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Re: PLEASE HELP...serious question!
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Originally Posted by not4saken
I am 54 years old. I should KNOW the answer to this- but I don't. Here's the story:
Having recently moved, I was cleaning tonight, and came across a 'Prayer Cloth' that my daughter had mailed to me last year, when she was concerned because I no longer attend a UPCI church. (she did, at the time, she now attends a real conservative church) Now, I don't want to open up a discussion about the right/wrong of Prayer Cloths...BUT, I started to toss it in the trash, and was immediately concerned about tossing it out like last week's leftovers. This emotion took me by surprise, and led to THIS post. I need to know what to do with this cloth??? Would it be irreverant of me to toss it out? Should I just put it in my Bible and keep it? Store in a drawer? And the biggest question of all- in MY opinion- WHY AM I FEELING EMOTIONAL OVER AN OLD WHITE PIECE OF CLOTH??
Thanks, everyone who responds...I'm obviously being menopausal. Right??
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My first thought was to suggest you buy a can of pledge and get your furniture polished!
However you said it was a serious question so I will give it a serious answer;
1. There is no lingering "annointing" or some such thing that has now made the cloth sacred. It was something used to convey prayer and once that was done it is just a cloth.
2. However if there is an emotional attachment to it for some reason there would be nothing wrong with keeping it as a keepsake.
3. If there is no emotional attachment to it I think there is absolutely no issue with disposing of it or using it for something else. As Christians we are not like Roman Catholics who worship objects like crosses, statues, relics, etc. We can appreciate them but that is it.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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