tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2780506856626441160.post8305512089875762973..comments2023-08-04T21:37:16.987-07:00Comments on (Gay) Mormon Guy: Rise Up, and RunDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03552740645279057549noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2780506856626441160.post-59169904290733314842010-12-13T19:59:47.767-08:002010-12-13T19:59:47.767-08:00Hi: Ran across your blog just browsing. I'm 57...Hi: Ran across your blog just browsing. I'm 57, and you sound like you're in your 20s. You have an amazing gift of words and the ability to pour out your feelings on "paper". You also have an understanding beyond your years of what we should be striving for and how to work toward it in our daily lives. BUT -- and this is my own experience speaking -- it seems to me that you are agonizing too much over your failures, sins, and shortcomings. The pain you feel at falling short sounds more appropriate for someone near the end of their life with few opportunities for repentence left, not for a younger person. Please remember that life (usually) is a VERY long time for most of us, and that we become more Christlike through years and years of work and rependance -- not hours or days. We are not expected to be perfect by 30 or 40 or even older. I well remember a conference which Pres. Kimball concluded by remarking that had been an excellent session, and now he was going to go home and implement the things that he had learned. He was in his 70s or 80s and still working on perfecting himself. Do not give up on moving forward, but try to cut yourself some slack when you find that your inability to be perfect NOW isn't working like you wish. We cannot actually achieve perfection in this lifetime. That is a blessing of the Atonement that is completed long after we leave this earth. Our task here is simply to become as Christlike as possible, which is far more attainable.<br /><br />Enjoy your journey. Please, please, stop to breathe, enjoy the moment, and experience the joy that we are meant to find on this earth.Willowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11194147183285366936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2780506856626441160.post-46641928625945553052010-12-02T22:24:21.176-08:002010-12-02T22:24:21.176-08:00By the way, I enjoy reading your blog.
We all ha...By the way, I enjoy reading your blog. <br />We all have trials and our Savior is always there with his hands out when we fall in the mud. Thank you for reminding me of that.Amy Arndthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04985001568924822760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2780506856626441160.post-40226338196851589652010-12-02T16:15:44.738-08:002010-12-02T16:15:44.738-08:00Can you imagine you are alone in this?
" ....Can you imagine you are alone in this? <br /><br /> " . . . and yet I still haven't fully integrated the teachings of the Savior in my life."<br /><br />My dear, do you honestly think that, even striving as hard as you are with the thing you carry, that you are really any different than the rest of us? I will admit to you that I think it's impossible for us to integrate "fully" the teachings of the savior in this short time we are here. And let me tell you - it's shorter than you can imagine, as you will know thirty years from now.<br /><br />That's why there is a church - a bunch of people who are all covered with mud, trying to keep each other from slipping too badly -Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02040714440875408436noreply@blogger.com