Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple Dedication
I went to the 9 am session at my stake center in Provo. I had an amazing experience and felt reassured as to both the validity of the gospel message and the sincerity of so many of the brethren that serve us. Elder Spencer V. Jones’ sermon was especially moving to me. Anybody else attend that session? Thoughts?
S. Michael Wilcox: The diversion of wealth
“Wilcox quoted Elder Melvin J. Ballard, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve in the 1920s and ’30s.
‘I recognize … with my brethren that the sorest trials that have ever come to the church in any age of the world are the trials of peace and prosperity,” Elder Ballard said in an address in 1929. “But we are going to do a new thing. A thing that has never been done before. We are going to take the church of Christ not only through the age of persecution and mob violence, we are going to take the church through peace and prosperity. … It was not the design and intention of the Lord to have his people always in suffering, bondage and distress. They will come to peace and prosperity, but it will be the sorest trial that will ever come to them.’ “
After a sun faded my breath
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After a sun faded my breath
After my breath pondered death
Ray of light innocuously clean
Severed me from shadow
Engendered the scene
Of souls, symbols, and supplements
Filled with cathartic gleam
Dead clouds blow my spirit into a cave
There disembodied
Dampness held me a slave
To meditate upon the richness of day
To fade as a day
As a breath in the fray
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19 July 2009
Sacrament thoughts (7 June 2009)
Blessed bread and water become a covenant, transmitted by hand to tongue to heart, mind, & spirit.
We eat and drink His sacrifice as a way to prove adherence, assimilation, emulation, of His ways and characteristics.
We become Christ-like week by week, line upon line, sip by sip, as we partake of His godly glory and savor the taste of freedom.
Child Gods?
I was reading Stan Larson’s amalgamation of the King Follett discourse this morning and came across this portion of Joseph Smith’s sermon which I had never recalled previously:
A question about parents receiving their children. Will mothers have their children in eternity? Yes! Yes! Mothers, you will have your children. For they will have it without price; for their debt of redemption is paid. There is no damnation awaiting them for they are in the spirit. But as the child dies, so will it rise from the dead and be living in the burning of God and possessing all the intelligence of a God. It will never grow, it will be the child in its precise form as it was before it died out of your arms. Children dwell and exercise power, throne upon throne, dominion upon dominion, in the same form just as you laid them down. Eternity is full of thrones upon which dwell thousands of children, reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to their stature.
Am I reading this too literally, or is he indicating there are children who reign as gods in the celestial glory? Seems similar to some Egyptian lore to me.
Names of the Representatives Who Served in the Utah Territorial Legislature
Utah Territorial Statehouse
This is a little research on Utah history and happened upon some fascinating facts. I happened to throw it into a spreadsheet for whoever may find it interesting or useful. The file I posted is a PDF of the spreadsheet:
Sacrament thoughts (31 May 2009)
Photo by John Garrard
An open sphere creates another home, and opened hearths open one more.
Two hands, one clasp, open one million half-spheres and one placed mansion rights deep in Hubble’s empty space.
Olive oil in ionized glass fires forward in a generation of worlds.
Crowning hands hand a throne to closed eyes, spheres veiled, and four hands raised to remembrance catch a kingdom.
Endless enduring bonds of affection fill up one million half-spheres and their children bathed in the waters of heavenly bathtubs, gathering around a piano, Mother enthroned in approving virtue.
Father: a cube, a clasp, crowns; Mother: a sphere, a warmth, and a hearth full of music––anthems of eternal increases and perfections rounding the spiral of the Gods’ everlasting circles.
I Am The Way, The Truth, and The Life
A potential ad for the Church site Jesus Christ, the Son of God? Probably not, but still…
Oh yeah, that is the Deseret Alphabet in use.
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