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by AmyJ
18 Mar 2024, 06:19
Forum: Book & Media Reviews
Topic: Come Back Podcast
Replies: 1
Views: 146

Re: Come Back Podcast

I have peripherally given this topic some thought. 1. Observed Change in Direction - In order to "come back" to a person, place, or concept/thing - you have "leave" it first AND an outside force has to observe that change in direction. This was something I wrestled with for a per...
by AmyJ
12 Mar 2024, 12:04
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Power vs Authority
Replies: 3
Views: 120

Re: Power vs Authority

Thank you Roy:) This quote is interesting to me because it seems that Sister dew is describing the tasks that she is doing with the authority and power of the priesthood under the description of "mothering." (also note that she mothers children, teenagers, young adults, and adult sisters b...
by AmyJ
12 Mar 2024, 06:23
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Power vs Authority
Replies: 3
Views: 120

Power vs Authority

We now are saying endowed women have Priesthood power, just not administrative Priesthood authority, so I can see more evolution in the future framed sincerely within continuing revelation. (from "The Last Airbender (Netflix)" chain) I have been talking to people about the difference betw...
by AmyJ
11 Mar 2024, 12:53
Forum: Support
Topic: What exactly is a spiritual experience?
Replies: 18
Views: 9141

Re: What exactly is a spiritual experience?

MM, I too have had spiritual experiences that I hold close to me. I think that there are two main questions: 1) Are spiritual experiences from God? 2) What do they [the experiences] mean? I think that we get to decide for ourselves how we answer those questions. Answering my own questions made me v...
by AmyJ
04 Mar 2024, 13:23
Forum: Support
Topic: Callings you've had or might have or will never have in your life.
Replies: 19
Views: 331

Re: Callings you've had or might have or will never have in your life.

Why does it seem that the church culture is: you cannot say NO to a calling? Or, you cannot feel guilty when someone asks you to do them a "favor" in their calling? "Community/Tribal Commitment" - It isn't just "Saying No" to a commitment, it's also saying "No&quo...
by AmyJ
04 Mar 2024, 07:53
Forum: Support
Topic: Callings you've had or might have or will never have in your life.
Replies: 19
Views: 331

Re: Callings you've had or might have or will never have in your life.

The Best Calling I've had. Relief Society Teacher - I taught relevant, meaningful lessons regularly that accommodated the believers and the agnostics like me. It stopped working for me when the R.S. presidency remembered/decided (not sure which motivation) that they needed to assign me the talks to...
by AmyJ
29 Feb 2024, 13:20
Forum: Support
Topic: Maybe the church just doesn't want me
Replies: 16
Views: 362

Re: Maybe the church just doesn't want me

Roasted brussels sprouts or brussels sprouts done properly in an air fryer are a favorite of mine. I grow them and we have them for holiday meals. I don't push them on others though, more for me! I knew there was something off about you. :smile: Count me in the group liking brussels sprouts:) As to...
by AmyJ
29 Feb 2024, 12:48
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Last Airbender (Netflix)
Replies: 7
Views: 223

Re: The Last Airbender (Netflix)

I do think there is this difference of desire/agitation between the two case studies of blacks and the priesthood and women and the priesthood. I think that it would be acceptable for black men before 1978 to want to hold the priesthood and for black couples and families to want to become sealed in...
by AmyJ
27 Feb 2024, 07:14
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Last Airbender (Netflix)
Replies: 7
Views: 223

Re: The Last Airbender (Netflix)

Towards the end of the series, the Fire Nation attacks. Pakku has a change of heart and tells Katara that she reminded him of something that he had forgotten. That the success of the Northern Water Tribe is owed to following the philosophy of water bending. Do not be rigid, adapt. Pakku had become ...
by AmyJ
21 Feb 2024, 13:39
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Child Baptism in a Few Years
Replies: 20
Views: 1206

Re: Child Baptism in a Few Years

Minyan Man wrote: 20 Feb 2024, 11:38 That is good news Amy. It is always good when two people can talk, understand each other and come to an agreement that
both can live with.

More of that is needed in this world.
Thank you. I agree.