Searching for Truth
“I Hate Waiting” -or- Fighting the Clock
What do these have in common? Come, Let Us Adore Him, Chapter 6, Bookends, Denver Snuffer The Chosen, Episode 5 Psalm 37 D&C 121, 122, 123 Two things: All relate to submitting to God’s timetable. All were stumbled/reflected upon two weeks ago within a 48 hour period and resolved many months of frustrations, reflections, yearnings, > > Read More …
Three Questionable Topics
During this morning’s reading, these disparate ideas came to mind. Music ordained? There is a phrase of a symphony caressing this soul in conjunction with the subsequent question, but it remains unidentified. Curiously, with it comes the thought: why does our music have 12 (chromatic, 1/2 step) tones, and why does the major (Ionian) scale > > Read More …
Three Educational Metaphors
It seems that all three of these have never been “put out there.” So, with little explanation or elaboration: The First Educational Metaphor While labeled differently, this was previously discussed in https://www.celestial.life/2016/05/educational-system-metaphor/ What man upon receiving a PhD looks with derision upon a kindergartner, knowing that his knowledge is superior? The Second Educational Metaphor Context: > > Read More …
A Bad Dream
Note: this should have been written much earlier in the year…. I rarely wake up due to fear. In this case, being jerked to wakefulness came because of an absence of fear, when there clearly should have been. It was a simple, respectful, intellectually invigorating conversation. Across the table, the impeccably dressed man in black > > Read More …
My Longest Mile
Perhaps the measure of our sincerity is measured best through tribulation. For the first time ever, Joy and I participated in a march. In this case, a march to the steps of the Alabama Capitol. This isn’t the kind of thing one wants to do in the middle of a gout flareup in conjunction with > > Read More …
It Was An Unusual Dream
The story isn’t really relevant, but you probably won’t believe that without a snippet. No interpretation or explanation is offered. I was in a second-to-third world classroom (yeah, one of those) with about 40 students sitting at tables. There was a reading. There was a lesson. There was a discussion. The instructor suggested that all > > Read More …
Pride Is So Insidious
Why should I be bothered if someone quoted me. The lack of citation? Misconstruing and misrepresenting the fundamental point? Or is it because I presume in them a degree of pride for having used the idea to establish an air of authority. Probably all of the above, and more. Here is the hypothesis: The church > > Read More …
An Unforgettable Conference
I have wondered ever since President Nelson said, …the year 2020 will be designated as a bicentennial year. General conference next April will be different from any previous conference. …general conference next April will be not only memorable; it will be unforgettable. 2019, October, Russell M. Nelsonᵈ, ‘Closing Remarks,’ Liahona, November 2019, ¶¶ 38, 40 > > Read More …
Weekly Whine
Will there ever come a time when I no longer loath writing? Consider this note written to my children on Sunday, November 30, 2008 (highlight added). The big news this week: I finished [my] second “reformat the Book of Mormon” project. This time, it reads in more of a paragraph form. I wouldn’t have expected > > Read More …