Today was the usual business of Sunday with extras mixed in. By extras, I mean the fact that Bishop couldn't be tracked down - who held the only set of keys to the Sacrament room, the Copy room, etc. Add in the fact that I was not feeling well today plus literally running around the building getting things done. It was a good Sabbath though...for the most part - except for the sniffles and coughs on my end.
The Founder of Stadium Singing showed up tonight which was a joyous occasion. It will help to bolster my defense against the stupid Activities Committee. Let the punches fly against them!
I had another good scripture reading today - I'm finding that I'm really enjoying reading from Moses as of late. It has opened up things knowledge-wise to me that I had not previously considered. The thing that I've come to understand the most is actually something that was brought up in a talk during Sacrament Meeting as I read. When the Lord calls out to Adam in the Garden, inquiring where he is at, as well as to Cain following the murder of his brother Abel - in both of these cases, the Lord KNOWS where Adam and Eve and Cain are. Why does he ask then? The Lord's action of asking where Adam and Eve and later on Cain were allowed each individual their own agency and the ability to step forward at will. The Lord could have easily administered the necessary consequence for the given transgressions, but instead he allows these individuals a chance at "confession" per se.
The same is true in our lives today. The Lord KNOWS where we stand, and could easily administer consequences at the occurrence of transgression in our lives, but I believe this was actually what the Adversary wanted in his ideal of the plan. Rather, the Lord allows us our own agency to step forward and proclaim our position and then willfully submit our will to His. That's such a powerful thing in our lives. The Lord not only doesn't put us in situations that we cannot handle, but he will also not create consequences to those situations that we do not bring upon ourselves. Thus, when we blame the Lord for our shortfalls, we need really only blame ourselves because we in reality put ourselves into those consequences. The adversary would have us know of our "nakedness" and that we should hide from confessing our sins, but that would be the wrong thing to do.
Anyways, all in all, its been a pretty good day today. I'm sore from Stadium Singing , but I'm surviving. I'll be able to feel better once the sniffles and coughs go away. Hopefully sooner than later!
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Tell me more about the Activities Committee.
The Activities Program of BYU-Idaho is the most evil program there is. I swear they are in league with the same people that try and run the Student Representative Council. They run all of their activities (Guitars Unplugged, Poetry Slam, etc.) through "student leaders" with the idea of providing "leadership experience", but the harsh reality is that they only want leaders in there...as long as they are picked by the school. Otherwise, you're considered a non-conformist and must be vanquished according to them. As you know Stadium Singing is ANYTHING but a leadership opportunity...so its been a constant battle with them...
so...they harass you and want to run Stadium Singing instead of you?
That's the short version of it. What they basically want to do is take me out completely and change directors every three songs and turn Stadium Singing into something other than a spiritual event - more akin to weekly caroling instead of its current structure. They want to make a big production of it, establish committees, have 6-7 people doing things each week, etc. Basically if I turn Stadium Singing over to them - it ceases to be SS as it was originally established and loses its "sacredness" for lack of better terms.
damn, that's ...
...damn
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