Weep but Rejoice
“The world is steadily getting worse.” The phrase passes numerous lips as we brush off and put aside everything that’s hard in the last days, and while the battle of this life is intensifying on both sides, I do think that we are faced with an unprecedented amount of in-your-face encounters with the world’s evil, especially as it is made more accessible though social media. The news is everywhere, and it’s usually depressing. I think about this a lot. It’s easy to feel pent up, tight and anxious, when you suddenly step out of your safe and steady life to see how awful people can be. People are terrible and capable of horrible things, and I often want to shrivel and hide from it. But recently, I was required to do a deep study of the book of Moses for institute. The teacher, a great little old man and his wife with a zeal for truth, printed us individual copies of the Pearl of Great Price with wide margins, which we were implored to fill with as many notes as we could (...