"Can I conceal myself for evermore?
Pretend I'm not the man I was before?
And must my name until I die
Be no more than an alibi?
Must I lie?
How can I ever face my fellow men?
How can I ever face myself again?
My soul belongs to God, I know
I made that bargain long ago
He gave me hope, when hope was gone
He gave me strength to journey on"(Who Am I, Les Miserables)
Like Jean val'Jean,. I feel that I have been given another chance
at life and again find myself falling short of perfection, but committed to do
the best I can to reach my potential. Lex taught a lesson in Relief Society and
gave the sisters a tomato seed with the quote, "As the literal spirit children of our loving Heavenly Father, we have unlimited, divine potential. But if we are not careful we can become like the wilted tomato plant . . . having removed ourselves from the divine light and living waters of the Savior's eternal love and priesthood. (April 2013" (This is My Work and Glory' Elder Ballard) The potential is there for each one of us.I know that I have to keep reminding myself of this potential and of what C. S. Lewis calls undulization, "Human s are amphibians(-half spirit and half animal.The Enemy's determination to produce such a revolting hybrid was one of the things that determined Our Father Below to withdraw His support from Him As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. this means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions and imaginations are subject to continual change, for to be in time means to change.Their nearest approach to consistancy is therefore undulization-the repeated return to a level that they repeatedly fall back." Screwtape Letters, 37)As long as that consistent place is my best. It is enough. Infinity plus any number is still infinite. We play for the winning team when we remember not only who we are but Whose we are.When we enter into covenants with our Savior and keep them, we access this team membership, I love knowing that we will win because of Him.
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