mikbone

Every verse starts with a sad situation and ends in triumph.  How is that depressing?  Verse 7 may be the ultimate lesson of the hymn, but in a way, I think the end of verse 6 is:
This is what it means to "overcome" - and we're all here to learn to overcome, to train our free spirit to tell our weak flesh and chill blood to get over it, cuz we're doin' this.

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My Spotify playlist for the day.

Have you perused the links in the Scripture Citation Index?  (Link should take you to 2 Nephi 3.)

The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS is the only church with the true priesthood and living ordinances.
It obviously has not cornered the market on truth, or righteousness though.

Yeah, once again, the Bee reflects reality.   The show is called "Hazbin Hotel", season 1 fresh out on Amazon Prime.  Most of the story takes place in hell, but the angels are the bad guys.  Our heroine, daughter of Lucifer Morningstar, and her girlfriend Vaggie, on their quest to find a way for sinners to be rehabilitated and allowed into Heaven, via her Hotel.  What's currently happening is Heaven's yearly assault, where the angels come down and massacre wayward souls due to Hell's overpopulation.  The angels don't want anything to do with her nefarious plot.  
I am sad, because I absolutely love whimsical eclectic animated shows with catchy songs, but I'm so turned off by the plot and worldbuilding, I am unable to enjoy it.  Songs by Parry Gripp (we raised our kids on his songs).  I'm a fan of several of the voice actors.  The animation is unique.  The characters are instantly relatable.  And I can't for the life of me find a way to enjoy the show, because it's entire reason for existing is to call good evil, and evil good.  I've been known to wade through a manure pile in order to find a precious gem, but this is simply too much.
 
(Mikbone's playlist, however, is top notch!  Grabbing it now.)

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My Spotify playlist for the day.

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My Spotify playlist for the day.

One of those rare perfect albums.
 
 

 

My stewardship is over myself, my spouse and our children at home.
None of my children have dared to explain to me how the spirit had prompted them to avoid church services.
And if that did hypothetically happen, I’m sure that it would not go over well.
Adult children can do as they wish though.  One of my sons left the church (served as an AP on his mission too).  I gave him some counsel but he is grown man and can do as he wishes.  D&C 121:37

So, then, not real degrees. 😋

I have been a capitalization minimalist* since I started writing professionally. Pronouns for Deity were one of the first things I decided could live just fine without being capitalized. So it's actually more than a tiny change for me. But several months ago when I noticed the Church capitalizing divine pronouns, I kind of got conflicted. This battle has been raging inside my mind and spirit for a while now. So while I still have misgivings, I'm relieved of the burden of the emotional and moral struggle.
(I'm obviously speaking tongue-in-cheek, but there is more than just a tiny hint of truth-in-jest in my words.)
*I was going to write "I had been a big capitalization minimalist...", but there seemed to be too many internal conflicts, so I simplified. Very expository/technical writing-ish of me.
By the way, did you know where the term "upper case" comes from, as in upper-case letters? It comes from early typesetting, where type was kept in wooden cases, typically two of them, stacked over the desk where the type was set. The normal miniscule (small) letters were stored in the lower case (and so are sometimes called lowercase letters), and the majuscule (big) letters were stored in—dum, da da DUUUUUUM!—the upper case. So those were the upper-case letters.
In programming, people refer to programming languages and such as being "case sensitive", which just means that a programming language will distinguish between the capital form of a letter and the small (minuscule, or lowercase) form of the same letter, seeing them as two different things. (E.g. a variable named vort will be different from a variable named Vort, or from a variable named VORT, or vOrT, or whatever.) So the idea of "case" has come to mean one of two different ways of writing a given letter, the big way (upper-case) or the small way (lowercase). Strange that a word takes on a meaning radically different from its actual root just because it's used in an expression. Strange, but common.
Also, it sort of bothers me that the non-hyphenated "lowercase" has become de rigeur, but "upper-case" seems to remain hyphenated (or two separate words). I think the problem lies with "lowercase", a portmandeau that serves no obvious purpose but to put a space out of work, but since that's not likely to change, I need to adapt or die. I'll probably do both within a few years or decades. More than doing it like how I would do it, they should just standardize on a way. (The great "they". You know, the people who decide such things.)

The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS is the only church with the true priesthood and living ordinances.
It obviously has not cornered the market on truth, or righteousness though.

I’m wondering who did his mission physical exam.
I do my own children missionary H&Ps and one of my boys had a fast heart rate.  I sent him to get a cardiology consult.

@Travelerwill be tickled pink.

The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS is the only church with the true priesthood and living ordinances.
It obviously has not cornered the market on truth, or righteousness though.

As you know, Easter Sunday this year falls on April Fool's day.
So here's the idea. Whereas normally, on the Saturday night before Easter Sunday, you put on your Easter Bunny outfit (real or metaphorical) and hide chocolate eggs all over the house for the kids to search for on Easter morning, this time... you don't. Then in the morning, after the kids have searched fruitlessly for about an hour, you shout "April Fool!"
Not only will your kids find this a "delightfully amusing" prank, you'll save money on Easter eggs too!

Shift it back, brother.  Here's what the Lord himself said:
The Lord himself "wrote" this section of the D&C, so let's not suggest that Jesus Christ did not know what he was talking about.
Don't know any sane person who suggested otherwise.  Even God didn't do that:
Clearly the Lord expects us to seek out learning from wherever we can find it (as well as from him).
Yes, it is wholly true that:
No other church on the earth has the Priesthood of Jesus Christ, nor his ordinances and covenants.
I submit that this person didn't follow the instructions (or see my text below the link):
Some of us don't want the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, some of us aren't ready for it yet or like to do things the hard way (and maybe need to experience evil longer before we can recognize the good), and some of us love Satan more than God.  (And whatever other combination of variables I'm not thinking of.)
Jesus Christ does not send people (other than Satan and his minions) away, ever.
(Explicit verses above, but the scripture are full of little else than Christ inviting people to come unto him.  He will let them come as far and via whatever convoluted or tortured path they choose, but they are always invited to come fully unto him, and that path is not complete until one has entered into the House of the Lord, received ordinances, made covenants, and then kept those covenants to the end.)

The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS is the only church with the true priesthood and living ordinances.
It obviously has not cornered the market on truth, or righteousness though.

The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS is the only church with the true priesthood and living ordinances.
It obviously has not cornered the market on truth, or righteousness though.

I like to sleep at night.  And I believe in following the commandments including being honest in dealing with our fellow man.
It’s not your duty to get him a more lenient or harsh legal finding. 
But if you did not directly witness the event then frankly it ain’t your business.

I like to sleep at night.  And I believe in following the commandments including being honest in dealing with our fellow man.
It’s not your duty to get him a more lenient or harsh legal finding. 
But if you did not directly witness the event then frankly it ain’t your business.

I like to sleep at night.  And I believe in following the commandments including being honest in dealing with our fellow man.
It’s not your duty to get him a more lenient or harsh legal finding. 
But if you did not directly witness the event then frankly it ain’t your business.