October 21, 2007

  • Catharsis

    I just wrote a protected post and decided that all of you public post people haven't read a post in quite some time and probably miss it.

    This past weekend was intensely spiritual for me.  Saturday night a good friend made me and some other friends dinner and then we watched a bunch of movies and drank hot vanilla and it was awesome.  I didn't get home until 3 in the morning.  And once I got home, I was feeling too good to fall asleep, so I prayed.  It was a really powerful experience.  I had been seeking answers, and the answer came.  I let go of all my expectations and demands, and just let myself feel the way I wanted to feel.  And I carried the philosophy over to Church this morning.  I went and felt good.  I felt spiritual.  I felt uplifted.  I enjoyed Church more than I have enjoyed it in a very long time.

    One of the things that I read today in Church that really touched me is in Moses chapter 6.  It really made the plan of salvation hit home.  Suddenly my priorities shifted and what was important fell into place.

    And the Lord spake unto Adam, saying. . . teach it unto your children, that all men, everywhere, must repent, or they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God, for no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell in his presence; for, . . . by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall bringeth
    death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by water, and blood,
    and the spirit, which I have made, and so became of dust a living soul, even so ye must be born again into the kingdom of heaven, of water,
    and of the Spirit, and be cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine
    Only Begotten; that ye might be sanctified from all sin, and enjoy the words of eternal life in this world, and eternal life in the world to come, even immortal glory; For by the water ye keep the commandment; by the Spirit ye are justified, and by the blood ye are sanctified; Therefore it is given to abide in you; the record of heaven; the Comforter; the peaceable
    things of immortal glory; the truth of all things; that which
    quickeneth all things, which maketh alive all things; that which
    knoweth all things, and hath all power according to wisdom, mercy, truth, justice, and judgment.  And now, behold, I say unto you: This is the plan of salvation unto all men, through the blood of mine Only Begotten, who shall come in the meridian of time.

    And behold, all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear
    record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are
    spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are
    on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are
    under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me. And it came to pass, when the Lord had spoken with Adam, our father, that Adam cried unto the Lord, and he was caught away by the Spirit of the Lord, and was carried down into the water, and was laid under the water, and was brought forth out of the water. And thus he was baptized, and the Spirit of God descended upon him, and thus he was born of the Spirit, and became quickened in the inner man.  And he heard a voice out of heaven, saying: Thou art baptized with fire, and with the Holy Ghost. This is the record of the Father, and the Son, from henceforth and forever; And thou art after the order of him who was without beginning of days or end of years, from all eternity to all eternity.  Behold, thou art one in me, a son of God; and thus may all become my sons. Amen.