tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340001692212865058.post5470574831797725816..comments2015-01-28T11:08:51.022-07:00Comments on Batyah: Creating Room for PossibilityLauren Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07880531224430402303noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340001692212865058.post-66599885248391488752011-02-10T08:28:13.350-07:002011-02-10T08:28:13.350-07:00My favorite discourses on this topic is Elder McCo...My favorite discourses on this topic is Elder McConkie's "Purifying Power of Gethsemane" where he says that if we want the same rewards as the ancient Patriarchs we need to know what they knew, believe what they believed and live as they lived. And they believed in and received mighty miracles.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15291501628519406886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340001692212865058.post-39133951504070141092011-02-10T08:13:52.001-07:002011-02-10T08:13:52.001-07:00Wow. Thanks, Sam. I think that your thoughts her...Wow. Thanks, Sam. I think that your thoughts here are profound and something I hadn't thought before. Definitely, definitely an important addition here. Thanks again for sharing!Lauren Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880531224430402303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340001692212865058.post-2057333081880566832011-02-10T02:00:48.508-07:002011-02-10T02:00:48.508-07:00I love what you have written and the thoughts it i...I love what you have written and the thoughts it invokes in me. I want to throw another possibility out to add to the curiosity. Going back to perspective, perhaps the tree is bearing fruit and because of our expectations of what the fruit should look like we are not seeing it and we sometimes cast out faith aside thinking it was a failed experiment. Alma states it is our unbelief that casts out the seed, or I believe it can uproot the tree in later stages if we pull the plug on our faith. I do believe what you have covered could be more often the case though but I wanted to throw that out there to cover another area where we ourselves set the limitations. Just like your story(fable) about the natives not being able to see the ships. Perhaps if this is the case we should look for signs(ripples in the water) of God's blessing and safely assume that although we can't see them, the effects of his blessings are there and so must the blessings (fruit) then also. I have used this method with much success. I guess this also follows Alma 32. If we see symptoms but don't know what the actually blessings are, we should exercise a particle of faith that they really are there and then as it grows our eyes will be able to see what was there all along. I think patience and faith go hand in hand. SamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340001692212865058.post-34162817473162384032011-02-09T22:09:20.368-07:002011-02-09T22:09:20.368-07:00Oh good! I'm SO glad that it...you know...mad...Oh good! I'm SO glad that it...you know...made sense. No, really, I also think that sometimes we just have to welcome the Lord into our lives and say, "Alright, do whatever You want, because You can make more of me than I can even conceive." The immediacy of the possibilities in our lives is astounding. All we have to do take off the blinders a bit.<br /><br />There's this story (more a fable than fact) that talks about how as the ships of Columbus approached the new world, the native peoples of the island of Hispaniola could only see the ripples in the water created by the boats and not the ships themselves because the ships were so far outside of their conception of the possible. I wonder if in practice, this isn't so far off when we consider how myopic we humans get in thought and practice.Lauren Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880531224430402303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340001692212865058.post-14054725122584037002011-02-09T21:52:13.460-07:002011-02-09T21:52:13.460-07:00Oh my gosh, Lauren - this is TOTALLY applicable to...Oh my gosh, Lauren - this is TOTALLY applicable to a major situation Adam and I are in right now with our church work. Mainly, how do we convince the nay-sayers in our ward (or help them be open to the Spirit, I suppose, so HE can convince them) that there really is a miracle sitting on the table just waiting for us to open it RIGHT NOW. You should change your title to "To the Vicksburg, Mississippi Ward. Get your head out." Or something like that.treenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com