To Change, Move From Concept to Experience

For those who were at service on Sunday, a few bullet points to jog your memory:

1.     What kinds of negative things do you say to yourself about yourself – take a moment and identify one or two. :0)

2.     What would your reaction be if you were sitting at one of the tables in Fellowship Hall and someone said to you, “You know what your problem is? You’re _________________.” Why is it OK for us to emotionally abuse ourselves?

3.     Why do we continue to go to negativity?

4.     Two possible reasons: (1) Its familiar, and

5.     (2) “Because [we] know basic truth as a quote but not as a personal experience.” (Vernon Howard, Secrets for Higher Success, page 149)

6.     Is what you purport to know based upon your genuine experience or is it a concept that you have held so closely, quoted over and over again, that it now passes as experience?

7.     Map and territory perspective. A map (quote) gives us a representation of something.  Walking the territory (application of the concept) gives us an intimate experience of what the map points to.

8.     Understand life through realizing that dropping the ways you’ve done things before will bring you a different experience. If you want to have a different experience, you’re going to have to want to be different. Avoidance is maintenance.  The work must be personal to us.

9.     Jim talked a few weeks ago about changing and he suggested that if you want to have a new experience you will have to change your friends from the ones who want to “keep you where you are” to those who will invite you to a higher place in awareness and self- realization.  You’re also going to have to stop hanging around the same thoughts of negativity.

10.   “With God, all things are possible.” (MT 19:26)

11.     You are an obstacle dissolver!

Bless everything,
Rev. Brad