October 2011
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Perfect for Me.
A thought came to mind yesterday as I wondered about the withholding of truths, that perhaps it is the desire to be perfect that stops us. We don't want to say things that are upsetting or we don't want to… Continue reading
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What we endured.
From Martha Beck's book, Leaving the Saints "All my life, I'd read and reread a thousand religious epigraphs to the effect that "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." I'd always been told this had… Continue reading
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All it wants is truth.
Last night I woke up a few times with very strong feelings between Character and the Situation. That most often we blame the situation rather than blame our selves and the lack or the choice of action we took in… Continue reading
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Whatever Reality Serves.
My brother's blog (www.messyguru.typepad.com ) shows the switching characters that a mother often displays when faced with truths that directly oppose her life. Her life and dream and ideals. I have somehow had this wrong. I had presumed that my… Continue reading
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Coming From Whence We Came…
Our book club is reading the book, "leaving the Saints" by Martha Beck…this section was particularly affirming to me when I first read her book about five years ago. She recounts how her life began to make sense after getting… Continue reading
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The Principle Won, always.
While reading in “Shattered Dreams” by Irene Spencer, I came upon a paragraph that struck a cord within me. She is describing the polygamy Principle, which is commonly known by Principle. “A teaching that was to have a grave impact… Continue reading
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Drink In Their Truths
Mark Nepo writes in The Book of Awakening, “The unwavering truth is that when we agree to any demand, request, or condition that is contrary to our soul’s nature, the cost is that precious life force is drained off our… Continue reading
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A False Appearance Called You.
Between the comments, a conversation and reading, it came to me that this isn’t unusual this indirect conversations. And in fact, the bigger the ‘secret’ or point the bigger the fear and the consequences or fall out will be. There… Continue reading
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Point of Conversation
Martha Beck writes (In Leaving the Saints) about the way she was taught to communicate in the Mormon Church, “through continuous indirect communication, I learned that a good Mormon girl doesn’t travel in the dimension of direct communication.” This is… Continue reading
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Feeling the Unbounded Heart.
In Martha Beck's book, "Leaving the Saints" she writes, " I recall its horror and beauty, the enormity of the things I have lost and the incalculable preciousness of the things I have gained. I wouldn't give up the journey… Continue reading
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