I choose eternal life
Here's my thought of the day.
You've gotta get in water over your head in order to really learn to swim. At some point we realized that any more time in the Kiddie pool we called home wasnt going to serve us. So we left our premortal life to swim with the big fishes. We can drown here soour parents help us till we learn how to tread water on our own. Nothing makes us grow more than those moments when we need all we have to survive. Some of us spend lives in pursuit of a greater challenge, always over our heads in the beginning but eventually we build the strength to succeed. Some spend much of their lives clinging to the edge, occasionally letting go long enough for the fear of drowning to scare them back to safety. See, there are those who live life with the confidence that anything unfair about life and even the mistakes I make can be made right through the atonement of Christ. so the fear of actually drowning fades as they trust in the lifeguard. Sure its scary when you sink under, sometimes we fail despite our best efforts. There is no feeling that compares to being cradled safely in his arms, after what seemed like certain death. The point is, im jumping in the deep end and im really not much of a swimmer. He knows that, he has watched me in my training. Im watching his reaction carefully this time as I near the edge, no fear in his eyes, no apprehension, just a smile. He knows.
"now is the time you have to decide
whether to do it, or set it aside,
whether to reach for the goal thats afar,
or just be content to stay where you are"
(i dont know who made that up, i got it from President Mordock)
You've gotta get in water over your head in order to really learn to swim. At some point we realized that any more time in the Kiddie pool we called home wasnt going to serve us. So we left our premortal life to swim with the big fishes. We can drown here soour parents help us till we learn how to tread water on our own. Nothing makes us grow more than those moments when we need all we have to survive. Some of us spend lives in pursuit of a greater challenge, always over our heads in the beginning but eventually we build the strength to succeed. Some spend much of their lives clinging to the edge, occasionally letting go long enough for the fear of drowning to scare them back to safety. See, there are those who live life with the confidence that anything unfair about life and even the mistakes I make can be made right through the atonement of Christ. so the fear of actually drowning fades as they trust in the lifeguard. Sure its scary when you sink under, sometimes we fail despite our best efforts. There is no feeling that compares to being cradled safely in his arms, after what seemed like certain death. The point is, im jumping in the deep end and im really not much of a swimmer. He knows that, he has watched me in my training. Im watching his reaction carefully this time as I near the edge, no fear in his eyes, no apprehension, just a smile. He knows.
"now is the time you have to decide
whether to do it, or set it aside,
whether to reach for the goal thats afar,
or just be content to stay where you are"
(i dont know who made that up, i got it from President Mordock)
posted by Spike at 3:20 PM
2 Comments:
...and there is nothing like the feeling you get as you even give up holding onto the side of the pool and a hand reaches down and pulls you up!
I feel like I'm in District Meeting. I've missed that. Mosiah 26:30
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