... in every life.
A turning point. A significant event. A change, a doppleganger shift.
A reconciliation. A revelation.
An inspiration.
A declaration.
A celebration of ending and beginning, beginning and ending.
A moment, stilled forever in time.
Frozen.
So it is for me a moment where
February 18, 2008
meets
October 29, 1970.
Hands and hearts reach across the planet, and
words, dropped in excitement
spread out like ripples across a pond, wider.
waves bring word
the Buzz begins, momentum builds
we wait, we wait, we wait.
Anticipate,
and wait some more,
but happy, and not really
not really the same anymore.
** oh happy day **
i listen and dance
remembering
yeah. how He taught me how to
"...watch. fight. and pray."
and don't forget about
Rejoicing Every Day!
dancing dancing dancing
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Not So Super Tuesday
My new home state of TN was blasted by tornados and high winds yesterday, and those storms claimed at least 20 lives here, and almost 50 across several states last night. The rescue parties are still searching debris in an effort to find survivors and the dead.
My prayers are with the families and first responders...
As for the primaries, well. What can I say. If McCain and Obama win their parties, I'll vote for Obama. If Clinton and McCain win, I won't vote (and it will be the first time in 38 years of voting).
The Republican party is dead to me. There is no conservative "base", really. Either we are all dead or so disenfranchised it doesn't matter any more to either major party, and there is no one to blame but the two-party system that bailed on us, or perhaps ourselves.
In either case, I'm sure I'm not alone when I look to the heavens and say, Thy will be done.
It's all in His hands, where it always has been.
Now TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS and get ready to ROCK with JOY!
this is a real treat: oh happy day
My prayers are with the families and first responders...
As for the primaries, well. What can I say. If McCain and Obama win their parties, I'll vote for Obama. If Clinton and McCain win, I won't vote (and it will be the first time in 38 years of voting).
The Republican party is dead to me. There is no conservative "base", really. Either we are all dead or so disenfranchised it doesn't matter any more to either major party, and there is no one to blame but the two-party system that bailed on us, or perhaps ourselves.
In either case, I'm sure I'm not alone when I look to the heavens and say, Thy will be done.
It's all in His hands, where it always has been.
Now TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS and get ready to ROCK with JOY!
this is a real treat: oh happy day
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Sexist Mormons! Shame on you for not worshipping your Heavenly Mother!
We were discussing the plethora of direct questions never answered by our Mormon friends recently.... we all have our favorites, from Reformed Egyptian to the Kinderhook Debacle, missing DNA and American elephants. Here is how it went:
Me: I would really like to know LDS doctrine on this. I have yet to receive one answer.
Why don't the Mormons worship their mother? God the Father and his wife, their spirit mother - together created all the spirit children, right? So all of the spirit children were born of the mommy. She gave birth to them all. Then what sense does it make to ignore their mother and give all the glory to the daddy? What kind of god disses his wife like that? Is there even one special day God set aside for her? Is she even honored in the temple or the sacred writings?
Not a very good example for all the spirit children, imho for God to leave her out of worship. Pretty sexist if you ask me.
(i sank to the bottom and lurked around for a while, hoping for a nibble)
aha! here she comes! sweet little
Mishamari: First of all Heavenly Mother is not part of the official Godhead so it would not be right to worship her. Heavenly Mother is so revered and so special that her name is not mentioned out of reverence for her. (That's what I was told once). She's sealed to Heavenly Father so I guess maybe she's like the First Lady or something...very influential but gets no credit.I'd like to see other responses because the explanation I just gave didn't even make a lot of sense to me.
Me: okay here is the point by point
"First of all Heavenly Mother is not part of the official Godhead..."
Oh dear, this opens up a whole can of worms. I understand your usage of the term official Godhead, but ... oh dear. I am at a complete loss for words here. Do you know, was she created by Heavenly Father? Did she come from the same place He did? Are they so unequal for a reason?
"...so it would not be right to worship her".
Do you know, why not? I can't for the life of me think of one good logical reason (within the context of LDS teachings, that is) why a God and Goddess would not be equally worthy of worship, if both took part in Creation.
Heavenly Mother is so revered and so special that her name is not mentioned out of reverence for her. (That's what I was told once).
mkay but that sort of strikes me as an excuse. it sure seems like she is someone's "afterthought", too unimportant to pay much attention to.
She's sealed to Heavenly Father so I guess maybe she's like the First Lady or something...very influential but gets no credit.
Still, it doesn't seem fair. Forgive my ignorance here, but she is a God just like God right? (or I guess that would be goddess), but iow she's divine by nature? And again forgive my ignorance but she's the only wife of Heavenly Father, correct? Thanks for your patience.
I'd like to see other responses because the explanation I just gave didn't even make a lot of sense to me.
Well thank you for your patience and honesty i appreciate it. Cuz to me it doesn't make much sense either. It is almost like she is forgotten or pushed to the back of the bus because she is female, and I don't really think my God (if he had a wife) would do that.
I have tried to find some kind of official LDS word on it but so far, nothing at all. If it is not asking too much, could you please ask someone where one could get this info?
Mishamara you are sweet for bothering to answer and i do appreciate your honesty. It should give us both something to think about, and that's all that I ask anyone who reads this. Just to think about it.
Truly it is no small thing and this omission, or what APPEARS to be very poor treatment of the Heavenly Mother to me says a lot about ... well about a lot of things that I feel very passionate about.
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'kay, so that's the discussion so far blogfanz. I'll post more when and if there ever is another response, but this one was Mission Accomplished as far as I'm concerned.
If just one LDS stops to think for a minute about the ramifications of this state of affairs and has the courage to follow it through to the end, I will be doing a happy dance.
Because what becomes more and more obvious to me is this: TCCD (that's The Church of Cognitive Dissonance for everyone in SLC) is overripe for a grand reformation. It's happened before, I think (can't remember the name of the cult) but the more I see the LDS leaning our way, the happier and more hopeful I become.
The fact that they are trying so hard to identify with mainstream Christianity is (albeit deceitful at its core) a good sign. That they are ready to jump IN to the mainstream is by no means certain. But I ask you, how long can someone pretend to be Christian without actually meeting Christ? How many times have you gone in to work and pretended to be "Just Fine Thank You" only to realize after a few hours that you actually ARE just fine, thank you?
That sweet Mishamari would try valiantly to answer such a silly question is .... well, it's just danged wonderful. I'm unable to wipe the smile off my face. Because you see she will soon start to wonder about it, and maybe even read a few chapters of the Bible, after realizing that the answer she gave me didn't even make sense to herself.
And when I go to my knees tonight I will pray that the Holy Spirit whispers in her ear to keep searching, be brave, open her eyes and open her heart to the True Gospel, for she is a blessed child of God.
Somewhere down the line it will occur to her: Joseph Smith was a deceiver, there is no Heavenly Mother, and the reason why she is not worshipped or barely even mentioned is because her church knew what kind of response such pagan worship would bring, that their male membership would fall to the cellar instantly, and Mormonism would be even more of a laughingstock than it already is.
That any concocted, manmade religion will eventually suffer the fate of all things fake and anti-christ in nature: it becomes an intolerable mass of convoluted contradictions, swept up in its own lies it tries over and over again to cover up the mistakes and in doing so digs its grave deeper and closer to Hell where it belongs until the Lord will finally grind it into dust beneath his feet.
At least I hope that's what she'll understand, Lord make it so.
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Me: I would really like to know LDS doctrine on this. I have yet to receive one answer.
Why don't the Mormons worship their mother? God the Father and his wife, their spirit mother - together created all the spirit children, right? So all of the spirit children were born of the mommy. She gave birth to them all. Then what sense does it make to ignore their mother and give all the glory to the daddy? What kind of god disses his wife like that? Is there even one special day God set aside for her? Is she even honored in the temple or the sacred writings?
Not a very good example for all the spirit children, imho for God to leave her out of worship. Pretty sexist if you ask me.
(i sank to the bottom and lurked around for a while, hoping for a nibble)
aha! here she comes! sweet little
Mishamari: First of all Heavenly Mother is not part of the official Godhead so it would not be right to worship her. Heavenly Mother is so revered and so special that her name is not mentioned out of reverence for her. (That's what I was told once). She's sealed to Heavenly Father so I guess maybe she's like the First Lady or something...very influential but gets no credit.I'd like to see other responses because the explanation I just gave didn't even make a lot of sense to me.
Me: okay here is the point by point
"First of all Heavenly Mother is not part of the official Godhead..."
Oh dear, this opens up a whole can of worms. I understand your usage of the term official Godhead, but ... oh dear. I am at a complete loss for words here. Do you know, was she created by Heavenly Father? Did she come from the same place He did? Are they so unequal for a reason?
"...so it would not be right to worship her".
Do you know, why not? I can't for the life of me think of one good logical reason (within the context of LDS teachings, that is) why a God and Goddess would not be equally worthy of worship, if both took part in Creation.
Heavenly Mother is so revered and so special that her name is not mentioned out of reverence for her. (That's what I was told once).
mkay but that sort of strikes me as an excuse. it sure seems like she is someone's "afterthought", too unimportant to pay much attention to.
She's sealed to Heavenly Father so I guess maybe she's like the First Lady or something...very influential but gets no credit.
Still, it doesn't seem fair. Forgive my ignorance here, but she is a God just like God right? (or I guess that would be goddess), but iow she's divine by nature? And again forgive my ignorance but she's the only wife of Heavenly Father, correct? Thanks for your patience.
I'd like to see other responses because the explanation I just gave didn't even make a lot of sense to me.
Well thank you for your patience and honesty i appreciate it. Cuz to me it doesn't make much sense either. It is almost like she is forgotten or pushed to the back of the bus because she is female, and I don't really think my God (if he had a wife) would do that.
I have tried to find some kind of official LDS word on it but so far, nothing at all. If it is not asking too much, could you please ask someone where one could get this info?
Mishamara you are sweet for bothering to answer and i do appreciate your honesty. It should give us both something to think about, and that's all that I ask anyone who reads this. Just to think about it.
Truly it is no small thing and this omission, or what APPEARS to be very poor treatment of the Heavenly Mother to me says a lot about ... well about a lot of things that I feel very passionate about.
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'kay, so that's the discussion so far blogfanz. I'll post more when and if there ever is another response, but this one was Mission Accomplished as far as I'm concerned.
If just one LDS stops to think for a minute about the ramifications of this state of affairs and has the courage to follow it through to the end, I will be doing a happy dance.
Because what becomes more and more obvious to me is this: TCCD (that's The Church of Cognitive Dissonance for everyone in SLC) is overripe for a grand reformation. It's happened before, I think (can't remember the name of the cult) but the more I see the LDS leaning our way, the happier and more hopeful I become.
The fact that they are trying so hard to identify with mainstream Christianity is (albeit deceitful at its core) a good sign. That they are ready to jump IN to the mainstream is by no means certain. But I ask you, how long can someone pretend to be Christian without actually meeting Christ? How many times have you gone in to work and pretended to be "Just Fine Thank You" only to realize after a few hours that you actually ARE just fine, thank you?
That sweet Mishamari would try valiantly to answer such a silly question is .... well, it's just danged wonderful. I'm unable to wipe the smile off my face. Because you see she will soon start to wonder about it, and maybe even read a few chapters of the Bible, after realizing that the answer she gave me didn't even make sense to herself.
And when I go to my knees tonight I will pray that the Holy Spirit whispers in her ear to keep searching, be brave, open her eyes and open her heart to the True Gospel, for she is a blessed child of God.
Somewhere down the line it will occur to her: Joseph Smith was a deceiver, there is no Heavenly Mother, and the reason why she is not worshipped or barely even mentioned is because her church knew what kind of response such pagan worship would bring, that their male membership would fall to the cellar instantly, and Mormonism would be even more of a laughingstock than it already is.
That any concocted, manmade religion will eventually suffer the fate of all things fake and anti-christ in nature: it becomes an intolerable mass of convoluted contradictions, swept up in its own lies it tries over and over again to cover up the mistakes and in doing so digs its grave deeper and closer to Hell where it belongs until the Lord will finally grind it into dust beneath his feet.
At least I hope that's what she'll understand, Lord make it so.
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