Hi All,
Here is a link to the recording from the meeting that we had this morning:
#^https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/oYRc4KRgpDUeVxN05_T6eGKPi9nqUVzwS5eF89UNZWC3oPevZik74NvA_F-B_MWi.PYgvq_D9n9DU07Ao?startTime=1636305038000The speaker view video, a gallery view video (just one page of the gallery is available), and audio recording are all available (you might have to download the files to watch other views than the speaker view).
Prayer for This Week:God, please enable me to set aside everything I think I know for an open mind, and a new experience.
I was asked to include the prayer I said at the beginning of the meeting, so here it is:
I petition the Universe around me - the Force that brought me into existence - use me in whatever way I can be useful. Help me to represent you in all things. Let me be part of the ever unfolding experience of existing here and now. Let me demonstrate how beautiful and meaningful life can be. Let me meet what I experience as hardship and pain with the certainty that everything that I experience is a gift. When I fall into darkness, when I feel forsaken and alone, when I am caught in the delusion that my existence is a torture to be endured, please help me find my way back. Please direct me to the path of usefulness and light. Please remind me of the incredible gift my life is, and the honor and privilege it is to exist in the moments I have been given. Please help me not to squander them. Please help me to experience the people of the world as the gifts of creation that they are. Please help me to stay neutral to the things that do not matter. Please relieve me of the bondage of self. Please be with me and guide me as we gather together to be closer to you. Please guide my hand, guide my thoughts, guide my words. Please guide me to be productive for these people, please help me represent you and to set aside what this means about me. Thank you for this opportunity to be useful.
Make two lists:
1. Things I am trying to stop doing, but can't stop.
2. Things I am trying to do that I cannot do.
Simple list, not a lot of writing. 10 or 20 things at most. This is ongoing, you can keep adding to these lists as you are going through the first step.
Reading for this week:The preface and the forwards.
Why do we use the Big Book? PDF:#^https://drive.google.com/file/d/1THfWpoML2QEJY9BdGL3-fKlgoY6CXOjw/view?usp=sharingPDF Files Open to Be Marked Up:Open PDF file of the preface and forwards:
#^https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cRi1nfo6QDXPzxcYBBSSW1MNlGpIrRql/view?usp=sharingOpen PDF file of the Doctor's Opinion:
#^https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c7SofRllBSbPcVqhNQfiOkPM_e_RADB9/view?usp=sharingOpen PDF file of Chapter 1 (Bill’s Story):
#^https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oZkcVIAnGTzEZgjgq7QapTJfx1EvH-Mr/view?usp=sharingOpen PDF file of Chapter 2 (There is a Solution) Includes page 18 read at first meeting:
#^https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cXcIiE4eirEifXRhFWIqJ1JGEMcpL51W/view?usp=sharingReminder:Everything about this workshop including the previous recordings from 2020 are posted at:
#^https://redmatrix.us/channel/stonesThe Monday Wednesday and Friday meetings are at 5pm Pacific Time at the same link as the workshop:
#^https://us04web.zoom.us/j/550885842Looking forward to seeing you all again next Sunday!