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Cynthia Ford's avatar

This is beautiful Tessa. I am not very versed in the Bible, and though I think there is deep meaning in the Christian mythos, and I want to defend it, I think Christianity's history and its doctrines must be reformed through commentary, some of it very outraged. Instead, I take Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall as my text for this time. "I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it" So you are calling us all to that highway, and that is lovely and consoling.

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Christine McKinney's avatar

First it’s the shared fantasy. Once you know, you go. Nothing with the (narcissist/abuser) is real. All simulation. Your mind is the key, as in “ Free your mind; the rest will follow”. Check out Sam Vankin: 7 Phases of shared fantasy why the narcissist needs you. THEY cannot actualize any (false) reality without us. It’s how they/it works. You change your mind and turn and walk away, and if you can be big about it, bring in God and fill the drivers seat and then you are shotgun and there is no room for baloney. If you can…as it really is ALL in your mind. To ‘Repent’ means ‘to change your mind’ in the Greek metanoia which word imagery connotes ‘to change your mind and turn and walk in companionship with’ God. And that is the summation of the Christ, who admonished, “Walk ye this way; walk ye in The Way with Me” and His followers were known as the people of The Way. All love and truth. Holy.

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