My Spiritual thoughts

With so much that has changed in the last several weeks. It gives us things to reflect and ponder on. Over a month ago many of us had our lives change over night. Things that were suppose to be always available were now gone. Some can no longer go to work, parks are closed, schools closed and cancelled, no one can go to church, and most businesses have been shut done unable to open. Stores that are allowed to be open are running low or are out of many things we took for granite. Now people are trying to figure out how to feed their families, pay their bills, mortgages/rent. People are stealing and fighting each other for what another has in their basket because it is something they want and need.  Many people are just trying to figure out how they are going to survive,  not just getting sick and how to keep everything afloat with no money coming in.  What are we facing?? A world wide shut down that started with a serious respiratory virus called CO...

This is a little late it was for Easter. When you go to pick a rose you usually prick your hand  on a thorn and quickly remove your hand, because it hurt. Imagine a crown being made form all those thorns and someone  pushing it down on your head and you couldn't get it off and you where in a lot of pain, but the people who put it there didn't care.      You are hammering a nail but you miss and hit you thumb. You cry out in pain and dance around and maybe say some not so nice words. Now, picture someone hammering large nails into your feet and hands. Your body weight pulls against them while  on a cross. The pain would be unbearable. We would not last long, but we were not the ones on the cross having to go through the pain. Our Savior Jesus Christ did. He did not do it for him but for us all. All our pain we may feel every day, he felt. As ihe endured he said to Our Father In Heaven "Forgive them for they know not what they do". Here he ...

A friend shared this with me. I found it very profound and true! Something to think about when dealing with life.... "I was taught this morning that our trials and adversity in life are comparable to a fast. Like a fast, we seek spiritual growth for a period of time in which we abstain from some comfort like food. We also make a sacrifice (a fast offering) in connection with our fasts. Adversity is designed for our spiritual growth, [in the premortal existence] we agreed to fast from deliverance for a period of time in a fallen state until we experienced the intended growth. At the end of our adversity and afflictions, our need for growth and food (deliverance) becomes intense. Our fast from deliverance and divine help ultimately brings the intended spiritual growth and the Lord finally intercedes . . .  I learned that exaltation does not mean an absence of sorrow; it means we can have a fullness of joy. Exalted beings choose to live in a manner where they experience a...