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Number 1 and 2 are very important. As are 4,5 and 6. They are all pretty good actually. Learning to define and redefine yourself and identity is pretty key. While learning to respect yourself and others who you interact with as you redefine yourself with who you are and what you believe whole protecting that and respecting others. Huge problems emerge in some Mormon teachings as we simply are taught the tools on excepting others for who they are but taught tools on how to change them so they are who we would like them to be. Becoming one becomes believing the same and acting the same. Which becomes corralation of people which becomes bit accepting others for who they are. Which transfers also to not accepting Mormons as who they are as well once you find yourself different from the group with the LDS tools you learned growing up.
Being different is hard, more so in a community where you are taught you should be the same inside the community of difference. United in the same difference becomes us vs them. In LDS theology it’s us vs the world. Outside it becomes tattered dreams on complexity vs the culture that shaped us into simplicity.
I don’t know if I’m making any sense but shared intimacy with differences has been on my mind a lot lately. Sharing the joy of what we each learning from each other in our walk of life in or outbid the church and our interception with the world.
Fit many of us learning to protect out new found identity while navigating it with those who feel threatened by it is tough. There should be no Shane in who we are neither the shame in the Mormon community and out for who they and we are.
I see no us vs them. Only gods children as we strive to tell our own stories and define them as what them
Mean to us indivially. People may not agree, but if god wanted absolute certainty on who is right if any, he did the worlds worst job. Things couldn’t be more ambiguous if a person tried with all your might.
With that open what they shared was worth sharing, their stories as they walk in them. Religion was about connecting to each other in a meaningful way. How ironic that in a world of decisiveness with authority many would teach that there is no real meaning or connection but in their authority and in their way. Irony at its finest about what religion is really about. Seems lost our way as a society sometimes about dripping the authority and differences and focus on connecting with each other in a meaningful and positive way that will be different for different people even inside the sane community.
I wish this were available in a downloadable format. I don’t have much time to sit around staring at my computer or phone, but I could listen to it on my commute to work.
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