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I’m the Bass Clarinet Quote:Do they say YEEEEHAAWWW!!! at the orchestra?
VERY, Very, very quietly – mostly under their breath.
🙄 I am the piano or the tenor sax.
I’m the harp. HiJolly
Its our orchestra, we can say and play whatever we want! 
jmb275 wrote:Old-Timer wrote:I’ve said often that I try to see others from the past the same way I hope they see me – stupid and clumsy and wrong oh so many times, but sincere and loving and kind and trying my best. I really do think that describes the VAST majority of people, and I’d rather be wrong with this view about individuals than be wrong with a more condemning view – since it really isn’t about them in the end but rather about how my perspective affects who I become.
Ray I appreciate your view on this. The one big difference I see however, is that you aren’t claiming to be a savior, or claiming to be starting a new religion, or claiming to have found a set of Gold Plates and writing a book, or claiming to have any definitive answers to life’s problems. Those who preach most aggressively, self-assured of their ideas are the ones that are judged most harshly. And if those people have led others astray (or so we perceive), we still may be wrong to judge them, but certainly we can make judgements about whether or not to believe them.If I am history, I want to be remembered for questioning, always looking for some answers, skeptical when skepticism is warranted based on experience and history, but believing when moved to by some transcendent god. I do not want others to agree with me, but enjoy their cognitive diversity. I hope people recognize me as being satisfied with my position as just another voice in the collective wisdom of the human race.
Well said jmb.
Dear LaLaLove, I think your post is “dead-center” on. Keeping a journal will help us keep things in historical perspective and allows our descendants to place things in the context of the time.
I remember being a young girl, just after my mother died. I spent a lot of time home alone at night because my father would attend church dances. I was about 12 and too old for a babysitter, but still too young to feel safe alone in a big house at night. I would read the scriptures and pray to feel safe and to feel comforted.
I wanted to know why Black men could not hold the Priesthood. I was so young and things were a little too complicated for my brain at the time. When you are that young, the Lord has a “fresh slate” upon which to imprint feelings and emotions. I received my answer.
The following is NOT doctrine, it was just my musing as a young girl:
White people are not ready to accept and be led by men of color. Until the White race humbles itself and is willing to be led by another race, they will be deprived of the blessings of being ministered to by that race. It is NOT the Black man that must be humbled, it is the White man.
I further received a witness that much of the ministry of my life would be to people of color. In the year 2004, my first grandchild, a girl was born. Her ancestors came from Africa and were slaves, she is the love of my life. Now her family and mine are forever bound, blended for time, bounded for eternity. Her grandfather is a kind, humble man and it is our privilege to both learn from him and teach him as he has never had much of an opportunity to hear the gospel. We have started family genealogy and as we find more of our relatives, truly much of the ministry I will perform in my life will be to that race of people. Some are living, some are dead, but how honored my granddaughter will be to perform their temple work and baptisms for the dead. They have also blessed our lives in ways immeasurable. I learned what it is to have faith from them.
MWallace57 wrote:
White people are not ready to accept and be led by men of color. Until the White race humbles itself and is willing to be led by another race, they will be deprived of the blessings of being ministered to by that race. It is NOT the Black man that must be humbled, it is the White man.
Wow, I had a very similar thought several years back when discussing the issue with family. I think John D also expressed a similar thought in his podcast with Gregory Prince.
One of the strongest impressions of my life years ago when I served in a Stake Mission Presidency in Alabama was that the Church would EXPLODE in the black communities as soon as both white and black communities stopped seeing and discriminating based on color. It is beginning to happen in one area where I recently served – and it is exciting.
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