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dianoia


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And on a more serious note, here's another one of my depression analogies that might interest you, ray.

We're told that we should fill our lamps with oil, but for a long time now I've envisioned those lamps with a slow leak out of the bottom. Drip. Drip. Drip. It's why we can't rely on past spiritual experiences for the future, why constant and consistent filling of the reservoir is so important.

The stress of son3's beginnings punched a bunch of extra holes in the bottom of my lamp. Normally a priesthood blessing gives me a great feeling, almost a spiritual buzz, that lasts for several days. But when things were really bad, I felt the Spirit during the blessing, and it was so wonderful to have that uplifting and break from the struggle. But it never lasted more than a day. Which is probably one of the reasons why I was commanded to receive them so often.

There were days I felt like I was carrying a colander instead of a lamp.

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rayb wrote:

and I do think that if Satan had his way, he would cause in all of us the physical/hormonal/emotional and spiritual changes that lead to depression.

--Ray


Not necessarily.  You must remember he is clever.  Why not have this influence in *some* of us and leave the *others* completely baffled at those people?  This can lead to misunderstanding, judging, superiority and inferiority complexes, rationalization, confusion, helplessness, hopelessness, frustration, anger, division....   (Sheesh, maybe I should lay off the Screwtape Letters, I'm getting fearfully good at this.)

I liked the point about not relying on past spiritual experiences for the future.  I totally agree. Like the escalator analogy... if we're standing still, we're actually going down.



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To complicate matters, There is a tendency in the church to think "I just got a blessing, I should be fine." As if there's something bad or faithless about receiving more than one.

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Yeah, I had to learn the hard way not to talk about how often I got blessings.

I edited out my second comment. Sorry guys, I admit there is still hurt and a lack of forgiveness there. I'm really trying to work on that.

-- Edited by dianoia at 18:39, 2007-12-04

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Is your father LDS, or was that his inellegant way of saying you were getting too many blessings?

Is there such a thing as too many blessings? (Blessings in the "put your hands on my head and give me a blessing" blessings)

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That's a question with a lot of implications, Hoss...

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I think it's a good question. Is there such a thing? You PH people- what do you think?

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I had written a long post explaining that I think it's possible to have too many. In some circumstances. For some people. 

And then I was going to share why it was right that I had so many for a while, but realized I was running into sacred territory. 

I'm trying to be more careful in how I discuss that part of my spiritual life. 

Maybe this is a discussion for the vault, and not the eyes of random lurkers?  

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I mentioned before I'd be good with this being moved to the Super Secret...

Arbi?

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