Booneville, MS - so many countless things happened this year, a lot of them, deserving a full write up will not even get a mention because I am preoccupied with explaining one very strong thought.
It is not that I am not willing and so I must be badgered into writing about things. Somethings just come to my mind with no intent to leave until I do their bidding. Now, I am urgently bid to examine what I was supposed to learn from one facet of the game we played.
We played a game where we were given blank cards and at each booth we were to present our cards to see if we were qualified for the lesson. After completion, our cards were marked. In a sense this only allowed us one path. Classes only began and completed on a schedule so that no lolly gagging was allowed.
I was fortunate to figure everything out almost instantly. My parents had prepared a lesson and so that was a motivation to take classes when other leaders were trying their hardest to persuade us to not value our time or not even bother with classes. I knew that my parents would not do anything unless it was yhe best thing, so I trusted that their lesson was important and part of some game or test. We could even go inside. Uh, Mississippi in the summer? I thought marching band in Georgia in the summer was bad. Ole Miss band was hot andI do not mean Hawt... We all had the option to just go inside, have a bite, play video games or piano or something, but I instantly saw what was going on. I even accidentally, found the right order for classes.
I was being taught an alternative lesson that I wouldn't need until today. Curious? There's more, but I have things to more than appear to accomplish...brb
Stealing and fast tracking a friend's boyfriend and still ending up alone in the Celestial kingdom was significant, but, more importantly was the idea that there are levels of knowledge or degrees of clearance for wisdom. I just so happened to somehow get it right the first shot.
I cannot say this yet, so suffice it Mormonism is the truest church, though so many have truth. And the notion that you do not have to give up anything true is more than a notion, but it adds, if you have been prepared to move on, a simple check of your card will validate.
It is very much like going to the temple, we must meet certain requirements that demonstrate that we are at the right place in our lives to benefit. If you are not ready to obey laws like tithing or the word of wisdom than you are not ready to be burdened with the wisdom that comes from temple attendance. I was in a class where the best exanple was given for teaching children about sexuality, but it applies here. She told of a book "The Hiding Place" which basically taught that there are thingswhich are too heavy for us to carry right now and so it is not a punishment to hold back information but until you are ready it is better to not understand some things,
I could so easily get distracted here with all of the things *I* want to say. Like how it is that some children are lucky enough to start right out in the truest church. Most are rote taught and do not internalize truths and they do not receive as much from temple worship or even understand it. This upsets our Father in Heaven. He wants to be understood. He doesn't enjoy being a mystery.
Where much is given, much is required. This is just my truth of choice to sort of segue into my concluding thought. In Mormonism we learn that there are things which have not been revealed yet, like scriptures and such.
I believe there is more that encompasses Mormonism but such truths do not cancel or replace. One time it came to me like a picture of a ladder which must be climbed rung by rung. Every climb leads to a higher level, and none should be skipped. This was the lesson I got from youth conference, that we must do things in the proper order and nothing can prepare you sufficiently for the highest rungs besides Mormonism or maybe Judaism.
The ultimate truth is found in everything if you look for it. In a sense God is in everything. But, I was being more literal than flowery. The greatest doctrine of all is Love, which is to say it is God.
It is found in relationships and families and in service, like we are taught in Mormonism. And life requires that we share what we learn, and yet, I think there are things that cannot be shared, like the parable of the Ten Virgins.
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