Section 176 as a Prophetic Commentary on the Women’s Conference and Council Struggles

🕊 Now Is the Time: Laying Down the Past, Letting Go of the Future, and Laboring in Love

"What have you learned? What ought you to have learned?"

These words from the Lord are not just gentle — they’re surgical. This parable, given in 2018, now takes on fresh weight in the aftermath of the division, heartache, and confusion surrounding the April 12 women’s conference and the events tied to it. And maybe — just maybe — it was given in advance for this very kind of situation.

Let’s walk through it again, together.

💭 A Word on These Three Roles

Before we begin, a clarification: the three types described in this parable — stone carriers, tool-holders, and clay builders — are not fixed groups or labels. They don’t correspond to specific roles like “council member,” “conference organizer,” or “supporter.” In fact, a single woman could have occupied all three roles at different times throughout this process. I know I may have. This reflection isn’t about assigning blame or defining people — it’s about examining how each of us approached the labor. What motivated our efforts? What did we hope to build? What have we learned, and what ought we to have learned?

🪨🌲🧱 Three Groups of Women, Three Kinds of Labor

1. The Stone Carriers: Driven by Precedent

Some came into the process with clear ideas about what must happen:

What authority means.
How justice should look.
What roles or processes should be followed.

They may have believed they were replicating what God had done in the past — following patterns found in scripture, tradition, or earlier guidance. Much of their labor was sincere and deeply sacrificial. But it was also heavy. And it created resistance — especially when others didn't share the same view of how to “carry the stones.”

💔 Result: Hurt, division, and even accusations. Some felt dismissed. Others felt betrayed.

2. The Tool-Holders: Operating from Personal Expertise or Conviction

Others came in with their own skills — gifts of administration, discernment, organizing, protecting, or healing. Some arrived equipped with a “woodworker’s toolkit,” so to speak — they had ideas and tools, and assumed the Lord would provide the resources to match.

When things didn’t go as expected, there was confusion, frustration, and even burnout. People with noble intent found their tools didn’t quite fit the job the Lord had in mind — or discovered the job site itself was not what they imagined.

💔 Result: Disillusionment, withdrawal, or returning to support “stone” efforts despite earlier doubts.

3. The Clay Builders: Seeking the Lord’s Actual Choice First

A smaller group — though perhaps growing — tried to do something different:

Show up.
Observe.
Listen.
Clear the ground — their own assumptions, trauma, and inherited patterns.
Wait on the Lord.
And then — start building with whatever He actually provides.

These are the sisters who humbly asked: Where is the place the Lord has chosen? What is the shape of His house? What does He want women to build, together?

Each group, in a way, reflects a relationship with time. The stone carriers were anchored in the past — in precedent and tradition. The tool-holders leaned into the future — bringing expectations based on their gifts and vision. But the clay builders stepped fully into the present. They set aside both bias and expectation, and listened — moment by moment — for what the Lord was actually doing now. That’s where the Spirit leads: not in what we assume from before, or project ahead — but in the unfolding now.

💡 Result: Something new begins — rooted in compassion, clarity, humility, and faith. The labor looks slow, soft, maybe even foolish to others — but it is where the house actually starts to rise.

💬 What the Parable Tells Us About This Moment

The parable in Section 176 isn’t just about a past document (Statement of Principles). It’s also about right now — about any time God’s people are called to labor together and bring with them:

Our wounds
Our assumptions
Our history with control, patriarchy, trauma, abuse, or overcorrection
Our deep longing for justice, truth, and healing

It’s all there. And it’s all being tested.

Here’s what it reveals:

🧠 1. Preconceived Notions Are Killing Our Unity

When we assume we already know what the Lord wants — whether justice, mercy, order, exposure, silence, structure, or no structure — we become stone carriers. Even if we're sincere.

The parable warns: That’s not how this house will be built.

🧹 2. We Must Clear the Ground Before We Can Build

This is where many of us are stuck. The parable speaks of servants clearing the site and discovering clay underneath.

What does “clearing the ground” mean in our case? It may mean:

Letting go of our need to control the narrative
Setting down the pain of being silenced long enough to hear someone else's perspective
Acknowledging that even righteous anger can distort our view
Refusing to label “the other group” as evil, manipulative, or deceived
Clearing bias — even spiritual or prophetic bias — and asking, What is God actually providing here?

Only then can we build.

🧱 3. The House Must Be Made of Clay — Of Us

God does not want a policy. God does not want a structure. God does not want a defense mechanism.

He wants a people. A house. Made of living, breathing, covenant-keeping hearts.

The true “women’s work” in Zion is not organizing power or defending justice, though those have a place. The true work is becoming the bricks.

And that only happens when we yield to the shaping pressure of His hand — through humility, love, vulnerability, and submission to the Spirit.

💔 4. The Quarreling Delayed the Work

"They argued among themselves, and for a moment forgot their master’s command."

Sound familiar?

When the women turned on each other — publicly and privately — with blog posts, rumors, side conversations, alliances, and silence, we stopped building. We forgot why we were even trying to labor together.

And the Lord noticed.

💗 5. There’s Still Compassion — and Redemption

But the parable ends with hope: those who finished the house returned for those still carrying stone. They didn’t shame them. They said: Let us use your stone for something good.

That’s the spirit of reconciliation the Lord is calling for now.

We don’t need to choose sides. We need to finish the house and pave the way — with everyone's honest labor redeemed.

🧭 What Ought We to Do Now?

Ask God to reveal what brush we need to clear — personally and collectively.
Set aside our assumptions and be willing to see the house He wants to build.
Refuse to label or dismiss one another. Every woman who labored did so from belief and sacrifice.
Go to the site again — together — in prayer, silence, and submission.
Let go of needing to be right. Be faithful instead.

🕊 Final Word: Love One Another

“Love one another, labor willingly alongside each other.”

This is the center of it all.

The women of this movement are meant to be a cornerstone of Zion — not in dominance, but in unity. In softness and strength. In discernment and humility.

It’s not too late.
There is still clay.
There is still time.
There is still a house to be built.

Let’s become it.

Note: This reflection is shared in the spirit of learning and reconciliation. It is not meant to assign blame or categorize anyone. The women involved — in every role and on every side — labored with faith, hope, and sacrifice. This is a call to humility, healing, and collective return.

🎶 Why This Version:

I’ve always loved the original “True Colors” — 80s kid at heart — but this duet version touches something deeper. I hear it as a serenade from both my Heavenly Father and Mother, gently reminding me that I don’t have to hide. That softness, humility, and truth are beautiful. This is the spirit of the post: letting ourselves be seen, shaped, and built into something holy — together.

> “Your true colors are beautiful… like a rainbow.”

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