Christmas is up. It was a content evening as the girls put up Christmas decorations as we listened to Christmas music. Sigh.
Ry
and I did a puzzle today and it reminded me of the BYU Speech I
listened to this month from President Steven J Lund (General YM
President - he gave the devotional in September). I really liked his
talk and here’s the part I thought of:
Heavenly
Father purposefully designed and ordered our world to require us to
walk in faith. He pressed into place the pieces of this sophisticated
jigsaw puzzle of mortality but held back a few of the pieces, which He
keeps in His pocket to ensure that faith is required as we come up
against the gaps in this puzzle’s spiritual landscape. He has ensured
that we will not be able to game the system by thinking our way to
heaven—to discover Him through provable math or science, which would
obviate faith and foreclose the purposes of mortality.
I
have a struggling attorney friend who recently said of the gospel, “It
just doesn’t add up.” Well, his is a fair observation, isn’t it? The
puzzle is incomplete, so it does not always add up. This should not
surprise us. Even in mathematics there are numbers—such as pi—that are
irrational but reliably constant.
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