A.R.E. Meeting for 4/14/14

Leader:  Cindi

We read two more sections in the Experiments book.  You can do the experiment on page 119 or 120. If you choose the one on page 119, it is thus:

With you thoughts bring God and your spiritual ideal into one area which you may have thought was too trivial or too human for His concern. One way to do this is simply to have short periods of prayer while you are involved in that activity.

A.R.E. Meeting for 4/7/14

Leader:  Cindi

We finished the Knowledge chapter in the Experiments book, and read the first section (Introduction) of the Wisdom chapter in the SFG book. Most of the group wanted to do the last experiment from the Knowledge chapter:

 Consider the relationships in your life about which you have the most knowledge. These are probably ones of trust in which the individuals have been able to share with you deep and important things about themselves. It is likely that they are also the relationships in which you can most easily hurt the other person. For a week make a special effort to be kind – in word and action – to one of these people.

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/31/14

Leader:  John

We read three sections in the Experiments book, through the experiment at the top of page 115. That was the experiment we chose:

 Identify three or four specific groups of which you are a member (e.g., your family, your work group, your study group, your circle of friends). Try to be a leaven to the consciousness and awareness of the group. Through what you say and do help to direct the flow of energies of each group in the most constructive, hopeful way possible.

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/24/14

We read two sections in the Experiments book, up to the middle of page 111. You can choose any experiment, but the one we read that seemed most popular was:

Each day try to find a tempo of acting, thinking and feeling which puts you in touch with the tempo your soul wants to get done what it needs. Use that resultant extra energy which becomes available in a creative way.

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/17/14

Leader:  John

We read one section in the Experiments book, to the middle of page 108, and chose this experiment:

 Make it a discipline to take some time each day to really listen to what is concerning one or two people. You do not have the answer to their questionings. Just express your love through your attention as they open up and share.

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/10/14

Leader:  John

We read through the whole chapter on “Knowledge” in the SFG book. In the Experiments book, we read the first section on pages 105 and 106, and chose its experiment:

 Try spending the first five minutes of your daily meditation period in prayer for others. Use it to orient your mind so that your following period of silence will be more in keeping with an ideal of love and service.

A.R.E. Meeting for 3/3/14

Leader:  John

We finished reading the chapter on ”Glory,” and also the Experiments book. We also listened to Elsie Sechrist talk about Glory. Next week we start the chapter on “Knowledge.” You are free to do any experiment and the last one in the Experiments books for this chapter is:

 Give of yourself and your resources to others without expectation of something back. Find ways to be of loving service to others without their knowing who has been the source or the aid.