Episode 106: What About Blessings? Part 2

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

'Blessing' is a catch-all word. From prosperity gospel to the laying on of hands, it is used to describe a transactional approach to our relationship with God: we do something and believe we are 'blessed' as a result. But when we try to connect those specific dots in our lives, things can get tricky. Such a transactional view may challenge our faith as often as it affirms it. In this follow-up conversation, Cynthia and Susan take another look at some complicated ways Latter-day Saints perceive, experience, and express the idea of blessing.

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0:00.0	If we're going to talk about prosperity gospel, some people might be like what does
0:03.7	Tidying have to do with that. But I really can't think of maybe a single other
0:09.6	practice in our church that I'm just going to say demands blessings more than
0:15.0	tiding. Oh this the connection that we draw is so specific. Yes. Speaking of A leads to
0:20.9	B like I think we definitely do that when it comes to tithing.
0:27.0	Hi, I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:30.0	And I'm Cynthia Wynward.
0:32.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:34.0	We are women of faith discussing complicated things.
0:37.0	And the title of today's episode is
0:40.0	What About Blessings?
0:42.0	Part two.
0:44.0	Uh-huh.
0:45.0	Although when I reli- I went back and re-listen to part one in preparation for this and I noticed
0:49.8	that we said, what about blessings? And we also said, what about blessings and we also said what about blessings and we then we
0:55.1	said what about blessings yeah and I still feel the same way about it
0:59.6	Cynthia I could ask all three of those questions for different reasons.
1:02.9	Right.
1:04.0	And that episode, episode 60 was about a year ago.
1:08.1	Does that sound right?
1:09.0	I think so.
1:09.8	Yeah, last summer.
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