The CNN version of the Gospel
If you are relying on other people’s reporting of their experience with the Gospel, you don’t have knowledge, just someone else’s opinion.
Is Heavenly Father a firefighter or police?
We expect Heavenly Father to answer prayers like a firefighter, sometimes it is more like police. The difference is a perception few consider.
This is all President Nelson’s fault
All of everything we have been going through is President Nelson’s fault, the president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
…to believe on their words
I am an empiricist, so “knowing” God and the gospel is true has always been a struggle. Then I found the scripture that told me that I am okay.
Why I fail
I have failed at pretty much everything I do, despite being able to do pretty much anything I want. It is a difficult pill to swallow, but now I know why.
Character, like a beautiful flower, grows from dirt
We accept a flower grows out of dirt and fertilizer, but we reject someone’s character because of their past, essentially contradicting the metaphor.
What is hope?
In 2013 I had my Enos moment, where I fell down and begged God’s forgiveness for my sins. I was...
If I listened to them
If we listen to our critics and the demons that say we aren’t good enough, we become that reality.
Hate and the darkness within
If love is a choice, so is hate. I am struggling with not hating; struggling with choosing to not hate....
Our two-part, three-part self
We are told we are two components, but we are actually three, hence the the feeling we are always inundated with temptation and hardship. Once we identify what this third part of us is, we can begin to calibrate it to the will of God.