Episode 193: What About Blessings, Part 3 | Things That Would Be Nice If They Were True

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Bad things happen to good people—good works cannot protect us from the natural consequences of being human in an imperfect world. But in a church where the narrative often draws connections between worthiness and blessings, it can be hard to avoid internalizing the idea that we’re special and can achieve control by doing the right things. “How do I reconcile my life experiences with the things the Church teaches about blessings?” This prompt from a listener frames Susan and Cynthia’s discussion in Episode 193. It’s a conversation about one of life’s biggest questions, and the spiritual havoc members sometimes wreak by meeting suffering armed with well-meaning answers.

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0:00.0	I realized that having that big dark scary thing hanging over my life all of those
0:10.6	years are operating you know know, within my life.
0:13.0	Yes, it had left all kinds of difficult things, but it had also left gifts, like very real gifts.
0:21.0	I had tools for living with hard and dark things that I didn't know that I
0:27.4	had and also I had empathy. I recognized when other I recognized other people who knew darkness and I
0:36.3	had sort of always recognized that and and wanted to rise to it in people I I could meet people in that experience and talk with them
0:46.4	about it. But like I say, it really took me 30 years.
0:52.4	Hello I'm Cynthia Wynward.
0:56.0	And I'm Susan Hinckley.
0:58.2	And this is at last, she said it.
1:00.1	We are Women of Faith discussing complicated things
1:03.2	and the title of this week's episode is
1:06.4	what about blessings part three things that would be nice if they were true
1:12.1	exclamation point exclamation point.
1:13.6	Exclamation point.
1:15.3	One of my favorite Kate Bullerisms
1:17.9	things that would be nice if they were true.
1:19.6	And people are probably wondering what that's going to be but what I will assure our
1:24.3	listeners right now is that they'll know them when they hear them in this
1:27.1	conversation yes they will they'll say oh yeah unless they've been a latter
1:31.8	day saying five minutes right or have been living under a rock they will be like oh yeah I've heard that as well so anyway Susan why don't this was your idea for this episode jump into why we're talking about blessings part three and where we're going to go
1:48.6	It was my idea because of a Relief Society lesson that I was asked to teach earlier this year, which was
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