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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32)

          I suspect I’m repeating myself, but this morning I find myself back to the issue of truth. I’ve finished reading Waking The Dead and I am trying to apply some of what I’ve learned. The problem is, it requires that I separate truth from lies, and feelings from reality. It requires that I integrate heart, mind, spirit, body, and guts (emotions.) It requires that I stop agreeing with the lies that I’ve been told. Some of those, I’ve accepted for decades. 
         When I came home, I knew it would be a summer for transition. I knew there was going to be internal work that needed to be done, but I don’t think I understood how much. 
         Over the past several years, I’ve been hearing from others how this group or that person, because they feel ____________, must be treated as being __________ because their reality is that they are as they feel. I’ve tried to explain that such thinking imprisons those people and those who agree with them. Of course, the same is true for every person. If your chosen identity is as a ________ person, then you are trapped as the _______. That takes precedence over your personhood. Jesus told us, only His disciples would know the truth, and only the truth will set you free. 
          I don’t know what sort of person is going to walk out of this summer and into the fall, but she will not be the same person who walked in because it seems that this summer is going to be the summer of both Truth and Heart.

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