When all of the evidence is in, the world’s graduate school of hard knocks will teach what you young men were taught in the kindergarten of your spiritual training, “Wickedness never was happiness.” Why wait for finite man to prove what his infinite Creator has already revealed to his prophets?
…The commandments you observe were not given by a dispassionate God to prevent you from having fun, but by a loving Father in Heaven who wants you to be happy while you are living on this earth as well as in the hereafter.
Compare the blessings of living the Word of Wisdom to those available to you if you choose to party with those in the great and spacious building. Compare the joy of intelligent humor and wit to drunken, silly, crude, loud laughter. …Compare lifting people up to putting people down. Compare the ability to receive personal revelation and direction in your life to being tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine. Compare holding the priesthood of God with anything you see going on in that great and spacious building.
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Fathers: An eternal calling—by Jan Tolman
I wish I could get my wayward sons to see those things. Thanks for sharing. I'll keep praying and loving them.
ReplyDeleteAh. Not given by a dispassionate God. I think every parent can relate when they consider the things they try to set as rules, etc. in their own homes!
ReplyDeleteI'm sharing this with my eldest.
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