🪶 Consecration: A Question I Had to Ask --- Medicine Wheel 9
🪶 Consecration: A Question I Had to Ask
There was a moment a few years ago that quietly changed how I think about consecration.
I was sitting in a temple recommend interview.
Good man across from me.
Kind.
Faithful.
Trying to do his job well.
He asked me the standard questions.
I answered them.
Then I asked one.
I said:
“President… do I need to change my will?”
He looked at me a little puzzled.
I said,
“In the temple we covenant to consecrate everything — our time, talents, and everything with which the Lord has blessed us — to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Does that mean I should change my will and leave everything to the Church?”
He paused.
And he said something very honest.
“I don’t know.”
That moment wasn’t dramatic.
It wasn’t confrontational.
It wasn’t rebellious.
It was clarifying.
🪶 A Simple Reminder
The Medicine Wheel has been walking us through something step by step.
Learning without fear.
Softening into wisdom.
Coming into alignment.
Offering what we’ve been given.
This question came right in the middle of that walk.
🌿 What Was I Actually Asking?
I wasn’t trying to trap him.
I wasn’t trying to expose something.
I was trying to understand my covenant.
If consecration means everything…
Then what does everything mean?
Is it symbolic?
Is it future?
Is it literal?
Is it institutional?
Or is it personal?
That question stayed with me.
And it led me deeper into the Medicine Wheel.
🌄 The Medicine Wheel’s View of Consecration
In the Nemenhah understanding — especially as preserved in the Tuhhuhl Nuhmehn — consecration is not primarily institutional.
It’s relational.
It means:
I offer my life to relieving suffering.
I offer my gifts to healing.
I offer my stewardship back to the Creator.
Not because I am proving loyalty.
Not because I am earning heaven.
But because I love Him.
That’s different.
Very different.
🔥 The Quiet Tension
In the LDS temple endowment, we covenant to consecrate to the Church.
In the Medicine Wheel, we consecrate directly to the Peacemaker.
Both are trying to point toward devotion…
but they frame the direction differently.
Those are not identical directions.
Now — that doesn’t mean one is evil and one is pure.
It simply means they are structured differently.
One flows through institution.
One flows through relationship.
And that’s worth noticing.
🕊️ What About Abraham 3:25?
Many of us grew up on this verse:
“We will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.”
For years, I read that as:
This life is a test.
Don’t fail.
But what if “prove” doesn’t mean “grade”?
What if it means “reveal”?
To prove gold is not to shame it.
It’s to heat it so its nature shows.
Maybe this life isn’t a loyalty exam.
Maybe it’s a revealing.
Not to God — He already knows.
To us.
And if that’s true, then the commandments are not hoops.
They are tuning instructions.
They teach us how to hear Him again.
🌾 Dust of the Earth
The scriptures say we are less than the dust of the earth.
But the dust obeys Him.
The dust listens.
We forgot how.
Maybe that’s the “test.”
Not whether we can obey a checklist.
But whether we can return to listening.
2 Nephi 32 says it plainly:
After you enter the gate…
The Holy Ghost will show you all things what ye should do.
That’s not institutional obedience.
That’s relational obedience.
That’s alignment.
🌊 So Where Does That Leave Me?
I didn’t leave that interview angry.
I left thoughtful.
Because the real question wasn’t about my will.
It was about my heart.
Am I consecrated to an organization?
Or am I consecrated to Christ?
Am I learning to consecrate through an organization…
or directly to Christ Himself?
Both are trying to point toward devotion…
but they frame the direction differently.
And if Christ asks something of me directly…
Am I listening closely enough to hear it?
That’s the deeper covenant.
🌄 Why This Matters for the Wheel
The Medicine Wheel is not anti-temple.
It is not anti-Church.
It is a pattern for returning to direct alignment.
Center — you are already worthy.
Agency — you must choose.
Knowledge — you must understand.
Wisdom — you must soften.
Balance — you must discern.
Consecration — you must offer freely.
Union — you must align.
None of that can be forced.
None of that can be signed on paper.
It must be lived.
🪶 A Gentle Reflection
If I gave everything to the Church,
but never learned to hear the Savior…
Have I fulfilled the covenant?
If I learned to hear Him,
and followed Him faithfully…
Would He require less than everything anyway?
That’s the mirror.
Not an accusation.
Just a question.
Still walking.
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