death

This picture looks like Lincoln when he was a baby.
I just got off the phone with Nesh. She had a co worker who she is replacing, die in a terrible accident. I don't believe in accidents! I think that everything is on purpose, and everything is a gift from God. Our job is to see how. (Now ask me that when I loose one of my dear ones and see if I still feel that way. How easy will it be to maintain my belief?)
I love God's plan for us. I love that he gives us this time on earth to try to get celestial qualities. To live with such light that we can oneday enjoy and endure His light. Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable and perfect, will of God. I think this is telling me that I need to change my thinking, to be like His thinking.
He loves us so much he won't take away our free agency. He allows us to choose what kind of life we want to have, but he trys every way possible to get us to come unto him.

"Either we say to Christ Thy will be done, or He says to us, Thy will be done" CS Lewis I think CS lewis is so profound. I love his stories of light and darkness, they are great analogies.

Alma 40 11 Now concerning the state of the soul between death and the resurrection-Behold, it has been made known unto me by an angel that the spirits of all men, as soon as they are departed from this mortal body, yea, the spirits of all men, (or women) whether they be good or evil, are taken home to that God who gave them life.

I love this promise, I love knowing this. It makes life make much more sense.

I think dying will be a wonderful adventure, and I hope when I loose someone near to me I can celebrate that I got to share their life, that I have a part of them with me. I hope I will realize that just because they are in another dimension and I can't see them, that I will be able to feel them. I believe their dimension is right here, and they are just vibrating at a higher rate than I am vibrating, which makes it so I can't see them. Just as Bry isn't in the room with me right now, he is in another room and I can't see him, I can still feel him. I can smile when I think of things he has said or done. He will always be with me, as will all my family and friends that I love. I know I will have to pull this out and read it when I loose someone so I don't start believing the stories that will try and pop into my head. I know that I will live again, that I have a chance to live eternally with my family if I learn to live as God does, as that is His gift to us.

I have this little friend who said," I don't believe in the church, because I don't believe that a loving God would not let me be with my family just because they didn't go to church or did things they weren't supposed to do." I didn't have a really good answer for her... I told her some things as I can never keep my mouth shut, but it wasn't what she wanted to hear, or what I knew in my heart and just couldn't express. I have thought about that time a lot since and realized I should have told her,," it doesn't have anything to do with a kind loving God, it has to do with eternal laws... In order to live eternally with God, we have to be like him or we couldn't stand his light and glory... it is a physics thing, it is eternal laws that we are under contract to. Goodness and love make us vibrate at a higher level, makes us able to communicate with the Holy Ghost, makes us learn more and understand things better... It is a law as simple as the law of gravity. He has given us the keys, we have to use them. "

Christ said" for Behold, This is MY work and MY glory- to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." Moses 1 :39, That is Christ's job. Immortality means to live forever, Eternal life means to live forever with God.

I think Christ's gospel is very simple and very beautiful, it is all about LOVE.

Well enough of death, there is too much to celebrate about life.

I went on a fun motorcycle ride today. We went up Logan canyon to Bear Lake. How amazing the mountains are. They really talk to my heart. They make it sing actually! I am going to head to bed now.