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This is not a negative article. This is not a critical article. This article reflects my attempt to grapple with the real and the ideal when it comes to callings in the Church.
As an active reader and listener of many corners of the Bloggernacle, I have noticed there are many people asking the question, “What does it mean to be ‘Mormon?’”. I have also had the opportunity to discuss this topic with many people.
Rena Elmer is no stranger to trials—those of the painful, gut-wrenching variety and also those of Olympic size.
If you’re like me — a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — you have a bishop. (Members of smaller congregations who have a branch president instead of a bishop, don’t tune out. I’m also talking to you.)
This last quote from the article sums up perfectly our feelings on the subject: While we do not and probably never will know how accurate these accounts are, it is interesting to examine where Jesus possibly could have been during th[e] missing years [before his ministry]. . . . What we do know is that Jesus considered us His sheep and Himself our shepherd. He called Himself the sacrificial lamb who gave up His life for us. If that’s not love, I don’t know what is. And for now, that’s enough.
“Even though I’m standing in absolute chaos,” one survivor says. “I feel better about the world right now than I have in a long time.”
“We don’t have to go only to the stories where He appears to someone to find Him—He is in every story.”
When I was a young father struggling to balance the demands of school with work, callings, and raising my family, I sometimes found myself feeling overwhelmed. One day I read in the scriptures about the foreknowledge of God—He knows the end from the beginning (Abraham 2:8; Helaman 8:8)—and the thought bothered me a great deal. I kept thinking if all things are present before His eyes (Acts 17:26; Doctrine and Covenants 38:2), then that meant God knew right then how my life would turn out. He knew whether or not I would enter the celestial kingdom, and sadly, I didn’t think I would.
Are you planning to submit an original hymn to the Church's new Hymnal? Are you struggling to know if your hymn is good enough to rise to the top of the submissions pile? The announcement of the new hymnal made me think about the thousands of members who want to write and submit their hymns and songs.