Think about this, I did

I thought about how I could so easily trust something I could not really even know, my conclusion was that gifts come in pairs.

Enduring thoughts

Throughout all that transpires something's remain constant. These things are true.

Cling to what you know is true.

I can, out of sheer will power cling to things I hope are true, but real truth will be regardless of what you want. That actually is the inverse of the proof which says that if you hope for a thing if it is true something will.come of it.

The Beauty Game

Step right up, Don't be shy, just give er a try.

I thought it might make the world a better place if everyone could just suspend how they feel and imagine they are looking back at themselves.

I have heard so many times beautiful women saying that they were actually beautiful at one time.

I get upset because I do not think that it a worthwhile thing to bemoan anyway, there are far worse things to loose, but see that is the "Beauty" of being Mormon, we believe everything will be restored as it once was and not even a hair from your head will be lost.

But, I have done it, too. Like before Joseph I thought I was so fat and ugly, but now I would love to be that fat and ugly. So, that got me thinking I probably am pretty right now to an older self. Don't get me wrong, I do not lack self esteem. Many people tell me they think I am beautiful, though, honestly, it is being told that makes,me worry. Do I look so terrible that I appear to need compliments? Or, they are just being nice. In a class in middle school we had to write compliments on eachother's backs for every other person in the room. I was sincere, but figured that it was, irrelevant. The point was that we were placing drops in our classmates buckets instead of dumping them out or siphoning them out to feel better ourselves.

Anyhow, that might make a fun FHE. It reminds me of a game a friend from GA told me about communication where the first person says something and the second person interprets saying what they heard. Fun games await!

Teyla

The last time I rewatched SGA I was alligning myself and focusing on Rodney McKay, but in the past I had focused on Elizabeth Weir and when I was,faced with a difficult choice I liked to think of myself more as a Teyla.

As I was sitting around minding my own thoughts one came to me that Teyla was an incredible person and I ought to be more like her, it would really be more of an uncomfortable stretch for me.

No, On the surface she is a strong warrior woman, but that is not what I want to model. Rather it is her bahavior and general goodwill and respectability.

Originally, her plight, as explained to Woolsey as no easy one, was ended when she decided that making no change would be best; However, this time it seems more the balance. She, like I have discovered often, has her serious intent of protecting her child and feels like continuing to serve on the team was a huge risk to her child, one he never chose, and the baby seems innocent but, she sees that by joining the team and serving others, she will be saving more lives, including her self-centered interest, so it seems that the greater good is served in returning to the team. Though it was not the way she intended to protect her son, it is the best option (though so,many others would argue that her place is with her son) but she must just accept another plan though not as widely understood is best.

Why there is so much heart ache

There is so much heart ache in the world because they do not know how to use the gospel that they have been given.

Gospel literally means good news.

The world is a place where there are opposites everywhere, and we all have agency.

People like to feel intensely, and so they cling to or report the things called sensational, which ate for the most part the misfortunes of others. And that makes others seek out to be sensational, too by committing what we refer to as crimes.

There really just happen to be joyful and sad things all around us we favor the bad and consider the good unrealistic. Really what is bad or sad happens so that we have the opportunity to use our given information to realize the reality of it. How many times have we seen the most powerful examples of love demonstrated by those who experience heartache?