Having just finished the book Mad Honey, written by one of my favorite authors, Jodi Picoult, in tandem with Jennifer Finley Boulanger, my head is swimming with new ideas concerning gender and the limits and boundaries which have been set for us. I’m contemplating questions which have many answers, but ultimately we come back to those two responses: fear or love. I’m also in the middle of a four-part series called Shiny, Happy People, the horror story about the Duggar Family and the other families who have followed the lead of their guru, Bill Gothard who founded The Institute of Basic Life Principles. From the Picoult book, I have reinforced the loving compassion I want to feel toward all things living. From the Duggar documentary, I have faced the feelings of disgust which accompany learning about teachings which profess to be Christian. The revelations in this documentary have definitely triggered a fear response from me. I am finding a loving response by being grateful to the film makers and family members who are brave enough to tell the truth. That’s all we need from everyone, everywhere, all the time: truth. Namaste…
“Gender means simply kind or sort, and does not necessarily refer either to masculinity or femininity. The word is not confined to sexuality, and grammars always recognize a neuter gender, neither male nor female.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 508:17-21
“The first corrective step in undoing the error is to know first that the conflict is an expression of fear. Say to yourself that you must somehow have chosen not to love, or the fear could not have arisen. Then the whole process of correction becomes nothing more than a series of pragmatic steps in the larger process of accepting the Atonement as the remedy. These steps may be summarized in this way:
Know first that this is fear.
Fear arises from lack of love.
The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love.
Perfect love is the Atonement.”
A Course in Miracles T-2.VI.7:1-8
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