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Waking Up Zion — The Book

Waking Up Zion --- The Book

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🎧 Listen to the book here: 👉   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeDAd1BRD_w INTRODUCTION Not a Faith Crisis — A Truth Awakening This isn’t a book about walking away. It’s a book about walking deeper. Deeper into Jesus. Deeper into His voice, His light, and His truth. For years, I loved my faith. I still do. The Church gave me structure. It gave me good people. It taught me to honor prophets and scriptures. To seek the Holy Ghost. To follow Christ. But somewhere along the way, I started asking quiet questions— Not to tear down, but to understand more. Where is the power of the Book of Mormon? Where is the fire of the early Saints? Where is the Jesus who speaks face to face? This book isn’t here to fight the Church. It’s here to reach the hearts of those in it — Especially those who feel something is missing, but don’t yet have words for it. I believe God is still working. But I also believe He is calling many of His children out of comfort and into courage. Out of tradition and int...
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🪶 Medicine Wheel 16 — The Plan of Salvation, Re-Seen

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  🪶   Medicine Wheel 16 — The Plan of Salvation, Re-Seen Let’s take a deep breath here. Because this one matters. If you grew up LDS, the “Plan of Salvation” was often presented as a map: Premortal life. Council in Heaven. Earth life. Spirit world. Resurrection. Kingdoms of glory. It’s orderly. It’s clean. It helps things make sense. But here’s a quiet question to sit with: Was the plan mainly about sorting people? Or was it always about growing capacity? 🪶   A Simple Reminder The Medicine Wheel has been walking us step by step. Learning to listen. Learning to trust. Learning to align. This question rises naturally as we begin to see the bigger picture. 🌿   A Familiar Way of Seeing It Many of us were taught to picture the plan as upward movement: Prove yourself. Endure. Qualify. Move forward. It can feel like progress. Like advancement. And for many, that creates motivation. But it can also introduce comparison: Where am I on the path? Where are others? Am I ahead...
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🕊️ Holy Forever

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  🎵 Listen First (recommended) Before you read, take a few minutes and listen to   Holy Forever (especially if you can sit quietly and let it wash over you) You can hear it here: YouTube Music:   YouTube Music   “Holy Forever” https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQrjBTZCAo 🕊️ Holy Forever What if worship is not performance… but coming home? 6 There are songs you hear… and there are songs that seem to hear   you. This is one of those. When I hear   Holy Forever,   I don’t hear religion. I hear reality. I hear what Isaiah must have felt. I hear what John heard in   Book of Revelation . I hear the kind of worship that isn’t manufactured— it rises. Like breath. Like light. Like home. 🌿 “Holy” Does Not Mean Far Away Sometimes people hear   holy   and think: Too high. Too severe. Too unreachable. But I’ve come to believe holiness feels more like this: Clean air. Living water. Fire that warms rather than burns. The presence of God is not mean...
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72 🪶 ---- Surrender Is the Doorway

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  🪶   Surrender Is the Doorway Kids, If learning to hear Jesus for yourself is the foundation… Then surrender is the doorway. I used to think progress with God meant striving harder. Trying harder. Fixing more. Defending more. Understanding more. But the older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized something surprising. The biggest movements of God in my life didn’t come when I pushed. They came when I let go. There’s a difference between effort and surrender. Effort says: “I will figure this out.” Surrender says: “I trust You to lead.” Effort tightens. Surrender softens. And strangely, it is the softening that brings strength. There was a season in my life when the Lord showed me my own faults very clearly. Not to shame me. Not to crush me. But to invite me. I saw things in myself I hadn’t wanted to see. And instead of defending myself… I released them. I didn’t wrestle to win. I aligned. I let Him take what I had been carrying. And what followed was not punishment. It was...
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🪶 Medicine Wheel 15 — Proving Worth or Revealing Identity?

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  🪶   Medicine Wheel 15 — Proving Worth or Revealing Identity? This may be one of the biggest shifts to consider. Are we here to prove something? Or to remember something? That single question can change the entire emotional tone of how we see our relationship with God. 🪶   A Simple Reminder The Medicine Wheel has been guiding us step by step. Learning to listen. Learning to trust. Learning to align. This question rises naturally as we walk that path. 🌿   The Traditional Frame Many of us were taught something like this: You came to earth to be tested. To see if you would obey. To prove worthy of exaltation. That framework brings: Seriousness. Focus. Urgency. But it can also quietly bring pressure. Because if life is a test… it can feel like you might fail. 🕊️   A Subtle Tension If worth must be proven… then it can feel uncertain. And when worth feels uncertain… love can begin to feel conditional. Even if no one says it out loud. That’s where spiritual anxiet...
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The Way — Not a System, But a Voice

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  🕊️ The Way — Not a System, But a Voice Yesterday in Fast and Testimony meeting, a dear Sister stood and said something simple. One word. The Way. (Whoops that is two words!) And it stayed with me. Not because it was new… but because it’s been there all along. In the scriptures. In quiet moments. In the things we feel more than we can explain. And yet somehow… we still make it complicated. 📖 The Way Has Always Been There Jesus didn’t say He would show us the way. He said: “I am the way…” — John 14:6 In the early days, people weren’t even called Christians. They were called: followers of the Way. Not followers of a system. Not followers of structure. Followers of Him. 📘 The Book of Mormon Describes a Walk Nephi didn’t describe arrival. He described movement. A path. A direction. After baptism… after commitment… you don’t arrive. You continue. Step by step. Quietly. 🔥 When People Didn’t Want the Way In Sunday School, we talked about the children of Israel. They had a chance to h...
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🪶 Medicine Wheel 14 — Obedience vs. Listening

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  🪶   Medicine Wheel 14 — Obedience and Listening This is where many sincere people get tangled. Because obedience sounds righteous. It sounds safe. It sounds faithful. It sounds like loyalty to God. And in many ways, obedience matters. But obedience and listening are not exactly the same thing. 🪶   A Simple Reminder The Medicine Wheel has been walking us step by step. Learning to listen. Learning to trust. Learning to align. This question rises naturally along that path. 🌿   The Obedience Pattern In most structured religion, the pattern is simple: God gives commandments. We obey them. We are blessed. That is clear. Orderly. Understandable. And for children, that pattern can be a good beginning. But spiritual life is meant to deepen. At some point, the soul has to grow beyond only following instructions… and begin learning how to hear. 🕊️   Listening Is More Than Rule-Keeping Listening asks: “Lord, what are You saying to me now?” Not instead of what He has a...
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