Seeing what I see... I guess I don't see it that way. I'm not trying to tell you how to live, but I'm describing how it is for me. It's not my own self-defined righteousness. My will is his will, so when I say I am being true to myself, I am only being true to God. My heart is not deceptive and it doesn't play tricks on me. Besides listening to my heart, I listen to my mind, and I pay attention to the higher things of the Spirit. I align these three from the top down. When they are in alignment, I know I am being true and I am being true to myself. I try to live by everything that proceeds from the mouth of God. Sometimes God speaks to me through the scriptures, sometimes through the words of other people, and sometimes he speaks to me directly. It doesn't matter, because I recognize his voice when it speaks. Not to imply that others are, but I'm not hung up on the authority thing where I will only pay attention to Torah, or only listen to Joseph Smith, or JJ Dewey, or Alice A Bailey, or L Ron Hubbard, etc. It's the voice, not the vessel whom I pay attention to. And when I don't hear the voice, I don't pay attention to the vessel. I long ago covenanted to follow God, no matter what the cost; to listen and follow what I was told to do. I do not enter into promises lightly, and God knows this. We trust each other as beloved friends. That's how it works for me, and I would not be true to myself to tell you it was otherwise. I don't know if anybody else has this kind of relationship with God or not. I know it is achievable.
4:41:28 PM 
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