Peace and comfort to you now, Craig.
Your mother sounds like a dear and beautiful woman.
As for the song, I'm glad it came to you as a gift. There could be as many answers to "why" and "from where" as we have posters here, but the important thing I see is that it kept you from feeling alone and abandoned. (Not saying you felt abandoned, but perhaps remembering how I felt when my mother died... forgive me if I'm making wrong assumptions!)
How Do I Process This...
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_sleepyhead
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Hello Craig,
1st off I'm sorry for your loss. People have to die in order to eventually come back and live another life in brand new bodies. Your mother will be back.
With regards to how to process the experience since the song was on your Iphone it wouldn't be classified as a miracle. That leaves it as either just a coincidence, or that there is an invisible power guiding our lives. I personally would go with the 2nd option because I've experienced fate to often for me to assume coincidence.
1st off I'm sorry for your loss. People have to die in order to eventually come back and live another life in brand new bodies. Your mother will be back.
With regards to how to process the experience since the song was on your Iphone it wouldn't be classified as a miracle. That leaves it as either just a coincidence, or that there is an invisible power guiding our lives. I personally would go with the 2nd option because I've experienced fate to often for me to assume coincidence.
May all your naps be joyous occasions.
Re: How Do I Process This...
Ceeboo wrote:Hey ldsfaqs!
ldsfaqs wrote:I still remember the moment when both intellectually and spiritually I KNEW the church was literally true. I literally felt as if new brain connections were being made, that allowed me to see much further than before, not simply spiritually, but intellectually also.
If you're willing, I would be interested in hearing more about this moment when you knew the church was literally true.
Can you elaborate on this?
Thanks and peace,
Ceeboo
Hey Ceeboo.... This is an old two versions brief thrown together of my conversion process....
http://www.ldsfaqs.com/about/
Go down the page a bit....
"Socialism is Rape and Capitalism is consensual sex" - Ben Shapiro
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Craig,
Just thinking of you in this hard time.
Maybe God does not have to be as big as the only true church, or to all you're faithful mother embraced and endured, with love, to the end. Or to any expectations or possible feelings of guilt or perceived disappointment.
Maybe, just maybe God is "small enough" to have been in that song, with a message to be still, be calm, and know that all is well.
Just thinking of you in this hard time.
Maybe God does not have to be as big as the only true church, or to all you're faithful mother embraced and endured, with love, to the end. Or to any expectations or possible feelings of guilt or perceived disappointment.
Maybe, just maybe God is "small enough" to have been in that song, with a message to be still, be calm, and know that all is well.
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Craig Paxton wrote:Right now there is a part of me that wants to believe that God has left writing on the wall that’s just for me…
I do not know how to process this….
Maybe the answer is that there is a God, but He/She/It is far bigger than just Mormonism.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
--Louis Midgley
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I am sorry!
When I was 40, I began to bury our relatives.
Grandparents, parents, others.
This is the way of life - for believers, this is the way of god (...any of...).
They are living until we remember them (or their deeds).
The only thing I hope there will be some descendents who didn't ever met me - and remember.
When I was 40, I began to bury our relatives.
Grandparents, parents, others.
This is the way of life - for believers, this is the way of god (...any of...).
They are living until we remember them (or their deeds).
The only thing I hope there will be some descendents who didn't ever met me - and remember.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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Hey ldsfaqs!
Thanks!
I appreciate your response to my inquiry.
And thank you for your service in the Marine Corp!
Peace,
Ceeboo
ldsfaqs wrote:
Hey Ceeboo.... This is an old two versions brief thrown together of my conversion process....
http://www.ldsfaqs.com/about/
Go down the page a bit....
Thanks!
I appreciate your response to my inquiry.
And thank you for your service in the Marine Corp!
Peace,
Ceeboo