Episode 060: What About Blessings?

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Whether faith promoting or fraught, the idea of being blessed figures prominently in Latter-day Saint teachings. Common use of words like 'earning' and 'qualifying' can make it hard not to view blessings as transactional. How can we make sense of blessings we receive—or those we don't? What is our part in obtaining specific outcomes and righteous desires? Can our faithful actions influence God's will? In this discussion, Cynthia and Susan attempt to find a little peace on a sticky topic.

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0:00.0	Welcome to at last she said it. A podcast where women of faith come together to
0:06.4	acknowledge that it's complicated and support each other while we figure it out.
0:17.0	Hello friends, this is Cynthia Wynward. Welcome to today's podcast episode.
0:19.0	I'm here with my good buddy Susan Hinckly.
0:22.0	How are you today Susan?
0:23.4	Hi Cynthia I'm great you're great oh good great.
0:28.1	Let's just go ahead and say the title of our episode today and it is
0:32.3	what about blessings?
0:34.0	What about blessings?
0:38.0	Yeah, and some listeners are already thinking, well, what about blessings?
0:40.8	Yeah, well, and other listeners are thinking, yeah, but what about blessings. And other listeners are thinking,
0:43.7	yeah, but what about blessings?
0:45.8	Right, yeah, if you say it differently,
0:49.0	then it comes across differently.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:51.7	But this is a hard one.
0:53.3	I was up.
0:54.5	I was up last night and I was telling my husband, this is what we're recording on tomorrow.
0:59.0	I don't know if I can do this.
1:00.6	And honestly, Susan, I don't know if I've ever felt this way I've never been
1:04.7	sleepless the night before for any other topic I was sleepless too you were
1:10.9	a terrible night yes I didn't I'm not sure I slept at all. And I kept thinking,
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