Leader: Greg
ARE Vision/Ideal: "Global
manifestation of Oneness and the Love of God and all people.
ARE Mission Statement:
"To create opportunities for profound personal change in body, mind,
spirit through the wisdom found in the Edgar Cayce material."
Lesson VII: Patience, completed
reading in ASFG Book I. We began reading bottom of page 79 and read
through the experiment on page 83 of the "Experiments...."
book. Two experiments remain, from page 83 to the end of the experiments
for actively living "Patience" on page 86, to complete
next week.
Experiment 1: "Choose and
write down one area of your life in which you would like to experience greater
patience. Each day try to reflect the potential for wholeness that
already exists (i.e., don't be passive). Also be active in your patience (in
deed and thought)." See, think only, feel only the wholeness you intend to
reflect. "If you find yourself falling into being only persistent, take
time to review your ideals for that area of your life and re-orient yourself to
active patience. Record your experiences."
Experiment 2: "Select and
write down some experience that you have been impatient to have happen to you
(e.g., to get well, to get a different job, to get married, to have more
friends). Each day affirm that you are having learning experiences that
will allow you eventually to have that which you desire. At the end of
each daily meditation period take a few moments to listen within and know that
there is something within your soul that is directing and ordering your
life. Write down insights that come from this listening and which help
you better to understand how your current experiences fit into your growth
toward what you desire."
On this Monday night, three feminine
and three masculine souls Zoomed into the ASFG Sacred Space for group
meditation, healing prayers for others, to gain greater knowledge on
developing a personal relationship with Omniscient Universal Forces and
to share spiritual insight gleaned by their intent to live in patience actively
in a specific area this week past.
Two souls had good success in being
actively patient in their individual situations. One of the two had such a good
experience steadfastly being actively patient versus being passive and
with the outcome experienced so as to present as overjoyed through out the
meeting: like actually doing this stuff really works! When the
well paid home repairman's three attempts and best efforts failed to produce
needed results, a request for spiritual intervention by the homeowner
from a guide resolved it quickly--with exemplary craftsmanship. The other
soul was actively patient during an intense, angry, verbal attack in the
workplace. Is this ever possible for one with a materialistic, passive
consciousness? Just hearing of their success was inspiring to those of us
who were unable to complete this experiment for whatever reasons.
Current events entered our
discussions later: The challenges of "opposite gender
identifying" athletes competing in the Olympics, the new practice of
stating personal pronouns according to an individual's self recognized
identity; emotional reactions of toileting simultaneously in the
same public restrooms designated "men or women" with transgender
people physically of the opposite sex for the bathroom entered, and critical race
theory.
"Active Patience", not
passiveness, is the foundation, the cornerstone, an opportunity wherein our
Faith* is tested. (*or other fruits of the spirit). If
constant, active patience (prayer, relentlessly watching and measuring our own
patience, with centered thoughts, loss of selfishness to trust in God, ideal/vision of spiritual outcome) is adhered to during our challenging, harassing
tests, we grow spiritually in strength over our weakness, step by step,
bit by bit we develop. Cooperation with God in all of our activities and
selfless service increases knowledge of the Holy within, enabling us to express
more patience actively--the patience that nurtures our soul. Standing in faith
in active patience is simultaneously a step forward and also a step up. Now
stronger to patiently overcome our next test of faith, stepping ahead and
upward, stronger yet for a more difficult challenge to develop more patience
and grow in other fruits of the spirit within our active patience.
"......Thus an entity becomes aware of its own soul and that soul's vision
of the glories that may be its experience in its associations with those
promises in the creative force of the soul alone that is eternal and in the
image of the Maker. 683-1"
Do not be overanxious about various
matters. Intend aspects and desires mentally and spiritually for self to
be able to say, "I myself will be guided by the
influences from the inner meditations, and that which is shown me from within.
681-1." By seeking this way, according to definite promises, there may come
more harmonious experiences in material things. Seeking inner guidance
will also bring that contentment of an inner knowing that being
steadfast this way leads to a body's greater understanding of
truths in mental experiences. Edited, 681-1.
Patiently awaiting that contentment.
In loving oneness,
Sylvia Raye
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