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SilentDawning wrote:
My daughter walked up to me yesterday and said “Daddy, I really like being a Mormon”.
It was a hit you between the eyes moment. On one hand, I’ve had this trial of faith about a year ago that has challenged my commitment over and over again. It’s thrown my thinking into chaos to the point there are certain things I don’t believe anymore. At times, I’ve wanted to just be able to walk away from it all for a while and focus on a pure relationship between God and myself personally, without a Church organization in between to tell me what I can and cannot do, or how I should behave on issues that sometimes seem inconsequential.
And then, my sweet little girl, about 12 years old, makes that comment above. She believes in prayer, does good things, has a good heart, and is always trying to do the RIGHT thing in so many circumstances. She’s spiritual and describes how she feels the Spirit and she LIKES being a Mormon.
How would you reconcile the tension of having your faith under fire, and wanting to distance yourself from your religion, when you have children in whom your household culture and Church attendance has created Stage 3 faith and good, behavioral fruits???
I seldom come here but what to address something here…you should not let the church get in the way. The church places demands on our time and that is an intrusion to be sure…but one that can also bring great blessings. The type of relationship you have with God has nothing to do with church unless you allow it too. Be steady dad…the church is filled with imperfect people like myself…judge it from that standpoint. The Church is not Christ…but is there to bring us closer. Right now your daughter knows all of the positive aspects of membership in the kingdom…someday she will suffer from her own struggles. How you deal with yours now will influence how she deals with them later. As a friend of my loves to say, “The church is true…not always the people in it”.
HiJolly wrote:Bill Atkinson wrote:
Again welcome, I too am a bit remiss in all the alphabetical soup of the internet, what does MA&D stand for?
Mormon Apologetics & Discussion (MA&D).I’ve met Bill (Lee) in the flesh & can say I like the guy!
HiJolly
Hey, HiJolly. How are you doing?Valoel wrote:Welcome PaPa! I live in the Atlanta area too. We actually have a very cool collection of Mormon misfits and “apostates” here in Atlanta that all met through various forums and blogs. We get together every few months at someone’s home for tasty food and spirited discussions. You totally have to join us some time! Hehe, actually a thought just occurred to me. Have we met at one of these events? Your name sounds familiar. Either way … welcome aboard!
No, I have not met but one person who gets involved in aplogetics in Atlanta.Luigi wrote:Losing Faith, Finding God
Revelation from heav’n I grasped
My hands in prophets hands were clasped
In my heart whispered God’s own voice
In promised kingdoms my heart rejoiced
In God’s own house I entered in
I strove for virtue and wept for sin
But reason’s thirst did inward cry
I gave it sip, and falsehood died
Revealed the scriptures mortal pen
Fell prophet’s mantle, shew common men
And knew the voices I thought divine,
Had sprung within, were always mine.
Yet is beauty lost at reason’s price?
Is goodness now spoiled, all virtue as vice?
But if the beauty of God had sprung from man
Let it grow in the vessel where it all began.
Thus I found that the divine was set free.
Fallen from heaven and found within me.
Like the poem, is it yours?
