tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22570693586558986472024-03-21T09:15:46.574-07:00Light in the DarknessRev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-89567381901344252452022-10-12T11:47:00.014-07:002022-10-12T20:31:11.554-07:00Ready to Dive Deeper in your Unique Dance with the Divine?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgnFd0mVe9fNoC4YHTrXPk2jQ-y8as7BGV98_IsPbNJIj86uJ6UmKFWanCZMKhoKuEb3w2ZeJGSP6dVmByjp7PqxfyQVqLsXsCdddTMfZggYGBKIvL4NBb-tRKdWODjPqmKVZYBSUfTJpbwyWrOzcRv4BGvNH6-hru6T7VWjL828XOWaLr0s6mUOXSRA/s1158/cs%20lewis%20god%20Him%20need%20is%20desperate%20help%20is%20vain%20you%20find%20door%20slammed%20in%20your%20face%20sound%20of%20bolting.%20go%20missing%20dark.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1158" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgnFd0mVe9fNoC4YHTrXPk2jQ-y8as7BGV98_IsPbNJIj86uJ6UmKFWanCZMKhoKuEb3w2ZeJGSP6dVmByjp7PqxfyQVqLsXsCdddTMfZggYGBKIvL4NBb-tRKdWODjPqmKVZYBSUfTJpbwyWrOzcRv4BGvNH6-hru6T7VWjL828XOWaLr0s6mUOXSRA/w400-h296/cs%20lewis%20god%20Him%20need%20is%20desperate%20help%20is%20vain%20you%20find%20door%20slammed%20in%20your%20face%20sound%20of%20bolting.%20go%20missing%20dark.png" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Certainly this quote above points to a pain that has been my past experience. </p><p>And MANY relate to the experience, </p><p>and believe it is How it IS. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrDol5IYjpYozvKDBaGMYfcedd0AhxPOf2Zo_sK-o-J03Yg8lWiWJHVze1LEMdcQbOP1XPVNAcrf8fYzumfFHqpndi2mdm3bWAiOQMiNypnTL9kVjGdFxCY34Ejk94LtpQLftqXZvu660Pl_oqoiV-D2TXouBvRi5unEhcdSiQxUPSlmJ7Ji6RwrkNUw/s225/god%20undisputed%20hide%20and%20seek%20champion%20of%20the%20universe.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrDol5IYjpYozvKDBaGMYfcedd0AhxPOf2Zo_sK-o-J03Yg8lWiWJHVze1LEMdcQbOP1XPVNAcrf8fYzumfFHqpndi2mdm3bWAiOQMiNypnTL9kVjGdFxCY34Ejk94LtpQLftqXZvu660Pl_oqoiV-D2TXouBvRi5unEhcdSiQxUPSlmJ7Ji6RwrkNUw/s1600/god%20undisputed%20hide%20and%20seek%20champion%20of%20the%20universe.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><p><br />But in my Soul Experience, I have found: the Opposite is True.</p><p>Please stay with me a minute, for an analogy.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsThE13JAIQicGvdexkLdqJ4Ty5acaciDc_lRgrm9bJSnf7tnq64MEa1-w_Oc2F1cMmeIw0x3sUfuZO5T4ZShUtznKIA4ZkGIfAqKZet4cPdjOEkH3c3s8pns8iMJPA01HL953ZpCFyi-ratiEj0t14jHJXLzvMi3nv7ve6nxRcHRwz2aMnlT4TOVTSw/s500/rain.%20i%20believe%20in%20the%20sun%20even%20when%20its%20not%20shining.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="500" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsThE13JAIQicGvdexkLdqJ4Ty5acaciDc_lRgrm9bJSnf7tnq64MEa1-w_Oc2F1cMmeIw0x3sUfuZO5T4ZShUtznKIA4ZkGIfAqKZet4cPdjOEkH3c3s8pns8iMJPA01HL953ZpCFyi-ratiEj0t14jHJXLzvMi3nv7ve6nxRcHRwz2aMnlT4TOVTSw/w400-h266/rain.%20i%20believe%20in%20the%20sun%20even%20when%20its%20not%20shining.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://sairyd.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/a-poem-of-belief-by-a-jewish-prisoner-in-a-nazi-concentration-camp/?fbclid=IwAR3Tcl06fwQjUTlvJ7VuYBlA5TIag0HRALPARwdIfC8HIfhGg8ceCYq5X-s" target="_blank">This famous poem</a> contains this line:<br />I believe in the sun<br />even when it is not shining.</p><p><br />Yes, the Sun is always there, <br />even when *I* don't see it.</p><p><br />Something may be getting between me and the Sun <br />- we call it a Cloudy day, a Rainy day, maybe even a Hurricane...</p><p><br />The earth may be turned so the sun is blocked<br />- we call it Night. <br /><br /></p><p>The sun may shine in my experience, a shorter or longer time each day<br />- we call this a change of Seasons. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKCji_UqWXhIir4Al8CTa5MYgbLPqE_Le81AgzOmnKDU_GECmnGsTp8hdMOH75x9FPkcxVqpLXZZdr2X0oK3ySxgwtEIdHw8VSdvbIRVhi-wYOtuR8txOmER_tEjpw6X25VfLg3NEEF5GDHGYEeoopTlpxmwpSSafVD7rY_Zo86BN1sOYV4faNu-NCuQ/s225/the%20sun%20is%20always%20shining%20above%20the%20clouds.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKCji_UqWXhIir4Al8CTa5MYgbLPqE_Le81AgzOmnKDU_GECmnGsTp8hdMOH75x9FPkcxVqpLXZZdr2X0oK3ySxgwtEIdHw8VSdvbIRVhi-wYOtuR8txOmER_tEjpw6X25VfLg3NEEF5GDHGYEeoopTlpxmwpSSafVD7rY_Zo86BN1sOYV4faNu-NCuQ/s1600/the%20sun%20is%20always%20shining%20above%20the%20clouds.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>What I am describing is ALL about <br />MY orientation-to and capacity to sense the Sun. <br /><br />But I hope we can agree, <br />the Sun is Always There. <br /><br />The Sun isn't <br />- hiding from me. <br />- shining more or less. <br />- leaving me to run to and fro in the Universe.<br />- blessing me with its rays more or less obliquely than usual. <br /><br />In my Life:<br />It is the Sun.<br />It is Always being the sun.<br />It is Always Doing Sun things - like shining Light : ) <br /><br />I don't have to<br />- wonder if I am worthy of sunshine.<br />- be or do anything at all for the Sun to be the Sun and Warm me with its light<br />... if I am willing to be in its Presence. <br /><br />Its not going away if I'm 'bad',<br />its not sending more Blessings my way if I'm 'good', do what I 'should'. <br /><br />I don't need arcane beliefs, rituals or incantations,<br />to be in Alignment with the Sun.<br /><br />If I desire more Sun, I can learn a new dance with the Sun:<br />- new rhythms in <br />My Structures, Location, Timing... <br />as well as<br />- new relationships with <br />My Habits, Beliefs, Emotions... <br /><br />Then there is more sun than I can usually stand. <br /><br />.<br />Sometimes this is easy.<br /><br />Sometimes it can be harder.<br />Here are mostly theoretical examples:<br /><br />- its overcast most of the time, here in the winter.</p><p>- the sun is barely visible, here in the winter. </p><p>- I work all day inside with no windows, I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark, here in the winter. </p><p><br /></p><p>- I prefer to be up all night and sleep in the daytime, that's just how I am. </p><p>- I am so emotionally sensitive, distraught, overwhelmed, bedraggled... I need to keep the curtains drawn and very often hide under the bed. </p><p>- I don't believe the sun is my friend, so I avoid it. If it wants to hang-out, it knows where I live. </p><p><br />These would be challenging circumstances,<br />but let's be clear. <br /><br />1)<br />This doesn't have anything to do with the Sun, per se. <br />Its not the Sun DOing it TO Me. <br />The Sun hasn't changed or moved, <br />it isn't being Evasive or Undependable.<br /><br />The Sun is NOT HIDING From Me.<br />If the sun isn't available enough to me,<br />then it is me who is Hiding from the Sun. <br /><br />This doesn't change my Experience.<br />But it does very much Shift my Capacity<br />to (at least theoretically) potentially change my Experience,<br />Because...</p><p>2)</p><p> it is MY<br />- rhythms in: Structures, Location, Timing... as well as<br />- relationships with Habits, Beliefs, Emotions... <br />That are NOT WORKING for me and my desire for more Sun, <br /><br />If I am stuck in Twilight, in Dark, in Need of more Light<br />Can I recognize that the 'ball is in my court'?<br /><br />Am I willing to Inquire into <br />MY possibly Limited Identity? Off-Kilter Perspective?<br /><br />Am I willing to Examine my Own Choices? <br /><br />When<br />It's me, not You <br />*I* Can DO Something about it<br />Howleluyah.</p><p><br /><em><span style="color: #660000;">In the Physical, this is sometimes called 'Agency', btw. <br />Basically the opposite of what can be called 'Learned Helplessness'. <br />The Energetic Component of this can be called 'Seniority' or 'Soul Sovereignty'. <br />It means what I say goes, in my own space. <br />It is the focus this month in our Weekly Meditations.</span></em></p><p><br />From here then, from my perspective, these kinds of questions arise:<br /><br />- Is there Something I CAN DO to Shift the situation? If so<br /><br />- HOW am I Able to SHIFT in my Soul? If so <br /><br />- HOW do I shift into more Alignment with the Sun?<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPsg0qvmrTEE_vaazWW06KPwyIFrqFeNyPQI91nf3OVppNa5DMcCJB2DW5PWAwBxIe_jVZCn3ncCBch0bTwJ5P3Dz7CrTnUi1_y12Uoc6DKUrE-yrb4ilxy8hvvjwxwxKgilhprjTX8g2lkRqbN8SNY0qpshnKkas3ifGokbdQf3JSfw9y7KTtoEY6Q/s450/after%20all%20these%20years%20the%20sun%20doesn't%20say%20to%20the%20earth%20you%20owe%20me.%20hafiz.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="450" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPsg0qvmrTEE_vaazWW06KPwyIFrqFeNyPQI91nf3OVppNa5DMcCJB2DW5PWAwBxIe_jVZCn3ncCBch0bTwJ5P3Dz7CrTnUi1_y12Uoc6DKUrE-yrb4ilxy8hvvjwxwxKgilhprjTX8g2lkRqbN8SNY0qpshnKkas3ifGokbdQf3JSfw9y7KTtoEY6Q/s320/after%20all%20these%20years%20the%20sun%20doesn't%20say%20to%20the%20earth%20you%20owe%20me.%20hafiz.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>SO, I am sure you know I am not just talking about the Sun here, </p><p>but also my Unique experience of the Divine.</p><p><br />How do I Dance more Deeply with the Divine? and How do I share How? </p><p>The is an area of Great Interest Passion for me, for longer than my whole adult life, so</p><p>- I have a few clues around this challenge, and </p><p>- I have found and developed a bunch of inner tools <br />that actually assist in this endeavor. <br />They work for me, and lots of others I have shared-with. <br /><br />Of course, you can figure out this challenge of ever Deeper Dancing with Divine, as you please.<br /><br />If you wanna play together, along the way, <br />please come as my guest to a '<a href="https://us9.admin.mailchimp.com/lists/designer/?id=603565" target="_blank">Spiritual Communion</a>' Meditation.<br /><br /><br /></p>Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-31588271118491511872021-11-30T10:37:00.003-08:002021-11-30T10:41:28.073-08:00Soul Discipling and Soul Empowering - Their walk with Jesus, their Soul Blossoming in God, is Not About US<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXsLh5quL5HXF3wBjKqyxZLoOmROFNzm6pUUzsOvelC6J6eJU_svsU9J8sfA5KWMx5CG2s_bU35Z1CFoehmb62dZn4FTaxwASuHEOI_gPvhz0jQT9OK00-c3rp-Zd3G_l-VV4ZpU6ps2lu/s2048/Wolfgang-Simson-Quote-If-we-do-not-disciple-and-empower-others-as+Jesus+did.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXsLh5quL5HXF3wBjKqyxZLoOmROFNzm6pUUzsOvelC6J6eJU_svsU9J8sfA5KWMx5CG2s_bU35Z1CFoehmb62dZn4FTaxwASuHEOI_gPvhz0jQT9OK00-c3rp-Zd3G_l-VV4ZpU6ps2lu/s320/Wolfgang-Simson-Quote-If-we-do-not-disciple-and-empower-others-as+Jesus+did.jpg" width="350" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">What say you friends?<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">I say: it may sound good, but its WAY off-track, IMOe.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I like the end -> let's avoid exploiting and using people, under the pretense that we are serving them & God. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hooray, amen - Their walk with Jesus, their Soul Blossoming God, is Not About US. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And that is the issue I have with the first line </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hooray, amen - Their walk with Jesus, their Soul Blossoming in God, is Not About US. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And this is one of the Huge things we have gotten off-track about in the Church, IMOe - and the fruit is rotten!<br />
I would like to talk more about 1) Soul Discipling and 2) Soul Empowering: </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1)</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It's not MY - or any other human’s - job to Soul Disciple people. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That is JESUS job, for folks who choose to be Jesus Disciple. <br />
We raise up our own cross, and we follow Jesus.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I could see, very early in my walk with Jesus, how gross the systems of humans for discipling were 🤮🤮🤮 </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A little over a year-in, a woman wanted to disciple me. <br />
Even tho, I didn't see it then, like I see it now. Then I just knew: <br />
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- why are you trying to get in the Way of my Direct walk with Jesus?</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- it is for Freedom, that Christ set us free. You seem very nice, a little too nice, but, um <br />
-> RUN (This is not a God Game, it’s a human game : )</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That Game is built on looking at Them, and the church, the doctrine, the tradition, the bible, their Christian culture - maybe even their alleged info in the H Spirit... <br />
None of this is MY unique and Soul-accessible, today, walk with Master Jesus.<br />
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According to the Bible it is Better for us that Jesus isn’t here in Body. <br />
He IS here in Spirit - to relate-to, be blessed-by, to resonate-with… in my own soul.<br />
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I am blessed to be in the Process of LIVING this, Shining this, Enjoying and Sharing the Fruit of this.<br />
Folks be like - ‘I'll Have What She's Having’<br />
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From here, it is a Blessing for ALL, to INVITE, to support folks to REALize this.<br />
Ta walk with Jesus, learning directly, spiritually from the Living Jesus IN their Own Soul. To Live, Love, Laugh, co-Create… with Jesus. <br />
Blossoming this in their Soul, and from there in Their own world - in their Unique Way. <br />
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It’s not MY Job to Soul Empower them. It’s God’s job. <br />
May we have our eyes on God, not on each other. <br />
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Jesus IS Power <br />
Holy Spirit IS Power <br />
Heavenly Progenitor IS Power <br />
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Hooray, amen - Their Soul Empowerment, IN God is Not About US. <br />
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* <b>Soul emPOWERment </b>is ALLOWING True Power (not Force)</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the FLOW of the</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- <b>Energy of Life</b>, </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- Power of the Holy Spirit, of the Divine,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- Potency of the Life, Love, Truth, Way – Spirit…</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Provided with the SOUL Potency, Energy, Power it takes </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- to <b>realize our Free Will</b> & get what we need </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- to Live & Move, to Be & Do, to Say & Have</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">- to live our Purpose, make our Impact</p>
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* From here, <i>Letting-go of Soul temptations to false, not-spiritual power</i>: </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Without Force</b> </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Resisting & Grasping, Fighting & Control; Manipulation & End-running/ Conniving </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Without Effort</b> </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Trying hard, Striving & Struggle</p>
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* From here, <i>Unlocking our deep, Soul strength, courage and un-stop-ability/ inexorability</i>.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Organically Blossoming</b> in our soul, to our world, </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">alive to the natural Flow of Blessings. </p>
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* From here, <i>organically opening to new Possibility, Choice and Action in our Soul</i>.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Creating with ease and grace</b>, as we choose in our world.<br />
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am blessed to be in the Process of LIVING this, Shining this, Enjoying and Sharing the Fruit of this.<br />
Folks be like - ‘I'll Have What She's Having’<br />
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From here, it is a Blessing for ALL, to INVITE, to support folks to REALize this.<br />
To live in Alignment with God within and into the world. To Live and co-create in the FLOW of the Power of God, IN their Own Soul.<br />
Blossoming this in their Soul, and from there in Their own world - in their Unique Way. <br />
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I believe this meme points-to one of the Huge things we have gotten off-track about in the Church, IMOe - and the fruit is rotten!<br />
It’s not MY Job to be Soul Discipling and Soul Empowering folks. It’s the job of Jesus, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Progenitor.<br />
May we have our eyes on God, not on each other. <br />
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Hooray, amen - Their walk with Jesus, their Soul Blossoming in God, is Not About US. </p>
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I have a life practice in which <br />
Direct experiencing is how to know. <br />
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In the physical it is through the physical senses. <br />
And we utilize science and the like to know <br />
(and technology to apply the knowledge) <br />
And everyday, we have impressions and they inform us.<br />
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Meanwhile, we aren’t aware of this usually, <br />
But our senses are not pure. <br />
<br />
We are trained to perceive in our society, our schooling, our trade, our family, our intense experiences... <br />
and we come with varying, natural focus and abilities <br />
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What we perceive is affected by our training, beliefs, experience, expectations, intentions...<br />
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Our senses and experiences are constantly being honed; <br />
and we get a lot of feedback in most of our lives, in this shared physical reality.<br />
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Yet, there is <br />
So <br />
Much<br />
Difference <br />
In what we perceive. <br />
And the stories we derive from this, <br />
and then live-in...<br />
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And this is in our shared physical reality <br />
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Then spiritual knowing <br />
<br />
As a mystic <br />
I have a working practice <br />
Of utilizing my soul senses in a similar manner. <br />
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It’s not willy nilly! <br />
<br />
I learn from and check in with other psychics and mystics, regularly.<br />
<br />
I check in with what WORKS.<br />
In my soul and inside and outside my skin.<br />
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I clear programming, habits, limits, lies, foreign influences…<br />
from my soul, <br />
so I can perceive more clearly.<br />
So I can perceive more from my different soul senses.<br />
<br />
I have learned to turn these soul senses up and down, <br />
so not to be overwhelmed.<br />
And these days, almost always utilize them at will.<br />
<br />
This was not always the case!!<br />
It really took something. <br />
<br />
It really took something. <br />
Building muscle, endurance, balance, and flexibility in my soul.<br />
Great coaching & Training, <br />
as well as peers to lean-on, work-with, support, and care about.<br />
Practice, Practice, Practice.<br />
Willingness, YES.<br />
<br />
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Many don’t see it this way <br />
They think you are a mystic/ seer/ psychic or you aren’t.<br />
We can perceive clearly, or we can’t.<br />
Or it just happens to us, or it doesn’t.<br />
<br />
I have trained many, hundreds.<br />
This is not true.<br />
<br />
.<br />
Some of us just are open, or open more by a spiritual shift. <br />
Some just choose to open, and do what it takes to perceive from the soul. <br />
Some are actively closed: never open, <br />
or what they do perceive they invalidate or believe it is their own thinking etc <br />
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Some say, those of us who experience trauma early, <br />
have our soul senses open early.<br />
<br />
I have found many are open when very young, <br />
but close due to certain pressures, <br />
and can open again when they are willing and clear the blocks.<br />
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Meanwhile, regarding our soul senses, <br />
Some just want to be natural, undisciplined, untrained, unhealed, uncleared...<br />
What they believe to be free.<br />
<br />
That’s their choice, <br />
AND<br />
I see a lot of bound, broken walking around, <br />
perceiving in ways that seem to me: influenced, skewed, dangerous... <br />
<br />
I see a lot not in charge of their senses, <br />
and dominated by what is NOT God: <br />
not holy, true or real. <br />
and is not in their better interests!<br />
<br />
And keep in mind:<br />
<br />
If I look through soot covered windows, I see a lot of soot. <br />
How do I know what is real and what is my colored glasses?<br />
<br />
If I try to listen to all the radio stations at once, <br />
or weather and traffic from the other side of the globe…<br />
it’s not enjoyable or helpful <br />
<br />
and can be actively damaging to my well-being <br />
as well as those I interact with.<br />
<br />
How do I just tune into my Source? <br />
and not the other BS, temptations, and distractions?<br />
this is a necessary and for some absolutely life-saving question.<br />
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I have found it behooves me to notice <br />
Who, what, where, when, why, how i am perceiving.<br />
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Crosschecked against where I was, and I am, and headed toward <br />
- my trajectory <br />
- which is different than any other person.<br />
(Like locating coordinates in an ever-moving universe of relative parts) <br />
<br />
.<br />
The discipline of shifting what doesn't serve, <br />
and being sovereign to all the body stuff: <br />
beliefs, thoughts, feelings, desires, etc <br />
<br />
As well as owning my body and life, <br />
not subject to all other spiritual influences, <br />
to live life as I AM and what I AM here to do.<br />
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This alone is a significant task<br />
<br />
And most importantly, in the moment: <br />
What Who is communicating: <br />
<br />
is it:<br />
My intuitive pattern matching?<br />
The needs of something in my own system?<br />
The wisdom of one of my soul perspectives/ chakras?<br />
<br />
Or is it spirit? <br />
An angel?<br />
a master?<br />
a guide?<br />
a human consciousness?<br />
the shared human consciousness?<br />
an alien consciousness?<br />
an elemental?<br />
on and on<br />
<br />
Most, most important:<br />
Is this sender and information aligned with Source? <br />
with Light, Love, Truth, the Way?<br />
or is it not?<br />
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It may or may not be evil, actively anti-God, there is a lot going on, <br />
but is it aligned with God? with my unique path?<br />
this is KEY.<br />
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Then <br />
If sharing with others: <br />
What is it a healing to say?<br />
<br />
This becomes relevant as soon as I begin soul sensing. <br />
What do I say and not say about it, and when, to whom…<br />
<br />
And HOW do I say it <br />
- from neutral, spiritual perspective? <br />
- from judgment, competition, another consciousness that makes no sense to the listener?<br />
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Many don’t get these distinction and can cause harm.<br />
<br />
. <br />
None of this is falling off a log.<br />
Most of us do not understand and apply these distinctions, <br />
they are not already known and understood as we come out of the womb ; )<br />
<br />
None of this that I am saying is just willy nilly. <br />
It is Distinctions, Discernment, Discipline.<br />
<br />
.<br />
This is related:<br />
the capstone fruit of the spirit is <a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/1466.htm" target="_blank">dominion within</a>: "true mastery from within"<br />
soul-Mastery, spiritual self-discipline. <br />
This is a very useful fruit of being consciously in God, filled, and overflowing… <br />
and also, like all the fruits and gifts, a muscle that we exercise and it grows.<br />
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Unfortunately it is translated as temperance, chastity - oy - myopic.<br />
- so it becomes a red herring, and it diverts us from the truth <br />
- many translations do say ‘self-control’, but many don’t understand this! <br />
and think that this is like will power, trying hard, <br />
rather than God’s gift to us, in our soul.<br />
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When my Clairvoyance jumped way open, almost 25 years ago, <br />
I had no distinctions or defenses.<br />
<br />
I was at the mercy of some intense energies, <br />
consciousnesses that were very real, intense.<br />
Some of them NOT in my best interests!<br />
<br />
I could not tell God from not god from something else...<br />
Bad shit ensued.<br />
<br />
Distinctions and boundaries are vital, <br />
and lacking them can be devastating.<br />
<br />
It was for me. <br />
It cost me SO much.<br />
<br />
But, I eventually learned, I turned-around, I did the work. <br />
I still do.<br />
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.<br />
Anyway <br />
Being a mystic is much more mushy in knowing than is physical knowing. <br />
<br />
But I have a theory that we can apply a kind of soul science and technology. <br />
And get firmer results. <br />
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Discernment is as important as our soul senses being open. <br />
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Without Discernment <br />
- we are too easily led astray. <br />
- folks are right to shy away from direct spiritual experience.<br />
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BUT With Discernment<br />
- we are able to walk our narrow way, step by step. <br />
- and direct spiritual experience, shifts our soul life ON.<br />
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From Here we are on the path of Life, Abundantly!!!! <br />
Delicious beyond the expectations of most of us - certainly me.<br />
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The Rock to stand on IS our soul senses and receiving Spiritual reality directly <br />
AND there are natural/human, and soul, as well as ‘spiritual warfare' <br />
reasons to <br />
Actively, consciously receive & exercise Discernment, & other soul gifts and fruit <br />
- that serve us on our way.<br />
<br />
If we are willing to learn to actively Dance with the Divine. <br />
Soul Senses and Discernment - together are incredible Gifts!<br />
The Way is worth it, Jewel Beyond Price. <br />
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IMOe, YMMV<br />
: ) Wendy<br />
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<u>God is here, now, with Us.</u><br />
Sometimes,<br />
It can be hard to not: <br />
- hide, avoid, blame, distance, cover ourselves...<br />
- get lost in the dramas of life, fall into distractions and addictions;<br />
- let another climb the mountain, stay where we are, just hear second-hand about God.<br />
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Can we BE here, now, with God?<br />
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<u>God is here, now, with what Is.</u><br />
Sometimes,<br />
It can be hard to not <br />
freeze - numb, paralyze; <br />
flight - run, separate; <br />
fight - battle, attack... <br />
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Can we BE here, now, in God, with what Is?</div>
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Going Deeper into our Real-time Soul Experience of Jesus<br />
- Open our Ears to Hear, Eyes to See, Heart to experience our Oneness. <br />
- Together, exercise and validate our walk with Jesus, Today.<br />
- Trust our Soul Senses, and the Presence of God, that much more. <br />
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In this Meditation, <b>you will have the opportunity to:</b><br />
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<li>Share your experience, if you choose, a couple times during this session.</li>
<li>Mostly, quietly enjoy letting-go and experiencing your inner world.</li>
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Open to the transformation of your experience of <br />
- your Relationship with Jesus, <br />
- Being Still and Knowing God, and <br />
- Being with what Is.<br />
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Especially when it is challenging, uncomfortable.</div>
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Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-79725916208360774822019-03-02T07:45:00.000-08:002019-03-02T07:45:15.877-08:00Deconstruction is an Invitation to go Deeper in our Spiritual Journey<div data-contents="true">
<span data-offset-key="f1lib-0-0"><span data-text="true">What folks call deconstruction - of the bible, religion, church, etc</span></span><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="4fefo-0-0">
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<span data-offset-key="4fefo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="b4lgq-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b4lgq-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="b4lgq-0-0"><span data-text="true">For me, it felt like the process I went through <br />was a deconstruction of ME, <br />of who i thought I was, along with who I thought God was.</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="91leu-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="91leu-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="91leu-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="39fm4-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="39fm4-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="39fm4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Even tho this was almost 35 years ago, <br />I remember exactly where I was focused to start:<br /></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="a9pq3-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a9pq3-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="a9pq3-0-0"><span data-text="true">I called it the big 5 questions:</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="eokqd-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eokqd-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="eokqd-0-0"><span data-text="true">- Is there a God</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="9p8nt-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9p8nt-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9p8nt-0-0"><span data-text="true">- If there is a God, what is God like?</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="ebeif-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ebeif-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="ebeif-0-0"><span data-text="true">- Does God want relationship/communication back and forth with me? and if so, how?</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="f4leq-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f4leq-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="f4leq-0-0"><span data-text="true">- What about Jesus, and is he God, what does this all mean? (this is less clear biblically than it may seem)</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="fep02-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fep02-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fep02-0-0"><span data-text="true">- What about the bible, and how do I relate to it, understand it?</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bping-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="bping-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="e9n1v-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e9n1v-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="e9n1v-0-0"><span data-text="true">.</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="9aqvs-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9aqvs-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9aqvs-0-0"><span data-text="true">Meanwhile, I am a mystic, </span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="616bl-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="616bl-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="616bl-0-0"><span data-text="true">so I was having spiritual experience <br />- as much as I would allow - <br /><br />but muddy and confusing <br />(becasue so much as muddy and confused within me ; )</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="gjhi-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="gjhi-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="gjhi-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="cte79-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cte79-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="cte79-0-0"><span data-text="true">At the time, it felt like mystical experiences <br />just made things worse (the current and past ones), <br /></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="2llcm-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2llcm-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2llcm-0-0"><span data-text="true">becasue it felt at the time <br />like it would have been SO much easier, </span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="eea9m-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eea9m-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="eea9m-0-0"><span data-text="true">to (again) walk away from this spiritual/God crap </span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="eohu5-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eohu5-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="eohu5-0-0"><span data-text="true">- becasue it was SO hard and confusing. </span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="4omma-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4omma-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="4omma-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="7dal1-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7dal1-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7dal1-0-0"><span data-text="true">Better to let my intellect win, and fall into </span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="d0mvi-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d0mvi-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="d0mvi-0-0"><span data-text="true">-> This God crap is all stupid,<br />a delusion and a waste of attention.</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="1soqr-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1soqr-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1soqr-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="6dev4-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6dev4-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6dev4-0-0"><span data-text="true">.</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="f26es-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f26es-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="f26es-0-0"><span data-text="true">I realized early-on in my 'deconstruction' process, <br />that I had 'bought the package' - </span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="en87k-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en87k-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="en87k-0-0"><span data-text="true">I had authentic expereince of spiritual reality <br />and dancing with the living God.</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="3u14a-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3u14a-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="3u14a-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br />BUT, along with that was So much BS <br />- beliefs and community standards and ethics <br />and how its done and relationships a certain way, <br />and what stuff means, etc, etc. </span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="asi4m-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="asi4m-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="asi4m-0-0"><span data-text="true">We know this drill ; )</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="bbt0h-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bbt0h-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="bbt0h-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="2hg3g-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2hg3g-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2hg3g-0-0"><span data-text="true">Originally I had chosen a PART of me <br />to move forward into the Christian game, <br />and it was a good Honeymoon for a couple years!</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="1d2cq-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1d2cq-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1d2cq-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="1jdn2-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1jdn2-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1jdn2-0-0"><span data-text="true">But by necessity, I had left big parts of myself behind. </span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="1sg7i-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1sg7i-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1sg7i-0-0"><span data-text="true">I didn't know how to do it any other way... </span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="f4p6q-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f4p6q-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="f4p6q-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="ea00l-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ea00l-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="ea00l-0-0"><span data-text="true">Some obvious stuff, I left behind on purpose </span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="fai6n-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fai6n-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fai6n-0-0"><span data-text="true">- some of my intellect, <br />some of my sexuality, <br />and therefore some of my honesty... <br /></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="e39je-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e39je-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="e39je-0-0"><span data-text="true">And a lot of not-obvious stuff </span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="fg50o-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fg50o-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fg50o-0-0"><span data-text="true">- of course my 'shadow', <br />but also my free-will, <br />some of my open-mindedness, etc</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="fhnvc-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fhnvc-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fhnvc-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="bvo9r-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bvo9r-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="bvo9r-0-0"><span data-text="true">God and my deep self - my soul - <br />neither of us would stand for it, in the long-run. </span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="baqic-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="baqic-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="baqic-0-0"><span data-text="true">So the hell began <br />- and it effected my mental health, my identity, <br />my relationships, my ability to function well in the world, etc etc </span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="aah6l-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aah6l-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="aah6l-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="3rq07-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3rq07-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="3rq07-0-0"><span data-text="true">.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="3tst3-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3tst3-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="3tst3-0-0"><span data-text="true">From my current perspective, spiritually:</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="806af-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="806af-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="806af-0-0"><span data-text="true">- Wholeness, Oneness, Connection, Love is the truth. </span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="b1kd7-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b1kd7-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="b1kd7-0-0"><span data-text="true">- God (and our deep self - soul) <br />want us to experience the Wholeness that we are (that ALL is),</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="6acfh-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6acfh-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6acfh-0-0"><span data-text="true">the expereince of ALL of ourselves IN God consciously.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="8oglr-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8oglr-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8oglr-0-0"><span data-text="true">... So, I went through the mill ;)</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="cfdve-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cfdve-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="cfdve-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="24n35-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="24n35-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="24n35-0-0"><span data-text="true">Anyway, I am writing this to say</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="57kh7-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="57kh7-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="57kh7-0-0"><span data-text="true">my very long and very tumultuous times, </span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="dpd40-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dpd40-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="dpd40-0-0"><span data-text="true">letting go of all the 'extras' of my walk with God <br />eventually showed so much fruit:</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="2kuuc-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2kuuc-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2kuuc-0-0"><span data-text="true">- just God, </span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="a19gg-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a19gg-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="a19gg-0-0"><span data-text="true">- just deep, real spiritual connection and love with God.</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="bovb7-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bovb7-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="bovb7-0-0"><span data-text="true">- letting all the BS fall away...</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="6ug8k-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6ug8k-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6ug8k-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="dhmsh-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dhmsh-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="dhmsh-0-0"><span data-text="true">From here:</span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="99vhm-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="99vhm-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="99vhm-0-0"><span data-text="true">- a solid place to stand, within my own soul - in the storm this life/world can be</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="r7gv-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="r7gv-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="r7gv-0-0"><span data-text="true">- being love, joy, peace, that is real and i can bring in the world</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="8ombn-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ombn-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8ombn-0-0"><span data-text="true">- Dancing in this world in concert with Spirit; in wisdom, truth</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="6rti4-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6rti4-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6rti4-0-0"><span data-text="true">- Life Abundantly!</span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4k5ui" data-offset-key="d462s-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d462s-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="d462s-0-0"><span data-text="true">more and more</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7t0i9-0-0"><span data-text="true">To really start enjoying the fruit of the deconstruction <br />took me a longggg time, hardddd road; </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e0bnf-0-0"><span data-text="true">- I am Very slow and resistant! <br />I tend to make stuff Much harder than it has to be!</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="adtrm-0-0"><span data-text="true">- IN the process, I have learned how to allow shift to be easier as I have gone along, <br />and I have found tools that help me shift in my soul, which helps a lot!</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7b6o3-0-0"><span data-text="true">- But I want to validate:</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9l4pd-0-0"><span data-text="true">This process had to go all the way to the depths of my soul </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f2mb5-0-0"><span data-text="true">(i think anything else is just rearranging chairs on the Titanic ; )</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="eropp-0-0"><span data-text="true">From my experience, the fruit of this process <br />(and therefore the process that we take to get there) <br />is SO Good, and ever deepeningly Delicious.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7smnu-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br />I believe the process of </span></span><span data-offset-key="7smnu-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="7smnu-0-0"><span data-text="true">Deconstruction (or whatever we call it)</span></span>is an Invitation to go Deeper in our Spiritual Journey, our Soul Evolution <br />- allowing ourselves to go through the stages of our spiritual life/development.<br /><br />Maturity = Teleios = Becoming who we really are <br />= Becoming the Oak hidden in the Acorn ; )</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7gq20-0-0"><span data-text="true">Deconstruction is a spiritual process, <br />and 2 things I have found that help a lot:</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8s9uf-0-0"><span data-text="true">1 - I believe going beyond intellectual and social issues in this process, <br />and going down into the soul to allow shift. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9ji2j-0-0"><span data-text="true">A spiritual (I don't mean religious) practice is very helpful. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1jmc3-0-0"><span data-text="true">There are many, I am served by a form of meditation that is powerful for me <br />(PM me, I am happy to share) </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="72vru-0-0"><span data-text="true">2 - understanding that we are on a Spiritual Journey <br />- and that our spiritual practice </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4d1bi-0-0"><span data-text="true">is much more important </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1rvhq-0-0"><span data-text="true">than our rational religious beliefs. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="50enb-0-0"><span data-text="true">I really like and have been served by this book:</span></span><a href="https://spiritualityhealth.com/reviews/books/2012/03/31/putting-mind-christ#" target="_blank"><em><strong>Putting on the Mind of Christ: The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality</strong></em></a><br /><span data-offset-key="50enb-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cvcrc-0-0"><span data-text="true">I hope all of us enjoy Much Much fruit <br />from our challenging processes of Deconstruction, </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8e6cc-0-0"><span data-text="true">which i believe take us ever deeper into God <br />(truth, love/oneness, light, life, our unique way in God) </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9lepk-0-0"><span data-text="true">- even when it looks like the opposite <br />(maybe especially then ; )</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7p24t-0-0"><span data-text="true">thanks for reading<br />what is your expereince?<br /><br />in life,</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6kb7j-0-0"><span data-text="true">: )Wendy</span></span></div>
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Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-7720821439602598612018-01-27T22:38:00.001-08:002018-01-28T14:22:58.489-08:00{Guest Post} Realizing we are Priceless Precious Valuable<div data-contents="true">
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<span data-offset-key="bi8i4-0-0"><span data-text="true">{Guest Post} by </span></span><span data-offset-key="bi8i4-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="56eul-0-0"><span data-text="true">Pamela Maddock, </span></span><br />originally written in response to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1616923775060497&set=a.306576759428545.73333.100002286700528&type=3&theater" target="_blank">this Facebook post </a> </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bi8i4-0-0"><span data-text="true">During some very low times</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9riea-0-0"><span data-text="true">Feeling worthless was always present</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="4fneu-0-0"><span data-text="true">I came in contact with a person </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="4fneu-0-0"><span data-text="true">who had a different eyes view of my situation.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="72dc8-0-0"><span data-text="true">We talked consistently</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bdjd7-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br />One day I was shown something in a sketch</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4ep4i-0-0"><span data-text="true">A ladder </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="4ep4i-0-0"><span data-text="true">a stick person on a ladder taking their first steps <br />like a little child trying to reach up for the first step.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5r02g-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br />At the top 3 rungs with these 3 words</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4438p-0-0"><span data-text="true">Priceless</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6hrqs-0-0"><span data-text="true">Precious</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2i0ah-0-0"><span data-text="true">Valuable.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="f28kg-0-0"><span data-text="true">Then this person said</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d0kl4-0-0"><span data-text="true">That's you.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2rhqf-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br />The tears were many</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5s4at-0-0"><span data-text="true">The answer was up to me </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="5s4at-0-0"><span data-text="true">to look at my life and rise above everything else</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="chrra-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br />Focus</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5eshb-0-0"><span data-text="true">Focus on me</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9cdnk-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br />I said I feel selfish</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8rhc3-0-0"><span data-text="true">Be selfish for a while and heal me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9jvk3-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br />I am forever grateful.</span></span></div>
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.<span data-offset-key="6l814-0-0"><span data-text="true">... <br /><br />I see that ladder sometimes</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="60hj7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Take a deep breath and climb again.</span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="60hj7-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="20ul9-0-0"><span data-text="true">It's called life and it really sucks sometimes.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="bi8i4-0-0"><span data-text="true">{Guest Post} by </span></span><span data-offset-key="6m6t1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="8cgos-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pamela.maddock.9?fref=ufi" target="_blank">Pamela Maddock</a>, </span></span>in White Serving the Chalice at (</span></span><span data-offset-key="6m6t1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="44f1p-0-0"><span data-text="true">her Anglo-Catholic) </span></span>Church with a visiting Bishop and his wife, a few years back</span></span></div>
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BEing the Love you Want: Dare to Let IN the Blessings you Desire</h3>
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<b>NJ Shore Meditation Workshop - Wednesday, September 6th - 7:15 - 8:30pm</b><br />
at <b>Trinity Episcopal Church</b>: 503 Asbury Avenue, <b>Asbury Park</b>, NJ 07712<br />
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Whether in a long-term relationship or single,<br />
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<span data-offset-key="eso20-0-0"><b>many of us deal with the same issues</b>:</span></div>
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<li>a story of loneliness,</li>
<li>unfulfilled desires,</li>
<li>experience of UN-wholeness.</li>
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<span data-offset-key="7g2gt-0-0"><b>Our desires are amazingly similar </b>amoung many of us: </span></div>
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<li>We want to feel complete and connected.</li>
<li>How do we get someone to love us? validate us?</li>
<li>What do we have to do, to savor comfortable companionship?</li>
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<span data-offset-key="bqd4e-0-0">We have been taught and trained </span><span data-offset-key="6b7hn-0-0">to cast about outside ourselves for what we want and need.<br /> </span><span data-offset-key="b0sv9-0-0"><b>But, that doesn't work</b>... at least not for long!</span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="4v58q-0-0"><i>The Secret is: we have to LET IN the Blessings that we desire!</i></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6icgk-0-0">In this meditation workshop we will learn and practice</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="58h1l-0-0">allowing the love that you are searching for,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5f7k1-0-0">INSIDE yourself!</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="eh6d0-0-0">... and then, and only then, magnetize/attract it in your outside world, as well.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9t58m-0-0">As you allow this practice to transform you,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5iqrj-0-0">your experience of love and connection in yourself, and with God (and in all your relationships)</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1b5il-0-0">can completely blossom.</span></div>
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In this Meditation, <b>you will have the opportunity to:</b><br />
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<li>Learn and practice some basic meditation techniques.</li>
<li>Share your experience, if you choose, a couple times during this session.</li>
<li>Mostly, quietly enjoy letting go and experiencing your inner world.</li>
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<span data-offset-key="5nfug-0-0">Please come, whether a beginner or advanced meditator:</span></div>
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Open to the transformation of your experience of Love and Relationships, forever.</div>
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in Life, Wendy</div>
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<b>Is this workshop for you?</b><br />
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<li>This workshop is targeted to folks from a Christian foundation, and ALL are welcome.</li>
<li>Whether this is your first or your millionth meditation, you can profit from this workshop.</li>
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<b>Logistics</b><br />
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<li>Space is limited. Please <b>register </b>on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/120110135312255/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, or <a href="mailto:WendyRWolf@att.net" target="_blank">PM</a> me that you are coming.</li>
<li><b>Freewill Donation</b> - this workshop is usually $30, please give as you are led. Half of all donations will to go to <a href="http://www.trinitynj.com/3soupkitchen.html" target="_blank">Trinity's Food Justice Program</a>. </li>
<li>Bring a <b>snack </b>to share if you would like.</li>
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is on left. I will arrive when Mass is over.</li>
<li><b>OR You can come at 6:30 </b>for <a href="http://www.trinitynj.com/1worshipservices.html" target="_blank">Worship/Mass</a> (all are welcome) - come in main church (red) doors, to the chapel in the front right of church. </li>
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<li>Please <b>invite your friends</b> for this sweet and nourishing opportunity.</li>
<li><b>Plan ahead </b>- check address, if you have questions or need
assistance, contact me ASAP - I am not available after 6pm on Wednesday,
I will be in church and then in the workshop.</li>
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Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-23082448914977068992017-08-14T10:54:00.000-07:002017-11-25T15:16:50.330-08:00the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places<div data-contents="true">
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<span data-offset-key="stmr-0-0">“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” (Carl Jung) </span></blockquote>
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<span data-offset-key="stmr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b5m5i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1fu7-0-0">I am hearing more chatter </span></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="stmr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b5m5i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1fu7-0-0">and more importantly, more folks are actually coming to me, lately, </span></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="stmr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b5m5i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2resr-0-0">to purposely, overtly deal with their dark-side...</span></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f20l8-0-0">shadow, </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7d2v1-0-0">despair, </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="69gv-0-0">deep fear/pain/shame, </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="41pv0-0-0">addictions, life out-of-control...</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="41pv0-0-0">Instead of:</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="41pv0-0-0">- I want to be fixed, well, happy, successful, abundant...</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="41pv0-0-0"><i>- Well, what I really want is a silver bullet to make things like they used to be, or better, or great...</i></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="41pv0-0-0">Folks these days are more likely to say: </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="41pv0-0-0">let's deal with my dark side.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="41pv0-0-0">Um GREAT, and <span data-offset-key="a2j58-0-0"><span data-text="true">Hallelujah</span></span>.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fd8qi-0-0">I see this as a very good sign for them, </span>for me,</div>
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<span data-offset-key="fd8qi-0-0">and a useful turn going on in our culture.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3ije6-0-0">“The shadow goes by many familiar names: the disowned self, the lower self, the dark twin or brother in bible and myth, the double, repressed self, alter ego, id. When we come face-to-face with our darker side, we use metaphors to describe these shadow encounters: meeting our demons, wrestling with the devil, descent to the underworld, dark night of the soul, midlife crisis.” (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Meeting-Shadow-Hidden-Power-Nature/dp/087477618X/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=087477618X&linkCode=w61&imprToken=8e58IXC3Fu.LEhKh6VCNuw&slotNum=2&tag=acadofidea-20" target="_blank">Meeting the Shadow</a>)</span></blockquote>
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<span data-offset-key="90phj-0-0">If we want to be Light.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a478t-0-0">If we want to shine Light in this world.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="49ua5-0-0">If we want to expereince who we really are: Whole and Complete in God.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4bejn-0-0">If we want to really do, what we are here to do - what no one else can do...</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="vcb-0-0">Then we must say: hello darkness, my old friend.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="75kth-0-0">Turn and face the dragon(s) that have been chasing us.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="90phj-0-0">Make friends with our shadow.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="90phj-0-0">In our Soul Evolution on this planet - individually and corporately - </span><span data-offset-key="90phj-0-0">After living to the ultimate end of our Logical Consciousness and delving our Soul (</span>Psychic) Consciousness;<br />
<span data-offset-key="90phj-0-0">On our way to Christ Consciousness and the beauty of Consciously living as One in the Reign (Kingdom) of God;</span><span data-offset-key="90phj-0-0">Lies the Dark Night of the Soul - where our darkness is deeply realized and integrated. (my very poor paraphrase of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Putting-Mind-Christ-Ken-Wilber/dp/1571741739/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8" target="_blank">Putting on the Mind of Christ: The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality</a>)</span></blockquote>
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<span data-offset-key="dembr-0-0">We must Learn from our despair, resistance, hate, hopelessness, doubt, anti-God... </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dembr-0-0">before we Heal and Grow through it, into Glory.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3jkc6-0-0">“The shadow, when it is realized, is the source of renewal; the new and productive impulse cannot come from established values of the ego. When there is an impasse, and sterile time in our lives—despite an adequate ego development—we must look to the dark, hitherto unacceptable side which has been at our conscious disposal….</span><span data-offset-key="bo5j9-0-0">This brings us to the fundamental fact that the shadow is the door to our individuality. In so far as the shadow renders us our first view of the unconscious part of our personality, it represents the first stage toward meeting the Self. There is, in fact, no access to the unconscious and to our own reality but through the shadow. Only when we realize that part of ourselves which we have not hitherto seen or preferred not to see can we proceed to question and find the sources from which it feeds and the basis on which it rests. Hence no progress or growth is possible until the shadow is adequately confronted and confronting means more than merely knowing about it. It is not until we have truly been shocked into seeing ourselves as we really are, instead of as we wish or hopefully assume we are, that we can take the first step toward individual reality.” (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Meeting-Shadow-Hidden-Power-Nature/dp/087477618X/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=087477618X&linkCode=w61&imprToken=8e58IXC3Fu.LEhKh6VCNuw&slotNum=2&tag=acadofidea-20" target="_blank">Meeting the Shadow</a>)</span></blockquote>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2mprs-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2mprs-0-0">Where we trip, really is our treasure.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4qqm3-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="4qqm3-0-0">Let's Dig.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8qk49-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8qk49-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="7us2h" data-offset-key="eiqmq-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eiqmq-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="eiqmq-0-0">When we do, we are blessed.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ufs3-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2ufs3-0-0">And our world is also blessed by the fruit of our deep work.</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="7us2h" data-offset-key="43dcg-0-0">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span data-offset-key="43dcg-0-0">“The shadow, when it is realized, is the source of renewal; the new and productive impulse cannot come from established values of the ego. When there is an impasse, and sterile time in our lives—despite an adequate ego development—we must look to the dark, hitherto unacceptable side which has been at our conscious disposal….</span><span data-offset-key="bl9qi-0-0">This brings us to the fundamental fact that the shadow is the door to our individuality. In so far as the shadow renders us our first view of the unconscious part of our personality, it represents the first stage toward meeting the Self. There is, in fact, no access to the unconscious and to our own reality but through the shadow. Only when we realize that part of ourselves which we have not hitherto seen or preferred not to see can we proceed to question and find the sources from which it feeds and the basis on which it rests. Hence no progress or growth is possible until the shadow is adequately confronted and confronting means more than merely knowing about it. It is not until we have truly been shocked into seeing ourselves as we really are, instead of as we wish or hopefully assume we are, that we can take the first step toward individual reality.” (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Meeting-Shadow-Hidden-Power-Nature/dp/087477618X/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=087477618X&linkCode=w61&imprToken=8e58IXC3Fu.LEhKh6VCNuw&slotNum=2&tag=acadofidea-20" target="_blank">Meeting the Shadow</a>)</span></blockquote>
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Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-24896317396632454302017-07-25T11:18:00.001-07:002022-01-29T16:41:56.410-08:00Spiritually grow into LOVE, with Grace and Ease<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="k6e4-0-0">
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="k6e4-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="k6e4-0-0"><br /></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="k6e4-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="k6e4-0-0">Being OK with, and from there Loving, All that shows up</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="e7pv0-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e7pv0-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="e7pv0-0-0">starts with BEing OK, with ourselves</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0">and from there, Loving Ourselves.</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"><br /></span>
<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"><i>Another way to say this is:</i></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"><i>Being IN Love, Being Love with my sisters and brothers</i></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"><i>starts with knowing I am OK in God</i></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"><i>and from there, letting God love me.</i></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2uhp8-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2uhp8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="buet5-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="buet5-0-0">For most of us, this is HARD.</span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="buet5-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="buet5-0-0">Possibly Impossible.</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="fdbhd-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fdbhd-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fdbhd-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="5kcpd-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5kcpd-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="5kcpd-0-0">I have found it is easier to be ok with myself, love myself;</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="8psg6-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8psg6-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8psg6-0-0">when I am standing on a good foundation.</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="c66un-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c66un-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="c66un-0-0">When I am identifying spiritually and in a spiritual consciousness, not merely flesh/ physical.</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="6muc0-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6muc0-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6muc0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span>
<span data-offset-key="6muc0-0-0"></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"><i>Another way to say this is:</i></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"><i><span data-offset-key="5kcpd-0-0">I have found it is easier to </span>know I am OK in God, and let God love me;</i></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0">
</span>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8psg6-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8psg6-0-0"><i>when I am standing on my true spiritual foundation.</i></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0">
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="c66un-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c66un-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c66un-0-0"><i>Identifying with who I am spiritually, in God; and putting on the Mind of Christ (not merely flesh/ physical consciousness).</i></span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c66un-0-0"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7omnl-0-0">
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<span data-offset-key="f4b20-0-0">.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6jr1i-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6jr1i-0-0">I interfaced this week with a man who means well,</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="elpss-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="elpss-0-0">and identifies as spiritual, as Christian. </span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2a6sb-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2a6sb-0-0">But is very spiritually sensitive in certain ways, </span><br />
<span data-offset-key="2a6sb-0-0">and therefore feels all the lies that people live.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5kh79-0-0">
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="a6nar-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a6nar-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="a6nar-0-0">He judges them, and presumably himself, for this very human pattern.</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="crdna-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="crdna-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="crdna-0-0">He identifies as someone who dislikes humankind and avoids human society.</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="8j1m0-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8j1m0-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8j1m0-0-0">Interfacing with him, helped me see, that most of us do this, to a degree </span><br />
<span data-offset-key="8j1m0-0-0">(but we don't own it like he does ;)</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ebgam-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="ebgam-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="b7504-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b7504-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="b7504-0-0">We judge ourselves and others and the world, and God....</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="4ftl0-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ftl0-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="4ftl0-0-0">because 'how it is' doesn't measure up to our 'pictures'/ beliefs/ concepts </span><br />
<span data-offset-key="4ftl0-0-0">of how we/ they/ it should be/ behave.</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="f6fd-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f6fd-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="f6fd-0-0"><br /></span>
<span data-offset-key="f6fd-0-0">This is how most of us operate on the physical, in our everyday consciousness.</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="f6fd-0-0">Judging that we do this doesn't help. </span><br />
<span data-offset-key="f6fd-0-0">It does help to note this is garden-variety human behavior ;)</span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="mqc3-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="mqc3-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="mqc3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="mqc3-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="mqc3-0-0">.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eramq-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="eramq-0-0">BUT</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="eramq-0-0">It IS missing the mark.</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="eramq-0-0"><br /></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="151ua-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="151ua-0-0">Much more IS possible for our lives!</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="auipo-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="auipo-0-0">for our ability to BE with ourselves, others, this reality, God...</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1oh2m-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1oh2m-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="79h25-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="79h25-0-0">We can choose a trajectory that helps us get out of our own way:</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6rh7u-0-0">
<ul>
<li>to BE</li>
<li>to BE with</li>
<li>to BE in compassion</li>
<li>to Love</li>
<li>to DO sweetness in the world, from there...</li>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0"><br /></span>
<span data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0">BTW,</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0">This is not possible from a physical consciousness and identity.</span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0"><br /></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0">Let me say it again:</span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0">This is not possible from a physical consciousness and identity.</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="efgqd-0-0"><br /></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3qs2n" data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0">The best the flesh/body can do in this direction, no matter how well-meaning, </span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0">is strive to act 'good', pretense, hypocrisy = wearing the mask.</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0"><br /></span>
<br />
<i>If one Believes God is Love, Another way to say this is:</i><br />
<i>the mind of the flesh is hostile to God...</i><br />
<i>Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God. </i><br />
<a href="http://biblehub.com/bsb/romans/8.htm" target="_blank"><i>Romans 8: 7, 8</i></a><br />
<span data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0"><br /></span>
<span data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0">.</span><br />
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">BUT, meanwhile, it is very possible, as Spirit:</span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">We can allow ourselves to </span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">Grow SPIRITUALLY into LOVE, with Grace and Ease.</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0"><br /></span></div>
<span data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0"><i>Another way to say this is:</i></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0"><i>In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; </i></span><br />
<i><span data-offset-key="1ov05-0-0">for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh</span>...</i><br />
<i>And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace...</i><br />
<i>(from my favorite chapter of the Bible, since my teens) <a href="http://biblehub.com/ylt/galatians/5.htm" target="_blank">Galatians 5 (16, 17, 22)</a></i></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8vtfk-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8vtfk-0-0">From a spiritual perspective, </span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9f5dg-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9f5dg-0-0">as we grow into a spiritual consciousness, </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ev29n-0-0">and we learn to identify as spirit in flesh... </span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e6moo-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="e6moo-0-0">(not just an evolved animal run by thoughts, beliefs, feelings, experiences, other people's programming, etc.)</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="iafe-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9eroi-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9eroi-0-0">We can grow into consciously being </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f6ac1-0-0">OK with, </span><br />
<span data-offset-key="f6ac1-0-0">and from there Loving All Our Relations</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0">... including ourselves.</span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0"><br /></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0"></span>.<br />
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">May we allow ourselves to </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0"><i>May we allow God to</i></span></span></div>
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0">
</span>
<br />
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<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">Spiritually grow us into LOVE, with Grace and Ease.</span></span></div>
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0">
</span>
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<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0"><br /></span></span></div>
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0">
</span>
<br />
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<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">Amen, </span></span></div>
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0">
</span>
<br />
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">Wendy</span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0"><br /></span></span>
<span data-offset-key="2u1q6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71jl9-0-0">... </span></span>I think it is all about receiving Love spiritually,<br />
and letting it pass through us to others...<br />
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aaj22-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="aaj22-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="47ij3" data-offset-key="3f74u-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3f74u-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="3f74u-0-0">kind of like spiritually, <i>beholding and reflecting the Glory</i>, </span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6p3bi-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6p3bi-0-0">but a different spelling is:</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1v65i-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1v65i-0-0">spiritually, beholding and reflecting LOVE.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1v65i-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1v65i-0-0"><br /></span></div>
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BTW, this post is one response to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214164394969103&set=gm.344936959271425&type=3&theater" target="_blank">this FB post</a>.</div>
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Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-76904113321388135732017-07-11T10:35:00.002-07:002017-11-25T15:42:33.873-08:00Trusting God or mammon<div data-contents="true">
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5gvvo-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="5gvvo-0-0">It is hard to stay focused on God,</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4fol4-0-0">when stress is high,</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dvq3l-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="dvq3l-0-0">when time is tight,</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="beld3-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="beld3-0-0">when to-do's mount up,</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6lqh7-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6lqh7-0-0">when money is challenging...</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6ojbh-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6ojbh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ep4h4-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="ep4h4-0-0">What wins?</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="31vs1-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="31vs1-0-0">Physical reality, and its exigencies</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d2kla-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="d2kla-0-0">OR</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ltjp-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="3ltjp-0-0">spiritual reality - the reign/kingdom of God/Heaven.</span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dt6v8-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="dt6v8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span>
<span data-offset-key="dt6v8-0-0">.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2gq07" data-offset-key="3h6eb-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3h6eb-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="3h6eb-0-0">When stress is high, I most need to keep my eyes on God.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2gq07" data-offset-key="abmph-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="abmph-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="abmph-0-0">But it is hard, as a human, caring for a body.</span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="877eo-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="877eo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c9veu-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="c9veu-0-0">Money challenges have been very close to the bone for me for the last year</span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9lo2b-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9lo2b-0-0">- and for much of my life.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="31tdb-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="31tdb-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9a89d-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9a89d-0-0">SO, let's say hello to this, for a bit, today...</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2t6mq-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2t6mq-0-0">mammon</span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f6pik-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="f6pik-0-0">"the treasure a person trusts in" </span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d9vs5-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="d9vs5-0-0">- the idol of riches, money, possessions</span><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span data-offset-key="cdb01-0-0">13 No servant can serve two masters:<br /> </span><span data-offset-key="b38pg-0-0">for either he will hate the one, and love the other;<br /> </span><span data-offset-key="8du8e-0-0">or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.<br /> </span><span data-offset-key="bea3l-0-0">You cannot serve God and mammon.</span>- <a href="http://biblehub.com/kj2000/luke/16.htm" target="_blank">Luke 16</a></blockquote>
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<br /></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7qgs2-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7qgs2-0-0">This is as important today, as it was when Jesus talked about it</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aoaqn-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="aoaqn-0-0">The worship of money, if anything, has increased.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ik4m-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1ik4m-0-0">And us bringing the will of God on earth as it is in heaven... suffers</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="423gf-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="423gf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c092n-0-0">
.</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ljvf-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8ljvf-0-0">Meanwhile we need money, </span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ljvf-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8ljvf-0-0">we live in this World, in this reality, </span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ljvf-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8ljvf-0-0">in the current economy.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2itf0-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2itf0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2gq07" data-offset-key="8vom6-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8vom6-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="8vom6-0-0">It's kind of like having to learn subtle cues and balance and agency from within us, spiritually.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ep04-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="ep04-0-0">For something like, say, food addiction.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fjnrq-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fjnrq-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2gq07" data-offset-key="fqkk8-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fqkk8-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fqkk8-0-0">Because in that we need to learn to eat well and healthy, </span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="90m5d-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="90m5d-0-0">but not to make food the center of our lives, </span><br />
<span data-offset-key="90m5d-0-0">not be driven by food, not to 'live to eat, instead of eat to live'. </span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aqdmb-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="aqdmb-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2gq07" data-offset-key="b0ntc-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b0ntc-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="b0ntc-0-0">So we have to find a way to be aligned with ourselves and with God around food, </span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="evb9p-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="evb9p-0-0">because we can't just avoid it.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2b2fj-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2b2fj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span>
<span data-offset-key="2b2fj-0-0">.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fuj0a-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fuj0a-0-0">Similarly, around money;</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2p9ma-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="2p9ma-0-0">which has so much to do with survival, </span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2gq07" data-offset-key="d5udo-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d5udo-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="d5udo-0-0">as well as looking good, and power in the world, success, etc.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4i4fh-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="4i4fh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2gq07" data-offset-key="c3156-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c3156-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="c3156-0-0">It's so complicated, and it's so intense.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1mnru-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="1mnru-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2gq07" data-offset-key="cr9c7-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cr9c7-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="cr9c7-0-0">Utilizing our relationship with money, </span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a5cb-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="a5cb-0-0">as a way to understand how we're living, </span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2gq07" data-offset-key="dd0k5-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dd0k5-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="dd0k5-0-0">and how much were really focused on God;</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="56du-0-0">And the how much were following God step-by-step...</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="41kb9-0-0">Being secure in the arms of Mammon </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ankag-0-0">feels so much easier than</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2u4ne-0-0">just trusting God...</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c2qkp-0-0">that what I need will come, in time for when I need it.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="c2qkp-0-0">For me, the answer always lies in the scripture below.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dfevp-0-0">It can be a challenging road, </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a6ib-0-0">to trust, to allow my need to be met, </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9in5k-0-0">not what I think my many needs are ; )</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="aj1tv-0-0">and in God's time... </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3oe8g-0-0">aye!</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="87af7-0-0">Yet, this is what I really want, really choose:</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1ktl7-0-0"><br /></span><span data-offset-key="34v4b-0-0">31 seek ye the reign of God,<br /> </span><span data-offset-key="ctupo-0-0">and all these things shall be added to you.</span><span data-offset-key="eobnt-0-0"><br /></span>- <a href="http://biblehub.com/ylt/luke/12.htm#22" target="_blank">Luke 12</a> (from the section 'do not worry' ;)</blockquote>
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<span data-offset-key="8jl1m-0-0">what say you?</span><br />
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Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-41086459833757595042017-04-30T13:12:00.003-07:002017-11-25T15:15:03.561-08:00Don't let go until you are blessed<div data-contents="true">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Many thanks to <a href="http://johnpavlovitz.com/" style="color: #2585b2;">john pavlovitz</a> and his ministry. </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">This is my response to his post: <a href="http://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/04/30/the-faith-crisis-epidemic-in-america/" style="color: #2585b2;">The Faith Crisis Epidemic in America</a>:</span><br />
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I agree, there is a Faith Crisis Epidemic in America.</div>
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And as challenging, saddening, and confronting as this all is, </div>
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I believe it is (in the big picture) good news.</div>
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The body of Christ is called forward.</div>
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These things just don't cut-it anymore - for more and more Christians:</div>
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- Just intellectually believing some things about God, </div>
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- Just socially gathering with others who believe as we do, </div>
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- Just praying for change, but basically wanting to stay the same </div>
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- to not grow and deepen spiritually, </div>
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- to not die and be reborn spiritually every day, </div>
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- to not walk with Jesus - who is here, now spiritually - in our real lives, step-by-step ...</div>
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These things just don't cut-it anymore - for more and more Christians.</div>
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Bless all the cultural Christians encouraging horrible thoughts and behaviors, and complicit in mundane atrocities... </div>
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for helping so many see: </div>
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just doing religion - even religion in the name of Christ - just doesn't cut it any more.</div>
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We are called to grow up in God.</div>
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And growing pains are normal.</div>
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And just like adolescence, just like early adulthood </div>
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(just like most stages of life, and the transitions between them ; )</div>
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This stage of spiritual growth, this transition is for many tumultuous, confronting, painful, fear inducing, full of doubt, insecurity, un-sureity...</div>
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The good news is </div>
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- nothing is wrong, </div>
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- we are still children of God, always have been, always will be</div>
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- we are still dancing our lives with and within Spirit - there is nowhere else to go, there IS nowhere else.</div>
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It's just really hard, for most of us, to spiritually grow up.</div>
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The good news is </div>
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- there is Abundant Life beyond the old structures, formulas, belief systems, identifications...</div>
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It's just really hard, for most of us, to spiritually grow up.</div>
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It helps, I believe, to have mature folks - folks a bit ahead on this spiritual path - around to say:</div>
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- It's ok, you're ok, just keep going.</div>
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- There is a method to the madness - you don't see it yet, that's ok.</div>
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- Do what you have to, to stay in the game. And </div>
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- Keep choosing Light, Love, Truth, Life, the Way that is uniquely yours. (Whatever of these words/realities that make any sense, choose that.)</div>
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God is still here, </div>
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but God isn't who you thought God was.</div>
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Your Path is still here, </div>
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it just isn't the Path you thought it was.</div>
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It's ok, God is bigger, your Path is better, than you ever thought </div>
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-> you can live-into that.</div>
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Yes, for now it sucks... just keep going.</div>
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We cannot see the Glory that is before us, that is within us...</div>
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until we do.</div>
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And until the sun rises again, and the Light shines - we just have to press-on through the darkness.</div>
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<b>So much BS can fall-away</b>,<b> old belief-systems and formulas, and structures and identity...</b></div>
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But meanwhile you have experienced God in amoung all the claptrap.</div>
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You have experienced the presence of God and the reality of God's unending love for you, along the way. </div>
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<b>Hold on to your direct experience of God - in the past, in the present and for the future...</b></div>
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-> Hold on to that without trying to understand it. </div>
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-> Hold on to the hem of God's robe, to the experience of God's trailing Glory.</div>
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-> Just hold on, and follow, bumble-around, trust even though you may not know the way or understand the goal.</div>
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Yes, for now it sucks, just keep going.</div>
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You may have heard:<br />
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<span data-offset-key="6v22g-0-0">Our God is a <a href="http://biblehub.net/search.php?q=%22consuming+fire%22" target="_blank">consuming fire</a>, </span><span data-offset-key="6v22g-0-0">who burns up everything that is not God</span><br />
<i>(I have more to say about this central theme, <a href="http://lifeabundantly1.blogspot.com/search/label/God%20burns%20what%20is%20not%20God" target="_blank">on another blog</a>) </i></blockquote>
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This can be excruciating.<br />
(from the Latin: <i>crux</i>, <i>cruc-</i> ‘a cross’)<br />
And yes, we must pick up our cross if we want to follow Jesus! <br />
We just don't know ahead of time what the cross will look-like... surprise :)<br />
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This IS the ride you signed up for - deepening into God, maturing in God, bringing the Light into the world, following Jesus...</div>
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It might seem like you are getting the opposite, going in the opposite direction - but you are not, </div>
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so I recommend that you ask God to help you relax and not fight it - it will go easier on you.</div>
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I encourage you to </div>
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Walk out into the seeming void,<br />
you will not fall forever, you will find the rock beneath...<br />
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The Rock beneath is your more direct expereince of the presence and love, the inviting/leading and sweet nurturing of the Living God.</div>
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No matter what you are experiencing, </div>
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please keep going.</div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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I encourage you to </div>
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<b>be willing to let go of everything, anything, </b></div>
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<b>except God alone</b> - not theories, structures, formulas, belief systems... identities laid upon God - </div>
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just God alone.</div>
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<b>And </b><b>don't let go until you are blessed.</b></div>
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Blessings on your unique journey,</div>
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Wendy</div>
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PS - My favorite Christian Teacher, the late Dr Bruce Morgan (who - by his life, his research and honest sharing - gave me encouragement to live-through so much darkness... into so much Light)</div>
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shared this many times, and I share: this quote from Jung - in the hopes it may encourage:</div>
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"Dear Frau Frobe,</div>
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...There can be no resolution, only patient endurance of the opposites which ultimately spring from your own nature. You yourself are a conflict that rages in itself and against itself, in order to melt its incompatible substances, male and female, in the fire of suffering, and thus create that fixed and unalterable form which is the goal of life. Everyone goes through this mill, consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or forcibly. We are crucified between the opposites and delivered up to the torture until the 'reconciling third' takes shape. Do not doubt the rightness of the two sides within you, and let whatever may happen, happen. The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without inner contradiction is either only half a life or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for the angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.</div>
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With kindest regards,</div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6v22g-0-0">
C.G. Jung"</div>
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Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-40175273727192389422016-10-02T13:18:00.000-07:002017-11-25T15:13:30.685-08:00Playing our own Game<div data-contents="true">
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<span data-offset-key="3vr64-0-0"><span data-text="true">Lately, I am all about </span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cd60b-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="cd60b-0-0"><span data-text="true">we gotta "play our own game"</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span data-offset-key="98cq2-0-0"><span data-text="true">(even more than I was before ; )</span></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9fk6b-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9fk6b-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="81jot-0-0"><span data-text="true">It is far to easy to get hooked, to get stopped, to fall into inner isometrics and outer stopped...</span></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ep0p8-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="ep0p8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
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<span data-offset-key="3ag2r-0-0"><span data-text="true">I believe the answer is for each of us to </span></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9f047-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="9f047-0-0"><span data-text="true"> "play our own game"</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span data-offset-key="4co2h-0-0"><span data-text="true">and show what is that like, for ourselves and others.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c0qto-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="c0qto-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f8qib-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="f8qib-0-0"><span data-text="true">If we are playing basketball, </span></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span data-offset-key="cp5rv-0-0"><span data-text="true">we can't be stopped when the people not playing - the people in the seats - don't like us or what we are doing</span></span></li>
<li><span data-offset-key="2j04d-0-0"><span data-text="true">we can't be stopped </span></span><span data-offset-key="2j04d-0-0"><span data-text="true">when the other team is trying to take our ball and go the other direction</span></span></li>
<li><span data-offset-key="10i1t-0-0"><span data-text="true">we can't be stopped </span></span><span data-offset-key="10i1t-0-0"><span data-text="true">when our teammates aren't always nice to us, or they don't agree with our theories of this or that</span></span></li>
<li><span data-offset-key="3ifqc-0-0"><span data-text="true">we can't be stopped when we didn't get enough sleep or we have a 'test' tomorrow.</span></span></li>
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<span data-offset-key="9kjps-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="73b0v-0-0"><span data-text="true">We cannot give any attention, any energy, to any of that - and still be all-in - in this game we are playing right now.</span></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="12r2r-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="12r2r-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="77jn4" data-offset-key="4tahu-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4tahu-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="4tahu-0-0"><span data-text="true">If I am Called to do X, to say Y, to be Z.</span></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fmt8f-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fmt8f-0-0"><span data-text="true">I don't care what else is happening - inside me, outside me - </span></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="51jlf-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="51jlf-0-0"><span data-text="true">I mean to do X, to say Y, to be Z.</span></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6hnmp-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="6hnmp-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ctft7-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="ctft7-0-0"><span data-text="true">This really takes something, </span></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="afd20-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="afd20-0-0"><span data-text="true">it is not falling off a log for me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6ve8q-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a7bjb-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="a7bjb-0-0"><span data-text="true">It takes </span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="77jn4" data-offset-key="e42a9-0-0">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e42a9-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="e42a9-0-0"><span data-text="true">learning to focus my attention, my intention,</span></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="80b26-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="80b26-0-0"><span data-text="true">building muscle and endurance </span></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="75l16-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="75l16-0-0"><span data-text="true">to "play my own game"</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span data-offset-key="3si6l-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div>
</div>
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<span data-offset-key="7r71m-0-0"><span data-text="true">I want that.<br />I want it enough to Go for It.<br />To take it.</span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="7r71m-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span>
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<span data-offset-key="as9rd-0-0"><span data-text="true">And I want to share with you: It is possible for you to </span></span><span data-offset-key="75l16-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Play your Own Game" <br />Life doesn't have to Happen to us, We can Happen to Life!</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="eq2cp-0-0"><span data-text="true">We can actually heal and learn and grow and blossom-into this way of being.<br /><br />May it be so,</span></span></div>
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eq2cp-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="eq2cp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Wendy</span></span><span data-offset-key="eq2cp-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="d2nud-0-0">...</span></span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="eq2cp-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="d2nud-0-0"> </span><br />But, is this spiritual? Is this Christian?<br />Please read:<br /> </span></span><a href="http://thelightovercomesdarkness.blogspot.com/2016/09/being-captain-of-our-lives-yes-owning.html" target="_blank">Owning our Free-will is KEY in our Spiritual Walk</a><span data-offset-key="d2nud-0-0"><br />...</span><br />
<span data-offset-key="d2nud-0-0"><br />I keep hearing Jesus, on the cross, almost dead, saying:<br />"Forgive them Father, they know not what they do"<br />What better example is there of </span><span data-offset-key="75l16-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Playing your Own Game"? </span></span><br />
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f7u33-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="f7u33-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jesus was hard-core & unstoppable in following his calling.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9m422-0-0"><span data-text="true">Let's follow his lead!</span></span></div>
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Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-79674666983716775112016-09-16T11:10:00.000-07:002017-11-25T15:12:23.181-08:00Being the Captain of our Lives? (Yes! Owning our Free-will is KEY in our Spiritual Walk).<br />
<br />
I believe owning our Free-will is KEY in our Spiritual Walk.<br />
Spiritually taking Authority, having Dominion...<br />
I call this Seniority - Being the Captain of our Lives <br />
<br />
Some disagree that we should be in Charge of our own lives - <br />
They say that God is to be in control of our lives, not us.<br />
<br />
I hear the point,<br />
but I think we are speaking different languages, using different paradigms<br />
- so let’s dig deeper. From my perspective:<br />
<br />
-><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
To-day, oh that ye would hear his voice! <span class="reftext"></span><b>Harden not your heart</b> - <span id="goog_1442556855"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Psalm 95<span id="goog_1442556856"></span></a></blockquote>
<br />
<b>I need my free-will to follow God</b>.<br />
<br />
God gave me free-will.<br />
If i give it away (to my spouse, to my minister, to ‘public opinion’, to my thoughts or emotions)<br />
then how can I choose to follow God? <br />
<br />
I cannot choose to follow God<br />
if there is too much in the way of choosing.<br />
I have no choice, I am not in charge!<br />
<br />
On the other hand, if I am the Captain of my Ship (the life and will and power and talents, etc that God gave me) <br />
then when the Admiral sends orders to sail to Iwo Jima - I can do it, and I can do it Now. <br />
<br />
If I am not the Captain of my Ship - maybe, maybe someday I can figure out how to Iwo Jima, <br />
but I will have missed the blessing of fully engaging NOW in the process of God’s unfolding Glory.<br />
God cannot count on me to show up, to do say, act… now.<br />
<br />
When God says go Left, I want to go Left, period. <br />
No messing around.<br />
<br />
But if I have to worry about what the old pickle-faced lady from church will say,<br />
or I have too much fear to trust God long-enough to lead me into the seeming-void…<br />
Then I am constantly tripping on my own crap, I cannot follow God.<br />
<br />
I believe, If we don’t have our free-will, <br />
we cannot consciously, freely, easily, playfully follow God, in this reality/ here & now.<br />
<br />
-><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span class="reftext"></span>For
all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, <br />
is waiting
and longing to see the <b>manifestation of the sons of God</b>. - <a href="http://biblehub.com/wey/romans/8.htm" target="_blank">Romans 8</a> </blockquote>
<br />
<b>I need my free-will to become a spiritual adult</b>.<br />
<br />
Every healthy parent wants their children to Grow Up, to become themselves, to take the reins of their lives as much as they can.<br />
<br />
God calls us to <a href="http://thelightovercomesdarkness.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-acorn-becomes-oak-tree-gods-process.html" target="_blank">Teleios</a> - to become whole and complete - to become who we are, to manifest into the world what is only-now hidden in God, to become the oak that waits in the acorn.<br />
<br />
But, If we don’t have our free-will, <br />
we cannot grow-up spiritually.<br />
<br />
We cannot mature into who God made us to be and called us to do;<br />
If we are not “allowed” to walk where God calls us to walk.<br />
<br />
In addition, learning to walk looks like falling down.<br />
If we are not “allowed” to fall-down, we are really stuck in spiritual infancy.<br />
<br />
I believe if we don’t have our free-will, <br />
we cannot grow-up spiritually, become ourselves and do what we are here to do.<br />
<br />
-><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1442556856"></span></a><b>your eyes will behold your Teacher. Your ears will hear a word </b>behind you, <br />
"This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left. - <a href="http://biblehub.com/nasb/isaiah/30.htm" target="_blank">Isaiah 30</a></blockquote>
<br />
<br />
<b>I need my free-will to see & hear the Living God, Today</b><br />
<br />
If we don’t have our free-will,<br />
our soul cannot learn to see the gentle leading of God, <br />
we cannot learn to spiritually discern/distinguish between the Light and the Darkness. <br />
<br />
It takes something to open to our soul senses and abilities.<br />
For most of us, we have to choose it, and allow God to lead us deeper -<br />
help us open to comfortably utilizing our soul senses and abilities.<br />
<br />
Jesus said, his sheep know his voice,<br />
but we cannot, will not if we willfully keep wool in our ears!<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
God <i>is</i> Spirit, <br />
and it behooves those worshiping Him to <b>worship in spirit and truth</b>. - John 4</blockquote>
God is Spirit, and God as spirit resides within us.<br />
We must learn to sense this subtle spiritual expereince.<br />
This is a challenge, and everything in our world fights against it: "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"<br />
<br />
We need to learn to ride the horse of our spiritual expereince, <br />
without being thrown off, <br />
without being carried away...<br />
<br />
We must learn to choose: <br />
<ul>
<li>to attend to our spiritual experience and identity, </li>
<li>to trust our unique expereince of God,</li>
<li>to turn-up and down our spiritual experience comfortably, </li>
<li>to discern: how to focus, who to/ who not-to listen-to, where to
stand to receive spiritual information comfortably in our physical
body... etc etc.</li>
</ul>
I have much expereince in this realm,<br />
for myself, and equipping and inspiring many others.<br />
<br />
I believe if we don’t have our free-will, <br />
we cannot comfortably and usefully access our spiritual information and abilities. <br />
<br />
-><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God... <br />
Let us therefore <b>give diligence to enter into that rest</b> - <a href="http://biblehub.com/nheb/hebrews/4.htm" target="_blank">Hebrews 4</a></blockquote>
<br />
Let's Conclude: <b>Owning our Free will is KEY in our spiritual walk</b>.<br />
I could go on and on about how central our free-will is in our dance with God, but this is enough for now.<br />
<br />
If we are ever to become spiritual Mothers and Fathers, <br />
we must take-on the <b>spiritual choice</b>/ healing/ battle to regain this most precious gift of our free-will and then <b>spiritually exercise</b> it to gain strength, endurance, flexibility, balance…<br />
<br />
As we grow-into our Spiritual Seniority, <br />
we have the mettle to utilize the <a href="http://lifeabundantly1.blogspot.com/2014/08/keys-to-kingdom-being-doing-as-jesus-in.html" target="_blank">Keys to the Kingdom </a>that Jesus offers us... <br />
<br />
In that way, <b>powerfully and effectively doing the reparative work we are here to do</b>:<br />
together with God, inviting our wholeness into this reality: for ourselves, each other, all of creation... in glorious connection with God... <br />
transforming our world, as we are each transformed, in the Love/ Light/ Life/ Truth/ Way of God.<br />
<br />
.<br />
<b>Spiritually being Senior</b>, taking Authority, having Dominion...<br />
<b>takes something</b> - it doesn't just happen.<br />
We must CHOOSE, DO IT: TAKE back our free will and GROW into our Seniority.<br />
<br />
We are not called to just sit and wait for the heaven-train.<br />
This is a Travesty in modern Christianity, IMO/E.<br />
<br />
<b>We are called to become spiritual adults and spiritually co-create our world with God.</b><br />
Being the Captain of our Lives. <br />
Owning our Free-will is KEY in our Spiritual Walk!<br />
<br />
<b>Are you willing?</b><br />
If so, Truly ask God and Receive, Seek and Find, Knock and it is Opened to you.<br />
<br />
There are many paths God can lead you on this exciting journey of: <br />
<ul>
<li>continually getting your free-will back</li>
<li>taking-on your Spiritual Authority - Seniority - Dominion</li>
<li>growing-into your Spiritual Maturity</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>opening-to blessings and direction from the Living God, in present time, with your ears to hear and eyes to see where God leads. </li>
<li>receiving your Keys to the Kingdom and shifting this world...</li>
</ul>
<br />
If you need some assistance, be in touch, this is my ministry.<br />
<br />
Blessings on your Unique Path!<br />
Wendy<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, <br />
and <b>forceful people have been seizing it</b>. - Matthew 11</blockquote>
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<br />Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-15066079959480447052016-09-13T12:08:00.002-07:002022-01-29T16:43:58.719-08:00The Way Jesus Loved - and we can too!<div data-contents="true">
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<span data-offset-key="e48br-0-0"><span data-text="true">I've been having a bit of a challenging morning.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e0i3f-0-0"><span data-text="true">We enjoyed a sweet Women's Circle last night, <br />and sometimes after leading programs where shifts happen and new possibilities open for myself and for others...</span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="e0i3f-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br />Spiritually, I experience push-back from within myself </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="e0i3f-0-0"><span data-text="true">and from external forces that don't agree-with the Light. </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="d5t14-0-0"><span data-text="true">This can feel shitty <br />- like fear, like pain, like invalidation, like I SUCK... </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="d5t14-0-0"><span data-text="true">Until I regain my sea legs, and take the helm again ; )</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="6qrif-0-0">. </span><br />
<span data-offset-key="6qrif-0-0">Fortunately, <span data-text="true">something Jesus showed me a couple years ago, just came to mind. <br />And of course it is helping open to the Light.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9t65q-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jesus showed me a way in which he lived, <br />and in which it serves us humans to live:</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1gk4-0-0"><span data-text="true">IN Love!<br /><br />IN/ With/ As/ Filled-up with God's Love, <br />overflowing with the spiritual experience of Oneness, <br />experiencing our Wholeness and Completeness directly from our Source!</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6jkaa-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jesus showed me: <br />when I come to my relationships full - overflowing with Love, </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d61df-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am free to just love - period.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="d61df-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="d61df-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am free to fall into Love.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="d61df-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="d61df-0-0"><span data-text="true">To more and more easily & naturally </span></span>love God, love myself, love my body, love my life, love the humans & all my relations, </span></span><span data-offset-key="d61df-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="d61df-0-0"><span data-text="true">love my path, </span></span>love Momma Earth, love all of Life, </span></span><span data-offset-key="d61df-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="d61df-0-0"><span data-text="true">love ALL</span></span>... </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="d61df-0-0"><span data-text="true">just as we are and just as we're not. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4el43-0-0"><span data-text="true">In this consciousness, I am free. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="98j6u-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am free to align and follow the Light where it leads.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="98j6u-0-0"><span data-text="true">. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e3v3l-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9j870-0-0"><span data-text="true">When I come to Life empty, needing, focused on my brokenness, etc. </span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7b0fb-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="7b0fb-0-0"><span data-text="true">- I cannot truly love. </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="7b0fb-0-0"><span data-text="true">- I'm in a much too self-centered, precarious, vulnerable expereince, to call it love.</span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="7b0fb-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ao28f-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am not aligned with/IN the Light, </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="ao28f-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am off-track, </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="ao28f-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am screwed.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="11ao7-0-0"><span data-text="true">I
am, of course, always falling off this horse </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="11ao7-0-0"><span data-text="true">(of BEing IN the Soul expereince of Love) <br />and
eventually, gratefully falling back on the horse... repeat.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2q729-0-0"><span data-text="true">Being IN the spiritual experience of Love, </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="171oq-0-0"><span data-text="true">gets me out of the way - Life is Not About ME.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3rfuj-0-0"><span data-text="true">From there, I remember: I am FREE to be, to do.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="3rfuj-0-0"><span data-text="true">. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8ngeh-0-0"><span data-text="true">This is crazy empowering, and life-changing, IMO/E, </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="8ngeh-0-0"><span data-text="true">so I will say it again:</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7aaag-0-0"><span data-text="true">When I am IN Love, </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6ccsv-0-0"><span data-text="true">I get out of the Way. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4baa-0-0"><span data-text="true">I Realize my Freedom to Be, to Do.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fa0ck-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="fa0ck-0-0"><span data-text="true">Regardless if *I* am tempted to like or hate me. </span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b3v4h-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="b3v4h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Regardless if *they* agree or judge me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4m1sc-0-0"><span data-text="true">Regardless if I seem successful or not - etc. </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="4m1sc-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4j0pk" data-offset-key="bprr9-0-0">
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<span data-offset-key="bprr9-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am free to Love, to Validate, to Heal, </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="bprr9-0-0"><span data-text="true">to be IN Light, to follow the Way God leads.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="14fbg-0-0"><span data-text="true">When I let the River of Life, Love, Truth, God... flow through me </span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="14fbg-0-0"><span data-text="true">- I am well, and all manner of things are well.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b58ad-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span>
<span data-offset-key="b58ad-0-0"><span data-text="true">I easily share this cascade of Love with all I meet, I can't really help it.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cb76t-0-0"><span data-text="true">I really appreciate when I am in that place, IN Love.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="cb76t-0-0"><span data-text="true">. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5prhf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Now let me go find that horse - it ran off somewhere ;)</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ag4ls-0-0"><span data-text="true">Blessings on your Unique Path, <br />Wendy</span></span></div>
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Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-22122747512681196492016-01-01T03:35:00.000-08:002017-11-25T14:55:44.584-08:00YOU are God's Own Special NUT!Do you sometimes feel like a Round Peg in a Square Hole?<br />
(secret: so do we all!)<br />
<br />
Some encouragement as we start this NEW Year: <br />
You are God's Own Special NUT!<br />
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We have our own Spiritual DNA.<br />
We are perfectly designed to be US.<br />
I am inimitably Me and you are inimitably You.<br />
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No one else can be who you are.<br />
No one else can do what you do.<br />
NO ONE!<br />
so Let's SHINE! <br />
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If you do not be you and do your unique path,<br />
your voice in the chorus is missing.<br />
so Let's SING!<br />
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No one else can mature into the beautiful flower you are,<br />
so Let's BLOOM!<br />
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No one else can share the fruit, the gifts, that you can, <br />
where and how you can,<br />
so Let's Come to FRUITION!<br />
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Magic happens<br />
when we let go and BE our True selves, <br />
when we Truly DO our own thing...<br />
when we Let go and let God.<br />
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. <br />
You are not and never will be Bad or Wrong to miss this opportunity,<br />
but you will miss your mark,<br />
and the tremendous blessing it is for you to play your unique part;<br />
and All your Relations will miss your inimitable self, as well as your unique contribution.<br />
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Let's not get sidetracked<br />
<ul>
<li>by playing small</li>
<li>by replaying old songs that we don't even enjoy</li>
<li>by trying to be someone else</li>
<li>by doing it like someone told us to...</li>
</ul>
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Please come PLAY, as YOU.<br />
I will do my best to Play as Me.<br />
See you on the field!<br />
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<br />Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-53693693654260434562015-11-26T10:20:00.002-08:002016-10-02T13:20:13.237-07:00Learning to feed ourselves, and - from there - others<br />
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When I am stuck, when I feel broken, when my soul is hungry...<br />
It is useful when the question, the request, my ASK...<br />
is bigger than: please I need a fish, and I really need it now!<br />
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From this desperate place, I have great motivation and powerful potential to play A BIGGER GAME:<span class="text_exposed_show"></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span class="text_exposed_show"> please teach me to fish </span></li>
<li><span class="text_exposed_show"> which is the seed of: facilitating fish for Us... </span></li>
</ul>
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The powerful Lever, my Goal has become:<br />
<ul>
<li> What is there to Learn, to Heal, to Grow-into?</li>
<li> Where can I be Willing to change, that I have been resisting?</li>
<li> How can I say YES! to my Source, Light, Life, Truth, Path - in a whole new way? </li>
</ul>
<br />
Allowing transformation, <br />
being willing to go from in need, <br />
to opening to my needs being met, <br />
and then as I mature, I naturally facilitate Our needs being met.<br />
<br />
Exactly where I am stuck, feel broken, my soul is hungry.<br />
THERE is my chance to invite blessing, and naturally to bless others.<br />
Where I trip, is my treasure - and eventually - a treasure for our world.<br />
<br />
Blessings on your unique path,<br />
Wendy<br />
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Sometimes our Healing, Learning, Growth, Transformation…<br />
takes a Giant Leap. <br />
We say a BIG YES and magic happens, we are blessed, the stars align - and our lives move forward.<br />
<br />
Sometimes our healing is easy, fun, fast, miraculous.<br />
But...<br />
Usually we progress incrementally: slowly-we-turn, step-by-step, inch-by-inch.<br />
<br />
This is no mistake.<br />
It isn’t a failure on our part, it doesn’t mean God is not Mighty or we are not Dedicated or Worthy…<br />
We have Not Failed!<br />
<br />
Our Journey toward who we already ARE,<br />
our attainment of the Contributions that are already ours to offer,<br />
takes Time, takes Attention, takes Intention.<br />
<br />
On the way<br />
<ul>
<li>we HEAL from the wounds and the chains that have kept us down;</li>
<li>we GROW through the barriers that held us back; learning to leap the hurdles we used-to avoid, and then crawl-under;</li>
<li>we learn to SHINE our light, the Light; to truly BE ourselves, as well as BE the difference we want to see in the world. </li>
</ul>
<br />
And in this PROCESS, we discover Blessings and Glory beyond our wildest dreams. <br />
Under our wounds and chains, beyond our barriers and hurdles:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>We find lost-parts of ourselves.</li>
<li>We find lost abilities, senses, connections - both spiritual and physical. </li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>We allow-in wisdom, insights, and true knowing.</li>
<li>We allow-in connection, confidence, charisma. </li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>We discover the Light in the Darkness, is within us - always here.</li>
<li>We discover the One we have been waiting for, is within us - always here now.</li>
</ul>
<br />
In this slow PROCESS, we receive the Dark Gifts of Healing, Growing, Shining.<br />
And we are So grateful-for these gifts!<br />
Although we wouldn’t wish this Horrible path - the Horrors we lived, and faced, and conquered to get here - on our worst enemy!<br />
<br />
And yet, on the other side of the darkness, when the day dawns,<br />
the Blessings of the Dark Journey start to be seen<br />
we are full of the Light, and we ARE Grateful.<br />
<br />
.<br />
That’s what I have found, for myself and others,<br />
When we don’t Heal in a snap, when we are stuck and stopped:<br />
There is a reason: there’s gold in them there hills!<br />
<br />
Where we trip IS our Treasure.<br />
Start Digging!<br />
Don't stop until you are blessed.<br />
<br />
Best to you on your unique Healing Path!<br />
Wendy<br />
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. Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-78956985482943750382015-10-09T09:04:00.001-07:002017-11-25T14:24:55.323-08:00{Guest Post) Listen. The Spirit speaks.<h5 class="_5pbw" data-ft="{"tn":"C"}">
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">God
speaks. </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">And you hear His voice. </span></span><br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">You do. </span></span><br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">But do you recognise His voice?</span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">We are trained early and consistently by those who wish to lead us that
our inner voice cannot be trusted, that we need another to teach us and
guide us. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">But Jesus Himself promised to go away and send us a Helper. </span></span><br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">We need only ask for His help, and we will receive it. </span></span><br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">There is no trick
to hearing the Holy Spirit speak. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The<span class="text_exposed_show">
skill is in silencing the mind. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">And in trusting. </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">When you have learned
to distrust the still, small voice and look always to an outside source
to bring your truth to you, </span></span></span><br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">when you have only ever heard a jumble of
mixed messages when you look to the silence within, </span></span></span><br />
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">any confident person
who can string three sensible words together will be able to lead you
anywhere they want you to go.<br /> </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /></span></span></span>
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"*G","type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show">But that's not for you.<br /> <br /> Listen. Listen. The Spirit speaks.<br /> <br /> Selah, my friends.<br /> Jo</span></span></span><br />
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Jo is an Australian writer, coach and speaker: <a href="http://www.johilder.com/" target="_blank">website</a>.<br />
She shepherds a highly-interactive & nourishing FB group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/freerangechristiansaustralia/" target="_blank"><span class="entity _586o" data-fulltext="Free-range Christians" data-group="all" data-icon="null" data-select="group" data-si="true" data-text="Free-range Christians" data-type="ent:group" data-uid="218858694983869">Free-range Christians</span></a>Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-25827573332937512172015-06-26T08:45:00.000-07:002015-06-26T08:45:08.800-07:00the Divine Presence does not fail<br />
If I had to name my disability, I
would call it an unwillingness to fall... <br />This reluctance signals the
mistrust of the central truth of the Christian gospel: <br />life springs from
death, <br />not only at the last but also in the many little deaths along
the way. <br /><br />When everything you count on for protection has failed, <br />the
Divine Presence does not fail. <br />The hands are still there -- not
promising to rescue, not promising to intervene -- <br />promising only to
hold you no matter how far you fall.<br />
<br />
- Barbara Brown Taylor, from her book <u>Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith</u><br />
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<br />
God gave me this verse to me personally,<br />
in the midst of very long, very deep, very dark night of the soul.<br />
<br />
And it really was a pinpoint of light<br />
at the end of a many, many years long tunnel.<br />
<br />
I want to say for all to hear, it was worth the journey,<br />
and my journey isn't even over yet ; )<br />
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He shall see of [the fruit of] the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied<br />
- Isaiah 53:11</blockquote>
Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-63578102299399954692015-03-06T19:27:00.001-08:002015-03-06T19:30:20.200-08:00Turns out, Loving Queer kids, is just like Loving Everyone: Show up, like Jesus would<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
It occurs that John Pavlovitz has been called as a courageous and potent ally for Queer folks.<br />
Again, he has written a useful and impassioned blog post, this time in support of our kids (and the amazing folks who serve them): <a href="http://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/03/dear-youth-pastor-because-you-have-gay-students-in-your-youth-group/" target="_blank">Dear Youth Pastor (Because You Have Gay Students In Your Youth Group)</a><br />
<br />
I joined the fray to say, basically:<br />
Turns out, Loving Queer kids, is just like Loving Everyone: Show up, like Jesus would.<br />
If you wanna read the details, here they are.<br />
<br />
: ) Wendy<br />
<br />
*****<br />
<br />
John:<br />
As usual: Thank you!<br />
.<br />
Oh, and, especially thank you for this:<br />
“They need Jesus, formed in your flawed flesh, right in front of them.”<br />
and this:<br />
“Go and be the one who keeps the wolves away.”<br />
and this, too:<br />
“You will win, when you have no agenda with them, other than setting the
table for them to meet with Jesus, and trusting Him to do whatever he
desires to do, in and around, and through their lives.”<br />
.<br />
Everyone:<br />
John follows that last line with this:<br />
“This is the truth of what you are called to, with any child within your care.”<br />
John is doing a great job targeting one facet of the diamond of humanity:<br />
In this moment, John is standing for our beautiful Queer kids, who need Jesus to show up for them, through us.<br />
.<br />
I would like to point-out that everything John said applies to Everyone we meet:<br />
John is explicating the truth of what we are called to, with every person, every where, every time…<br />
to actually Love and care-for the women and men that Jesus loves, no exceptions.<br />
.<br />
Thanks for listening, WendyRev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-20371581202425928022014-12-18T23:48:00.000-08:002017-11-25T15:07:47.178-08:00{Guest Post) Are you willing to play the Bad Guy, if that is the Way of Healing?<div class="_3dp _29k">
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It
was five years ago today my husband Ben came home from rehab, after six
months in a residential program being treated for alcoholism and
depression.<br />
<br />
The first three months he was in there we didn't see
each other or speak, as we were separated for quite some time before I
drove him to the rehab to be admitted, shook his hand and wished him a
nice rest of his life.<br />
<br />
I didn't know if I'd ever see him again, and went home to start filling in divorce papers.<br />
<br />
I was talking to someone today about codependency, enabling and
boundaries, and how hard it can be when somebody in a relationship,
household or friendship has to be the bad guy, and start living for
themselves.<br />
<br />
I remember the day I made the choice to keep living
the life Ben and I had started, and finish what we'd begun in my own. I
remember deciding to leave him behind, because we could not both go
down. I remember when I stopped begging him to change, to see, to hear,
to want it like I did, and just let him go. The day when I finally saw
him as a human being who needed help, help I could not give him, instead
of seeing him as the husband who let me down, and could've done
differently, if only.<br />
<br />
When I stepped up and said, I can't change
this, or him, but I can change, and I am willing to. Willing to make
those choices. Willing to be the bad guy, if I have to, to be happy and
finish what I started.<br />
I don't now and will never understand how
it came to be my man was given back to me, and me to him. It really is a
miracle. But then, me not dying of cancer a few years before that was
one too. There is not a day goes by now I am not grateful to not be
alone right now, to have my man beside me. And I know he feels the same
about me. God is good.<br />
<br />
For all you honeys who are doing it really
tough right now, who have had to be the bad guy, who have had to break
something to fix it, who have had to keep going and finish what you
started alone, can I just say, I stand back right now and give you the
slow clap. I know it's hard. I know you cry. I know you think you can't.
But you do anyway, unseen, unnoticed. Unthanked and unhelped. You're
doing it. And you can be so proud. You need to know you're not
invisible, and what you're doing isn't a waste of time. Hang in there,
honey, it's going to work, and it's going to work out. You're doing a
great job, and everything is going to be okay.<br />
<br />
Christmas is a
shit of a time. For those of us who have had to make those very, very
hard choices, Christmas can be like one of those times you want to drop
off the face of the earth. I just wanted to tell you, I know, me too. I
believe in you. It's going to be okay.<br />
<br />
And you're doing an awesome job, honey. Really, you are.<br />
<br />
Love you lots,<br />
Jo xxxxx<br />
<br />
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<ul>
<li>Are you holding the opposites within yourself - BOTH this And that?</li>
<li>Do you wonder how you hold So Many voices, within yourself?</li>
<li>Do you hide the beauty and terror of your internal expereince, and instead opt to fit-in?</li>
</ul>
<i>Me Too! </i><br />
<ul>
<li>Are you Leaving Out parts of who you are?</li>
<li>Do you cover-up parts of yourself with some folks, and other parts of yourself from other folks?</li>
<li>Are there choices you have made - are making - that you would rather no one see?</li>
</ul>
<i>Me Too!</i><br />
And<br />
<b>I am learning a new way - to be more integrated, authentic... I bet you are too! </b><br />
<br />
It has taken a lifetime for me to learn, and I am still integrating:<br />
<ul>
<li>I really can be spiritually a Mystic and intellectually an Agnostic. </li>
<li>I really can be Queer and love God.</li>
<li>I really can come from a Christian Foundation, and love the Earth and the Female Face(s) of the Divine.<br />.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>I really can be a Leader and Teacher, as an Introvert. </li>
<li>I really can be a Healer, even though I have experienced much of my life as Broken.</li>
<li>I really can serve businesses, organizations, and individuals of all
stripes as a Seer / Psychic - utilizing soul senses and abilities out in the World.</li>
</ul>
<br />
<b>What are your challenges in being yourself? holding your opposites?</b><br />
<br />
I can not only LIVE my paradoxes, my dichotomies,<br />
OWN back the lost parts of myself...<br />
I can do it with JOY,<br />
and I can do it in SERVICE.<br />
<br />
<b>Are you wanting this kind of thing for yourself? </b><br />
<br />
I can BE all of myself here AND there.<br />
I can talk Jesus with Pagans. <br />
I can talk Soul with Agnostics.<br />
I can talk Bisexuality and Polyamory with church ladies.<br />
Etc.<br />
<br />
<b>How are you practicing this in your life?</b><br />
<br />
The more I do it, the easier it is, the better I am heard;<br />
and the more my world shifts, integrates... <br />
And of course, I am still in process.<br />
<br />
Owning all these parts of myself is actually a blessing, not just to me, but for everyone.<br />
Finding wholeness matters.<br />
Modeling wholeness matters. <br />
Acting from our wholeness matters.<br />
<br />
<b>Do you want to make this kind of difference in the world?</b><br />
<br />
I am in the continual process of owning and integrating these many disparate parts of myself,<br />
parts of myself that I enjoy more or less, <br />
parts that are more or less acceptable, in our shared reality; <br />
allowing myself to be myself, become myself in all my unique human beauty.<br />
<br />
So are you!<br />
<b>All of us really CAN be who we ARE.</b><br />
Let's play together, learn together, laugh together, grow together, inspire each other, open our world!<br />
<br />
in life<br />
- Wendy
Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-12424840412516874202014-11-01T03:08:00.001-07:002017-11-25T14:36:57.346-08:00HOW do we WIN the Game of Life?We don’t have to WORRY about Life, Safety, Stuff…<br />
All we need is right here for us.<br />
<br />
<br />
When we follow our Spiritual Path, instead of the physical way imposed upon us, and driven within us: <br />
We WIN.<br />
<br />
When we Spiritually Die, then we spiritually rise:<br />
We WIN.<br />
<br />
When we invest where we are Spiritually Led, we reap incredible rewards:<br />
We WIN.<br />
<br />
If you have been wondering how to live life: <br />
This is the Way, and <br />
we inexorably WIN. We Can Not Lose.<br />
<br />
.<br />
So, HOW?<br />
<br />
Jesus said:<br />
<ul>
<li>Don’t build on Sand, build on Rock… by Seeing/hearing then Doing the will of the Living God, following our unique path!</li>
<li>Seek first the Reign of God, Right Relationship with God, and all the things we need come to us.</li>
<li>I see my Father doing, and I do... and we are called to as Jesus did - he said we would do greater things than him.</li>
</ul>
<br />
This is not always easy, but it is straightforward:<br />
<ul>
<li>We open to our SOUL Information, our Spiritual Senses.</li>
<li>We intend to ALIGN with ourselves and our Source: with our God, our Light, our Love, our Life, our Truth, our Way…</li>
<li>We are FILLED & HEALED & FREED Spiritually.</li>
</ul>
~<br />
<ul>
<li>We continually let go of the old self and the old ways (this sometimes feels like DYING, because it is!).</li>
<li>We continually open to Life HERE & NOW, as it is, as we are. </li>
<li>We WALK our own Unique Soul Path, which becomes clearer and clearer, as we walk it.</li>
</ul>
<br />
Do you Really want to WIN the Game of Life?<br />
<ul>
<li>Say YES to your Source, and get ready for the Ride of your Life!</li>
<li>Your mind will be BLOWN by what you do, who you be, with-whom you go, where you end up.</li>
<li>You inexorably WIN. You Can Not Lose.</li>
</ul>
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<br />Rev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2257069358655898647.post-20406546603226646522014-07-30T16:01:00.001-07:002017-11-25T14:57:50.785-08:00Being good has never set me free the way truth has. There is really a lot to love about this book, and I hope to share more in the future: <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pastrix-Cranky-Beautiful-Faith-Sinner-ebook/dp/B00BAXFZQA/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top">Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint</a><br />
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For now one of the quotes that has stayed with me, <br />
came up in a session with a dear client today. <br />
She was blessed as well, so I share with you:<br />
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There’s a popular misconception that religion, <br />
Christianity
specifically, <br />
is about knowing the difference between good and evil <br />
so
that we can choose the good. <br />
But being good has never set me free the
way truth has. <br />
Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the
same time. <br />
Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, <br />
he
contrasted truth and evil, <br />
I have to think about all the times <br />
I’ve
substituted being good (or appearing to be good) for truth. </blockquote>
<blockquote>
Very often I will avoid the truth <br />
until my face goes red like a toddler avoiding her nap; <br />
until limp limbed,<br />
she finally stops flailing and falls asleep and receives rest—<br />
the very thing she needs and the very thing she fights. <br />
When someone like me, <br />
who will go to superhuman lengths to avoid the truth, <br />
runs out of options—<br />
when I am found out or too exhausted to pretend anymore <br />
or maybe just confronted by my sister—<br />
it feels the truth might crush me. And that is right. <br />
The truth does crush us, <br />
but the instant it crushes us, <br />
it somehow puts us back together into something honest. <br />
It’s death and resurrection every time it happens. (73-74)</blockquote>
Ohhh, I wanna 'preach' like that - beautiful!<br />
<br />
Blessed Death & Resurrection to all. <br />
The Dying doesn't last forever. <br />
Let's Let Go and Let God, and get it over-with. <br />
And get on with the Resurrection, Revolution, Beautiful Powerful Renovating Truth of Life!<br />
-WendyRev-Wendy Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730408806054513571noreply@blogger.com0