Once enlightened

Alma 47-48.

I love how these war chapters so relate to what is going on in the world right now.

My nephew's wife just up and decided she wasn't going to be a member anymore. She was baptized right before they got married, and then they were just sealed in the temple.  Now she's just throwing it all away like she never had anything ever to do with it.

One of my best YW friends growing up got sealed in the temple to her husband that she helped convert. A year ago they asked to have their names removed off of the church records.

My high school crush and great friend whom I hadn't seen in several years just committed suicide. And in talking with his sister, I found out that he too, had left the church recently.

What in the world is happening...it's so sad. But it is true that once you have been enlightened, you are then responsible for so much more...

" Now these dissenters, having the same instruction...it is strange to relate...they became more hardened...yea, entirely forgetting the Lord their God". (47:36)

It's strange how we all go through this cycle...even to a small extent. And it's interesting how the one thing that always seems to be constant...at least for me...the the forgetting God part. He seems to be forgotten a lot...

I want that cycle to stop.  I want to be more righteous and deserving for blessings in my life...