tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79362427682855531082024-03-14T07:23:19.220-07:00COME WHAT MAY.Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-87432507898718737462013-12-06T08:50:00.001-08:002013-12-06T08:50:06.415-08:00COLOR CODE!
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 16.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">The Hartman Personality Test
WHITE
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As an individual
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Quiet, reflective, and peaceful
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Sincere and genuine lifestyle
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Appears to accept life comfortably
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Patient with others
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Kind to animals and people
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Blends into all situations
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Patient and enduring through good and bad times
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Tolerant of unkind behavior
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Supportive and accepting
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Listens with empathy
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Relaxed in most situations
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Likes most people
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Liked by most people
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Compatible with different personalities
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Enjoys observing others
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Non-demanding of friendships
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As an individual
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Boring because detached
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Takes passive approach to life
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Unresponsive or note openly excited about experiences
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Has problems becoming intimate
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Bashful and unsure of self
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Easily manipulated into changing plans
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Ambivalent about direction and goals to pursue
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Often lazy and unwilling to take responsibility to self
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Resists making commitments
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As a friend
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Lacks creativity to make suggestions
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Easily led by others opinions
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Won’t express honest perspective if controversial
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Passive
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Requests extra protection and a lot of support
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Easily hurt and defeated
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be kind
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be logical, clear, and firm about the content you present
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Provide a structure (boundaries) for them to operate in
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be patient and gentle
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Introduce options and ideas for their involvement
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be simple and open
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Acknowledge and accept their individuality
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be casual, informal, and relaxed in presentation style
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Look for nonverbal clues to their feelings
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Listen quietly
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be cruel and insensitive
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Expect them to need much social interaction
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Force immediate verbal expressions; accept written communication
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be domineering and too intense
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Demand conformity to realistic expectations/behaviors
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Overwhelm them with too much at once
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Force confrontation
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Speak to fast
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Take away all their daydreams
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Demand leadership
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 16.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">The Harman Personality Test
</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 14.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">YELLOW
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As an individual
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Highly optimistic (rarely depressed)
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Likes self and accepts others easily
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Loves to volunteer for opportunities
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Sees life as an experience to be enjoyed
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Flashy (racehorse rather then plowhorse)
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Adventurous and daring
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As a friend
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Exciting and fun to be with (never dull or boring)
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Often places friend before family
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Forgiving of self and others
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Lively and entertaining
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Vulnerable, innocent, and trusting
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Endearing
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Willing to free up schedule in order to play
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Limitations
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As an individual
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Needs to look good socially (high priority)
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Irresponsible and unreliable
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Self-centered and egotistical
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Flighty and uncommon
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Lots of talk with little action
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Superficial and mostly interested in a good time
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Unwilling to experience pain in order to produce quality
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Undisciplined
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Loud and obnoxious in public places
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Exaggerates successes and omits unpleasant trusts
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Unable to confront or face issues
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As a friend
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Spends most of time discussing own life
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Shows up at his or her convenience
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Undependable in a crisis
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Unwilling to commit to long-term needs of distressed friends
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Pursues won life regardless of friend’s situations or needs
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Uncomfortable in painful or distressing environments
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Makes new friends easily and without guilt, often at the expense of old friends
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be positive and proactive with them in your life
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Adore and praise them legitimately
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Touch them physically
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Accept their playful teasing
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Remember they are more sensitive than they appear
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Value their social interaction skills and people connections
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Remember they hold feelings deeply
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Promote creative and fun activities for and with them
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Enjoy their charismatic innocence
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Allow them opportunity for verbal expression
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Don’ts
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be too serious or sober in criticism
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Push them too intently
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Ignore them
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Forget they have “down” time also
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Demand perfection
</span></span><br />
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<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Expect them to dwell on problems
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Give them too much rope, or they may hang themselves
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Classify them as just lightweight social butterflies
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Attack their sensitivity to be unforgiving
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Totally control their schedules or consume their time
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Strengths
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As an individual
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RED
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Excels with logical thinking
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Committed to a productive lifestyle
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Dynamic and direct
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Thrives on independence
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Natural leader
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Highly resourceful (strong survivor)
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Creative in crisis
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As a friend
</span></span><br />
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<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Direct and quick with suggestions
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Great in emergencies
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Direct and quick with disasters
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Promotes group activities
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Engages in conflict comfortably and directly
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Productive in solving dilemmas
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Limitations
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As an individual
</span></span><br />
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Generally seeks to serve self (what’s in it for me)
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Promotes turmoil and conflict when a personal goal is to be gained
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Out of touch with own feelings
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Renationalizes and denies own failings
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Always right
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Cannot relax and feel comfortable unless producing something
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Often arrogant and defiant or authority
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Inconsiderate of other’s feelings (selfish)
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Inpatient with others
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As a friend
</span></span><br />
</li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Insensitive and unemotional
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Doesn’t like to admit the need for friendship
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Remains detached from sharing self completely
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Enters friendship asking “what’s in it for me?”
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Listens only when convenient
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Maintains mostly rational friendships
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Tries to control group activities
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Expects friends to do things his or her way
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Won’t admit inadequacies for fear of losing power and control
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Negative, critical, and judgmental of others
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Feels it is more important to be right than agreeable
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Blunt or rude when angered
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Boring
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Expects to be entertained while waiting for action to begin
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Stubborn
</span></span><br />
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<li style="font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Denies any personal inadequacies of responsibility
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">How to Develop a Positive Connection with Reds
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Do’s
</span></span><br />
<ul>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Present issues logically
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Demand their attention and respect
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Do your homework!
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be direct, brief and specific in conversation
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be productive and efficient
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Offer them leadership opportunities
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">V erbalize your feelings
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Support their decisive nature
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Promote their intelligence reasoning where appropriate
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be prepared with facts and figures
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Respect their need to make their own decisions their own way
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Don’ts
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Embarrass them in front of others
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Argue from an emotional perspective
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Always use authoritarian approach
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Use physical punishment
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be slow and indecisive
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Expect a personal and intimate relationship
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Attack them personally
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Take their arguments personally
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Wait for them to solicit your opinion
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Demand constant social interaction (allow for alone time)
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Strengths
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As an individual
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Blue
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Sees life as a serious endeavor
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Appreciates beauty and detail
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Has a strong aesthetic sense
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Stable and dependable (plowhorse vs. racehorse)
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Sincere and emotionally deep
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Analytically oriented (concerned with why one behaves as she/he does)
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">High achiever
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Deep sense of purpose
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As a friend
</span></span><br />
</li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Loyal forever once friendship is established
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Genuine concern for other person’s well-being
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Remembers special holidays and promotes celebrations
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Encouraging in times of trouble
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Willing to commit time to the relationship
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Limitations
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As an individual
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Highly emotional
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Smug and self-righteous
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Controlling and/or envious of others’ success when too too easily obtained
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Strong perfecting and performance orientation
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">As a friend
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Highly insecure about other’s and approval
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Feels rejected easily
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">When depressed or depressive, feels it is friend’s job to understand
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Can be revengeful and bitter is crossed or scarred emotionally
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Critical of friends’ principles or activities if not similar
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Expects friends to maintain strong loyalty
</span></span><br />
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<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Wishes friends would communicate more often
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Rarely playful and spontaneous
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Emphasize their security in the relationship
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be sensitive and soft-spoken in your approach
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be sincere and genuine
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Behave appropriately and well mannered
</span></span><br />
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<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Limit their risk level
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Promote their creativity
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Appreciate them
</span></span><br />
</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Allow ample time for them to gather their thoughts before expressing themselves
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be loyal
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Do thorough analysis before making presentations
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Don’ts
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Make them feel guilty
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Be rude or abrupt
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Promote too much change
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Expect spontaneity
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Abandon them
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Expect them to bounce back easily or quickly from depression
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Demand perfection (they already expect too much from themselves)
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Push them too quickly into making decisions
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Expect them to forgive quickly crossed
</span></span><br />
</li>
<li style="font-family: 'SymbolMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Demand immediate action or quick verbal bantering </span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: seashell; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">D&C 67:10-13</span></u></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<div class="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" uri="/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67.10">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 </span>And again, verily I say unto you that it is your privilege, and a<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote14" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ffffcc; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">promise</a> I give unto you that have been ordained unto this ministry, that inasmuch as you <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote15" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10b" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ffffcc; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">strip</a> yourselves from <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote16" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10c" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ffffcc; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">jealousies</a>and <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote17" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10d" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ffffcc; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fears</a>, and <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">e</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote18" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10e" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ffffcc; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">humble</a> yourselves before me, for ye are not sufficiently humble, the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">f</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote19" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ffffcc; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">veil</a> shall be rent and <u>you shall <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">g</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote20" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10g" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">In the world in which we live, it is easy to get caught up in the loud noise and hustle of the things around us. Take time to step back for a second and look around us at the details of God creations. The mountains, the flowers, the ocean, and even the different cultures and colors. One of my favorite times of the winter personally, because I love to snowboard, is going up the lift as it snows and to awe at the greatness and beauty of the moutnains, trees, and nature that God has created for us. President Uchtdorf shares his thoughts on the story of Moses in the scriptures and when he is moved by the works and creations of his God and Maker. Uchtdorf states, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">"…Moses stood in the presence of God and spoke to Him face to face as a man speaks with his friend.<span style="text-decoration: underline;">1</span> During the course of that visitation, God showed Moses the workmanship of His hands, granting him a glimpse of His work and glory. When the vision ended, Moses fell to the earth for the space of many hours. When his strength finally returned, he realized something that, in all his years in Pharaoh’s court, had never occurred to him before.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">"But even though man is nothing, it fills me with wonder and awe to think that “the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.”<span style="text-decoration: underline;">7</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">And while we may look at the vast expanse of the universe and say, “What is man in comparison to the glory of creation?” God Himself said we are the reason He created the universe! His work and glory—the purpose for this magnificent universe—is to save and exalt mankind.<span style="text-decoration: underline;">8</span> In other words, the vast expanse of eternity, the glories and mysteries of infinite space and time are all built for the benefit of ordinary mortals like you and me. Our Heavenly Father created the universe that we might reach our potential as His sons and daughters.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God. While against the backdrop of infinite creation we may appear to be nothing, we have a spark of eternal fire burning within our breast. We have the incomprehensible promise of exaltation—worlds without end—within our grasp. And it is God’s great desire to help us reach it."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">One way to reach that goal is to step outside ourselves, see the power of Gods realness in others, and serve His children in order for them to reach their own potential.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">I will never forget two specific ladies that I had the privilege of meeting in Argentina on my mission. They were neighbors to a member and she gave us their reference to go stop by and share the gospel of jesus christ in their home. As we approached the house, it occurred to me how humble and hopeless the circumstances of these two ladies were. not only did they live in such poor conditions but they were also with injuries and disabilities making it that much harder to get by and function in their daily lives. I remember thinking how hard it would be to get these ladies involved in the church at all and wondering what they could possibly do in order to progress as investigators. We decided to go along with the appointment and stopped by with the member to speak to these ladies about our unique message of Jesus Christ. I will never forget the feeling that was so undeniably present in that humble house of these two disable ladies. I remember us sharing our testimonies of how God is our loving heavenly father and we are his children. Laying in bed, tired and sick, being unable to even speak, These angels and special daughters of God looked into our eyes with smiles of promise and joy. I felt a powerful conviction of the spirit in my heart that these women were Gods daughters and he loved them and had a purpose and plan for them. As time went on we continued to teach them, they grew in their testimonies and began to read, pray, and attend church with the help of the members, Their humility and love filled the rooms of every place they entered and everyones hearts were touched to know how much they mattered to God.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">Think of the times that this has occurred in your own personal life whether that was on a mission, at school, within your family, or even with a stranger, when you were an instrument in Gods hands to have those spiritual eyes and you are able to see someone how God sees them.. You feel the power of their potential and how much they matter to him. What a crucial and powerful gift and responsibility we have been given to have these special experiences in our lives as Gods chosen disciples of Christ. We must constantly be looking into the hearts of others around us to uplift, love, encourage, and inspire Gods children so they are more able to find themselves and reach their potential. This is one concept that helps us better understand who God is, the importance of us being his instruments and his examples on the earth, and using that gift to bless and strengthen his children around us.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">It seems a lot easier to love and see the good in others sometimes But what about ourselves? How are we personally able to find Gods power in our own lives and strengthen our testimony of Him that loves us and knows our divine purpose? It seems too easy to get caught up in temporal things than remember our eternal worth. Because satan knows how much we matter to God and how much we have to do on this earth, he will do everything in his power to make us feel down on ourselves and discouraged about who we are and what we are capable of. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">I had the opportunity to experience this sense of insignificance and loneliness for myself in my own life at work. I work at a residential treatment center and once a month we have all the addicts go out on a one day trip to do some experimental therapy to process their issues and tap into themselves to gain strength. We went to these caves that were just a little outside of nevada and we went about 90 ft underground. As we entered as a big group we all split up into these cold and dark corners of the cave and then they had the tour guide shut off the lights completely and we were instructed to sit in silence for about 30 minutes and just be alone with ourselves. At first of course, as I heard the girls around me that have been through so much heartbreak and become so broken from their family lives and additions, just heard them weep and i felt so much sadness and hurt for them. as time went on i began to feel of that darkness and it scared me how alone i felt and i couldn't even see my own hand in front of face. what a scary but powerful moment to tap into that part of me that felt so dark and alone and scared of myself and the world. i remember wanting so badly to be able to talk to any girl next to me or even feel that they were there so i could get through those long silent minutes. i remembered just thirsting for sincere, genuine prayer to be able to communicate with my father in heaven and just to know that he was there in such a literally dark and lonely time in my life. i can't even paint a picture to describe the sense of peace of love that i felt from heaven come down and cover me almost like a loving hug. i had never felt so understood and felt so excited and hopeful for the things to come in my life and the importance that my decisions and thoughts and feeling played in Gods eyes. I was important to him. I mattered to him. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">Brothers and sisters let us never forget the power that lies in our personal gift of agency to choose, like it states in alma 32,"give place, that the seed be planted in our hearts" and make ourselves and God a priority in our lives. we will not only strengthen our own self worth and become our divine selves but we will continue to have those spiritual eyes to see the good and love in others and we will work to help them reach their own salvation. So many times I think we let external things define how we feel and who we are like the story in the scriptures of the woman taken into adultery that is brought before christ. We look around us and care so much what people are saying or thinking when we slip up and make mistakes. I want you to understand the powerful message christ had for that woman in that moment as well as the message he has for us. After the world is shut out and the opinions are muted of others and we are left alone, crying or broken on the floor, feeling like we have failed ourselves and God, Christ comes to us and he forgives. It is such a powerful and personal experience to know that aside from what others think and what the world thinks, all that matters is that we personally matter to him and we are forever worthy of his unconditional love and mercy. We cannot ever forget that.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: #ffe599;">I testify of that specific, personal love and forgiveness from our Savior Jesus Christ. I have experience those moments daily of feeling insignificant, incapable, or unworthy but I know with a surety, that if we are constantly applying these two key principles of seeing others with spiritual eyes and loving them as God does, as well as using our agency to develop our love for ourselves and seeing our divine potential, we can become like him. we will see every day as gift to grow and progress forward and we will be filled with Gods love. No matter what you have done before today or how down you are on yourself, I promise each one of you that God knows you personally and you matter to him. I challenge each of us today to humbly seek our father in heaven in fervent prayer and to carry our convictions of his divinity and truth in our lives to those that he loves around us. I have no doubt in my heart and mind that this gospel is not true. I have felt it strongly throughout my life through the power of the holy ghost and I feel so now. I know that these things are true and I say them in the name of jesus christ amen.</span></span></div>
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<br />Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-85973674974952037832013-04-01T12:08:00.002-07:002013-04-01T12:08:43.514-07:00He lives.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>I know Jesus Christ lives and He is our Savior and Redeemer.</i></span></span></h1>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><u>D&C 88:6-12,67-68</u></i></span></span></div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6 </span>He that <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>a</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote10" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=6a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ascended</a> up on high, as also he <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>b</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote11" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=6b" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">descended</a> below all things, in that he <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>c</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote12" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=6c" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">comprehended</a> all things, that he might be in all and through all things, the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>d</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote13" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=6d" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; 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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7 </span>Which truth shineth. This is the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>a</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote14" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=7a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">light of Christ</a>. As also he is in the sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it was <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>b</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote15" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=7b" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">made</a>.</div>
<div class="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" uri="/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.8">
<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 </span>As also he is in the moon, and is the light of the moon, and the power thereof by which it was made;</div>
<div class="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" uri="/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.9">
<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9 </span>As also the light of the stars, and the power thereof by which they were made;</div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="10" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 </span>And the earth also, and the power thereof, even the earth upon which you <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>a</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote16" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=10a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">stand</a>.</div>
<div class="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" uri="/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.11">
<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11 </span>And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>a</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote17" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=11a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">understandings</a>;</div>
<div class="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" uri="/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.12">
<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12 </span>Which <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>a</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote18" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=12a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">light</a> proceedeth forth from the presence of God to<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>b</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote19" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=12b" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fill</a> the immensity of space—</div>
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><div class="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" uri="/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.67">
<span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">67 </span>And if your eye be <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>a</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote129" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=67a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">single</a> to my <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>b</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote130" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=67b" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">glory</a>, <b>your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you</b>; and that body which is filled with light <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><marker>c</marker></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng#" id="footnote131" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=88&noteID=67c" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">comprehendeth</a> all things.</div>
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="68" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sanctify</a> yourselves</u></b> that your <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">This has been a remarkable session. In behalf of all who participated thus far in word or music, as the President of the Church, I have chosen simply to say to you at this moment just two words, known as the two most important words in the English language. To Sister Cheryl Lant and her counselors, the choir, the musicians, the speakers, those words are “Thank you.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Many years ago, while in London, England, I visited the famed Tate art gallery. Works by Gainsborough, Rembrandt, Constable, and other renowned artists were displayed in room after room. I admired their beauty and recognized the skill which had been required to create these masterpieces. Tucked away in a quiet corner of the third floor, however, was a painting which not only caught my attention but also captured my heart. The artist, Frank Bramley, had painted a humble cottage facing a windswept sea. Two women, the mother and the wife of an absent fisherman, had watched and waited the night through for his return. Now the night had passed, and the realization had set in that he had been lost at sea and would not return. Kneeling at the side of her mother-in-law, her head buried in the lap of the older woman, the young wife wept in despair. The spent candle on the window ledge told of the fruitless vigil.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">I sensed the young woman’s heartache; I felt her grief. The hauntingly vivid inscription which the artist gave to his work told the tragic story. It read, <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Hopeless Dawn.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Oh, how the young woman longed for the comfort, even the reality, of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Requiem”:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Among all the facts of mortality, none is so certain as its end. Death comes to all; it is our “universal heritage; it may claim its victim[s] in infancy or youth, [it may visit] in the period of life’s prime, or its summons may be deferred until the snows of age have gathered upon the … head; it may befall as the result of accident or disease, … or … through natural causes; but come it must.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#2-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2</a> </sup>It inevitably represents a painful loss of association and, particularly in the young, a crushing blow to dreams unrealized, ambitions unfulfilled, and hopes vanquished.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">What mortal being, faced with the loss of a loved one or, indeed, standing himself or herself on the threshold of infinity, has not pondered what lies beyond the veil which separates the seen from the unseen?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Centuries ago the man Job—so long blessed with every material gift, only to find himself sorely afflicted by all that can befall a human being—sat with his companions and uttered the timeless, ageless question, “If a man die, shall he live again?”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#3-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3</a> </sup>Job spoke what every other living man or woman has pondered.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">This glorious Easter morning I’d like to consider Job’s question—“If a man die, shall he live again?”—and provide the answer which comes not only from thoughtful consideration but also from the revealed word of God. I begin with the essentials.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">If there is a design in this world in which we live, there must be a Designer. Who can behold the many wonders of the universe without believing that there is a design for all mankind? Who can doubt that there is a Designer?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">In the book of Genesis we learn that the Grand Designer created the heaven and the earth: “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">“Let there be light,” said the Grand Designer, “and there was light.” He created a firmament. He separated the land from the waters and said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, … the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Two lights He created—the sun and the moon. Came the stars by His design. He called for living creatures in the water and fowls to fly above the earth. And it was so. He made cattle, beasts, and creeping things. The design was nearly complete.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Last of all, He created man in His own image—male and female—with dominion over all other living things.<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#4-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Man alone received intelligence—a brain, a mind, and a soul. Man alone, with these attributes, had the capacity for faith and hope, for inspiration and ambition.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Who could persuasively argue that man—the noblest work of the Great Designer, with dominion over all living things, with a brain and a will, with a mind and a soul, with intelligence and divinity—should come to an end when the spirit forsakes its earthly temple?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">To understand the meaning of death, we must appreciate the purpose of life. The dim light of belief must yield to the noonday sun of revelation, by which we know that we lived before our birth into mortality. In our premortal state, we were doubtless among the sons and daughters of God who shouted for joy because of the opportunity to come to this challenging yet necessary mortal existence.<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#5-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5</a> </sup>We knew that our purpose was to gain a physical body, to overcome trials, and to prove that we would keep the commandments of God. Our Father knew that because of the nature of mortality, we would be tempted, would sin, and would fall short. So that we might have every chance of success, He provided a Savior, who would suffer and die for us. Not only would He atone for our sins, but as a part of that Atonement, He would also overcome the physical death to which we would be subject because of the Fall of Adam.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Thus, more than 2,000 years ago, <a class="no-link-style" href="http://jesuschrist.lds.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">Christ</a>, our Savior, was born to mortal life in a stable in Bethlehem. The long-foretold Messiah had come.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">There was very little written of the boyhood of Jesus. I love the passage from Luke: “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#6-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6</a> </sup>And from the book of Acts, there is a short phrase concerning the Savior which has a world of meaning: “[He] went about doing good.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#7-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">He was baptized by John in the river Jordan. He called the Twelve Apostles. He blessed the sick. He caused the lame to walk, the blind to see, the deaf to hear. He even raised the dead to life. He taught, He testified, and He provided a perfect example for us to follow.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">And then the mortal mission of the Savior of the world drew to its close. A last supper with His Apostles took place in an upper room. Ahead lay Gethsemane and Calvary’s cross.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">No mere mortal can conceive the full import of what Christ did for us in Gethsemane. He Himself later described the experience: “[The] suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#8-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Following the agony of Gethsemane, now drained of strength, He was seized by rough, crude hands and taken before Annas, Caiaphas, Pilate, and Herod. He was accused and cursed. Vicious blows further weakened His pain-racked body. Blood ran down His face as a cruel crown fashioned of sharp thorns was forced onto His head, piercing His brow. And then once again He was taken to Pilate, who gave in to the cries of the angry mob: “Crucify him, crucify him.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#9-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">He was scourged with a whip into whose multiple leather strands sharp metals and bones were woven. Rising from the cruelty of the scourge, with stumbling steps He carried His own cross until He could go no farther and another shouldered the burden for Him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Finally, on a hill called Calvary, while helpless followers looked on, His wounded body was nailed to a cross. Mercilessly He was mocked and cursed and derided. And yet He cried out, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#10-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">The agonizing hours passed as His life ebbed. From His parched lips came the words, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#11-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">As the serenity and solace of a merciful death freed Him from the sorrows of mortality, He returned to the presence of His Father.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">At the last moment, the Master could have turned back. But He did not. He passed beneath all things that He might save all things. His lifeless body was hurriedly but gently placed in a borrowed tomb.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">No words in Christendom mean more to me than those spoken by the angel to the weeping Mary Magdalene and the other Mary when, on the first day of the week, they approached the tomb to care for the body of their Lord. Spoke the angel:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">“Why seek ye the living among the dead?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">“He is not here, but is risen.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#12-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Our Savior lived again. The most glorious, comforting, and reassuring of all events of human history had taken place—the victory over death. The pain and agony of Gethsemane and Calvary had been wiped away. The salvation of mankind had been secured. The Fall of Adam had been reclaimed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">The empty tomb that first Easter morning was the answer to Job’s question, “If a man die, shall he live again?” To all within the sound of my voice, I declare, If a man die, he shall live again. We know, for we have the light of revealed truth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">“For since by man came death, by man came also the <a class="no-link-style" href="http://lds.org/ensign/2000/05/resurrection?lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">resurrection</a> of the dead.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#13-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">I have read—and I believe—the testimonies of those who experienced the grief of Christ’s Crucifixion and the joy of His Resurrection. I have read—and I believe—the testimonies of those in the New World who were visited by the same risen Lord.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">I believe the testimony of one who, in this dispensation, spoke with the Father and the Son in a grove now called sacred and who gave his life, sealing that testimony with his blood. Declared he:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">“And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">“For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#14-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">The darkness of death can always be dispelled by the light of revealed truth. “I am the resurrection, and the life,” spoke the Master.<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#15-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">15</a> </sup>“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#16-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Over the years I have heard and read testimonies too numerous to count, shared with me by individuals who testify of the reality of the Resurrection and who have received, in their hours of greatest need, the peace and comfort promised by the Savior.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">I will mention just part of one such account. Two weeks ago I received a touching letter from a father of seven who wrote about his <a class="no-link-style" href="http://lds.org/ensign/2003/05/the-importance-of-the-family?lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">family</a> and, in particular, his son Jason, who had become ill when 11 years of age. Over the next few years, Jason’s illness recurred several times. This father told of Jason’s positive attitude and sunny disposition, despite his health challenges. Jason received the Aaronic Priesthood at age 12 and “always willingly magnified his responsibilities with excellence, whether he felt well or not.” He received his Eagle Scout Award when he was 14 years old.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Last summer, not long after Jason’s 15th birthday, he was once again admitted to the hospital. On one of his visits to see Jason, his father found him with his eyes closed. Not knowing whether Jason was asleep or awake, he began talking softly to him. “Jason,” he said, “I know you have been through a lot in your short life and that your current condition is difficult. Even though you have a giant battle ahead, I don’t ever want you to lose your faith in <a class="no-link-style" href="http://mormon.org/jesus-christ" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus Christ</a>.” He said he was startled as Jason immediately opened his eyes and said, “Never!” in a clear, resolute voice. Jason then closed his eyes and said no more.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">His father wrote: “In this simple declaration, Jason expressed one of the most powerful, pure testimonies of Jesus Christ that I have ever heard. … As his declaration of ‘Never!’ became imprinted on my soul that day, my heart filled with joy that my Heavenly Father had blessed me to be the father of such a tremendous and noble boy. … [It] was the last time I heard him declare his testimony of Christ.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Although his family was expecting this to be just another routine hospitalization, Jason passed away less than two weeks later. An older brother and sister were serving missions at the time. Another brother, Kyle, had just received his mission call. In fact, the call had come earlier than expected, and on August 5, just a week before Jason’s passing, the family gathered in his hospital room so that Kyle’s mission call could be opened there and shared with the entire family.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">In his letter to me, this father included a photograph of Jason in his hospital bed, with his big brother Kyle standing beside the bed, holding his mission call. This caption was written beneath the photograph: “Called to serve their missions together—on both sides of the veil.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">Jason’s brother and sister already serving missions sent beautiful, comforting letters home to be shared at Jason’s funeral. His sister, serving in the Argentina Buenos Aires West Mission, as part of her letter, wrote: “I know that Jesus Christ lives, and because He lives, all of us, including our beloved Jason, will live again too. … We can take comfort in the sure knowledge we have that we have been sealed together as an<a class="no-link-style" href="http://lds.org/ensign/2003/05/the-importance-of-the-family?lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">eternal family</a>. … If we do our very best to obey and do better in this life, we will see [him again].” She continued: “[A] scripture that I have long loved now takes on new significance and importance at this time. … [From] <a class="scriptureRef" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/21.4?lang=eng#3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Revelation chapter 21, verse 4</a>: ‘And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.’”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">My beloved brothers and sisters, in our hour of deepest sorrow, we can receive profound peace from the words of the angel that first Easter morning: “He is not here: for he is risen.”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/he-is-risen?lang=eng#17-PD50021388_000_034" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">17</a></sup></span></div>
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</span>Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-63612386484955618502013-03-20T15:03:00.002-07:002013-03-20T15:06:04.374-07:00Healing.<br />
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> the blank stare of the breathing dead.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> Only you can call me into aliveness.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> Each time you're kind, and gentle, and encouraging,</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> each time you try to understand because you really care,</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> my heart begins to grow wings--</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> very small wings,</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> very feeble wings,</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> but wings!</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> With your power to touch me into feeling</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> you can breathe life into me.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> I want you to know that.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> I want you to know how important you are to me,</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> how you can be a creator--an honest-to-God creator--</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> of the person that is me</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> if you choose to.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> You alone can break down the wall behind which I tremble,</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> you alone can remove my mask,</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> you alone can release me from my shadow-world of panic,</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> from my lonely prison,</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> if you choose to.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> Please choose to.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> Do not pass me by.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> It will not be easy for you.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> A long conviction of worthlessness builds strong walls.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> The nearer you approach to me</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> the blinder I may strike back.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> It's irrational, but despite what the books say about man</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> often I am irrational.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> I fight against the very thing I cry out for.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> But I am told that love is stronger than strong walls</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> and in this lies my hope.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> Please try to beat down those walls</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> with firm hands but with gentle hands</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> for a child is very sensitive.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> Who am I, you may wonder?</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> I am someone you know very well.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> For I am every man you meet</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;"> and I am every woman you meet.</span></div>
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<span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; min-height: 16px;">I am YOU.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Those who struggle with sin sometimes lie and rationalize in an attempt to minimize the consequences of their behavior. But somewhere inside themselves, they are aware of what they have done and know they are accountable for it. They know they are in spiritual bondage. Almost everyone I have met struggling with addiction suffers from a terrible sense of shame and a belief that he or she is broken, defective, and beyond the love and grace of God.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">But this belief, in my experience, is far from the truth. Usually I find that those who struggle with addictions are warriors with tenacity, courage, and a strong desire to be clean. They win far more battles than they lose as they march toward recovery.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">This may be hard for some to comprehend—if people are so strong, why is overcoming addiction so difficult? Addiction is often misunderstood, and some believe that if a person would simply choose to recover or work harder at stopping, he or she would be able to. But the nature of addiction—and all sin, for that matter—is such that we cannot heal ourselves from it. The children of Israel could not heal themselves from the bites of the fiery serpents, and we cannot simply wish or even work addiction away. We must find our hope of healing in <a class="no-link-style" href="http://jesuschrist.lds.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">Christ</a>.</span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">It takes faith, hope, and time to heal from the patterns of self-deception, isolation, and secrecy that nearly always accompany addiction. We can take counsel from Nephi to “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope” (<a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/31.20?lang=eng#19" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Nephi 31:20</a>) that He can heal—and is healing—us. We need to not give up or decide that because temptations and cravings return, there is no hope in Christ. To those who will not look because they feel no hope, I say that there <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is</span> hope in Christ. He is the hope of recovery.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">The Savior offers you the same healing and hope He offers your loved one. You too can be supported in this trial through the Atonement of Jesus Christ (see <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/36.3?lang=eng#2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alma 36:3</a>). The Atonement of Jesus Christ is for <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">all</span> of us.</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">I think we all need to have our lollipop moments this Christmas. We can give sincere appreciation and acknowledgment to the people that have changed our lives for the better. Make a list of all the people in your life that have done this for you and during this Christmas break, go around telling them and giving them credit. We all need to be aware of how much one word, one smile, and one experience can change a life for good. We have so much power and influence on one other and we need to recognize and use it more! Be aware of any moment you have when you are stuck somewhere with a loved one, a friend, or even a stranger and instead of getting on your phone to stalk instagram or snapchat some lame picture, make the choice to listen, open up, laugh, smile, vent, or support the people around you. You might not need it but the souls around you that live and fear, worry, stress, and negativity need it a lot more than you think.</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><u>DEALING WITH NEGATIVE EMOTIONS:</u></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"Negative emotions and the negative personality traits have very strong biological limits, and the best a clinician can ever do with the cosmetic approach is to get patients to live in the best part of their set range of depression or anxiety or anger. ..one thing that clinical psychology needs to develop in light of the heritable stubbornness of human pathologies is a psychology of "DEALING WITH IT." We need to tell our patients, "Look, the truth is that many days-no matter how successful we are in therapy-you will wake up feeling blue and thinking life is hopeless. Your job is not only to fight these feelings but also to heroically: functioning well even when you are very sad."</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><u>The vision of therapy in the future: THE C U R E !!!</u></i></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1) Patients need to be told that the drugs and therapies are TEMPORARY symptom relievers only, and that they should expect reoccurrence when treatment stops</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2) Treatment should not end when suffering is relieved. Patients need to learn the specific skills of positive psychology: how to have more positive emotion, more engagement, more meaning, more accomplishment, and better human relations. Unlike the skills of minimizing misery, these skills are self-sustaining. They likely treat depression and anxiety and they likely help prevent them as well. More important than relieving pathology, these skills are what flourishing is, and they are crucial to everyone's search for well-being</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">One of the most popular phrases in my book of dysfunctional and complicated things to repeat when faced with having to make any type of small or large decision in the life of ME. Whether I am rolling out of bed and I do not know what song to listen to as I get ready, what outfit to wear, what class to skip, what lunch place or fast food to eat at, what major I decide to study, what state to live in, what country to visit next with the coming holiday, what words to spill to the boy I like, what party to go to on the weekends, or what picture to make my profile pic.......it is always a struggle, this life, that is composed of different "right and wrong" choices. There is the "what if I do this instead of..." factor or "if only I had said this..." or "they both feel right....", we are constantly having to CHOOSE what to say, what to think, where to go, what to buy, who to talk to, how to feel, and when is the best time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Well hello and nice to meet you REALITY CHECK to becoming an adult. I am not married and I am not even close to having any children but I am on my own and let me tell you, living and breathing and succeeding and winning and school/work/relationships/life in general is pretty hard to figure out when you are on your own. It is not so "glam" and "independent" and the "dream" as we think. It is hard work and it takes time to learn how to use your head and heart to choose your life. It takes practice...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So how do we make the "right" choice with every decision we are going to face...? How do we know if something is "right"/ "fate" and that "oh don't worry, everything will work out...." Will it? How do I know that...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I have been thinking recently about choices and their consequences. Scarcely an hour of the day goes by but what we are called upon to make choices of one sort or another. Some are trivial, some more far-reaching. Some will make no difference in the eternal scheme of things, and others will make <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">all</i> the difference.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">I mention first the <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">right</i> of choice. I am so grateful to a loving Heavenly Father for His gift of agency, or the right to choose. President David O. McKay, ninth President of the Church, said, “Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God’s greatest gift to man.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="d4feb762-f9f6-48c4-89e0-01e921a43a96" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/the-three-rs-of-choice?lang=eng&query=making+choices#1-PD50021411_000_3060" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">We know that we had our agency before this world was and that Lucifer attempted to take it from us. He had no confidence in the principle of agency or in us and argued for imposed salvation. He insisted that with his plan none would be lost, but he seemed not to recognize—or perhaps not to care—that in addition, none would be any wiser, any stronger, any more compassionate, or any more grateful if his plan were followed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Our Heavenly Father did not launch us on our eternal journey without providing the means whereby we could receive from Him God-given guidance to assist in our safe return at the end of mortal life. I speak of prayer. I speak too of the whisperings from that still, small voice within each of us, and I do not overlook the holy scriptures, written by mariners who successfully sailed the seas we too must cross.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">Let us not find ourselves as indecisive as is Alice in Lewis Carroll’s classic<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.</i> You will remember that she comes to a crossroads with two paths before her, each stretching onward but in opposite directions. She is confronted by the Cheshire cat, of whom Alice asks, “Which path shall I follow?”</span></div>
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The cat answers, “That depends where you want to go. If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn’t matter which path you take.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="abf4c90d-97dd-451a-916b-2a10406eafd2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/the-three-rs-of-choice?lang=eng&query=making+choices#7-PD50021411_000_3060" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7</a></sup></div>
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Unlike Alice, we all know where we want to go, and it <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">does</i> matter which way we go, for by choosing our path, we choose our destination.</div>
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Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed—the courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">do </i>determine destiny.</div>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">All of our choices have consequences, some of which have little or nothing to do with our eternal salvation and others of which have <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">everything</i> to do with it.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves. President Brigham Young once expressed this truth by relating it to himself. Said he: “If Brother Brigham shall take a wrong track, and be shut out of the Kingdom of heaven, no person will be to blame but Brother Brigham. I am the only being in heaven, earth, or hell, that can be blamed.” He continued: “This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="bb3e62ee-a8ae-439b-9503-abe9278cd14e" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/the-three-rs-of-choice?lang=eng&query=making+choices#8-PD50021411_000_3060" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8</a></sup></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We have all made incorrect choices. If we have not already corrected such choices, I assure you that there is a way to do so. The process is called repentance. I plead with you to correct your mistakes. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Although the path is not easy, the promise is real: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="b1dff34f-61f5-4d77-8ca0-0b390f508003" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/the-three-rs-of-choice?lang=eng&query=making+choices#10-PD50021411_000_3060" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10</a></sup> “And I, the Lord, remember them no more.”<sup class="noteMarker" guid="ae4fba2a-ff47-4d8c-8e49-4b40d22c4ae7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/the-three-rs-of-choice?lang=eng&query=making+choices#11-PD50021411_000_3060" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11</a></sup> Don’t put your eternal life at risk. If you have sinned, the sooner you begin to make your way back, the sooner you will find the sweet peace and joy that come with the miracle of <a class="no-link-style" href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2005/10/forgiveness?lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">forgiveness</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">DO NOT FEAR AND HAVE THE COURAGE TO MAKE CHOICES NOT BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE IS TELLING YOU TO OR YOU FEEL PRESSURE AT A CERTAIN TIME IN YOUR LIFE BUT DO IT FOR YOURSELF, YOUR LIFE, AND ESPECIALLY YOUR HAPPINESS. LIFE DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN BUT WE MAKE IT HAPPEN AND THAT CAN ONLY COME TO PASS WHEN WE MAKE CHOICES. STOP AND PAUSE THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE FACED WITH A DECISION AND REALLY PONDER, MEDITATE, THINK, BE STILL, AND LET LIGHT FLOW INTO YOUR MIND AND HEART. THINGS WILL WORK OUT AND GOOD AND BAD WILL COME TO PASS REGARDLESS BUT NO NOT LET FEAR OF FAILURE OR REGRET STOP YOU FROM YOUR ETERNAL PROGRESSION. YOU NEED TO LIVE LIFE AND YOU NEED TO LEARN. STOP DOUBTING AND START DECIDING. THE TIME IS NOW!</span></div>
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Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the <b>Light</b> of Christ. You have felt that. It is the sense of what is right and what is wrong and what is true and what is false. That has been with you since your journey in life began. The fact that you were baptized and received the <a class="no-link-style" href="http://www.lds.org/study/topics/holy-ghost?lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">Holy Ghost</a> is evidence that you <b>chose to walk in the Light of Christ.</b></div>
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But the spirit who led the rebellion in the world before still opposes the plan and wants you to be miserable. He wants you never to find your way home again. That enemy of your soul knows you and your <b>goodness</b>. He knows that if he can turn you away from walking in the light, he can both capture you and stop you from helping others along the journey. He knows<b> how good you are and your power to teach and influence hundreds of Heavenly Father’s children in this life—and thousands over the generations that will follow your path.</b> If he can get you to wander away from the light on your journey, he can do harm and bring misery to many.</div>
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The fact that you are listening now is evidence that God recognizes your great importance and that you have <b>chosen to walk in the light </b>He offers you. Such choices are not always easy to see clearly. You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness. <b>Some of the most important choices are about what you set your heart upon.</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">It is by faith that you can lay hold upon every good thing. I pray with all my heart that your faith will be increased that you are a daughter of a loving God. I testify to you that you have been one of the <b>valiant </b>ones to reach the point where you now are in this journey of life. Just as you are marked as a target by the enemy of righteousness, you have been protected and watched over by your Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. They know you. They know all of the forces and individuals around you. <b>They know what is ahead of you. And so They know which of the choices you make, which of the desires you decide to satisfy, and which of the circumstances around you will make the most difference in keeping you walking in the light. </b>I testify that by the Spirit of Christ and by the Holy Ghost, <b>you may walk confidently in whatever difficulties will come. Because you are so valuable, some of your trials may be severe. You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">I promise you that within the next few days<b> you will feel the illumination of the Spirit of Christ</b> and the Holy Ghost in your everyday life. <b>When you walk in the light, you will feel at that moment some of the warmth and the happiness that will finally be yours when you are welcomed home again with the hundreds and perhaps thousands of others whom you will bring with you, who have walked in the light because you did.</b></span><br />
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...is the only noise I can here at about two in the morning in my spacious and dark house. "Its normal for someone to be Facebook stalking at this time anyway right....?" I ask myself. It is two in the morning; no one is here to entertain, nothing else to do, too tired to do homework but not tired enough to sleep. I surprisingly don't feel creepy or weird at all as I find myself on the 300 picture of some random girl I have only met once as I envy her for her freaking cute clothes and find myself pissed at her for posting pics of herself eating fast food but still seeming to have a perfect body..... "NOT FAIR!" I think and ask myself does she even work out or try to look this good....why do I have to try so hard...? Or ho did she get that guy...what did she do to go to all those cool places and get that BA professional yet fun job...? Everyone and their mom judges as we stalk Facebook so why should I feel bad?</div>
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And why don't I find myself stalking hot muscular men and browsing their profiles to see if they are employed or studying something like law or business at BYU....? You would think that would be more entertaining and possibly productive than searching every single girl on my friends list to check out their new hair styles, see if they are married yet and if not, why...? admiring their "indie" bridals and wedding pics, also see what clothes they wear, what kind of hot bikini pics they are posting to show off their bods, and how I compare to all of this and where I fit in.....Why do I and a million other girls not only here in Utah but all over the world do....Why???!!!</div>
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Social comparison is like a disease.... we despise it and try to avoid it but it keeps coming back. Its like a hard addition to drugs where we just cannot get enough and get so caught up in it and fall so hard, we feel like we cannot escape. Do we really all "love each other" and "want to be FB friends" and follow each other on "INSTA", or twitter, or do we really do all this to just stalk, judge, envy, love but hate, compete, and compare....? What is the true purpose to it all....When we meet new people do we actually want to get to know them and become their loyal friends or do we secretly hook ourselves to these "frenemies"so we can swoop in and get a certain guy or join some new group...?</div>
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I guess I am still trying to figure that out because I myself will admit that I was the one Facebook stalking some chick last night and not being happy for her when she changed her status to in a relationship or felt bad for her when something went wrong in life but I became jealous or secretly happy when she failed. We are all such animals! We need to CHILL and stop hating each other but wanting to be each other all at the same time. Why can't we go to a party and actually get someones number and hang out with them rather than "follow" them on instagram and just casually say "hi you look cute!" when we run into them at parties.... this is just not healthy!!! we are losing the vision and true meaning to friends and groups and just healthy happy people.</div>
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1) Break free: cut loose from those place, things, websites, people, groups that will encourage or push us to be envious, judgmental, fake, competitive. You are the one choosing to be a part of all of it and if you feel like it is not right or fake, get out of it and just become REAL! Be honest, show your true colors, show actual interest in the people you love, relate to, understand, care about, and find time to appreciate and hang out with them.</div>
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2) Act to solve problems: gain a new perspective of yourself and your life and do everything in your power to act and adjust to making sure you are fulfilling those qualities and being happy and confident about it.</div>
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3) Dodge overthinking triggers: take a minute and just stop when you feel like you are getting into those unhealthy social comparison patterns. Get help and ask people to give you feedback and call you out. If you need to, vent about something to someone you trust but then MOVE ON and let it go. Write it all down in a journal or something and burn it, if you have to just get it all out so you can feel better.</div>
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I feel like with all the media, movies, internet, magazines, social groups, etc that surround us and make up our society, it is easy for our minds to begin to believe in this fantasy that is not even real life or even practical. Most of the things we see out there are not even real and we have no idea what people are actually like, what they are going through, and who they truly are. I really do wish that people could just be more honest, real, vulnerable, and wear their emotions and issues on their sleeves (like me..embarrassing) but I know that is unrealistic as well and we all want to have a hope that even if we are struggling or not perfect that we are also okay and great. I guess there is just a balance and I feel like we have just gone to extremes, and we need to remember that what our eyes see is not always the truth, and we can stop thinking that everyone is happy, perfect, pretty, secure, and confident. We ALL struggle and we all want to be accepted and loved so I invite all to just be real and be honest and step outside of your head for a while, step away from that fantasy, and consider getting off the internet, and go interact and enjoy real people and real life situations. We can have real relationships with real people, or we can sit around and mope with our computer, feeling like we will never be good enough, and that everyone else out there is happy and pretty.....or we can take matters into our own hands and make things happen! Go open up to people and talk and communicate, and you will be surprised to find out that not everything and everyone is what it seems.....Life is amazing, but it is also hard, and we all are struggling at times, but we can accept life together, and help each other out and support each other rather than compare one another, compete, hate, envy, or fear the people and the situations around us.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">something</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">that</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">makes</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">things</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">visible</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">affords</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">illumination:</span></span><span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">All</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">colors</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">depend</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">on</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">light.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="dnindex" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; width: 28px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">2.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="labset" style="color: #fff2cc; display: inline; font-style: normal;"><span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">Physics</span> </span></span><span id="hotword">.</span></span><br />
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<span class="dnindex" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; width: 28px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">a.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span class="varf"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">Also</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">called</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/luminous+energy" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">luminous energy</a><span id="hotword">, </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/radiant+energy" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">radiant energy.</a></span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">electromagnetic</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">radiation</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">to</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/which" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-decoration: underline;">which</a><span id="hotword"> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">organs</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">sight</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword">react,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">ranging</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">in</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">wavelength</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">from</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">about</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">400</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">to</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">700</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">nm</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword">and</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">propagated</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">at</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">speed</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">186,282</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">mi./sec</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">(299,972</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword">km/sec),</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">considered</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">variously</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">as</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">wave,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">corpuscular,</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">quantum</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">phenomenon.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="dnindex" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; width: 28px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">b.</span></span></span><br />
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<span id="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">similar</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">form</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: pointer;">of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">radiant</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">energy</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">that</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">does</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">not</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">affect</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">retina,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">as</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">ultraviolet</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">infrared</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">rays.</span></span></div>
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<span class="dnindex" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; width: 28px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">3.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">the</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sensation" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-decoration: underline;">sensation</a><span id="hotword"> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">produced</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">by</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">stimulation</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">organs</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">of</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;"> sight.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="dnindex" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; width: 28px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">4.</span></span></span><br />
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<span id="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">an</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">illuminating</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">agent</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">source,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">as</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">sun,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">lamp,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">a</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">beacon.</span></span></div>
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<span class="dnindex" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; width: 28px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">5.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">radiance</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">illumination</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">from</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">particular</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">source:</span> </span><span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword"> light</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">candle.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px;">An illuminating source! Light gives us direction and confidence and will warm us up when we are feeling cold and dark. Light is a comfort and can show is the details all around us that will make us see things more clearly, make better decisions when on a journey or when you are heading down a certain path, and can lead us exactly where we want to go. Light is beautiful and brilliant and it will help us discover and see things that nothing else can. So how do we get light when we are thrown out into the scary, dark, and unpredictable world when we finally come to a time when we are alone, needing to obtain truth and understanding about the world and ourselves, and take what we have and become something of worth, beauty, strength, and meaning. So the light is where....?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px;">The personality is composed of two things; the 1) Real Self and the 2) Ideal Self. Your Real Self is who you actually are, while your Ideal Self is the person you want to be.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px;">Our real self does have a light within us and until we tap into that light and discover its power and worth, we are not able to work towards and eventually become our ideal self. When we believe in the ideal self and becoming something of such influence and power, we then obtain HOPE. In the dictionary, hope is defined as follows:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><sup style="bottom: 1ex; font-size: 0.75em; height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"></sup> <span class="pronset"><span class="show_spellpr" style="display: inline;"><span class="pron_toggle" style="display: inline;"> </span></span></span><span class="pg" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; padding-right: 3px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">noun,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">verb,</span> </span></span><span class="secondary-bf" style="display: inline; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">hoped,</span> </span></span><span class="secondary-bf" style="display: inline; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">hop·ing.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="dnindex" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; width: 28px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">1.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">feeling</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">that</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">what</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">is</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">wanted</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">can</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">be</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">had</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">that</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">events </span></span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/will" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-decoration: underline;">will</a><span id="hotword"> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">turn</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">out</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">for</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">best:</span> </span><span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">to</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">give</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">up</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">hope.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="dnindex" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; width: 28px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">2.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">particular</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">instance</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">this</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">feeling:</span> </span><span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">hope</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">winning.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="dnindex" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; width: 28px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">3.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">grounds</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">for</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">this</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">feeling</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">in</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">particular</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">instance:</span> </span><span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">There</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">is</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">little </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">no</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">hope</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">his</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">recovery.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="dnindex" style="display: block; float: left; font-weight: bold; width: 28px;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">4.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">person</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">thing</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">in</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/which" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-decoration: underline;">which</a><span id="hotword"> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">expectations</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">are</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">centered:</span> </span><span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">The</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword">medicine</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">was</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">her</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">last</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">hope.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">something</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">that</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">is</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">hoped</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">for:</span> </span><span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">Her</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">forgiveness</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">is</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">my</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">constant </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword">hope.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #fff2cc;">Hope is believing that you may not be the person you want to be, but you can have confidence and faith that you will eventually work up to that person and flourish in time as you work and change.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><b>We have a hope that we will be able to </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span name="hotword"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><b>1) tap into our actual self </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span name="hotword"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><b>2) discover that light that is burning </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span name="hotword"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><b>3) acknowledge our natural gifts, talents, abilities</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span name="hotword"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><b>Once that is accomplished, we then can then...</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span name="hotword"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><b>1) begin to find out our true ideal self</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span name="hotword"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><b>2) exercise that hope constantly in believing that we are able to one day reach that ideal goal and become who we are meant to become</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">'The foreclosure status is when a commitment is made without exploring alternatives. Often these commitments are based on parental ideas and beliefs that are accepted without question'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> As Marcia put it, ' the individual about to become a Methodist, Republican farmer like his Methodist, Republican farmer father, with little or no thought in the matter, certainly cannot be said to have "achieved" an identity, in spite of his commitment'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Adolescents may foreclose on the handed-down identity willingly or under pressure. The case of "negative-identity" occurs when adolescents adopt an identity in direct opposition to a prescribed identity. Foreclosures' 'endorsement of authoritarian values...is consistent with the description of them as becoming their parents' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Alter ego">alter egos</a>'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup> Marcia stressed that 'once the foreclosure position is left behind (i.e. a crisis has been experienced), it is no longer an option'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">'Some adolescents become overwhelmed by the task of identity development and neither explore nor make commitments...may become socially isolated and withdrawn'<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a></sup>: Identity diffusion. 'Identity Diffusion is generally considered the least mature and least complex status'<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup> of the four identity statuses. Identity Diffusion is the status of individuals who have neither explored nor made commitments across life-defining areas. They may or may not have experienced a crisis, with some reporting having little interest in such matters and others reporting repeated indecision.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Marcia suggested that those with identity diffusion 'do not experience much anxiety because there is little in which they are invested. As they begin to care more...they move to the moratorium status, or they become so disturbed that they are diagnosed <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Schizophrenic">schizophrenic</a>'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a></sup> Others indicate that 'in the most extreme cases of role diffusion, adolescents may adopt a negative identity'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-10" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Identity moratorium is the status of individuals who are in the midst of a crisis but whose commitments are either absent or are only vaguely defined. 'The moratorium status is characterized by the active exploration of alternatives'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup> Marcia noted that 'moratoriums...report experiencing more anxiety than do Ss in any other status...The world for them is not, currently, a highly predictable place; they are vitally engaged in a struggle to make it so'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Nevertheless over time a tendency has been observed for longer periods to be spent in the status, as 'Children of the Sixties...granted themselves a long moratorium on commitments...'<i>Provisional Adulthood</i> '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Once a crisis has been overcome, 'a likely progression would be from diffusion through moratorium to identity achievement'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a></sup> The latter is thus the status of individuals who have typically experienced a crisis, undergone identity explorations and made commitments. Marcia found some evidence to support his 'theoretical description of Ss who have achieved an identity as having developed an internal, as opposed to external, locus of self-definition'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marcia#cite_note-15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; white-space: nowrap;">16</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">]</span></a></sup></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">In every aspect of our life, we will find ourselves falling under one or two of these stages and this is normal and just part of our journey as we try to apply light and hope in our lives while achieving goals and discovering our worth. Of course, our ideal stage to be in is the identity achievement and with both</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">1) exploration (discovering the "actual self", tapping into that "light", acknowledging those personal gifts and talents)</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Once we have both the passion and ability put into something meaningful in our lives, we are reaching that identity achievement and we can feel secure, truly happy, and successful.</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Turn the lights on! Find out what you are good at and what you like to do...explore! Believe in becoming something even more and dedicate and commit to working towards that and reaching your identity achievement! With time, practice, sacrifice, effort, passion, and consistency, you will progressively grow in ways you never imagined and you will feel that self-worth and life success flowing into your heart and into your life!</span></b></div>
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<i>So I was sitting in institute dwelling on my problems like usual, contemplating if I should "go back" to something and just "settle" because I felt like I was so completely alone and unhappy and I questioned whether or not this is the best I could ever get or the happiest I could maybe be and I got hit in the face by this talk by Elder Holland. It was literally like the heavens opened while I was stuck in my manipulating and discouraging thoughts of myself and God woke me up and snapped me out of it. After hearing these profound and moving words, I wondered how I even reached this point and what it was that I could possibly do to get myself out of this black shameful hole of compromising and settling myself and my standards....Was it me that got me here or was it society...boys? media? my church? or could it be everything....? At this point I did not care and did not want to know and all I could do is try and tap into my godlike self and remember who I am, who I am working towards becoming, and what I need to continue to do to get there.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">My theme comes in the next verse. Surely, with the Lord’s counsel—“look not behind thee”—ringing clearly in her ears, Lot’s wife, the record says, “looked back,” and she was turned into a pillar of salt (see <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/19.26?lang=eng#25" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">verse 26</a>).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Just what did Lot’s wife do that was so wrong? As a student of history, I have thought about that and offer a partial answer. Apparently, what was wrong with Lot’s wife was that she wasn’t just <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">looking</span> back; in her heart she wanted to <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">go</span> back. It would appear that even before she was past the city limits, she was already missing what Sodom and Gomorrah had offered her. As Elder Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles once said, such people know they should have their primary residence in Zion, but they still hope to keep a summer cottage in Babylon.<sup class="noteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/liahona/2010/01/the-best-is-yet-to-be?lang=eng&query=remembering+lots+wife+(name%3a%22Jeffrey+R.+Holland%22)#footnote1-09281_000_015" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1</a></sup></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">It is possible that Lot’s wife looked back with resentment toward the Lord for what He was asking her to leave behind. We certainly know that Laman and Lemuel were resentful when Lehi and his family were commanded to leave Jerusalem. So it isn’t just that she looked back; she looked back<span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">longingly.</span> In short, her attachment to the past outweighed her confidence in the future. That, apparently, was at least part of her sin.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">As a new year begins and we try to benefit from a proper view of what has gone before, I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">faith is always pointed toward the future.</span> Faith always has to do with blessings and truths and events that will <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">yet</span> be efficacious in our lives.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">So a more theological way to talk about Lot’s wife is to say that she did not have faith. She doubted the Lord’s ability to give her something better than she already had. Apparently, she thought that nothing that lay ahead could possibly be as good as what she was leaving behind.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">To yearn to go back to a world that cannot be lived in now, to be perennially dissatisfied with present circumstances and have only dismal views of the future, and to miss the here and now and tomorrow because we are so trapped in the there and then and yesterday are some of the sins of Lot’s wife.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve.</span> Is that faith? Yes! Is that hope? Yes! Is that charity? Yes! Above all, it is charity, the pure love of Christ. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. Don’t keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone, saying, “Hey! Do you remember <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">this?</span>” Splat!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">Well, guess what? That is probably going to result in some ugly morsel being dug up out of <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">your</span> landfill with the reply, “Yeah, I remember it. Do<span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you</span> remember <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">this?</span>” Splat.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">Keep your eyes on your dreams, however distant and far away. Live to see the miracles of repentance and <a class="no-link-style" href="http://lds.org/general-conference/2005/10/forgiveness?lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-width: initial !important; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">forgiveness</a>, of trust and divine love that will transform your life today, tomorrow, and forever. </span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;">Coincidence....? I cannot even begin to paint a clear picture of how much God loves each of us and knows exactly who we are and what we need every single day. He sends us places where we can feel the spirit so strong and he can speak to us so clearly but it is up to us if we want to be humble and tap into that. A few days later, I was reading in the scriptures in mosiah and I came across yet another "heavens opening up and God speaking to me" moment.</span></i></div>
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vertical-align: baseline;">unfaithful</a> they did not prosper nor progress in their journey, but were <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/1.17?lang=eng#" id="footnote33" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=1&noteID=17b" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Do we actually believe that this so called "best" will be worth the wait....? Can we believe in it? I am striving everyday to hold strong and develop a faith that I never knew that I DID NOT have in me and it is really hard. It is easy to give up and it is easy to say this does not exist but why do we not give ourselves any credit at all anymore and why do we want to think that we should just settle? We are brilliant and we are great and we have the potential to be God's and if we just tap into that spirit and let it remind ourselves that every single day, we will obtain our "best" and I know that it will be worth it. We can do this. We are worth the wait. Keep dreaming and keep believing.</span></span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">D&C 67</span></u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 </span>And again, verily I say unto you that it is your privilege, and a<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote14" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">promise</a> I give unto you that have been ordained unto this ministry, that inasmuch as you <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote15" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10b" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">strip</a> yourselves from <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote16" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10c" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">jealousies</a>and <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote17" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10d" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fears</a>, and <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">e</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote18" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10e" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">humble</a> yourselves before me, for ye are not sufficiently humble, the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">f</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote19" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">veil</a> shall be rent and you shall <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">g</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote20" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=10g" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">see</a> me and know that I am—not with the carnal neither natural mind, but with the spiritual.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11 </span>For no <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote21" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=11a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">man</a> has seen God at any time in the flesh, except quickened by the Spirit of God.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12 </span>Neither can any <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote22" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=12a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">natural</a> man abide the presence of God, neither after the carnal mind.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13 </span>Ye are not able to abide the presence of God now, neither the ministering of angels; wherefore, <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote23" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=13a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">continue</a> in patience until ye are <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/67?lang=eng#" id="footnote24" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=67&noteID=13b" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">perfected</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">I have decided that my blogs are way too emo and I would like the world to know that I am really not sad...I AM OKAY!! haha promise.... it is just nice to open up and vent...be real and not pretend that life is easy and always good....it has its ups and downs! So on a happy and positive note....</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">I am in a positive psychology class and I am really excited about the book we are reading called "the how of happiness." It talks about how in our life there is 50% that is a set point, meaning genetics, background, make up of oneself. Then there is the 10% that is your circumstances, meaning you wherever you live, your culture, environment, things like that. The last one is the most important and that is the big 40% that is completely your CHOICE and the part of the pie or diagram that is fully yours and you can control! I think that is so exciting! It is easy to claim our family situation, our state or country, our skin color, our "poor circumstances of just the way we are and we can't help it", but there is proven research that it is possible to gain control and make change. You own that 40% and you are the one that can use that to your advantage every day and make things happen for yourself and for your life.....cool huh??!!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">So one of the activities that is so simple and very fluffy in my opinion talks about the importance of GRATITUDE and 8 ways that we can be happier in our lives if we are being grateful. Heard that one before....?? Me too! Like every day in sunday school at church or even growing up from my parents, I have always been programmed to know that an "attitude of gratitude" makes you happy. Can it and will it? How do you do it then if it is so simple because what is the excuse for the unhappy and cold society or culture we live in? If we were all thankful enough then why are we all not smiling and loving each other? I think we are all in denial and not being real about things! I also think that we need more grateful leaders in our lives to set the tone and mood of the days and weeks and so we can follow the leader and start being more happy and grateful people. We have so many reasons to be thankful every moment of every day right....?? Here are the 8 ways in the book that prove that gratitude can boost ones personal happiness in their life.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">1) Grateful thinking promotes the savoring of positive life experiences- embracing and enjoying every life experience, big or small, and not thinking about what it lacks or in what way it could be better. Take it how it is and see the beauty it holds! Always see the good!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">2) Expressing gratitude bolsters self-worth and self-esteem- you will progressively learn to accept and love yourself for who you are and what you are meant to do! </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">3) Gratitude helps people cope with stress and trauma- instead of thinking "what am I doing wrong?" change the question to, "what can I do better?" you will come to find that you can ALWAYS overcome anything and deal with any situation that comes your way. Get out of victim mindset!!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">4) Expressing gratitude encourages moral behavior- you will want to be better when you are thankful for everyone and everything! you are constantly seeing the good and appreciating the positive which will then lead you to a path of making morally correct choices and feeling more grateful and happy!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">5) Gratitude can help build social bonds, strengthening existing relationships, and nurturing new ones- who does not want to feel appreciated and loved? how many people do you know that are so thankful for you and appreciate you every day...? how much do you want to serve them and love them more? those are good people and good friends....you can become that person!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">6) Expressing gratitude tends to inhibit invidious comparisons with others- NEVER COMPARE, COMPETE, OR CONDEMN! these feelings will only get you down on yourself, others, and the world. be happy for others and their accomplishments and successes!! </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">7) Gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings of anger, bitterness, and greed- who likes angry or bitter people? do you really have any reason to feel that way about your life or yourself? are you being a little over dramatic and need to shift your thoughts and feelings from darkness to light....? try it and see how much lighter and better you feel! </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">8) Gratitude helps us thwart hedonic adaptation, which is our capacity to adjust rapidly to any new circumstances or event- whatever comes your way in life, this will make you strong and ready to handle it! have an attitude of "come what may" or "I can learn something from this...." It is all about how you see it and not how it really is. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">I truly believe that there is nothing out there in the world that is perfect happiness and so I think the question is not "what are we searching for?", or "where is it?" but "how are we going to create our own happiness and experience it every single day?"</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">well a start to that question is BE GRATEFUL!!!! This is one way you can start now to creating a happy and positive life that will attract good people and things to you every where you go, regardless of your circumstances. How do we begin to have this attitude....??</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">1) express gratitude verbally- tell at least one person in your life that you love and care for,that you are thankful for them and all they do. People need to feel appreciated and a way we can start doing that is speeding the love and thanks to everyone around us verbally.... say thank you as much as you can!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000;">2) write it down- have a gratitude journal where you can write at least one good thing about your day or even your life on paper so you can be recognizing the good in all you do and say.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000;">3) show it- do something for someone! help people out to prove to them that you are thankful for all the hard work and effort they are doing in their own lives, even if it is not involving you personally. we all need help and what a better way to be thankful for each other then by getting up and giving each other a hand! It really does seem like a pain and seems like it will not be worth it, but I promise that your happiness will increase and by "paying it forward", the universe will bring you good things in return.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000;">4) think it- is it not scientifically proven that our thoughts control everything about us??? everything begins in the mind! If we are thinking good things, we will see and experience good things! even if we wake up and say "I am going to have a good day..." and bad things happen, that doesn't mean we have to think it is a bad day..... maybe it is good and we are just not seeing what is good about it...??!!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000;">5) teach it-be a leader! study the importance of all of this and try it out yourself and then bring this wisdom and goodness to the people around you!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">So can we be happy? Is happiness a real thing or are we all just emo and depressed people sitting around and hoping that the UPS man will someday drop a box labeled "happiness" at our door and life will just be good.....?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">I think it exists and is a real thing but we are all so different and all have specific definitions of happiness and so all we need to do it look for them and try things out! What are always thinking about unconsciously and what do you always find yourself doing or wanting to do? Start to experiment a little and good things will come and happiness will light up your life! Start by being grateful and I promise you that things will change.</span></span>Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-52828741454683018222012-09-12T13:24:00.001-07:002012-09-12T13:25:56.916-07:00"for the JOY of the Lord is your s t r e n g t h"<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">I found myself in church on sunday, hopeless and desperate, rustling through the scriptures for anything to feed my hungry and spirit seeking soul. With the soothing sound of the speakers voices muffed in the background, my mind was racing with thoughts of worry and concern and the only word I could find myself constantly coming back to with all my flips of the pages in my messy and marked up scriptures what the word STRENGTH. I guess I was feeling pretty weak and I felt that the answers I was really needing at such a hard time in my life was some physical and emotional strength from someone or something. I found this slightly random scripture in the book of Nehemiah (who has ever really heard of this book/studied it?) and I read it over a few times in my mind wondering what it actually meant. </span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">FOR THE JOY OF THE LORD IS <u>YOUR</u> STRENGTH....</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">I was low and weak and for a moment realizing that this meant the Lord was not happy with me at all because of my lack of emotional/physical energy....? weird.</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">I then continued to "feast upon the words of Christ" and read as much as I could about strength and what it is and how to get it. I read in Psalms' some more insight and my heart was lifted and inspired by its poetic and deep words...</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"><u>Psalms 71:</u></span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 </span>In thee, O <span class="deitySmallCaps" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-variant: small-caps; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord</span>, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 </span>Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 </span>Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">art</span>my <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote0" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=3a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rock</a> and my fortress.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4 </span>Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote1" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=4a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cruel</a> man.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5 </span>For thou <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">art</span> my hope, O Lord <span class="deitySmallCaps" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-variant: small-caps; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">God</span>: <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">thou art</span> my trust from my youth.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6 </span>By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shall be</span>continually of thee.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7 </span>I am as a wonder unto many; but thou <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">art</span> my strong refuge.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 </span>Let my mouth be filled <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with</span> thy praise <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and with</span> thy honour all the day.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9 </span>Cast me not off in the time of <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote2" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=9a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">old</a> age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="10" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 </span>For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11 </span>Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for<span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">there is</span> none to deliver <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">him.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12 </span>O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13 </span>Let them be confounded <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span> consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with</span> <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote3" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=13a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reproach</a> and dishonour that seek my hurt.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14 </span>But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15 </span>My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span> thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">thereof.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">16 </span>I will go in the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote4" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=16a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">strength</a> of the Lord <span class="deitySmallCaps" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-variant: small-caps; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">God</span>: I will make mention of thy righteousness, <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">even</span> of thine only.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17 </span>O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="18" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18 </span>Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">this</span> generation, <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</span>thy power to every one <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that</span> is to come.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="19" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19 </span>Thy <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote5" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=19a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">righteousness</a> also, O God, <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is</span> very <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote6" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=19b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">high</a>, who hast done great things: O God, who <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is</span> <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote7" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=19c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">like</a> unto thee!</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20 </span><span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thou,</span> which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote8" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=20a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">quicken</a> me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">21 </span>Thou shalt increase my greatness, and <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote9" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=21a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">comfort</a> me on every side.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="22" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">22 </span>I will also praise thee with the psaltery, <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">even</span> thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="24" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">24 </span>My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/71?lang=eng#" id="footnote10" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=ps&chapterUri=71&noteID=24a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shame</a>, that seek my hurt.</i></b></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">I sat and pondered for a sec and just thought, "what a good attitude to have." In such pain and sorrow, seeking deep and profound words of wisdom to tell me how to get strength, I found it quite simply in the humble words of a faithful man that the answer was that it is all about your attitude and your belief on where you stand with your relationship with God personally, regardless of your circumstances or situations at the present moment. Easier said than done right....? I remembered some of my most favorite and uplifting scriptures I had found throughout my mission as well as shared with other people who were struggling or needing some strength and courage.</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"><u>Romans 8:31,38-39</u></span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="31" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">31 </span>What shall we then say to these things? If God <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">be</span> for us, who<span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">can <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rom/8?lang=eng#" id="footnote66" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=rom&chapterUri=8&noteID=31a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">be</a></span> against us?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="38" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">38 </span>For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,</span></span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="39" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">39 </span>Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rom/8?lang=eng#" id="footnote79" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=rom&chapterUri=8&noteID=39a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">separate</a> us from the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rom/8?lang=eng#" id="footnote80" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=rom&chapterUri=8&noteID=39b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">love</a> of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"><u>2 Corinthians 12:9-10</u></span></b><br />
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<div class="" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" uri="/scriptures/nt/2-cor/12.9">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9 </span>And he said unto me, My <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/12?lang=eng#" id="footnote14" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=12&noteID=9a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">grace</a> is sufficient for thee: for my<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/12?lang=eng#" id="footnote15" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=12&noteID=9b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">strength</a> is made perfect in <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/12?lang=eng#" id="footnote16" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=12&noteID=9c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">weakness</a>. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/12?lang=eng#" id="footnote17" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=12&noteID=9d&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rest</a> upon me.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="10" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 </span>Therefore I take pleasure in <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/12?lang=eng#" id="footnote18" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=12&noteID=10a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">infirmities</a>, in reproaches, in necessities, in <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/12?lang=eng#" id="footnote19" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=12&noteID=10b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">persecutions</a>, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/12?lang=eng#" id="footnote20" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=12&noteID=10c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">weak</a>, then am I <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/12?lang=eng#" id="footnote21" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=12&noteID=10d&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">strong</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17 </span>Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote26" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=17a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">goodness</a> of the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart exclaimeth: O <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote27" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=17b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">wretched</a> man that I am! Yea, my heart <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote28" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=17c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sorroweth</a>because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.</span></span></div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="18" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18 </span>I am encompassed about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote29" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=18a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">beset</a> me.</div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="19" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19 </span>And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote30" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=19a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">trusted</a>.</div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20 </span>My God hath been my <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote31" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=20a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">support</a>; he hath led me through mine<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote32" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=20b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">afflictions</a> in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.</div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">21 </span>He hath filled me with his <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote33" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=21a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">love</a>, even unto the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote34" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=21b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">consuming</a> of my flesh.</div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="22" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">22 </span>He hath confounded mine <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote35" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=22a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">enemies</a>, unto the causing of them to quake before me.</div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="23" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">23 </span>Behold, he hath heard my cry by day, and he hath given me<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote36" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=23a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">knowledge</a> by <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote37" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=23b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">visions</a> in the night-time.</div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="24" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">24 </span>And by day have I waxed bold in mighty <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote38" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=24a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">prayer</a> before him; yea, my voice have I sent up on high; and angels came down and ministered unto me.</div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="25" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">25 </span>And upon the wings of his Spirit hath my body been <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote39" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=25a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">carried</a>away upon exceedingly high mountains. And mine eyes have beheld great things, yea, even too great for man; therefore I was bidden that I should not write them.</div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="26" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">26 </span>O then, if I have seen so great things, if the Lord in his condescension unto the children of men hath <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote40" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=26a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">visited</a> men in so much <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote41" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=26b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mercy</a>, <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote42" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=26c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">why</a> should my <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote43" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=26d&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">heart</a> weep and my soul linger in the valley of sorrow, and my flesh waste away, and my strength slacken, because of mine afflictions?</div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="27" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">27 </span>And why should I <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote44" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=27a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yield</a> to sin, because of my flesh? Yea, why should I give way to <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote45" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=27b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">temptations</a>, that the evil one have place in my heart to destroy my <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote46" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=27c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">peace</a> and afflict my soul? Why am I<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" id="footnote47" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=27d&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">angry</a> because of mine enemy?</div>
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<i>Is it really that easy to shift our view and thoughts on things from negative to positive and be able to regain such strength and courage from a Lord that loves us and that is filled with joy when we are strong....?? I think it is! It is our attitude and our thoughts that fill us with God's power, courage, and strength daily. We are the ones that decide and choose if we are strong and then once that decision and attitude is put out there, then we are given that heavenly help and boost of physical and emotional stability and strength. I believe that once we out loud recognize these things and we create how we feel and who we are, then we are empowered and then we can do great things and have uplifting and positive experiences. What good examples of these positive attitudes do we have in the scriptures! I really don't think that we are afraid that we are not strong and we are not great but the exact opposite. I think we are afraid of discovering the power we actually have and what we can do and become in our lives with that divine gift. Why do we fear our own greatness? Why do we hesitate to tap into our Godlike selves and continuously look up and progress with every day that comes to us?</i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">Our Greatest Fear —Marianne Williamson</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">(it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us)</span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,<br />talented and fabulous?<br /><br />Actually, who are you not to be?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">You are a child of God.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">Your playing small does not serve the world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">people won't feel insecure around you.<br /><br />We were born to make manifest the glory of<br />God that is within us.<br /><br />It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">And as we let our own light shine,<br />we unconsciously give other people<br />permission to do the same.<br /><br />As we are liberated from our own fear,<br />Our presence automatically liberates others.<br /><br />—Marianne Williamson</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">Embrace the light and do not run from it. Grab a hold of your strength inside of you are use it to your benefit. Achieve greatness in all you do and when it does seem like all has failed, remember that you are the one letting yourself and your strength fail and just change your attitude and thoughts and you will be given that strength and power back to continue to press forward with faith and go about doing good.</span></b></center>
Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-66302054409174482622012-08-31T11:55:00.001-07:002012-08-31T11:56:39.131-07:00h a p p y campers :)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I have been loving my positive psychology class and I feel like I have found my new path in psychology. This study and research and way of life is ME! I can really identify with it a lot and I have so much interest in it. I love those moments in life when you truly find out what you love to do and each day of learning and growth is more enjoyable than effort or work to you. It is discovery and excitement. It is lighting up a dark room and just filling that amount of dark space with numerous bright and flashing lights that just continue to get brighter and brighter. It is quite thrilling! So in this class we have been learning a lot about mental imagery and vision. This method of thinking teaches us how to not just the "hows" to be happy but also to become successful and achieve the goals and things you want in your life. Our professor talked about it all starts in the mind and that we literally need to paint a picture or set up a scene in the stage of our thoughts and SEE what we want to be said, thought, felt, and done in specific aspects of our day to day life. We are the creators of that blank stage in our mind and we are the directors to our own plays in life so it is crucial to first have the vision of the play and then the action can occur. He related this to the movie "Sherlock Holmes" and how he always played out the scenes in his mind first and then made them happen. He also gave us a digram from our textbook that proves how much of our happiness and success is actually "in our control". It states that 50% is set point such as genetics, disorders, etc. that we are just given, 10% is circumstance like where you are living, what country, and who you are with, and 40% is intentional activity which is your attitude and choice. So we have 40% to deal with and change, adjust, fix so we can become more happy and successful. How do we do that? Begin with this mental imagery theory and apply it to anything you are working towards in your life whether that is getting a new job, getting a boyfriend/girlfriend, developing a new skill/hobby, parenting your children, mending a relationship with a friend, etc. Begin to invasion every word said, emotion felt, the smells, the setting, the mood of each scenario and then go make it happen. Do this not only once but over and over because it is also proven that "practice/effort and time" make perfect. </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>1) happiness must be found- stop waiting and looking for an exact definition of happiness in your life and CREATE your own happiness for yourself through things you enjoy and like to read, do, study, and apply.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>2)happiness lies in changing our circumstances- stop playing the "victim" and "poor me...my life is hard" card and just embrace who you are, where you are, what you are going through or things that are happening to you, and just LEARN to love and be happy. you cannot blame anyone or anything that you are not happy and you need to understand that joy and happiness is created within the MIND and soul and once thought out and "rehearsed", things do and will work out.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>3) you either have it or you don't- there is no such thing as some people are happy and some are not and that is just how it is. happiness is a choice and any human being has the ability to change that. it all comes down to a persons ATTITUDE and not their APTITUDE. You can choose to be positive or negative and that is the attitude you have and then the emotions that you feel, being happy, sad, hurt, ,oct, worried, confused, troubled, annoyed, upbeat, etc can be felt and processed with whatever attitude you have chosen for yourself.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>So at my work we had the opportunity to go on a nature hike as a group and all the staff,girls, and therapists attended. It was a spiritual and really moving experience as a whole and I think we all got a lot out of it. Everyone set goals before we went out to hike that made us all invasion our day and experience together and what that would look like to us. We then did the hike and all laughed, played, conversed, enjoyed, and just did with enthusiasm and positive energy. Everyone was happy. We all got in a circle at the end in the woods and linked arms and went around one by one reporting the positive about our experience. We all were smiling, crying, laughing, and enjoying together in the end and we all created that moment together as a whole. We were the ones that made the choice to have a positive and enjoyable experience and we all did that. It happened! A lot of girls and staff were struggling in the house and had their own issues to work out but we all were able to deal with those things in a more positive and happy manner because we all choose to have a positive attitude and picture a good and happy experience occurring. It works!</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I also had the chance to talk with my roommates about this type of thing because they are all girls that have been through some really hard, challenging, upsetting, and unpleasant life obstacles. As I heard their personal opinions and stories I was stunned and just in awe about how strong and how much power each girl had over her life regardless of the details of what had happened to them. The all have made the choice to not be the victim and take accountability for the things that have passed, looked at it as a growing/learning experience, and as a new or second chance at life to try things again and do it right. We all have power and we are all creators to our script. Shit happens and life is indeed hard but this does not have to mean we then get to through ourselves pitty parties and sit in our crap for the rest of our lives feeling bad for ourselves and everyone thinking life was once pretty but now lost its color. Life is still bright and exciting and has the potential to fill our souls up with joy but it all begins in our M I N D S and how we choose to SEE our life. Open your eyes and picture what you really want for yourself and your path and envision what you can do to get whatever you want so you can, throughout the experience and journey, not just the ending, feel real, lasting, enjoyable, and pure happiness.</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>SO TRY IT!!!! Start rehearsing your goals and aspirations in your life, specifically sorted out, in your mind and then go out and throw in some effort, practice, and time (patience obviously), and get what you want our of your own life. This quote that I love that our teacher gave us before we ended class was...</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>to end on a spiritual note, I really wanted to share this amazing scripture that was shared in institute today that really gives us the VISION of who we are and who we must become.. </i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Alma 13:3</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 </span>And this is the manner after which they were ordained—being<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/13.3?lang=eng#" id="footnote3" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=13&noteID=3a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">called</a> and <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/13.3?lang=eng#" id="footnote4" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=13&noteID=3b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">prepared</a> from the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/13.3?lang=eng#" id="footnote5" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=13&noteID=3c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">foundation</a> of the world according to the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/13.3?lang=eng#" id="footnote6" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=13&noteID=3d&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">foreknowledge</a> of God, on account of their exceeding faith and good works; in the first place being left to <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">e</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/13.3?lang=eng#" id="footnote7" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=13&noteID=3e&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">choose</a> good or evil; therefore they having chosen good, and exercising exceedingly great <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">f</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/13.3?lang=eng#" id="footnote8" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=13&noteID=3f&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">faith</a>, are <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">g</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/13.3?lang=eng#" id="footnote9" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=13&noteID=3g&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">called</a> with a holy calling, yea, with that holy calling which was prepared with, and according to, a preparatory redemption for such.</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">I cannot believe it is fall semester. I would never believe it because it is so dang hot outside.... I honestly wish I could wear a swimsuit to school and as I walk like 10 miles to each class outside, I could get a tan....HAHA! I am so embarrassed at school because all my classes are so far away from each other and so I feel like a frantic stressed sweating mess as I am running to each class. And I swear-everyone and their mom goes to UVU now.... I am pretty sure about a year or so ago everyone made fun of me and my "wolverine pride" and now everyone followed my trend and is hitting up the UVU.... so proud!!! You all LOVE it!! So I really do love school and I am happy to be back and learning. I get so excited to bond with my teachers and fellow class mates and have good discussions and experiences together. I am so glad I actually know what I want to do with my life and my classes are really enjoyable. I am so passionate about Psychology and I love learning and studying human behavior, thinking, interaction, and emotion. It is fascinating!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">I had work this week and it was one of the most intense days of my life. Being at school now and learning a lot about my field of work, I get to observe and apply the studies from school at work with the girls from the treatment center. This week has just been madness and it really has opened my eyes to some key factors that are crucial in basic human relationships. At my job, we are constantly trying to strengthen, improve, heal, and lift the emotional needs of the girls in any way possible so that they are able to encounter their strengths, weaknesses, core issues, and change or better their negative and positive behavior patterns in their lives. Normally it is very healthy and organized and everyone is slowly but surely finding themselves, finding closure, and making goals to a brighter and happier future. Lately, with some things that have occurred, everyone is basically dragging to just physically get through each day with their basic needs of survival and not try to rip each others heads of from frustration and annoyance. I thought of a good analogy for it...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Think of a hospital room that is filled with ten new born babies and only one nurse is on shift. Now imagine that one baby woke up for any apparent reason and began to scream and cry uncontrollably which then "domino effected" every other baby in there and one by one they all began to cry. Now just a minute ago, this nurse was walking down each row of these cute little innocent new born babies with a calm and loving heart and meeting each specific need to everyone without problem or panic. This nurse is now in stress mode and is running around by herself trying to meet the needs of each one of these ten crying, upset, tired, and hungry babies. To this nurse working alone, she is feeling that each baby is just in need of things like food or more rest and so she is just trying to efficiently physically help each of these new borns so that they do not die. These babies need food and rest right....? But as this nurse is running around hectic and frantic wanting to "save" these children, she is realizing that as much as the physical needs are important, each one does have emotional needs that need to be met and without them, even being rested and fed, they will not be able to "live" or "be saved". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">This was my experience at work with these girls. I felt more like a sitter than a sister or mother. I felt like I was being barked at with orders and just going around and doing without any emotion or thinking because everyone was "dying" and demanding physical needs to be met. That is fine and of course we need to feed our kids, get them dressed and showered, get them doing their homework, get them some medicine, get them in bed on time, etc. but I realized that the actual thing that was lacking more than all of these routines and aspects of the girls lives was emotional needs being met. They needed love and needed an understanding and unconditional heart of concern and care for them. They lacked someone listening to them or validating their feelings. The desired any kin of physical contact like a hug or rub on the back. This is what we all need! I find it so mind blowing that we are so worried about starvation of the body and lack of sleep for human being and how dangerous and unhealthy it is but what about the humans soul....??!! doesn't that live too inside of everyone and doesn't it need some nourishment just like our bodies thirst and hunger for food and water? We truly need love and a APPRECIATION to make it from day to day. we need people to tell us they are there and love us and worry about us. We need to be "saved" on a daily basic by emotional needs such as physical contact from people we care about or healing words of appreciation and affirmation. All these things are important!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">So I went around to all the girls that night and hugged them, kissed them, said positive and encouraging things to motivate them, told them I am proud of them and appreciate them, and was here for them for anything they need. That is all it takes! Is it that hard to remember to do that daily to the people in our lives that we care about so that we can function day to day and have positive and happy exeriences?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">WE CAN DO IT! Let us focus on three key things to make sure this happens and so that we are meeting peoples emotional needs...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">1) consistency- Don't appreciate, give love, attention, and affection one day to someone and stop the next. Keep it up and care enough that people can learn to trust you and know that you will always be there to give them those emotional needs that they need! This is CRUCIAL!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">2) S M I L E- be happy and show everyone, especially these loving and cared for individuals, that you are happy and you are glad to see them! smiles are contagious and will rub off on the people that need and lack some positive emotion and gladness.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">3) eye contact- be there in that moment with that person and don't be distracted or looking somewhere else. this will show that you are not going anywhere and your attention is on them so that they can feel and know that emotionally they are safe and can trust you. FOCUS!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">4) use their names- names are a powerful thing you know! using someones name when speaking to them or addressing them will make them feel cared about, loved, and appreciated.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">5) validate- repeat back what people are saying to you and try to let them know that you understand how they feel and where they are coming from! you don't have to agree but you should let them know that what they are saying to you matters and is worth your time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">6) appreciate- let that person know that they are doing a great job and you are really happy and grateful for the person they are, the work they have done, and they things they share with you. regardless of who you are or what you are doing in life, you want to feel important and appreciated! so let people know how lucky you are to know them and how good they are doing at anything. this will enhance trust and love in that person as well as their personal performance in anything that are involved in.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">LIFE IS GOOD. Fall is here and with work and school, I am so thrilled to even be alive and learning and growing. It is just such a fun ride on that path of self-discovery! Keep reaching out to others and remember that the emotional needs of the people around you, and your own for that matter, do need to be met as much as possible and you can do something about that. Just love, love, and LOVE, and life will surprise you with more L O V E along the way bringing you so much happiness and good experience!! </span>Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-58006498503892396182012-08-09T15:39:00.001-07:002012-08-09T15:40:39.187-07:00POCKETS FULL OF ROCKS...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">So I attended group therapy at my work yesterday and did a really cool exercise that impacted me and I think could help out a lot of other people. We all went around the circle and we had to say three different feelings we were experiencing that day. A lot of people said, "tired, annoyed, confused..." or, "happy, peaceful, proud..." etc. After we expressed how we were feeling we then had the chance to express why we were feeling that way and then the therapist asked us if anyone specific was the reason we felt that way. If we said yes he would ask us how many people and if those feelings were negative or resentful. If we said yes to either of those, he would ask us to please take the amount of rocks for how many people were involved with those negative or resentful feelings we had. After we got through all the group and we all had our 1,3, or 10 rocks in our laps, the therapist read this story and as he read it, I just look at my few rocks and really tried to apply the story to what I was going through and the bad or negative feelings I had towards those few people.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">BY LARRY A. HILLER</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">(Originally printed March 1985.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">It started when the boss yelled at him. From then on, things got kind of, well, rocky.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Malcolm Tent was still a young man when he began putting rocks in his pockets. It started one day when his boss, Mr. Gump, got angry at him for something that wasn’t his fault. He couldn’t yell back at his boss, because he might get fired. In fact, there wasn’t anything he could do except be angry inside. “But,” he thought, “I’m not going to forget this. No way.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">On the way home from the bus stop that night, he thought to himself, “I’ve got to remember how angry I am. I don’t want to forget this in the morning.” Suddenly he had an idea. There was a small rock on the sidewalk in front of him. He picked it up and said softly to himself, “I’ll keep this rock in my pocket to remind me of how unfair Mr. Gump was.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">And that’s what he did. That night he put the rock on his dresser with his keys and his comb. The next morning, when he got dressed to go to work, into his pocket went the ugly gray rock.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">All that day and the next, the heavy bulge in his pocket reminded him that he should be angry at Mr. Gump. Strangely, Mr. Gump seemed to have forgotten about the whole thing. But not Malcolm Tent. Oh no. In fact, during the next two weeks, Mr. Gump made Malcolm angry several more times, and Malcolm decided he’d better get a rock for each time so he could keep better track of these things.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">And so it was that Malcolm Tent’s trousers began to look baggy and strange. But at least he remembered not to forgive Mr. Gump or be friendly or anything like that.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Maybe if Malcolm had only collected rocks when he got angry at old Gump, this thing might have died out and been forgotten. But there was the taxi driver who drove right by and left Malcolm standing in the rain. Into his pocket went a shiny, rain-slick pebble from the gutter. (Of course, Malcolm had no idea of the taxi driver’s name, but it didn’t matter.) Then there was the grocery clerk who short-changed him. And the newspaper delivery boy who threw his paper into the lawn sprinkler. And the neighbor whose dog barked late at night. And … well, Malcolm discovered that there were all kinds of people and things in the world that can bother you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Speaking of discoveries, Malcolm also discovered that when all of your pockets are full of rocks, a plain old belt won’t hold up your pants. (He discovered that fact while his arms were full of grocery sacks.) So he made himself a sturdy pair of leather suspenders to help hold up his pants.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">But soon the time came when he didn’t have enough pockets in his pants, so he had to wear a jacket everywhere he went—the kind of jacket with lots of pockets. And it wasn’t long before the jacket looked as funny as his trousers. And smelled just as dusty. And got even heavier because it had more pockets.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Anyone else might have given up at this point, but not Malcolm. He bought one of those big sturdy briefcases like salesmen use. After all, when you start to look for them, there are all kinds of things in life that can bother you. And when you are always tired from lugging so many rocks around, you get angry even easier.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Years went by, and Malcolm’s collection of reminder rocks spilled out of his pockets and briefcase and all over his house. He had rocks on the kitchen sink, and in his closets, and all over the floors. A few times he even put a rock in his bed so he could remember to be angry during the night. Let’s face it. Malcolm had become a strange, unpleasant man. And most people avoided him when they could, which made him even touchier. Rocks are not very good company. They are hard and dusty, and in the winter they are very cold.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Now, Malcolm might have gone on to become a mean old man completely buried in rocks. But one day he received a phone call from a geology professor at the university. Dr. Igneous had heard of Malcolm’s large rock collection (who hadn’t?), and he wanted to bring his geology class on a field trip to see it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Well,” thought Malcolm, “at last here is someone who appreciates my rocks. Wait until they see all of these reminders of how often people have wronged me.” An appointment was made for the next Saturday, and Malcolm spent the next few evenings dusting and arranging.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">At last Saturday came, and at two o’clock in the afternoon the doorbell rang. There, on the porch, stood Professor Igneous and seven of his best students, all dressed in their best field-trip outdoor clothing. Several had rock hammers dangling from their belts, and one or two carried cameras. And everyone carried a notebook and pencil. Professor Igneous himself looked rather ordinary. But he had a ready smile. And his face was deeply tanned from spending years out of doors. As a matter of fact, there was something about his eyes, too. They looked deep and dark, but they had a sparkle that said he enjoyed life. And when he looked at you, it was the same look he gave mountains and rock formations—as though he were trying to peer inside. This was a scientist who liked people at least as much as he liked rocks.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">As the professor and students stepped into the rock-filled living room, Malcolm expected to hear oohs and aahs. You know, like you hear at a fireworks show. Instead, there was an uncomfortable silence. The group just stood there looking around, nudging a few of the rocks with their toes. Then the students looked at their professor, waiting for him to say something. After all, this was not the collection of beautiful gems and minerals they had expected. These were ordinary hunks of limestone and sandstone and quartzite. Why, there were even chunks of broken asphalt and concrete!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Finally, Professor Igneous spoke: “Ahem,” he cleared his throat. “Perhaps you would be so good as to explain your collection to us, Mr. Tent. I can honestly say we’ve never seen another collection quite like it.” In the background, his students nodded in agreement.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Well,” Malcolm began nervously, “I, uh, well … that is …” It had been a long time since he had said much of anything to anyone.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Professor Igneous could see how nervous Malcolm was. The poor man kept swallowing so hard his Adam’s apple was bobbing up and down. (Some of the students thought he was trying to swallow one of his rocks.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Trying to help, the professor said, “Why not begin by telling us why you chose these rocks.” He picked up an ordinary gray rock that looked like most of the others. “Why did you choose this particular piece of limestone for your collection?”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Oh, is <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that</span> what it is?” Well, I think that’s the one I picked up when the laundry didn’t have my shirts ready on time. Wait! No, I think that’s for the time my favorite TV show got canceled. Or was it the time I ran inside to answer the phone, and the caller had the wrong number? Or …” Here he paused to search his memory. There were so many rocks! And they were so much alike—gray, hard, cold, dusty. Suddenly, Malcolm realized that that was all Professor Igneous and his students could see. To everyone else these were just plain old everyday rocks. Malcolm had to explain, to make them see.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">“There’s more to these rocks than you might think. Every one of these rocks represents a time somebody made me mad or hurt my feelings. I picked up these rocks as reminders.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Now the professor and his students were really amazed. They all began to speak at once: “I never heard of such a thing.” “How long have you been doing this?” “Can I take a picture of you with your rocks?” “Some field trip!”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Professor Igneous spoke again, and everyone became quiet. “Well, Mr. Tent,” he began slowly, “I must admit you’re the first person I ever met who collected rocks for that reason.” He paused and looked around. “You’ve been very kind to invite us into your home. And we don’t want to take up too much of your time. But do you suppose that while we are here we might see your other collection?”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">A blank look came over Malcolm’s face. “I don’t have any other collection.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Oh, I see. I just thought you might have collected something to remind you of the nice things people have done and said. But, well, never mind. Perhaps we ought to be going now. Thank you so much for allowing us to come into your home. I think my students have learned something important.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">He gathered his students around him, and they moved toward the door. Then, turning to Malcolm once more the professor said, “We still have some time left this afternoon. Could you perhaps direct us to some of the other people with similar collections?”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Once more Malcolm was caught off balance. “I don’t know of any other collections like mine.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">“Oh. I just thought that perhaps some of the people you know would have collected something when you … I mean … if you ever … uh … annoyed them.” Then, quickly, he added, “Yes, well, good-bye, and thanks again.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Without waiting, the professor and his students turned and marched off down the sidewalk.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Long after they were gone, Malcolm stood there, looking just like one of his rocks—cold and gray and very still. Within him, the professor’s words echoed. Around him, the house was silent. Too silent. He suddenly realized how pleasant the students’ friendly chatter had been. How long since he had had a friendly talk with anyone? Come to think of it, did he even have any friends anymore?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Then, before he could stop it, the thought came into his mind: “I’m becoming just like my rocks.” As Malcolm sat alone in the dark, he finally realized what unpleasant companions rocks are. And how unpleasant he … Well, some thoughts are hard enough to think without actually saying them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">For several days, for hours at a time, Malcolm sat still as a rock, thinking rock-hard thoughts. You might have thought he had finally become petrified. But deep inside him, something was waking up and beginning to grow, like a seed in the spring soil.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">If you think it’s hard to find a home for kittens or gerbils or such, you should try finding someone who wants a bunch of very ordinary, dusty, gray rocks. In fact, just try gathering them up when they are scattered all over. Malcolm tried to hire cleaning ladies. They all told him the same thing: “I don’t do windows, and I don’t pick up rocks!” A “Free Rocks” sign in his window brought no results. Finally he realized that this was something he would have to do himself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">The neighbors still talk about the time Malcolm backed a rented trailer up to his front porch, and about the tremendous cloud of dust that rose as the rocks flew out into the trailer. They also talk about how much better Malcolm looks, how his clothes fit so much better (has he lost weight?), and how he actually smiles now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Malcolm’s neighbors also point with pride to his attractive yard, with trees and flowers and bushes planted everywhere. They don’t have any explanation for his sudden interest in gardening. But one neighbor, Mrs. Kratz, did notice that after she had taken a piece of cake to him, Malcolm went out to the flower bed and planted a single seed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">The therapist then gave us some seeds and told us to go plant them outside somewhere so they can bloom. He also expressed his love and care for us and the things we are going through with certain people in our lives and he expressed that he hopes we can all do everything in our power to let go and get rid of our rocks. This made me really think about the power of forgiveness and unconditional love and how important it is to apply it in our lives daily because if we are not doing it, we can truly and personally be effected negatively and carry around unneccesary burdens, hard feelings, negative emotions, and hate for people that could be fixed and addressed if we just make the decision and let go of the rocks. I am still holding on to my few rocks and I am definitely going to work on myself this week and figure out what I can do to "let them go" and move on. ROCKS ARE HEAVY!! Rocks are gray, ugly, un wanted weight that holds us back from ever being free. If we were going on a hike up a mountain, would we want to take all these rocks in a back pack and carry them the whole journey up....? No! Just as Christ told us himself... </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>(Matthew 11:28-30)</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: xx-small;"><b><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">28 </span>¶<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; 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background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ye</span> that <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/11?lang=eng#" id="footnote41" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=matt&chapterUri=11&noteID=28b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">labour</a> and are heavy laden, and I will give you <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/11?lang=eng#" id="footnote42" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=matt&chapterUri=11&noteID=28c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rest</a>.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: xx-small;"><b><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">29 </span>Take my <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/11?lang=eng#" id="footnote43" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=matt&chapterUri=11&noteID=29a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">yoke</a> upon you, and <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/11?lang=eng#" id="footnote44" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=matt&chapterUri=11&noteID=29b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">learn</a> of me; for I am <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/11?lang=eng#" id="footnote45" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=matt&chapterUri=11&noteID=29c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">meek</a> and<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/11?lang=eng#" id="footnote46" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=matt&chapterUri=11&noteID=29d&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lowly</a> in <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">e</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/11?lang=eng#" id="footnote47" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=matt&chapterUri=11&noteID=29e&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">heart</a>: and ye shall find <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">f</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/11?lang=eng#" id="footnote48" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=matt&chapterUri=11&noteID=29f&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rest</a> unto your souls.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: xx-small;"><b><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="30" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">30 </span>For my yoke <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is</span> <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/11?lang=eng#" id="footnote49" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=matt&chapterUri=11&noteID=30a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">easy</a>, and my burden is light.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And as the Lord spoke to Alma and his people... </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;"><i>(Mosiah 24:13-16)</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13 </span>And it <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/24?lang=eng#" id="footnote14" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=24&noteID=13a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">came</a> to pass that the voice of the Lord came to them in their afflictions, saying: Lift up your heads and be of good comfort, for I know of the covenant which ye have made unto me; and I will covenant with my people and deliver them out of bondage.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;"><i><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14 </span>And I will also ease the <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/24?lang=eng#" id="footnote15" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=24&noteID=14a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>burdens</b></a> which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/24?lang=eng#" id="footnote16" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=24&noteID=14b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">witnesses</a> for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/24?lang=eng#" id="footnote17" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=24&noteID=14c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; 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margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15 </span>And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, <b>the Lord did<sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/24?lang=eng#" id="footnote18" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=24&noteID=15a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; 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This talk also demonstrates this principle perfectly..</div>
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"The Merciful Obtain Mercy"</h1>
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<a href="http://www.lds.org/church/leader/dieter-f-uchtdorf?lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BY PRESIDENT DIETER F. UCHTDORF</a></div>
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Second Counselor in the First Presidency</div>
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When our hearts are filled with the love of God, we become “kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving.”</div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 13px;">Let us hand over our rocks and let go. It is our choice how we feel each day and whether or not we choose to carry these rocks. We are the ones to decide. It is sometimes hard and can take humility, patience, time, and effort, but we are not alone and we do have heavenly assistance. Take the Lord's hand and take up his offer by "learning of him" and you will "find rest in your souls."</span></span></div>Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-84039889735765288972012-08-06T23:00:00.001-07:002012-08-06T23:00:56.267-07:00Stop Procrastinating!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">The "laid-back" and "easy-going" life of a procrastinator....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">WHY TRY?? If I am always trying to live in the moment and be stress free, then how can I always "be on top of it" and never behind in my goals or tasks....??</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Contradictory...? Maybe.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Post-mission I am a stress/nut case and all I manage to see is check lists of goals, task, things to do, things I want to do, and school work. I see calendars and a ticking clock and my blood pressure is constantly rising because all I can do is worry and stress about the future and if I am going to work out my schedules, get my school work done, and get my lessons for church all figured out. I can't focus in one class because I am thinking about the work or test I have in another class. I can't focus at work because all I can think about is the homework I have that night. My pulse is quickening daily and I am practically sweating all the time with nerves and worry. Healthy? Probably not...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">Has it always been like this...? NEVER! This is miss yellow personality talking who is always looking for the next trip or good time and always living in the moment. All I could worry about and focus on was the fun around me and the people that were loving me. I was always smiling and laughing and if I did have anything productive or of worth to accomplish or do, I would do it LITERALLY the last minute I had before it was due. Did this work for me...? Yes! It all just came so easy and I felt like I just enjoyed and lived life to the fullest, still getting things done but when they absolutely had to be done.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">How to I find a healthy balance...???!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">I feel like both extremes can be good and I can be driven, hard-working, task-oriented, as well as easy-going, fun, happy, and chill. What do I do??</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">This last weekend was my birthday and I went to California from friday to sunday. My whole family went and it was a blast but I missed class, had SOOOO much homework to do, and was mostly stressed the whole time. I wanted to have a fun vacation and enjoy my birthday with my family as well as attend a friends wedding, but at the same time I wonder if it would be easier to just stay put and not have to deal with the worry and traveling and procrastinating!!!! My mom made a good point and said, "well you probably would have done all your school work sunday night anyway, so what is the difference...?"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">I don't even know! But the difference would definitely be a less stressed and more enjoyable Jami for a few days. I am really glad I went but last night and this morning sucked because I was running around and doing everything last minute with half the effort and focus. hmmmm...conflict?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;">This week, since it is the last week of school so I will definitely be running around doing a ton of things, I am going to find the happy medium. Hard-working yet calm and focused yet peaceful. No more stress! and definitely no more procrastinating!!!</span><br />
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<br />Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-90696697514358814232012-08-01T13:34:00.003-07:002012-08-01T13:40:34.151-07:00Shed some LIGHT<div style="color: #fff2cc;">
So I found some really good scriptures on Sunday that I posted on the blog and there was one I really like about light. </div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="4"> </a><span class="verse">4 </span>In whom the <sup class="studyNoteMarker">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote6" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=4a&lang=eng">god</a> of this <sup class="studyNoteMarker">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote7" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=4b&lang=eng">world</a> hath <sup class="studyNoteMarker">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote8" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=4c&lang=eng">blinded</a> the <sup class="studyNoteMarker">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote9" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=4d&lang=eng">minds</a> of them which <sup class="studyNoteMarker">e</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote10" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=4e&lang=eng">believe</a> not, <b>lest the <sup class="studyNoteMarker">f</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote11" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=4f&lang=eng">light</a> of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the <sup class="studyNoteMarker">g</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote12" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=4g&lang=eng">image</a> of <sup class="studyNoteMarker">h</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote13" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=4h&lang=eng">God</a>, should shine unto them.</b></div>
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7936242768285553108" name="6"> </a><span class="verse">6 </span>For God, who <sup class="studyNoteMarker">a</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote16" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=6a&lang=eng">commanded</a><b> the light to shine out of darkness, hath <sup class="studyNoteMarker">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote17" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=6b&lang=eng">shined</a> in our hearts, to <span class="clarityWord">give</span> the <sup class="studyNoteMarker">c</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote18" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=6c&lang=eng">light</a> of the knowledge of the <sup class="studyNoteMarker">d</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/4.3-11?lang=eng#" id="footnote19" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=nt&bookUri=2-cor&chapterUri=4&noteID=6d&lang=eng">glory</a> of God in the face of Jesus Christ.</b></div>
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I love the thought of this and how important it is for us to shine light to others. We are so blessed to be a part of this perfect gospel and we are given a duty to live that gospel and through living it, we can bring others to it by our light and example. It is as if we were all sailing in the sea, in the dark and through the storms and wind, and we the members of the church are the light houses to attract the sailors and guide them towards the light so they can make it safe to land. </div>
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But how do we get light and how do we make sure we always have it? What can we do to always be seeking that divine light so we ourselves are happy as well as the people around us? Are we not human too and do we not have storms and winds to deal with our self? Can we both steer our own life boat as well as lead others with our light and personal testimony of Christ to safety? It is a hard balance!</div>
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I had the opportunity to go to the temple of few times this month and I was just immediately covered and immersed completely in bright shining divine light. Every time I step in, I feel the powerful reassurance that God lives and loves me and I can feel the presence of his heavenly angels filling my heart and mind with comfort and light. I know that this is a place we can go, a peaceful, quiet, clean, calm place, where we can seek answers, strength, help, guidance, support, and love. </div>
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I know that if we are seeking light we must cleave to light and always seek it in peaceful, quiet places where we can ponder, reflect, analyze, pray, be still, and invite the spirit. </div>
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I always think another way we can obtain light is just by feeling gratitude. I was reading a talk (Be of Good Cheer) that I just loved and it really made me grateful and happy for the things I have and the blessing and miracles I have seen in my life. This gave me the chance to be more humble and patient and loving and I could invite the spirit and carry that light of his with me throughout my day and enjoy and be grateful for the things I did and the people I talk to. I encourage you to read the whole thing, but here are some parts I liked from it!</div>
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“O God, Thou knowest I am blind. Thy servants have blessed me that my
sight might return. Whether in Thy wisdom I see light or whether I see
darkness all the days of my life, I will be eternally grateful for the
truth of Thy gospel, which I now see and which provides the light of my
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“Dear Heavenly Father, I do not know how I can go on. I have nothing
left—except my faith in Thee. I feel, Father, amidst the desolation of
my soul, an overwhelming <a class="no-link-style" href="http://lds.org/topic/gratitude/">gratitude</a>
for the atoning sacrifice of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. I cannot express
adequately my love for Him. I know that because He suffered and died, I
shall live again with my family; that because He broke the chains of
death, I shall see my children again and will have the joy of raising
them. Though I do not at this moment wish to live, I will do so, that we
may be reunited as a family and return—together—to Thee.”</div>
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"I testify to you that our promised blessings are beyond measure. Though
the storm clouds may gather, though the rains may pour down upon us, our
knowledge of the gospel and our love of our Heavenly Father and of our
Savior will comfort and sustain us and bring joy to our hearts as we
walk uprightly and keep the commandments. There will be nothing in this
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LET US SEEK LIGHT AND WHEN WE FIND IT, CLEAVE TO IT! WE CAN SHINE OUR LIGHT TO ALL AND IF WE ARE GOING TO THE TEMPLE, BEING GRATEFUL, OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE, WE WILL NOT JUST SHED LIGHT TO THE LIVES OF THOSE AROUND US BUT WE WILL BE OUR OWN GUIDE AS WE STEER OUR OWN PERSONAL SHIPS SAFELY HOME. </div>
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</div>Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-67377033875486229752012-07-27T12:58:00.000-07:002012-07-27T12:59:08.627-07:00What fear...?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">So I just had a group therapy class and we talked about a lot of interesting things. We talked a lot about fear and how, regardless of who you are or where you are, we all afraid of acceptance of judgement. Why are we all so comfortable in our own "element", whether that is around our family, friends, in our own country, at a job, or in school. We do not like to feel or look stupid and we do not like to say too much or be too open because we are afraid people will think negatively or poorly of us. What is it about being open that is so hard, whether that is with our own selves or with other people? Are we not all a certain way for a reason? Are we all not different because we are suppose to learn and influence each other? Are we meant to hold things in and always play it safe or are we suppose to open up...? And when is it "socially acceptable" or "the right moment" to be honest with one another, share our feelings and emotions, our life stories, and our outlooks and opinions of life. What is it that is holding us back? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">I can honestly say I have felt really embarrassed or scared to be judged or uncomfortable actually being "me" in a lot of situations and I just wonder why do we go through that? Why do we think that even though we may feel completely accepting, comfortable and nonjudgmental to others, we automatically think the worst and we FEAR that others think and feel that way about us. We believe that anything that comes from our mind of heart could sound stupid or weird or wrong...who knows? but really.... WHO CARES??? Are we not all here to learn and grow and mess up and be embarrassed and look stupid anyway.....?? Why do we just avoid and close up and hide in any way we can so we are not "completely exposed" because who knows what someone will say or do if we go about living our lives and stating our opinions and express who we are.....? weird to think about right? Are we not allowed to take risks....? Are we not suppose to and designed to invest in people and places and relationships...? Lets just embrace risks and push out all fear and negative thinking!!!! Is it that hard? I feel like if we try doing this, just a little, we will become more bold, confident, happy, strong people in general. Let's be and become the human beings and children of God that we came here to be. That is the purpose right?? And yes, we might have some awkward moments, confrontation, tears, disappointment, judgement, anger, impatience, hatred, etc....but in the end YOU are still YOU. We cannot change people but we can change ourselves and how WE feel and how WE react. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">BE REAL PEOPLE. BE YOU. THATS ALL WE HAVE GOT. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">We can see the things of life in many different ways but in the end, it is how you are <b>choosing</b> to see them and not just seeing them how they actually are.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">I am really the book "The Power of Patience" and there is a part that I really like and it states:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c;">"Patience is created when we keep our eyes on the big picture and don't get so caught up in the minutia of our daily lives. Its like having a wide-angle lens on a camera as we as a zoom. Up close, even a molehill can seem overwhelming; from a distance, we can see that in fact it's not a mountain. The good news is that <b><u>you</u></b> are holding the camera-and can switch lenses anytime you want."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fce5cd;">We are the camera holders. We can see things how we WANT to. We choose our thoughts and feelings on things. We are in control and responsible of our own fears and worries and we choose to have confidence, take risks, and being patient. We can do it. Lets try it now.</span></div>
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</span>Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-82821057082510425752012-07-25T23:47:00.001-07:002012-07-25T23:48:30.201-07:00Calling all women.....<h1 style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">These two talks with change your life!!! read themmmmmm :)</span></h1>
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<u>The Inconvenient Messiah</u>
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President of Brigham Young University</div>
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In this world we are all, you and I, the man or the woman in the water.
We often must, like this man and Hamlet, “take arms against a sea of
troubles, And by opposing end them.” (<span class="emphasis">Hamlet, </span>act 3, sc. 1, lines 63–64.) And sometimes the cost is very high. It was for Christ, it was for <a class="no-link-style" href="http://mormon.org/joseph-smith/">Joseph Smith</a>,
it was for this lone man who counted the cost there in the Potomac—and
paid it. It is not easy to go without—without physical gratifications,
or spiritual assurances, or material possessions—but sometimes we must
since there is no guarantee of convenience written into our Christian
covenant. We must work hard and do right, and sometime our chance will
come. And when we’ve tried, really tried, and waited for what seemed
never to be ours, <span class="emphasis">then </span>the angels may come and minister unto us. (See <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/4.11?lang=eng#10">Matt. 4:11</a>.) For that ministration in your life I pray, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</div>
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Remember Who You Are!</u>
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Young Women General President</div>
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Young women,
look into the mirror of eternity. Remember who you are! See yourself as
our Heavenly Father sees you. You are elect. You are of noble birth.
Don’t compromise your divine inheritance. You were born to be a queen.
Live so you are worthy to enter the temple and there receive “all that
[the] Father hath.”<sup class="noteMarker"><a href="http://www.lds.org/liahona/2010/05/remember-who-you-are%21?lang=eng&query=remember+s+%28name%3a%22Elaine+S.+Dalton%22%29#footnote18-09285_000_047">18</a></sup>
Develop deep beauty. There is no more beautiful sight than a young
woman who glows with the light of the Spirit, who is confident and
courageous because she is virtuous.
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Remember,
you are daughters of our Heavenly Father. He loves you so much that He
sent His Son to show you the way to live, so that you could return to
Him someday. I testify that as you draw close to the Savior, His
infinite Atonement makes it possible for you to repent, to change, to be
pure, and to receive His image in your countenance. His Atonement will
enable you to be strong and courageous as you continue to raise your
banner for virtue. You are golden. You <span class="emphasis">are</span> the banner!</div>
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<span id="goog_887632431"></span><span id="goog_887632432"></span>Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7936242768285553108.post-41653058177434480042012-07-25T13:24:00.005-07:002012-07-25T21:29:14.351-07:00W O R D V O M I TFirst of all, I am missing Disneyland a lot lately. Disneyland is one of my favorite places in the world, and I still haven't been since I have been back from the mission. It is pure magic and happiness. It is impossible not to have a good time and impossible not to just smile when you go there. I love the colors and the lights and the corny music...I love it all! I can only imagine that heaven someday will be a lot like disneyland...pure happiness and joy, innocence, smiling, colors, music, magic, hope, castles, princes and princesses! haha wow I am a joke right now. I am such a dreamer and it is kind of gay, but totally acceptable for a girl right...? I mean all we do as girls is dream and wish and hope for things like they are in the movies? Like LOVE for instance....lets talk about it!<br />
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So GUYS grow up looking at hot chicks everywhere: in magazines and movies and on the internet and in their minds, but even if a guy is a 5 or a 6, he still feels like he has to get a perfect 10, and mostly to just enjoy the girls hotness and to "get some" right? Oh, and heaven forbid if the girl ever wants any kind of contact or relationship with him...." #clingy, #crazy, #needy.... what the heck is commitment...? never heard of it....I am scared of it"....right?<br />
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GIRLS on the other hand....oh us crazy girls, we watch these love movies and check out facebook and instagram couple pics, or stalk wedding videos and listen to sappy love music and their gay lyrics, and we think that all of those things are real life and dream of having it one day....when really we set ourselves up to get our heart broken, or dumped or used, because we spend so much money and time and effort trying to make ourselves up to be that PERFECT TEN for the stupid guys so we can "find love" when really we are just setting ourselves up to get owned and hurt. All the" bachelorettes" and "real worlds" and "teen vogue" or "us weekly" magazines are telling us to change really everything about ourselves so we can "get guys/find love," when really we are just doing all that stuff to make ourselves feel even worse about ourselves, and end up with those guys that can't even define the word commitment and end up hurting us. Does this make sense? Am I just venting nonsense and am I bitter at a guy...or guys in general? maybe.... but it doesn't matter. In the end I think so much of this is true, and I am so annoyed, that everything that I feel and define as truth and real and fate and love don't even seem to exist anymore in my mind or even society. Maybe it does and I am just caught up in the wrong things and in the wrong places with the same lame people....but this is how I feel.<br />
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It is like a<u><b> roller coaster</b></u>...LIFE. The roller coaster at Disneyland for example....we get on it right?? We are all excited and ready and know what we are getting ourselves into. We know how it ends and how it begins. We payed for it and we are choosing to get on this ride! But for some odd reason, every single time we get on that roller coaster we get a little scared. We have that knot kind of feeling in our stomach, and climbing to the top of the roller coaster is thrilling but completely frightening at the same time. We look down, knowing we are going to drop and it will be fun and scary, and every time we wonder why we are even on this ride. We scream and yell and shout and cry the whole 5 minutes of this adventure. It is the same every time you go on and still you keep going back. You know those drops and you know those highs, but of course, every time you finish you are okay and it was all worth it.<br />
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Is life at all like this...? Is freaking LOVE like this...? Yes. Absolutely. Do we know what we are getting ourselves in to.....yes. Do we enjoy it, but hate it at the same time.....yes. Do we scream and yell and cry and laugh....yes. Is it enjoyable, the whole ride.....no. Do we get tossed and turned and jerk and sometimes fall unexpectedly.....yes. In the end, was the whole experience worth it and enjoyable? YES.<br />
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Love hurts sometimes. Life hurts sometimes. Do we feel like we get either of them completely....? NO. Does it matter....? No. Will we get off the ride okay in the end....YES. It will be okay. We will be okay. It is all worth it. Enjoy it. <br />
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<b>“Everything will be all right in the end. If it's not all right, then it's not the end."</b></div>
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<i>"I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible.
And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside
you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you
join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your
girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail
and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And
how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that
happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the
light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all
that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make
you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally
come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you
wasted, that will eventually begin to fade."</i><br />
-The Holiday<br />
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Moral of the story..... #iamawreckandwritingaboutitmakesmefeelbetter.... the end.Jami Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14227753015151902538noreply@blogger.com0