Comments on: Heavenly Father Provides Us with Mountains to Climb, But Oft Times We Choose Hills Instead http://www.ldsaliveinchrist.com/2009/06/heavenly-father-provides-us-with-mountains-to-climb-but-oft-times-we-choose-hills-instead/ ...declare repentance and faith on the Savior, and remission of sins by baptism, and by fire, yea, even the Holy Ghost. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:52:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike http://www.ldsaliveinchrist.com/2009/06/heavenly-father-provides-us-with-mountains-to-climb-but-oft-times-we-choose-hills-instead/comment-page-1/#comment-1631 Mike Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:55:34 +0000 http://www.ldsaliveinchrist.com/?p=621#comment-1631 That's sometimes the most painful part. I heard someone say one time, that "that which we cannot talk about is what runs us". Or something like that. We find our authentic selves to be shameful so we put the mask on. And we spend a lot of time convincing ourselves and others the mask is real. Boy what am I rambling on about? I talk as if I have something to say. That’s sometimes the most painful part. I heard someone say one time, that “that which we cannot talk about is what runs us”. Or something like that. We find our authentic selves to be shameful so we put the mask on. And we spend a lot of time convincing ourselves and others the mask is real.

Boy what am I rambling on about? I talk as if I have something to say.

]]> By: Michaela Stephens http://www.ldsaliveinchrist.com/2009/06/heavenly-father-provides-us-with-mountains-to-climb-but-oft-times-we-choose-hills-instead/comment-page-1/#comment-1622 Michaela Stephens Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:28:14 +0000 http://www.ldsaliveinchrist.com/?p=621#comment-1622 This post is soooo true. And sometimes it is hard to admit to others what our mountains are because they may not see why it seems like such a mountain to us. We can minimize others' mountains into hills when they aren't our mountains. This post is soooo true. And sometimes it is hard to admit to others what our mountains are because they may not see why it seems like such a mountain to us. We can minimize others’ mountains into hills when they aren’t our mountains.

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Knowing our objective and repenting, as you stated, is the key.

]]> By: Mike http://www.ldsaliveinchrist.com/2009/06/heavenly-father-provides-us-with-mountains-to-climb-but-oft-times-we-choose-hills-instead/comment-page-1/#comment-1616 Mike Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:35:22 +0000 http://www.ldsaliveinchrist.com/?p=621#comment-1616 Interesting concept. I remember reading something similar in the works of Gurdjieff, who (to put it a bit simplistically) that human beings are in a trance, and see things from the standpoint of the trance that they/we are in. This makes it difficult to see the need for spiritual work in the first place, but even when we do see/glimpse it, it is difficult to put into practice. I liken this to the cry of Nephi in 2 Nephi 1:13. From personal experience I have again and again rediscovered that the path of repentance is the quickest and best way of personal progress. I make no claim of superiority or being in anyway superior to others, or even to my past self, because of the many ways in which I do daily err, and see even more need for change/repentance, and continual growth. Interesting concept. I remember reading something similar in the works of Gurdjieff, who (to put it a bit simplistically) that human beings are in a trance, and see things from the standpoint of the trance that they/we are in. This makes it difficult to see the need for spiritual work in the first place, but even when we do see/glimpse it, it is difficult to put into practice. I liken this to the cry of Nephi in 2 Nephi 1:13.

From personal experience I have again and again rediscovered that the path of repentance is the quickest and best way of personal progress. I make no claim of superiority or being in anyway superior to others, or even to my past self, because of the many ways in which I do daily err, and see even more need for change/repentance, and continual growth.

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