Searching for Truth
Opening the day, I’ was pondering yesterday’s experiences sharing personal aspects of The One Hypothesis with my Bishop and his wife, and later with the Rabbi. Let me give you the bottom line before laying in the background. I wonder if I had an opportunity to share the following with a congregation, would they grok > > Read More …
I believe The One Hypothesis to be correct. Generally, I try to include a reasonable degree of personal sacred experiences, erring on the side of slightly too much rather than too little, but certainly not everything. For a moment here, I turn off that filter. Filter off My morning prayer was singular. A few minutes > > Read More …
Well, duh. What took me so long to figure this one out? Rhetorical Question: how does one go about becoming one with the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost?
It is Christmas morning. Joy is in Vermont with Heather and the boys. Mitchell is in Clovis, NM. The rest of the family is in UT. The snow is lightly falling, adding to the pines’ now substantial flocked frock. Beautiful. Break-fast concluded the 40th day of this extended sequence of fasts. I do not feel > > 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 …
There have been many extraordinary attempts to create Zion that have ended in abject failure, some very recent. I would like to add my own to the list. Joy and I have invited a number of individuals who had a variety of needs into our home over the last year. Each was a unique experience. > > Read More …
We ended the last post thus: …If we presume that Heavenly Father wants us to initiate (spiritual) “age appropriate” dialogue… what does that sound like? How do we develop this kind of rapport? After all, virtually all prayers we hear within in the LDS tent are stuck within the confines of the four steps. As > > Read More …
Where to begin. Perhaps at the end. Heavenly Father has taught me that my understanding of prayer is wanting. Yes, even that. Oy Oy Oy. Rewinding a bit, yesterday I taught lesson 37 “Jesus Christ Teaches the Nephites to Pray” based primarily upon the text in 3 Nephi chapters 8 and 9. For context, 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 …