Episode 193: (Transcript) What About Blessings, Part 3 | Things That Would Be Nice If They Were True
Episode Transcript
Many thanks to listener, Kathryn Lee, for her work in transcribing this episode!
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CW: Hello, I'm Cynthia Winward.
SH: And I'm Susan Hinckley.
CW: And this is At Last She Said It. We are women of faith discussing complicated things, and the title of this week's episode is “What About Blessings: Part 3. Things that would be nice if they were true”….exclamation point!
SH: Exclamation point! One of my favorite Kate Bowler-isms. Things that would be nice if they were true. And people are probably wondering what that's going to be, but what I will assure our listeners right now is that they'll know them when they hear them in this conversation.
CW: Yes they will.
SH: They'll say–
CW: yeah, unless they've been a Latter day Saint for five minutes or have been living under a rock. They will be like, Oh yeah. I've heard that as well. So anyway, Susan, this was your idea for this episode. Jump into why we're talking about blessings part three and where we're going to go.
SH: It was my idea because of a Relief Society lesson that I was asked to teach earlier this year which is basically about why bad things happen to good people.
Now, do you want to stand up in front of a Relief Society and teach that lesson? I mean, I both did and didn't. I didn't because, for one thing, I have no special insight in this at all. So I got to preface the conversation right there by saying if you think you're gonna listen to this conversation and learn something, in air quotes, I am not showing up here as any kind of expert in philosophy or theology.
So that's not really happening. But I was excited to have this conversation in a Relief Society room specifically, because I think there are all kinds of– I hate to use the word toxic, but I'm just going to say it – toxic beliefs in our church and things that people have probably heard and things that some of us have even said ourselves over the years to each other, and some of us cringe now when we think about some of the things that we've said-
CW: Yeah.
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