My CMS The View from a New City

See this discussion of numbers that demonstrate the wisdom of the last post. Listen for the quote, “…one day but not now.”

I recently watched a YouTube commentator waxing wise about the things people fret over during their lives which they realize, upon reaching 70, were not worth the effort. The list included such things as social status and career.

The other day I was talking with a neighbor who is suffering from several age related maladies. I commented that we would obviously not be running any more marathons together. I noted that as those words came across my lips , i felt not a hint of regret. I later reflected upon the point, in my last marathon, where I was suffering the pain that inevitably comes toward the end of that race. I said to myself, ” you better enjoy this last three miles, because you are never going to be twenty-three miles into a run again in your life.”

The later stages of life reveal certain truths. One such truth is that their are things which can only be accomplished by the young. Obviously, you have to bear your children while you can. To my descendants I would say, if you have a choice and if you waste that period of your life only pursuing worldly status, or a ‘career,’ you will eventually have regrets.

Joseph Smith was a prophet. His view into truth and the future is revealed in this quote:

…while one portion of the human race is judging and condemning the other without mercy, the Great Parent of the universe looks upon the whole of the human family with a fatherly care and paternal regard; he views them as His offspring, and without any of those contracted feelings that influence the children of men, causes “His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” He holds the reins of judgment in His hands; He is a wise Lawgiver, and will judge all men, not according to the narrow, contracted notions of men, but, “according to the deeds done in the body whether they be good or evil,” or whether those deeds were done in England, America, Spain, Turkey or India. He will judge them, “not according to what they have not, but according to what they have,” those who have lived without law, will be judged without law, and those who have a law, will be judged by that law. We need not doubt the wisdom and intelligence of the Great Jehovah; He will award judgment or mercy to all nations according to their several deserts, their means of obtaining intelligence, the laws by which they are governed, the facilities afforded them of obtaining correct information, and His inscrutable designs in relation to the human family; and when the designs of God shall be made manifest, and the curtain of futurity be withdrawn, we shall all of us eventually have to confess that the Judge of all the earth has done right.
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, page 218.

When Job complained to God about how he was being treated, God replied that Job did not even know what God was trying to accomplish.

1. No person should obey or enforce unlawful orders.
2. Each person must decide for themselves what is lawful or unlawful, giving appropriate weight to lawful authorities.
3. Each person must decide for themselves the likely consequences of disobedience and act accordingly, but some sacrifice of personal interest or convenience is appropriate in support of the rule of law.
4. Violent resistance to unlawful orders is no more lawful than violent enforcement of unlawful orders.