan,
typically interest accrues at the same rate.)
Autumn leaves and rocks cannot grow
as animals and trees do, and additionally, living things can transform energy. As
spiritual creations, people can transform energy associated with non-physical
aspects of their being: states of consciousness, or attitudes toward an
experience. This indicates spiritually created beings can take a problem in a
relationship with another person and grow with it; thereby, WE MAKE LOVE A
LIVING, TRANSFORMING THING.
As Joshua said, "Others may do
as they may, but as for me...I will serve the Living God."
Cayce told #255 in the 12th reading,
they could "THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THE POWER OF THE CHRIST
CONSCIOUSNESS," since they had experienced the joys of influences
within the soul, they could through everything, in every act, realize the
PERSONAL LIVING GOD could COME TO BE HIS POWER working within.
To Live love is to be love. To
be one with the Father is to be equal with the Father. ALL IN ONE--for Love is
law, law is Love.
In the Loving Oneness of FELLOWSHIP.
Sylvia Raye
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