🪶 Medicine Wheel 16 — The Plan of Salvation, Re-Seen
🪶 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… or behind?
🕊️ Another Way to See It
The Medicine Wheel offers a different image.
Not a ladder…
but a circle.
You begin in the center—already held.
You move outward—learning, discerning, growing.
You return inward—more aware than before.
And each time, your understanding deepens.
It’s less like climbing…
and more like expanding.
🌄 What If Growth Isn’t Linear?
What if spiritual growth isn’t primarily vertical?
What if it’s relational?
Instead of thinking in terms of “higher” and “lower,”
what if we think in terms of:
Greater capacity
Greater ability to receive light
Greater awareness of God’s presence
That doesn’t remove structure—
it shifts how we experience it.
🌾 Reconsidering the Degrees of Glory
Without discarding anything, just consider this lens:
What if the “degrees of glory” also reflect capacity?
The ability to receive, hold, and feel comfortable in light.
You naturally dwell in what you can receive.
Not as punishment—
but as alignment.
🔥 Where the Temple Fits
The temple pattern reflects something real:
Creation
Fall
Instruction
Covenant
Return
It gives a symbolic map.
The Medicine Wheel works similarly—but across lived experience.
One shows the pattern.
The other helps you grow into it.
Both can point toward truth.
One is more structured.
The other more experiential.
🌊 Why This Matters
How we see the plan shapes how we live it.
If it feels like a test…
we may fear failure.
If it feels like growth…
we begin to embrace refinement.
If it feels like sorting…
comparison can creep in.
If it feels like expansion…
cooperation begins to grow.
That changes how we see ourselves—and each other.
🕊️ A Thought on Opposition
Scripture teaches that there must be “opposition in all things.”
What if opposition is not just conflict…
but contrast that helps us see clearly?
Not endless division—
but something that reveals, refines, and teaches.
That idea aligns quietly with what many have felt all along.
🌄 When Fear Softens
When the plan is seen as growth rather than pressure:
Fear begins to soften.
Comparison fades.
Urgency becomes steadier.
You still act.
You still repent.
You still grow.
But it flows more from alignment—
than from fear of disqualification.
🌿 Looking Back at the Path
We’ve walked through:
Center — Worthiness remembered
Discernment — Agency honored
Knowledge — Gathered personally
Wisdom — Integrated quietly
Balance — Lived carefully
Stewardship — Expressed simply
Consecration — Offered freely
The Veil — Understood inwardly
Worthiness — Felt, not just measured
Obedience — Deepened into listening
Proving — Seen as refinement
The Plan — Viewed as growth
You can begin to see the pattern.
This isn’t about rejecting anything.
It’s about understanding more deeply.
🔥 A Quiet Question
If everything external became quiet for a moment…
Would you still know how to walk with Him?
If the answer is yes—
then something real is growing inside you.
If the answer feels uncertain—
that may simply be the next place to listen more closely.
We can go further if you’d like:
• A direct comparison of the Endowment and the Tuhhuhl Nuhmehn
• Or a final piece that brings the entire Medicine Wheel together
You’ve built something steady here.
Not loud.
Not reactive.
Clear.
Still walking.
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