This week I attended the temple. I was pretty humbled by just how unique an experience it is to worship God in his house. To really be removed from the things of this world and seek for a better. I really tried to focus on how I felt. Not what I was experiencing externally but really seeking to know what the Lord would have me do. There was a mirror with a smudge on it and as I looked at this mirror, I found that as soon as I saw the tiny smudge, I was unable to see anything else. No longer was my reflection visible. I think I've often had a quite myopic view of my life, that the smudges mar the rest of my mortal painting. And they do-- my weaknesses and defects are definitely prevalent, yet I'm beginning to understand that in eternity nothing will be left unchanged. That the person I am now or the person I'll be in fifty years will just be iterations along a path of eternal shaping. I believe that. I think one of the most amazing things about mankind is that they seem to resist the entropy of the universe. It seems that human beings have the potential to become better people over the course of their lives. To be more organized, more disciplined, more intelligent. We learn from failure on an individual scale at least. I think the single greatest evidence of the creator is that life somehow is manifest in the mortal plane from nothing. One second there were no living things and then there were. And with all of our discoveries, we still have yet to replicate that. We can preserve life, cultivate it, and multiply it. But we cannot take things that are dead and make them live. That is God's business and requires His power. Keep your covenants, seek truth and recognize that you are a child of God! I love you guys!
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