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Originally Posted by Kyle Yoakum
I have been out of the LC for many years. Once in a while I see LSM Youtube videos where everyone lo so happy. Are you saying many of the meetings, conferences are boring, with little to no vitality? Little joy?
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I was in a meeting in the last couple years where the fellowship was about, what else, life.
I can't recall the details of the meeting, but in the sharing time afterward a brother stood up and balled his hands up into fists while punching the air (is there a better phrase to describe that action we all know?), saying desperately, "I just need
life! Oh, I just want
life! I have been so dry and down and am so desperate for
life!"
I just sat there watching him, thinking, "what else have you all been talking about for the past countless decades? how is it you are desperate for what you all should be swimming in by now?"
What I'm trying to describe is what feels like an atmosphere of always pining for something that is never quite obtained. And how can it be obtained? They are told "if you think you have obtained, you haven't. And if you don't think you've obtained, you have!" That leaves you always pining. There's no joy in that.