Good morning everyone (well, it's still morning for me.) Sorry I didn't get this up earlier than, well, now. Welcome to any new Fasters, and many thanks to Sybil for publishing the podcast this past week.
Late reminder that this month's "purpose" is the gift of discernment: "Sensitivity to the Spirit in order to discern truth and receive
inspiration, revelation, visions, dreams, and any other applicable
manifestations that may come." This is, of course, just a suggestion. Fast for what you feel you need.
Also, here's a video I got off of someone in a Facebook group: The Mystery Woman Of Revelation Revealed: The Name of The Holy Spirit
The woman presenting takes the view that the Holy Spirit is female and, in fact, our Heavenly Mother. I'm still contemplating that idea, myself, but she lays out the evidence in an interesting way. She is a bit longwinded ("Hello, Kettle, my name is Pot") and repetitious, but I think its worth a view if you've got about half an hour.
Have a lovely fasting day, and as always, I'd love to hear about any of your experiences in the comments.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
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I'm listening to the Youtube video right now, and this idea of the Holy Spirit being Mother in Heaven is really interesting and it kind of clicks.
ReplyDeleteRight not I'm 15 min in, but it already kind of helped to clear up something I've always wondering/had a problem with, the conception of Mary - it seems to imply that if Mary was caught up by the Spirit of God in order to conceive and if the Spirit of God is our Heavenly Mother then maybe that would mean that Mary was more of a surrogate mother than a biological mother. Maybe? Has that idea been mentioned in your FB discussion group yet? Just and interesting thought that rests a whole lot better with me than the other concepts/teachings about Mary/God relationships. . . .
We haven't discussed Mary except maybe in passing. For myself, I've never really been disturbed so much as just... perplexed. I remember somebody sent me a YouTube clip that contained a claim that we teach that God the Father came down and had sex with Mary to impregnate her, and I just went "Buh? Say what?" I've never heard that and I frankly can't see that happening at all, so for me it's always just been "So... caught up/covered by the Spirit... what does that mean?" I still have no answers on it, but it makes sense to me that Mother would have been involved in some fashion in the whole thing. I just haven't the foggiest idea how so I just push it to the back of the Shelf.
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