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This blog welcomes you, both to read and to contribute! This Book of Mormon study guide has the capacity to lead us to a intimate relationship with the Savior that works. It focuses on powerful Book of Mormon verses that help peel back the layers. Layers we didn't know were there. Layers that keep us from reveling in the joy. This process also helps us to re-discover ourselves deep down and connect to the Savior at the same time.

The HDDM book course works by asking us a series of eye-opening Book of Mormon questions. Just one verse and one question each day, and we get to ponder and then write a response. Each and every time I go through this course myself, my answer to any particular question in the book is different than the last time. Because of where I am, in that moment. Sometimes my answers sound almost eloquent, sometimes they're not pretty or flattering at all. Your answer and "take" on the verse and question will be different too. The differences are meant to be. And together we get a rainbow of answers, of viewpoints and understanding. Together we all come away with more than we could get on our own. We were made to network, to put our heads together, to cherish each other and to learn from one another. This is Zion. Feel free to post comments and add your own discoveries to this site.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

World Answers - Principle One

Day 7 - Moses 1:10 "And it came to pass that it was for the space of many hours before Moses did again receive his natural strength like unto man; and he said unto himself: Now, for this cause I know that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed."

"After being in the presence of God for many hours, Moses witnesses to us the tremendous contrast in power, glory and strength between God and man, using the same word that is used in Helaman, that man is “nothing.” Why do you suppose we resist relying on God’s power and choose to lean, instead, on self and the answers the world provides?" (pg. 14)

I fall into this trap when I'm not close to the Spirit.  Then all I have is myself and world answers.  I suppose there is the belief that we're supposed to be self-reliant too.  ALWAYS, the ironic thing is, it feels wonderful to be in the habit of daily scriptures and prayer, and other things that bring the Spirit into my life.  Life just goes so much better, I feel more at peace, more content, more capable and more apt to direct my will wisely when I'm drawing on the Spirit regularly.  It never makes sense when I let those habits go because I KNOW how much better I feel.  Yet sometimes I do let spiritual things lapse, and I can even go for a long time, conscious that I'm missing it.  Mortality is a strange, flawed thing.  Mastering my will into better habits, and wiser choices is my mountain to climb.  Every day.  Every day counts too.  Every day is important.  Every day we start with a clean slate, and every day is the beautiful possibility that today we will start something wonderful, something we've been meaning to do for ourselves.  It is the Spirit that grants me more capacity, so it is the Spirit I chase to start my day.
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