Conviction without concern

No worries, we are secure in our hope for salvation from the prisons spoken of earlier in this blog.

As a reminder, the prisons are due to: gravity, metabolism, time, society, perspective, thought, and death.

Conviction without conviction

 We are born prisoners.

Gravity

We are bound to the surface of our planet, by gravity. Leaping may give us a meter. Dreaming of flying gives some satisfaction, and has led to actual flying machines, now within the reach of many of us. For a brief moment — hours at most — we are off the surface. A few adventurous souls have reached low earth orbit, some for months. Even fewer have ventured further. All such altitude gains are temporary. We must soon return to the surface.

Communication without complexity

Last Sunday we talked in church (sacrament meeting). Partly to put off preparation, and partly because it was there, I was playing around with a little web page produced by a program that I wrote many years ago. The program's job is to display a random verse from the Book of Mormon.

The message

Most verses are short enough to display nicely on the screen of my iPhone, and I just pull one down — to cause the page to be reloaded — to see the next random pick. As I was doing this, I was galvanized by a verse that appeared (Alma 29:9) because it was precisely what I needed for the topic of my talk.