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Quotes
- Prayer
"If
prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer
leave also."
-- Boyd K. Packer, Ensign,
Sept. 1973, p.38
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FairMaiden
I totally understand you thoughts and position, one should never put ones trust in a book or in someone who has long since died. I was at that point before I found the light, as one can put it. Though I grew up with a special closeness to God and the Spirit. I guess I can best describe myself, as being like the Father in Fiddler on the Roof movie, who often while walking or working was talking to God.
The only real test of a book, a deceased person, or even one alive today, is the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit, or etc. As one might choose to call it.
We have to run with what we feel, so often we dismiss what we really feel deep down inside, so overwhelmed by the louder noise of people and modern life. At the time I found what I wanted, I was studying all types of religions and Christian Church's, but could not come to any real conclusions, except I found a narrow line of truth flowing through all of them.
Not finding what I wanted, I started to from my own beliefs from what I had read over my life and in the intense research quest. Then one day, while heading to the cafeteria in our local Junior College, almost 40 years ago. I was headed to buy my usual then, a deep fried crunchy burrito. In the foyer felt a strong prompting of the Spirit, it said stop and give these two young men in white shirts and ties some attention, they have something for you. I dismissed the Spirits promptings and went to eat with my friends. In short, got my food, sat with my friends, but could not sit there long, the feeling the Spirit were too strong.
I got up and went back, and found out that they were missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint; a Christian Religion I had not come across before in my religious studies. I looked at their pamphlets, tracts and posters, and felt the strongest prompting of the Spirit then I had ever felt, in recent time, back then.
They showed me a Book of Mormon, had never heard of that before either, but when I read it, the Spirit bore testimony that it was the Word of God. I took a book home, read it, took the lessons and join the Church.
I find that eventually we all find what we want badly enough in life, good or bad. Truly, we become what we think and desire, and we tend to seek our own level, much like thing in nature. In seeking for truth, one needs to discard what you have been taught and think is true or correct. That was part of Christ point in the parable, putting wine in a old and a new sheep skin. The old skin, cannot adjust to the new wine, and cause it to burst.
The main thing is to be true to your feelings and those from the Spirit, and live what you understand, if you do, you will progress. The guidance is from within, we all have the abilities to see what is true, if we let it function, and over ridden by outside influences.
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