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| Tuesday looked like this... |
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| Wednesday morning looked like this... |
By Wednesday afternoon it looked like this:
Tomorrow it's supposed to get up to 70...
They say there's nothing as constant as change.
We see it in the weather and seasons... babies being born and others leaving this life.
Tomorrow we celebrate the life of Kent Messenger.
We sorrow at his passing but joy in the life he lead and find comfort in our faith that we will see him again and that he and Jane Ann will be reunited again. Until then we will do our best to love and support Jane Ann as she faces the challenge of adjusting to the changes that have taken place in her life these past months and especially this past week.
This Sunday I am speaking again at the MTC about charity - the second time in about 6 weeks on the same topic. One of the things I have been pondering about is learning to see others as Heavenly Father sees them, which I think is a major part of charity.
I don't think He keeps a running list of all our faults and weaknesses so that when we mess up he can throw them in our faces.
I know that he sees our faults, but I think he focuses more on our hearts.
He sees who we truly desire to become and knows that are trying to do better
- even though we mess up and loose focus at times.
In my mind, true charity is to try to see the good in others AND
just as importantly to treat them as they have the potential to become.
I think sometimes we don't allow ourselves to see the changes in others because we see them as they were - through a lens of their faults and weaknesses. I think we also make it hard for people to change because we treat them as if they were a sum of their faults and weaknesses instead of treating them as they can become. For some reason we can't forgive and allow them to change, and even when they do change (or try to change) we miss it because we are looking through an out of focus lens.
So here is my public commitment to try a little harder to find the good in others and see others more clearly and then treat them as the children of God they really are.
(Disclaimer: I am on no way advocating for anyone to continue in a dangerous relationship,
forgiveness is needed but so is good judgment and common sense)
Tomorrow it's supposed to get up to 70...
They say there's nothing as constant as change.
We see it in the weather and seasons... babies being born and others leaving this life.
Tomorrow we celebrate the life of Kent Messenger.
We sorrow at his passing but joy in the life he lead and find comfort in our faith that we will see him again and that he and Jane Ann will be reunited again. Until then we will do our best to love and support Jane Ann as she faces the challenge of adjusting to the changes that have taken place in her life these past months and especially this past week.
This Sunday I am speaking again at the MTC about charity - the second time in about 6 weeks on the same topic. One of the things I have been pondering about is learning to see others as Heavenly Father sees them, which I think is a major part of charity.
I don't think He keeps a running list of all our faults and weaknesses so that when we mess up he can throw them in our faces.
I know that he sees our faults, but I think he focuses more on our hearts.
He sees who we truly desire to become and knows that are trying to do better
- even though we mess up and loose focus at times.
In my mind, true charity is to try to see the good in others AND
just as importantly to treat them as they have the potential to become.
I think sometimes we don't allow ourselves to see the changes in others because we see them as they were - through a lens of their faults and weaknesses. I think we also make it hard for people to change because we treat them as if they were a sum of their faults and weaknesses instead of treating them as they can become. For some reason we can't forgive and allow them to change, and even when they do change (or try to change) we miss it because we are looking through an out of focus lens.
So here is my public commitment to try a little harder to find the good in others and see others more clearly and then treat them as the children of God they really are.
(Disclaimer: I am on no way advocating for anyone to continue in a dangerous relationship,
forgiveness is needed but so is good judgment and common sense)
1 comment:
Great post. I think that you are right--we all need to work on having more charity and a more eternal perspective.
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