tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521869724995568339.post5613615451352399585..comments2023-10-24T08:55:20.042-04:00Comments on In perpetuum: All things made upHeather Sandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00771730375740644182noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521869724995568339.post-45335562830439439782009-09-21T16:02:23.877-04:002009-09-21T16:02:23.877-04:00Heather... I found your blog on facebook and have ...Heather... I found your blog on facebook and have enjoyed reading it. I know this post is "old" but I had to comment... When I read it, these quotes came to mind. <br /><br />"God, the Father of us all, uses the men of the earth, especially good men, to accomplish his purposes. It has been true in the past, it is true today, it will be true in the future. <br /><br />"'Perhaps the Lord needs such men on the outside of His Church to help it along,' said the late Elder Orson F. Whitney of the Quorum of the Twelve. 'They are among its auxiliaries, and can do more good for the cause where the Lord has placed them, than anywhere else. . . . Hence, some are drawn into the fold and receive a testimony of the truth; while others remain unconverted . . . the beauties and glories of the gospel being veiled temporarily from their view, for a wise purpose. The Lord will open their eyes in His own due time. God is using more than one people for the accomplishment of His great and marvelous work. The Latter-day Saints cannot do it all. It is too vast, too arduous for any one people. . . . We have no quarrel with the Gentiles. They are our partners in a certain sense.'" (Conference Report, April 1928, p. 59.) Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign, July 1972.<br /><br />"Many of the most important deprivations of mortality will be set right in the Millennium, which is the time for fulfilling all that is incomplete in the great plan of happiness for all of our Father's worthy children. We know that will be true of temple ordinances. I believe it will also be true of family relationships and experiences. (Dallin H. Oaks, "The Great Plan of Happiness," Ensign, Nov. 1993, p. 75)<br /><br />"Another idea that is powerful to lift us from discouragement is that the work of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "to bring to pass the … eternal life of man" (Moses 1:39), is an eternal work. Not all problems are overcome and not all needed relationships are fixed in mortality. The work of salvation goes on beyond the veil of death, and we should not be too apprehensive about incompleteness within the limits of mortality." (Dallin H. Oaks, "Powerful Ideas," Ensign, Nov. 1995, p. 26)AIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02657534153994050760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521869724995568339.post-16490229688034398762009-01-06T17:13:00.000-05:002009-01-06T17:13:00.000-05:00Thank you for this post. This has been on my mind...Thank you for this post. This has been on my mind for a while. I have wondered if the choices we make it leads us to question our faith,or if it is the lack of faith that causes us to make the choices we do. Some people will search harder than I ever will and they will not have any confirmation of the truthfulness of the gospel. I don't understand why it has to be so hard for some people, why they have these enormous trials in their lives.<BR/><BR/>I know God knows our hearts, and knows us well enough to know what we need and in his plan it will make sense, but it doesn't to me at this time. If everyone has an equal chance to accept the gospel, it sure doesn't seem like it to me. I realize that this is my very limited view at this plan and I do have faith it will work out, but I cannot understand the logistics of it.Destinyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10665787477143860775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521869724995568339.post-45400118795892578252009-01-05T15:17:00.000-05:002009-01-05T15:17:00.000-05:00I've been thinking about this post since the momen...I've been thinking about this post since the moment I read it (shortly after you put it online). It's complex and challenging, and makes some great points about faith and spirituality.<BR/><BR/>I've been wondering for quite some time about an issue that's perhaps parallel to the one you write about. Why isn't God's message to mankind (the good news of the gospel) so much clearer? I mean, no one religion occupies the hearts of a majority of the inhabitants of the earth. If a testimony of God's word is so extremely important, why didn't God create a world/culture/technology that could reach broad and deep into humanity? So many people live and die without even knowing who Christ is, not to mention those who live and die without knowing about the Restoration. That seems to be problematic to me.<BR/><BR/>One thing that has stood out to me over the years—something that I cling to very tightly at times—is a quote from Preach My Gospel that my mom pointed out. My mom lived in the Philippines for several years, and seeing the poverty and disease had a deep impact on her. During her study of Preach My Gospel she read:<BR/><BR/>All that is unfair in this life shall be made up for by the atonement of Jesus Christ in the next.<BR/><BR/>Something like that. I think/want/hope the same principle to apply to matters of faith and spirituality. Whatever might be deficient in this life can be made more than sufficient (if not here then in the next life) through the atonement of Christ.<BR/><BR/>Just some thoughts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com