Thursday, January 18, 2018

Afternoon ramble

Now, to remember what I was thinking... oh yeah!
 
You know how we try in vain to explain the unexplained and smarty pants people try to answer our prayers and then say “ha ha! and you thought God did it.” Well, I used to say that he did cause God uses us all to answer prayers. But, in the kitchen, just now I was thinking something even cooler. I was thinking about how the way I understand Lucifer’s interference with God’s plan as anything but good, is that I think about what he did and although he had to do it, and I do not know what his intentions were, though, they may have been well meaning, it boils down to him not knowing the will of God... or as way explained to me so well, he did not know the Mind of Our Father. This is the same thing I think about others who do good or ill and try to manipulate outcomes.
 
It has been said that it is terrible to allow others to win. I think of how sad it was to Joseph Smith when he lost the missing pieces of manuscript that he translated from the book of Mormon, and he honestly thought his soul had been lost. This was not the case. In actuality it was foreseen and things were done to allow such mischief. I am certainly not welcoming evil I am just seeing clearly how it can be forgiven and even allowed for.
 
It is a hopeful thing. But, there have been some very significant situations where failure was almost necessary. The most obvious being: Adam fell that man might be. so, no matter what one is enduring or looking at dreadfully thinking, “I will wait for a better way.” be assured that God already knew and holds his arms out still. It seemed like in a black and white world, a thing had been done that left man alone forever (alone meaning without God), but, he knew this and allowed for a way for man to repent.
 
 That is the BEST news. no hurdle can be placed too high.... oh great, now I’m singing “Ain’t no mountain high enough...”

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