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🙏 May Love (God who Jesus came to reveal as exactly that, Love) bless you beyond your wildest dreams. And I like to share a saying I like from the movie Cool Runnings “peace be the journey”🙏😌

Jesus said “I tell you, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out," which means that even if humans remain silent about him, the natural world will praise him.

I believe some of us have been called to be one of those “rocks”. The Spirit has filled us and changed us in ways that makes it impossible to do anything else.

Love is the true message and Love is all there is for those, like Magdalene, who truly follow Him/Her/Them. 🤷‍♀️

I can’t really even say “God” anymore because the religious insanity (in my opinion) that’s surrounding us makes me want to assure others that the Being they worship is not MY God. I can’t even understand what the hell they think they’re doing. 🤷‍♀️

I left a church/denomination/cult 20 years ago. A place where it is taught eating meat or dairy foods will mean you can’t be translated. Where your spirituality is measured by whether or not you wear jewelry, make up, clothes that show your shoulders, color your hair etc etc etc. Where if you sin by going to a movie you need to be very afraid because you leave your guardian angel at the door. Where you must never ever say you are saved because any wrong move could erase it. Where you are afraid to go to sleep at night because one unconfessed sin will keep you out of heaven. Where you must keep Sabbath perfectly which is impossible to achieve because everyone argues about what that would even look like. Where male molesting of females is hidden and kept secret because the institution must be protected at all cost. And the women who try to speak out are told to sit down and shut up. Yet if you get caught drinking or smoking you will be disfellowshipped toot sweet. Where the claim is made that they “hate the sin but love the sinner” which is one of their biggest lies. It goes on and on and on. Oh, and yes, they are the one and only right church because they supposedly have the “truth”.

My spouse and I reached the point that we had to walk away. Spirit reminded us that “when your cup is full you’re supposed to say when!” We did try other churches but just like that place, my biggest sin was showing up with my uterus (yes, I said it) and all the body parts that accompany it. Magdalene really gets that. 🙏

The best thing we ever did spiritually was walk away from all that insanity that put “millstones” around the Creator’s children’s necks - exactly what Jesus told them NOT to do.

We returned to our simple and honest relationship with Love, Jesus and Spirit. We embraced the true church outside the buildings -the living breathing organism that no walls can contain and no patriarchal, dishonest, greedy, agenda ridden, moral pretenders can control.

We now are FREE to fellowship with and follow the Spirit Who lives in our hearts as there is no longer a temple. Jesus said it! not me. We are free to listen to and follow Spirit who enables us to love our neighbor as ourselves and love Love with all our hearts, minds and souls! We walk in peaceful certainty of our eternal future. And revel in Love’s constant Presence. We will never go back to that deceitful bondage that does all those things to and dare to call it all “God’s” requirements and obedience to His will.

So I think I get you my friend. And why I find so much joy and encouragement in your gentle truth filled words. 🙏 And bless your “bare” face for the word picture it paints of how walking with and in Love we are unafraid to be open, honest and authentic with others. 🙏 I thank you for your “obedience” which actually means “to come into agreement with Love (God)”

Happy Thursday. 😌🙏♥️

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Jane Hiatt's avatar

It seems dangerous to promote hellfire and brimstone right and left while sporting a thick beard. Sparks might catch and oops! Blazes happen.

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