A child’s color palette

I was sitting in Sacrament Meeting this week when the sweet young lady of about seven years of age in front of me got out her magic markers (after the sacrament, of course) and proceeded to create a beautiful picture of her mother and father, her, and her brother. She labored intensely for 20 minutes or so to produce something her mother would love. It said “my family” in German across the top.

Choose the right trail

In our priesthood quorum meeting last week, our instructor, Brother Clark Moss, led us to formulate three questions as part of the lesson he was teaching. As I thought about these questions during the week, they seemed more and more profound and basic to our understanding of our journey here on the earth. This brought to mind my post in December 2009, called The Path. So this discussion seems to be a further expansion of my thoughts on that occasion. The three questions were: What trail am I on? Who is on it with me? Who is following me?

The Lord's employment benefits

In a post in December 2009, called The Rule of Mercy, we discussed the fate of those who die without the law. We talked about the wonderful mercy for them and us that pervades the scriptures. We concluded that all those who die without the law will have an opportunity to accept the gospel at some future time. This facet of the GPEG leads me to wonder if in fact, we would be better off without knowledge in this life. If we were ignorant of the Father’s plan and our part in it, if we were ignorant of the Savior’s unfathomable sacrifice for us, we could live as we chose on this earth and learn the gospel in eternity. Seems a lot easier.