Searching for Truth
As I lay in bed pondering ordinances and yesterday’s clues, I wondered how I might share these things with my LDS brethren. I thought that a “lesson plan” might be constructed this way. Note: this is purely hypothetical. Write two columns on the board, with 10 rows per column with the title “Miracles.” Ask for > > Read More …
For reasons that will be readily be understood by some, I publish this post that was drafted on July 8, 2016, but never finished. Like so many different things, I never finished this or even shared it at the insistence of someone close to me. In addition to some of the questions below, I add, > > Read More …
Note: yes, that is intentional. While slightly off topic, one person I know thought for many years that part of the temple symbolism represented “One Great Hole,” and wondered when that concept would make sense to her. While I knew better than she what it meant, I wasn’t much further ahead (though in my arrogance, > > Read More …
Follow-on to Oh God and Oh God (2) No ontology is perfect, some are useful. This still fluid (open for improvement). Clearly needs comment/feedback/critique…. Stepping back very briefly to say the obvious, we Mormons have been taught to pray this way: Address Heavenly Father Thank Him for our blessings Ask Him for the things we > > Read More …
Note: continuation of That Thy Burdens May Be Light One could readily misinterpret the prior post to imply: the gifts of God are binary (while scripture and experience would indicate degree); and being equally yoked means having identical gifts of identical degree (self-evidently absurd). It is too easy to abdicate personal responsibility to nourish/succor/develop one’s > > Read More …
Note: I have held this draft off since Aug 20-23, hoping to complete more of Part I…. Time to rethink what is included in the various parts, as additional insights are being layered on…. This last two weeks I have found myself focused on begging the Lord to purify and sanctify me, to complete my > > Read More …
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!(Matthew 23:37) While driving the white Civic to Joy in Vermont, I listened several times to 3Ne > > Read More …
While I had no specific date set for concluding my fasting, it seemed that two weeks ago, yesterday, would be a good time. I had been richly blessed, and had felt to express my gratitude. The problem was that during the course of fasting, I received even greater spiritual blessings. I was trapped. And secondly, > > Read More …
Note: while this post is not dependent on Part 1, that would provide context not included here. The Glory of God is Intelligence… The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth. (Doctrine and Covenants 93:36) So, what did I really learn at the conference? Well, as usual, it is somewhat > > Read More …
Let’s dispense with the idea that our God has one and only one (i.e., “The”) purpose for the church. Let us set aside — without necessarily objecting to — some previously purported propositions for the purpose of the church (e.g., “the three-fold mission of the church,” “the work of salvation,” “bringing us to Christ”, “to > > Read More …