I have been reading Robert Kirby's column for many years. I love the way he looks at things and expresses them so understandingly.....
"We met for a reason, either you're a blessing or a lesson." Think about how true that sentence is and you can answer so many questions.
Now to Kirby: A lady complained how little faith in the church Kirby had and he said, "I sent the woman a copy of LDS apostle Jeffrey Holland's recent conference talk ("Lord, I Believe"), in which he said, "I am not asking you to pretend to faith you do not have. I am asking you to be true to the faith you do have."........He says, "If that isn't recognition that people aren't the same when it comes to faith, I don't know what is. What I do know is that it's OK for me to have doubts as long as I focus on what works for me." "It took a long time to figure out that faith is a deeply personal matter, and I could drive myself nuts trying to fit someone else's circus under my tent. So I stopped......I didn't stop being faithful. I stopped stressing about the things I didn't have much faith in and focused instead on what did it for me.....Ironically, I don't just get this zero tolerance, everybody-the-same-all-or-nothing faith logic from fellow churchgoers." This is so the way I feel, I believe deeply but don't agree on everything. How can you go on without faith and love, it would be a sad and lonely life.
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