The blessing of scripture...you keep me strapped in.

today sucked.

let me rephrase.

I sucked today.

the reasons don't matter why. what does matter? the fact that i gave in. in my head i thought, "jeanette, you are swirling. you should workout and read your scriptures or you will be sad."

instead. i ate cookie dough and went back to bed.

moral of this story?

well, i finally pulled it together.

the results?

the Lord knows his crap. and turns out, He loves sharing.

"The scriptures enlarge our memory by helping us always to remember the Lord and our relationship to Him and the Father."

I am a daughter of God. i know that if i would have really remembered that earlier today and gave it some weight in my decisions, things would have gone differently. God wants to "sheds light on falsehood and error". he wants to "spare us needless suffering and grief and at the same time help us realize our divine potential".

Knowledge is power. But only if we respect and act upon it. if not, its just something to condemn us and make us feel guilty along the way.

Korihor. you plague our world.

there is such an idea of being floaty and silly is whats cool. and being grounded is uncool. I am not saying you have to be a stiff, if anything, i have rarely been described as 'serious'. but there are absolutes. and they are very cool.

"a God of love does not leave us to learn by sad experience that 'wickedness never was happiness'". "

so how do we find the truth? how do we keep from floating away from god the constant?

the "scriptures are the touchstone". they are the anchor. God says 'yes, go out and explore, but come back to me.'

i am slowly learning that exploring doesn't mean floating or aimlessly wandering.

thats not exploring--that's being lost.