tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post2021620534446194703..comments2023-12-24T06:02:46.333-07:00Comments on The Perfect Day: 08. Linking unprecedented faith with this unprecedented visionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-89692207097752814602013-10-07T06:44:32.995-06:002013-10-07T06:44:32.995-06:00I love the imagery you just gave me of cartwheels....I love the imagery you just gave me of cartwheels. Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07729691287229935563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-53086950253353707672013-10-03T22:26:54.417-06:002013-10-03T22:26:54.417-06:00I love these inspiring ideas. I love what I am lea...I love these inspiring ideas. I love what I am learning. We were meant to know more, see more! The things that the Lord has in store for us is more than we can imagine. The Lord does not want to keep us from these things, but rather desires us to draw nearer and nearer through obedience. Lexeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03204014124593219176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-55405637682885148662013-10-03T15:56:51.992-06:002013-10-03T15:56:51.992-06:00The picture you included at the beginning of the p...The picture you included at the beginning of the post is an interesting one . . . it evoked an image in my mind of a toddler, working her way back to her parents through some obstacle, as her parents grew more and more excited and proud at their daughter's accomplishment. And I thought: how are we any different from the toddler? How is God any different from those parents?<br /><br />I have long loved and respected Elder Holland. His fiery passion for scripture, his sense of humor, and the depth of his sincerity have always touched me. He is a man after my own heart. And yet, when he "As a rule, prophets are invited into the presence of the Lord, are bidden to enter His presence by Him and only with His sanction," I paused. Who? When? What prophet hasn't been seeking the Lord, or wrestling spiritually with some ponderous dilemma just before a visitation? Aren't we all invited to come into the presence of the Lord, both in scripture and the temple? What prophet has been called into the Lord's presence who has not already been earnestly seeking Him?<br /><br />It's my personal feeling that Mahonri's faith was truly wonderful . . . but that it's not beyond anyone else's capacity. Has anyone else noticed that the Book of Mormon uses superlatives to convey extremity, ("Never was there a happier people," etc.), and more than once for the same type of thing? I have to wonder if the phrasing is something common to their Hebrew/Reformed Egyptian literature, and has a little of the archetypal in it, as opposed to the atypical; if the Lord used that phrase because it conveyed the superlative quality of Mahonri's faith, rather than indicating that no one had ever had that much faith before.<br /><br />I'm not trying to diminish Mahonri's faith, or the state of someone's heart necessary in order to behold Jesus Christ . . . just thinking that, in our Western minds, it's nearly automatic to set someone like Mahonri up as a special case; someone who did something so unique that he was the only one (or one of a very few) who could do what he did. When, in reality, our Lord would be doing cartwheels if thousands of us got with the program and thrust ourselves through the veil in that very way.<br /><br />Anyway, just some thoughts . . . Annaleahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12964274663555911996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-27353792435129109442013-10-03T11:12:14.474-06:002013-10-03T11:12:14.474-06:00That kind of faith is extraordinary, isn't it?...That kind of faith is extraordinary, isn't it? The fact that it is available to each of us as we shed our ungodliness and build our faith is even more extraordinary! <br />How wonderful is our Father in Heaven!?<br />How intricate and perfectly woven are His plans for each of us! We can only comprehend a glimmer of what he has in store for us (if that) unless we continually humble ourselves and have an eye single to His glory and love.<br />Thank you for your post! Natalinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985858969287915197.post-34542517354672199432013-10-03T09:51:50.097-06:002013-10-03T09:51:50.097-06:00This is a wonderful example of the varied and expl...This is a wonderful example of the varied and explicit fashion the Lord allows us to come unto his presence. He loves us and wants us to know him. TgharrisonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com