🪶 Consecration Without Control --- Medicine Wheel #7
🪶 Medicine Wheel 7 — Consecration Without Control
This word has been used.
Overused.
Weaponized.
🪶 A Simple Reminder
The Medicine Wheel has been moving step by step.
You remembered who you are.
You learned without fear.
You softened into wisdom.
You came into alignment.
You learned what is yours to carry.
Now comes what naturally follows.
But originally?
Consecration was beautiful.
🌿 What Consecration Is Not
Consecration is not:
Signing everything over to an institution
Surrendering your agency
Obeying leaders without understanding
Proving loyalty
That’s control.
And control wears religious clothing very well.
True consecration is different.
🌄 What Consecration Actually Means
To consecrate means:
To set apart.
To dedicate.
But here’s the key:
You cannot dedicate what you do not own.
And you do not own your worth.
You do not own your spirit.
You do not own the breath in your lungs.
Those were given.
Consecration, then, is not giving something to earn love.
It is offering what has already been loved.
That changes everything.
🕊️ Where This Fits in the Wheel
After stewardship, something natural happens.
You realize:
What I have is not random.
What I carry is not accidental.
What I’ve been given matters.
Consecration is simply this:
“I will use what I’ve been given for good.”
Freely… not under pressure.
Not because I’m commanded.
Not because I’m threatened.
But because I want to.
That’s alignment.
🌊 The LDS Distortion (Gently Said)
In LDS culture, consecration became:
A future economic order
A temple promise
A test of loyalty
A measuring stick
But originally, even in scripture, consecration was about unity and relieving suffering.
Acts 4.
4 Nephi.
Common heart.
Common good.
It was organic.
Not coerced.
🔥 Why Consecration Terrifies Institutions
Because true consecration cannot be controlled.
If you consecrate directly to Christ:
No middleman can regulate that.
No hierarchy can monetize it.
No organization can measure it.
That’s uncomfortable.
So it gets formalized.
Systematized.
Institutionalized.
And slowly… distorted.
🌾 What It Looks Like in Real Life
Consecration might look like:
Using your blog to speak gently instead of angrily
Staying anonymous because ego doesn’t need credit
Serving your wife quietly
Writing truth without bitterness
Giving time where no one sees
No spotlight.
No applause.
Just alignment.
🌄 This Is Where Surrender Matures
Early surrender feels like:
“I give up control.”
Later surrender feels like:
“I offer what I am.”
That’s consecration.
It’s not loss.
It’s participation.
🕊️ And Here’s the Secret
You were consecrated before you were born.
You were already set apart for experience.
Already chosen for this earth.
Already trusted with breath.
Consecration now is simply living that trust.
Not earning it.
Living it.
🌿 A Quiet Question
Am I offering my life because I’m afraid not to?
Or because I love Him?
One creates fear.
The other creates peace.
Now the Wheel moves into something deeper.
Union.
Not symbolic.
Not metaphorical.
Actual alignment.
That’s where we go next.
Still walking.
🪶
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