Social Media Musings... page 10
Just stuff, posted from time to time, not necessarily in any chronological or topical order, but fitting with the general theme of this website.
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#GiveThanks
Facebook & Twitter, November 22, 2020
On November 20, 2020, President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, requested that Latter-day Saints worldwide use their social media accounts as personal gratitude journals for seven days. My contributions begin on page 8.
#Gratitude Journal, Day 3.
As we await the start of today’s Area Conference, led by two #Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we are listening to The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and viewing images of the many #temples now found in almost every continent, serving the millions of us who call ourselves “Latter-day Saints,” by which we mean simply, and with genuine humility, people who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord, God and Saviour of the World, who have sought sanctification through His grace, and believe that these are the last days (how ever long a period that might be).
Today, then, I express thanks for the grace that has led me to the Church. Few of you would know much of the journey that brought me here. Some will have heard some of my story; many others, I am aware, make assumptions about it (because, today, I fit - by appearance and circumstances - a stereotypical category which is not representative of where I have come from). Suffice it for today to say that I have needed and experienced significant depths of divine patience and grace, all of them utterly undeserved, but deeply desired. I will never have room enough in my heart for the appreciation that I owe to Jesus Christ, to our Father in Heaven, to the Spirit and angels (both living and dead) whose unwarranted kindness and attention put me in the place I am now, feeling His presence and ready to enjoy the messages of his duly appointed special witnesses. #GiveThanks #JesusChrist |
#Gratitude Journal, Day 4.
I’m grateful for my son. He doesn’t know that. He wouldn’t appreciate it. He probably wouldn’t believe it. In fact, I’m sure he’d hate this post. But, anyway, this is for me, not for him.
Nevertheless, for that and various other reasons, I will be uncharacteristically brief. In fact, this is all I am going to say: Though I love him as deeply as I am capable of loving, we don’t have the easiest relationship (for the record, it’s not you, David, it’s me; well, in some ways, it’s you too; but the primary faults – both chronologically and conceptually – are mine); yet I do love him. I would not want a different son. I want better things for him than I have ever given or done, but as for who he is, I am continually and unfathomably grateful. #GiveThanks |