Soul Music Podcast - Coventry Carol
3 Ways to Share the Light of Christ in a Darkening World
Four Gifts that Jesus Christ Offers You
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Christmas Links
Friday, December 25, 2020
Christmas Links
Jimmy Stewart's Other Christmas Movie
And since I didn't see a link to somewhere to stream Mr. Krueger's Christmas in the first story, I'll embed a video here for the time being:
Plus some pretty music:
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Long-Procrastinated Piece To Be Titled Later
Every so often, I learn (usually through facebook) that somebody I used to know has been having struggles with their testimony. My response to such news usually involves an evaluation of my own testimony. As I was doing so several weeks ago - definitely over a month, but I can't say exactly how long - I did as the Lord directed Oliver Cowdery to do and cast my mind back to the sure communications I had received. And I realized something.
My strongest confirmation had changed.
As a young teenager, I bore my testimony in seminary. On this particular occasion, I clearly remembered the confirmation I had received upon praying about the Book of Mormon after I finished reading all the way through for the first time. It had only been a couple years earlier, so that makes sense. During my recentish personal inventory, I remembered that such an event had occurred, but the intervening years had majorly eroded the impression.
I now have a different most clear and vivid witness that the Lord wants me in this church, along with a few newer, subtler messages confirming the same thing.
I have often heard in church that gaining a testimony isn't something that you just do once and check it off your list. You have to continually work at building and strengthening it. I had understood that you need to be continually strengthening it because life is going to get more challenging, so you need a firmer foundation. But now I see an additional reason in that memory fades. And as memories fade, so, too, can the knowledge the events brought you.
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I intended to wait a week or two, then write this up and post it. Obviously, I didn't get to it quite that quickly. Then this morning, I decided I would definitely get to it today.
My strongest confirmation had changed.
As a young teenager, I bore my testimony in seminary. On this particular occasion, I clearly remembered the confirmation I had received upon praying about the Book of Mormon after I finished reading all the way through for the first time. It had only been a couple years earlier, so that makes sense. During my recentish personal inventory, I remembered that such an event had occurred, but the intervening years had majorly eroded the impression.
I now have a different most clear and vivid witness that the Lord wants me in this church, along with a few newer, subtler messages confirming the same thing.
I have often heard in church that gaining a testimony isn't something that you just do once and check it off your list. You have to continually work at building and strengthening it. I had understood that you need to be continually strengthening it because life is going to get more challenging, so you need a firmer foundation. But now I see an additional reason in that memory fades. And as memories fade, so, too, can the knowledge the events brought you.
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I intended to wait a week or two, then write this up and post it. Obviously, I didn't get to it quite that quickly. Then this morning, I decided I would definitely get to it today.
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Christmas Links
I'm changing things up a tiny bit this year and including a couple videos directly in the post instead of just linking to them.
Monday, December 25, 2017
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Living in a Book
One of the blurbs on the back of Stephenie Meyer's book The Chemist says in part that "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there."
Well, I for one would not enjoy that at all. First she gave us the Twilight books. Vampires, shape-shifters, and werewolves. All of them get their lives pretty disrupted. Okay, maybe life as one of the background characters would be alright, but I don't see how their lives would be any better than my own.
Then we've got the post-apocalyptic world in The Host. I have yet to find any post-apocalyptic world more appealing than my current reality.
And next comes The Chemist. The characters in this book have a kill-or-be-killed existence for the majority of the story, with a touch of living in hiding, constantly looking over their shoulders. Still not something I'd choose.
If I did have to climb inside a book and live there, I think I'd have to go with a straight romance genre. Their misfortunes tend to be along the lines of lost jobs, minor accidents, and miscommunication. I'm not really eager to experience such things, but at least I'm not highly likely to die from them. Plus, I have a pretty good chance of finding true love in the bargain.
Well, I for one would not enjoy that at all. First she gave us the Twilight books. Vampires, shape-shifters, and werewolves. All of them get their lives pretty disrupted. Okay, maybe life as one of the background characters would be alright, but I don't see how their lives would be any better than my own.
Then we've got the post-apocalyptic world in The Host. I have yet to find any post-apocalyptic world more appealing than my current reality.
And next comes The Chemist. The characters in this book have a kill-or-be-killed existence for the majority of the story, with a touch of living in hiding, constantly looking over their shoulders. Still not something I'd choose.
If I did have to climb inside a book and live there, I think I'd have to go with a straight romance genre. Their misfortunes tend to be along the lines of lost jobs, minor accidents, and miscommunication. I'm not really eager to experience such things, but at least I'm not highly likely to die from them. Plus, I have a pretty good chance of finding true love in the bargain.
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