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The Choice

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My husband shared a meme with me this morning. It was a video of a man standing outside looking at a little garden project. Above it said: “When you realize you’ll have projects forever because of one choice you made. ” After a few seconds a woman walks up and stands next to the man. He puts arm around her and words appear above her saying: “ The choice.” We chuckled a little and I said: “So why do you men do it, why do you always make that ‘choice?’” He responded with: “We can’t help it. It’s wired into us.” I’ve been thinking about that, different attributes and desires that seem to be wired into us, instinctual almost. We all know the cliches - A man builds(provides) a house and the woman makes it a home. We laugh about how if there is an empty shelf in a house and a man lives alone he will happily leave that shelf empty and use it to put his keys on when he gets home, but if he’s got a woman in his life, she will fill that shelf up. It’s almost like she can’t help it. She will fin...
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Our Marriages Must Become Holy

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I was looking for something in Preserving the Restoration and got sucked into the chapter on marriage. There are some real gems in there, here are a few. “Before the establishment of Zion, there must be marriages worthy of God’s protection. Zion is eternal because it is built on an eternal covenant with God. God’s word and those who receive it from Him have no end, they are everlasting, have all power, and all of this comes through the covenant of marriage, between a man and a woman–which is the image of God. Does your marriage reflect the image of God?” “Does your marriage help uncover your sins? We will not begin to first solve a problem with covering up our sins after arriving in Zion, for it must be solved first. Unity must begin within the walls of our own homes. We will never achieve a Zion community until Zion exists in our own homes within our family relationships. Husbands and wives need to have marriages in the image of God. Pride and vain ambition are destructive to relation...
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a Father

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The Mother makes him a Son. The Sister-bride makes him a Father.
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Do You Make Love Like a Man?

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Do you make love like a man? Does it really matter how we make love, like spiritually? Does God care how we navigate this part of our relationship? I’m not talking about abuse and disrespectful behaviours, it is a given that that does not please God. I’m talking about how we generally do it. Our habits.  I expect that a lot of women make love like a man. And I think that this actually matters a lot. If God is male and female bound inseparablely together as One, then they are the masculine-feminine parts of one whole come together. Sex is the culmination of our ability to be One with our spouse in a mortal body. How we do it matters.  Masculine arousal and feminine arousal are drastically different from each other and for good reason. They are complementary and together create a richer and more profound and Godly experience.  God commands a man to leave his mother and father and cleave unto his wife and become one flesh with her.  Having sex, does not make you One or ...
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Adam's Helpmeet

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Women are the gatekeepers of life, which necessarily includes death. The feminine is the gatekeeper of life. She is the entry portal into this world and across all cultures and time it is women who traditionally sit with those who are leaving this world. A sweet girlfriend of mine recently experienced a miscarriage. This role of the feminine is crystalized in its tragic beauty in a miscarriage, when her womb becomes a tomb. There is something very sacred about going through a miscarriage or the loss of a babe soon after its birth. In no other experience is a woman closer to her Heavenly Mother as she is the guardian of life and death within the portal of her own body. There is an old Celtic belief that the Mother is in the north, midwife to those who pass through the borders of the circle from life to death, from death to life.  It is a tragically beautiful concept.  It harkens to Mary Magdalene as she sat watch over her love as He left this world and then was brought back int...
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God's Debate Team

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The title of this post is a bit snarky I suppose, but I’ve been involved in several conversations the last few weeks and I’ve been feeling as though I’m lacking in some way, that I need to take a refresher course on debate and argument skills or something. A quick google search on the topic brings up a worthy list of skills like: critical thinking, research, argument construction, communication, listening, reasoning, empathy, persuasion, self awareness, etc. All good things, of course, but something seems to be missing for me. Ten years ago I was listening to a man speak. He said something that has remained with me ever since. He said: “First we must BE, only then can we DO.” I’ve thought about this idea of BEING first and then DOING, a lot over the years. The natural man loves to switch it up, convincing us that we must DO first and only then can we BE…’something’. The natural man also loves to-do lists, especially “self-help to-do lists”. You see, the “natural man” would like us to ...
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Does an Eye single to the Glory of God lead to One Heart?

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If we must lead with the heart to become Zion, what does that look like in real life? How do we get our own individual heart right before God? Because it is an individual effort first and foremost, before it can be a group effort. In fact I believe that once individual hearts are right before God, there actually isn’t much difficulty involved in a group of people coming together and having one heart. All of the “effort” and “difficulty” has already been overcome by our individual effort to get our own heart right with God.  Zion is simply the fruit of two or more people who have their hearts right with God. So, how do we get our heart right with God? I believe it has to do with having an eye single to the Glory of God.  If our eye is not single to the Glory of God, we will have errors introduced into our understanding.  In Luke 8:15 (Luke 11:34-35) we are told: “The light of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is single, your whole body also is full of light. Bu...
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