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a small rescue kit for those who suffer from trying to be good

Lord,
Take from me the desire to look like a good person (anymore, to anyone).


It's not that we aren't all people trying to be free and right and gentle to others but the fact is that being good is a boogyman.  



There is no "being good".  That's a fallacy and always incomplete information -- and always failing to consider who was generous to us or made it easy on us, or our clarity about how righteous we…
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Added by Olivia on 7th mo. 19, 2014 at 2:45am — No Comments

Mangling a leading that keeps following me around (the bumpy road of being called)

I thought to share a journey of "being led" -- after recently reading from a most excellent book Nudged by the Spirit by Charlotte Lyman Fardelmann about other people's bumpy road to being led.



Boy O boy, my leading has been a long time coming. I have tried to take what came up in the silence when listening to God starting in 1999...and turn it into what I *thought* it was trying to be. This was expressed by my copious interest in healing bodywork and energy medicine and the…

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Added by Olivia on 2nd mo. 8, 2014 at 8:09pm — 4 Comments

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