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On my personal blog, I write each Saturday about my New Year’s Resolution. I have been doing this for the past two years, and it has been a wonderful experience for me. The following is my New Year’s Resolution for this year – and I will be writing each Saturday on my personal blog about my experiences and impressions. I am keeping the same basic resolution (to become more Christ-like) but changing the scriptural focus of my effort. [The first two years were focused on The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)]. My focus this year will be on developing greater charity, specifically through striving to internalize the ways in which charity is manifested in I Corinthians 13:4-7. This passage states:
Quote:Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
Since there are twelve distinct manifestations listed in these verses, I am going to organize my resolution for 2010 the same way I have for the previous two years – one per month throughout the year. Thus, my resolution will be:January: Suffer longer in kindness.
February: Envy less.
March: Be less “vaunting” of myself and less “puffed up”.
April: Behave more seemly.
May: Seek less my own.
June: Be less easily provoked.
July: Think less evil.
August: Rejoice less in iniquity and more in truth.
September: Bear more things.
October: Believe more things.
November: Hope more things.
December: Endure more things.
That’s fantastic Ray! I love “believeth all things”. That means something so different to me now than it did previous. I’ll have to check your progress in October.
😆 swimordie wrote:I love “believeth all things”. That means something so different to me now than it did previous. I’ll have to check your progress in October.
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😆 That is quite interesting to think about, huh swim? Sometimes I think as mormons we get so narrow minded in our beliefs…why not believe “all things” … I like that idea!Quote:why not believe “all things”
Yup. Why not – especially given much of what has been said over the years by leaders of the LDS Church?
Admirable resolutions! I like charity because it “never faileth”. I’m wondering if that means that charitable acts and service prompts more acts of charity and service, so becomes self-perpetuating.
Once charity starts, it cannot be stopped completely, but will grow.
I like that concept.
Old-Timer wrote:Quote:why not believe “all things”
Yup. Why not – especially given much of what has been said over the years by leaders of the LDS Church?
This reminds me of a maxim that has guided me since my second conversion in 2003: “If you walk around to the right angle, tilt your head just right, and stick your tongue to one side, most sincerely expressed beliefs have a grain of truth to them.”
Tom Haws wrote:This reminds me of a maxim that has guided me since my second conversion in 2003: “If you walk around to the right angle, tilt your head just right, and stick your tongue to one side, most sincerely expressed beliefs have a grain of truth to them.”
Nice! I like that maxim. Well done.
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