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June 1, 2018 at 10:26 am #6579

Susanne

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Thank you for this post. After coming to Plainfield, I needed to grow a backbone, and the teachings here helped me do it.

Before, I was self-defeating in my non-questioning willingness to be a doormat–as you mentioned “people pleasing, compliant, cover up, well-behaved, don’t rock the boat, let wrong rule the right, conformist, don’t say no, don’t make mistakes, self serving, etc.” Ha! How this made my life a living hell (although everything looked smooth and pleasant from the outside). At one point I realized I had misplaced loyalties in people–I simply didn’t realize that the center of my life, my focus, should be God and my relationship to Him. It seems obvious now, but how I had struggled, going round and round as if in a hamster cage repeating the same mistakes–until the veil over Christian Science that had been blocking me was peeled away the very first time I walked into the Plainfield Church. The strong teachings in this church have set me straight (it took several years) to the life of good that God has in store for me and for each one of us!