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Josh Slocum's avatar

This is just what I needed, Harrison. And it's what a lot of people need, even though they don't know it.

Please pardon what is going to initially sound like a Personal Feels story. It's not; it's about the concept.

I've been in longterm psychotherapy since the rupture and the Cluster B awakening in my life 6 years ago. There have been times that were so difficult all I wanted to do was complain to my therapist about the pointless suffering.

He reminds me that it's not pointless. It's necessary. We must all suffer at some times in order to gain the things that your article talks about. We must be forced to think and feel our way through it. That's how we learn what is valuable and worth striving for, and how to correct ourselves when we stray from a productive path.

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NanaW's avatar

That’s some strong meat you’ve got here. I’ve been feeling the same, and your eloquent words were very helpful for me in getting a better grasp of the broad dimensions of our current state.

I’ve been viewing this as at least partially a purification process, coupled with what amounts to a much needed spanking for His Children by God. Lately my mind has been drawn to passages from the book of Hebrews. Chapter 12:4-13

“You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD,

NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;

FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES,

AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”

It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

And the last verse of the chapter “Our God is a consuming fire.”

It’s going to continue to heat up, of that I’ve little doubt.

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