So, today I got a chance to go to the Mt. Timpanogos Utah Temple in American Fork, Utah. Anyway, it was storming outside today, the opposite of the weather in the picture below. The Temple (like all temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) is considered to be the house of God, a place where he can dwell and for that reason only members of the Church who are living a life considered consistently in line with God's commandments are permitted to enter. There they receive ordinances for themselves and do work for those who have died. It's a special place. I always feel at peace when I think things out in these houses of God. I love them. :)
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So today I received permission to take 3 weeks off to visit my girlfriend in Argentina and also to attend my sister's wedding. My boss is great. :) I'm grateful for her. I don't ever get tired of the following video done by BYU's Divine Comedy. They are a skit troupe who have moved into YouTube Video musicals. This one is my favorite one yet. It's well but together, has creative lyrics and is entertaining to watch. Enjoy! Have you ever wondered why the Atonement of Jesus Christ was necessary? What's the big deal? I find I do not ask that question when I make a mistake and need His healing power to make me feel whole and new again. Isn't it amazing? Isn't it astounding that one man's (or half-man's) suffering could allow the price of many men and women's mistakes to be paid? Only a God (or a Son of God and of man) could possibly do that. That's what's astounding as well. I love my God and my Savior Jesus, He is amazing for caring about me so much to pay a price so I could return to His heavenly kingdom.It's astounding as I've already said. May you learn to reach to Jesus in your times of need and learn that He is always there and that the price of peace, joy, and happiness has already been paid. That's why Jesus came and that's why He suffered and died, so that we ALL may enjoy the blessings and the joy without having to pay the awful price see D&C 19: 15-20:
[15 Therefore I command you to repent—repent, lest I smite you by the rod of my mouth, and by my wrath, and by my anger, and your sufferings be sore—how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not. 16For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; 17But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; 18Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink-- 19Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men. 20Wherefore, I command you again to repent, lest I humble you with my almighty power; and that you confess your sins, lest you suffer these punishments of which I have spoken, of which in the smallest, yea, even in the least degree you have tasted at the time I withdrew my Spirit.] So, in the end, I have much to learn about life, suffering, death, pain, forgiveness, and peace. I have only just begun my journey. I sense pain, misery, misfortune, trial, unkindess, hatred, venom, weakness, disease and many other things in my future. I feel and believe they will be as much a part of my life as they are part of almost everyone else's life, especially the best men and woman whom have ever lived. yet, I sense joy, happiness, pleasantness, peace, fulfillment, grace, greatness, success, and happiness in the future as well and recognize that the two go hand in hand. "It must needs be there is an opposition in all things" the scripture says, "if not...righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad.Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility" (2 Nephi 2:11). Anyway, there is a purpose to life and thus in order for there to be a purpose there must exist the lack or failing to reach that purpose as well. There is good and there is bad in this world. We get to choose which we hold to. And that which we hold to makes up what our life is, what it becomes and what we become as well. It is important to come to understand this purpose of life. And through the Lord of the Universe and this Earth, Jesus Christ, one will understand that greater purpose and who the it is who make it possible for there to be a life or any life at all, the Bread of Life and the Living Water, Jesus Christ. This blog is going to be about how I view the world. It'll focus on global, philosophical, political, religious or any other topic I feel like talking about. There will likely be little structure to the content except for the seeing how my mind thinks and what it focuses on.
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AuthorI'm an average-looking not-so-average Mormon Utah boy who loves Jesus, my family and all of God's children on this planet. I like tennis & basketball, love singing and am obsessed with learning; I also find contentment in making new friends each day. Improvement is where it's at. Archives
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