Changes

===Opening===

===Opening===

Darid (Jonathan TR): Greetings, this is Darid. I am happy to be in your company and to take a moment to express what I perceive to be the function of faith. There is to me a way to describe faith as an arena into which you enter. It is not simply the adoption of religious creeds or the enactment of accepted rituals, and it is, while being such, more than an ever-patient hope or an eternally trusting belief. It is application. It is your activities within the arena.

Darid (Jonathan TR): Greetings, this is Darid. I am happy to be in your company and to take a moment to express what I perceive to be the function of faith. There is to me a way to describe faith as an arena into which you enter. It is not simply the adoption of religious creeds or the enactment of accepted rituals, and it is, while being such, more than an ever-patient hope or an eternally trusting belief. It is application. It is your activities within the arena.

 

An arena provides definition, that which is contained within is defined, made distinct from the exterior. In a small definition certain activities are relevant or applicable and others do not fit into that arena and are therefore not used. When you grow in wisdom and expand your arena of faith you enlarge your potentials for action. When your spiritual context goes beyond church to a universal family, then the undertakings available to you become numerous. Acting in faith is acting in the awareness of the breadth of your ability to be of service, to express truth, to be good, to magnify beauty. Faith is therefore not something acquired but something into which you enter. It is not something you must possess but something of which you are contained within.

An arena provides definition, that which is contained within is defined, made distinct from the exterior. In a small definition certain activities are relevant or applicable and others do not fit into that arena and are therefore not used. When you grow in wisdom and expand your arena of faith you enlarge your potentials for action. When your spiritual context goes beyond church to a universal family, then the undertakings available to you become numerous. Acting in faith is acting in the awareness of the breadth of your ability to be of service, to express truth, to be good, to magnify beauty. Faith is therefore not something acquired but something into which you enter. It is not something you must possess but something of which you are contained within.

unidentified (Mary): I am going to step out of my box and speak and extend an invitation to each of you to step outside of your box. I invite you to please stand, change position if you happen to be standing, but right now change your position so that your physical vehicle has a new orientation. Consciously breathe. I invite you to turn the palms of your hands upward right at this moment as if you were standing in a ray of sunshine.

unidentified (Mary): I am going to step out of my box and speak and extend an invitation to each of you to step outside of your box. I invite you to please stand, change position if you happen to be standing, but right now change your position so that your physical vehicle has a new orientation. Consciously breathe. I invite you to turn the palms of your hands upward right at this moment as if you were standing in a ray of sunshine.

 

Feel the warmth. Feel the life giving nature of light upon your being. Allow it to envelop you as you breathe. You are so very loved. The fondness, it devoted to you as an individual expression of the One is so all encompassing, so ever-present, so subtle yet so profound. Believe that it is there. Allow it to warm you and to light your way. Thank you for pausing in this morning to just receive the love that surrounds you.

Feel the warmth. Feel the life giving nature of light upon your being. Allow it to envelop you as you breathe. You are so very loved. The fondness, it devoted to you as an individual expression of the One is so all encompassing, so ever-present, so subtle yet so profound. Believe that it is there. Allow it to warm you and to light your way. Thank you for pausing in this morning to just receive the love that surrounds you.