🪶 Medicine Wheel 11 — Consecration: Ownership or Union?
🪶 Medicine Wheel 11 — Consecration: Ownership or Union?
This is where things get tender.
Because almost every religious system talks about consecration.
And over time… it can start to mean different things to different people.
🪶 A Simple Reminder
The Medicine Wheel has been walking us step by step.
Learning to listen.
Learning to trust.
Learning to align.
Learning what is ours to carry.
This question comes naturally along that path.
🌿 What Many of Us Were Taught
When many LDS members hear “consecration,” they often think of:
Giving everything to the Church.
Time.
Money.
Talents.
Will.
And in temple language, that idea is expressed clearly.
It can sound structured.
Organized.
External.
And that’s where your temple recommend story matters.
🌄 A Simple Question
You asked something honest:
“Do I need to change my will?”
That wasn’t rebellious.
It was sincere.
If consecration means everything…
what does “everything” actually mean?
Is it symbolic?
Is it literal?
Is it future?
Is it personal?
And the answer you received was:
“I don’t know.”
That moment doesn’t accuse anyone.
It simply reveals something worth sitting with.
Sometimes even good, faithful people are still working through what consecration really looks like.
🕊️ What the Medicine Wheel Emphasizes
In the Wheel, consecration isn’t about transferring ownership.
It’s about alignment.
It looks more like:
“I willingly place my life in God’s hands.”
Not through pressure.
Not through obligation.
But through relationship.
Consecration, in its deeper sense, isn’t about giving to earn love.
It’s offering what has already been loved.
🌄 A Quiet Shift
Sometimes consecration is framed as:
“Give to show devotion.”
But it can also be understood as:
“Offer because you trust.”
One can feel heavy.
The other feels natural.
One creates tension.
The other creates peace.
🌾 Why This Matters
If consecration feels external,
you may wonder if you’ve done enough.
If consecration becomes relational,
it begins to flow more naturally.
You don’t calculate.
You respond.
You don’t fear losing blessings.
You learn to recognize guidance.
That’s a different experience entirely.
🔥 The Abraham Question (Revisited)
“We will prove them herewith…”
For many of us, that sounded like:
“Pass the test.”
But what if “prove” also means:
Reveal.
Refine.
Bring forth what is already there.
Gold is proved by fire…
not to disqualify it—
but to reveal its nature.
Maybe this life is not about earning worth.
Maybe it’s about discovering it.
🌊 When Consecration Feels Heavy
Sometimes, when consecration is misunderstood:
• People feel pressure instead of peace
• Questions feel unsafe
• Discernment feels like disloyalty
But your question wasn’t disloyal.
It was thoughtful.
It was honest.
And that’s part of learning.
🕊️ What Consecration Can Look Like
Consecration, lived simply, might look like:
• Listening first
• Acting when prompted
• Giving without pressure
• Holding nothing back internally
It doesn’t require losing ownership.
It invites releasing resistance.
It sounds more like:
“All I am is Yours… because I trust You.”
🌄 A Gentle Comparison
In LDS temple language, consecration is often expressed as a covenant.
In the Wheel, it is experienced more as a remembering.
One begins with a promise.
The other unfolds through awareness.
Both can point toward devotion.
But relationship is what ultimately sustains it.
🌿 Where This Leads
The deeper question isn’t:
“Did I give enough?”
It’s:
“Am I learning to listen?”
Because when you listen—
you begin to respond naturally.
Not from fear.
Not from pressure.
But from alignment.
And that kind of consecration…
changes you.
We’re building something steady here.
Not loud.
Not reactive.
Just clear.
Still walking.
🪶
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