I'm reading Standing for Something by President Gordon B. Hinckley (my favorite prophet, by the way!), and he talks about love and the power it has to change lives. This is not some corny thing we're talking about here - the idyllic whimsy of fairy tales. This is the real thing. The world is a really scary place. Why? Most of it has to do with the lack of love and caring for each other, and the reckless abandon many treat people with. Treat is almost too kind a word - they attack people or use them for their own purposes, "tak[ing] the advantage...and digging a pit for [their] neighbor" (2 Nephi 28:8). The world is the worse for the lack of love and is the better for the love that we find in small patches throughout it. In reality, the adage "all we need is love" has a lot of truth to it. If all we did were seasoned by the true caring that it ought to be, then what an amazing place this would be.
My favorite quote from this book so far (I'm on page 9): "Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself."
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thank goodness for footnotes
Numbers, Chapter 25:4 - I totally thought that God had told the people to literally hang all the heads of the people in the blazing sun. He really meant just the leaders (the cheiftains, i.e., "the heads") of the people should be hung. Leaders under the sanction of God will not be allowed to lead His people astray.
Numbers, Chapter 24
It is amazing to me that a man who is the king of a country would think that doing the same thing over and over again would produce a different result. Isn't that the definition of insanity?
We should come to accept that the Lord knows the beginning from the end and vice versa, so asking more than once is not going to bring a different answer. We are not going to convince the Lord to give us an answer other than the one He knows to be correct (though he may allow us to do things to our detriment at times as he did in with Joseph Smith in the instance of the 116 lost pages), and He knows all.
We should learn to listen and accept, as hard as that may be at times.
We should come to accept that the Lord knows the beginning from the end and vice versa, so asking more than once is not going to bring a different answer. We are not going to convince the Lord to give us an answer other than the one He knows to be correct (though he may allow us to do things to our detriment at times as he did in with Joseph Smith in the instance of the 116 lost pages), and He knows all.
We should learn to listen and accept, as hard as that may be at times.
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