I don't even know what to title this post. I just know I have to say something. It's been rolling around in my head for a few hours now, and it needs saying before I go nuts.
Recently I was looking at the news while checking my email, and I read the updated story about the white powder sent to the Salt Lake Temple and the L.A. Temple. And then I read the comments people posted. Why I do that I will never know, because it always makes me mad. As we all know, only fanatics comment on news stories. You know the ones. There is no middle road for them.
But I kept coming across people saying the same thing . . . that we (insert adjective) Mormons were getting what we deserved. We are bigots, and we hate everyone. So many things go through my mind:
Have they ever met a Mormon?
What were they thinking?
Where are their parents?
Don't they know it is usually little old ladies and little old men working at the temple?
I wanted to shake them till their teeth rattled (not the temple workers, the guy who mailed the powder).
And then I remember what we have been taught (and there were quite a few nasty posts about Mormons following blindly). We love those that hate us. Period.
That is my hardest test. I want to run out there and show everyone exactly how wrong they are and how right I am. (Ask my sister . . . I am always right!)
So today, my mantra is, Love Thy Neighbor, Love Thy Neighbor, Love Thy Neighbor.
I will not suggest to anyone that if they don't like it they can leave, because today I am trying to remember . . . Love Thy Neighbor, Love thy Neighbor, Love Thy Neighbor.
I will not suggest we get out the handcarts and pack up, because today I am trying to remember . . . Love Thy Neighbor, Love Thy Neighbor, Love Thy Neighbor.
Of course my sister will find this easier. She had years of putting up with me so it's second nature to her (Love thy sister, Love Thy Sister, Love Thy Sister . . .).
And then my sister will read this and call me and tell me to settle down. But by then it'll be OK because repeating that actually works.
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- I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons). I love the church and I am on the activities commitie in my ward. I teach in a school nearby. I have taught for 11 years now. My favorite things to do are read and be with friends and family. I especially enjoy spoiling my neices and nephews!
2 comments:
I know exactly what you mean! It made me upset too. Why do people have to be so closed minded about people who don't think the same as they do? It wasn't just Mormons against Prop 8, but they are not getting the same treatment. Then I remembered that Satan is working really hard against the righteous, and that the end of days will be totally horrible, and all we can do is live the way the Lord wants us to no matter what crap is being thrown at us. You can love them without loving what they do, that is easier to say than do. Hopefully we will all be able to weather this storm.
I wanted to run the people over. But, like you said we have to love those that despise us, Jesus did.
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