tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38361377565832454322024-02-06T17:57:04.521-08:00Our adoption journey...because the best things in life are worth waiting for..From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-20209793075075034062011-06-20T22:11:00.001-07:002011-06-20T22:17:07.115-07:00Here, here.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Our LDS Family Services Profile is no longer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You will have to contact us directly now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">MWAH HA HAAAAA.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So, if you are just dying to know 12 random facts about us</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(which is essentially the only information the profile had that the blog doesn't)</span>,</div><div style="text-align: center;">then feel free to e-mail us.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Say hello.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I dare you.</div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-2053797338513793262011-06-06T19:07:00.000-07:002011-06-06T19:25:54.413-07:00Tender mercies.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 57, 58); font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; "><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.15" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I know the scriptures are true.</span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.15" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">.</span></span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.15" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">2 Nephi Chapter 4</span></span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.15" style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></span></span><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">15</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And upon </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=15a&lang=eng" id="footnote19" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">these</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">I </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=15b&lang=eng" id="footnote20" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">write</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> the things of my soul,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">and many of the scriptures which are engraven upon the plates of brass. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">For my soul </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">c</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=15c&lang=eng" id="footnote21" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">delighteth</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> in the scriptures, and my heart </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">d</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=15d&lang=eng" id="footnote22" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">pondereth</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">them, and writeth them for the </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">e</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=15e&lang=eng" id="footnote23" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">learning</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> and the profit of my children.</span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.16" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="16" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">16</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Behold, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">my </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=16a&lang=eng" id="footnote24" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">soul</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> delighteth in the things of the Lord; and my</span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=16b&lang=eng" id="footnote25" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">heart</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> pondereth continually upon the things which I have seen and heard.</span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.17" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="17" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">17</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=17a&lang=eng" id="footnote26" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">goodness</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> of the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart exclaimeth: O </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=17b&lang=eng" id="footnote27" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">wretched</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> man that I am! Yea, my heart </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">c</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=17c&lang=eng" id="footnote28" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">sorroweth</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">because of my flesh;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.18" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="18" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">18</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">I am encompassed about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=18a&lang=eng" id="footnote29" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">beset</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> me.</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.19" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="19" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">19</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> because of my sins; </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">nevertheless, I know in whom I have </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=19a&lang=eng" id="footnote30" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">trusted</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">.</span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.20" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="20" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">20</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">My God hath been my </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=20a&lang=eng" id="footnote31" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">support</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">; he hath led me through mine</span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=20b&lang=eng" id="footnote32" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">afflictions</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.</span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.21" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="21" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">21</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">He hath filled me with his </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=21a&lang=eng" id="footnote33" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">love</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, even unto the </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=21b&lang=eng" id="footnote34" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">consuming</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> of my flesh.</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.22" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="22" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">22</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">He hath confounded mine </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=22a&lang=eng" id="footnote35" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">enemies</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, unto the causing of them to quake before me.</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.23" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="23" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">23</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Behold, he hath heard my cry by day, and he hath given me</span></b></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></b></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=23a&lang=eng" id="footnote36" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">knowledge</span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> by </span></b></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></b></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=23b&lang=eng" id="footnote37" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">visions</span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> in the night-time.</span></b></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.24" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="24" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">24</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And by day have I waxed bold in mighty </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=24a&lang=eng" id="footnote38" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">prayer</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> before him; yea, my voice have I sent up on high; </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">and angels came down and ministered unto me.</span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.25" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="25" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">25</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And upon the wings of his Spirit hath my body been </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=25a&lang=eng" id="footnote39" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">carried</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">away upon exceedingly high mountains. And mine eyes have beheld great things, yea, even too great for man; therefore I was bidden that I should not write them.</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.26" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="26" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">26</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">O then, if I have seen so great things, if the Lord in his condescension unto the children of men hath </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=26a&lang=eng" id="footnote40" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">visited</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> men in so much </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=26b&lang=eng" id="footnote41" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">mercy</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">c</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=26c&lang=eng" id="footnote42" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">why</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> should my </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">d</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=26d&lang=eng" id="footnote43" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">heart</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> weep and my soul linger in the valley of sorrow, and my flesh waste away, and my strength slacken, because of mine afflictions?</span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.27" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="27" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">27</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And why should I </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=27a&lang=eng" id="footnote44" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">yield</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> to sin, because of my flesh? Yea, why should I give way to </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=27b&lang=eng" id="footnote45" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">temptations</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">that the evil one have place in my heart to destroy my </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">c</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=27c&lang=eng" id="footnote46" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">peace</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> and afflict my soul? </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Why am I</span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">d</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=27d&lang=eng" id="footnote47" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">angry</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> because of mine enemy?</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.28" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="28" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">28</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Awake, my soul! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">No longer </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=28a&lang=eng" id="footnote48" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">droop</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> in sin. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Rejoice, O my heart, and give place no more for the </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=28b&lang=eng" id="footnote49" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">enemy</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> of my soul.</span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.29" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="29" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">29</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Do not </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=29a&lang=eng" id="footnote50" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">anger</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> again because of mine enemies. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Do not slacken my strength because of mine afflictions.</span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.30" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="30" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">30</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Rejoice, O my </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=30a&lang=eng" id="footnote51" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">heart</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, and cry unto the Lord, and say: O Lord, I will praise thee forever; yea, my soul will rejoice in thee, my God, and the </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=30b&lang=eng" id="footnote52" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">rock</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> of my salvation.</span></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.31" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="31" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">31</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">O Lord, wilt thou </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=31a&lang=eng" id="footnote53" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">redeem</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> my soul? Wilt thou deliver me out of the hands of mine enemies? Wilt thou make me that I may shake at the appearance of </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=31b&lang=eng" id="footnote54" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">sin</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">?</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.32" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="32" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">32</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">May the gates of hell be shut continually before me,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> because that my </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=32a&lang=eng" id="footnote55" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">heart</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> is broken and my spirit is contrite! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">O Lord, wilt thou not shut the gates of thy righteousness before me, that I may</span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=32b&lang=eng" id="footnote56" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">walk</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> in the path of the low valley, that I may be strict in the plain road!</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.33" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="33" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">33</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">O Lord, wilt thou encircle me around in the robe of thy</span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=33a&lang=eng" id="footnote57" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">righteousness</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">! O Lord, wilt thou make a way for mine escape before mine </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=33b&lang=eng" id="footnote58" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">enemies</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> Wilt thou make my path straight before me! Wilt thou not place a stumbling block in my way—but that thou wouldst clear my way before me, and hedge not up my way,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> but the ways of mine enemy.</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.34" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="34" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">34</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">O Lord, I have </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=34a&lang=eng" id="footnote59" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">trusted</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> in thee, and I will </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=34b&lang=eng" id="footnote60" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">trust</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> in thee forever.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> I will not put my </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">c</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=34c&lang=eng" id="footnote61" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">trust</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> in the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">d</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=34d&lang=eng" id="footnote62" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">trust</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> in the arm of flesh. Yea, cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm.</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.35" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" name="35" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">35</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Yea, I know that God will give </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=35a&lang=eng" id="footnote63" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">liberally</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> to him that asketh.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> Yea, my God will give me, if I </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=35b&lang=eng" id="footnote64" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">ask</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">c</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=35c&lang=eng" id="footnote65" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">not</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> amiss; therefore I will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God, the </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">d</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=35d&lang=eng" id="footnote66" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">rock</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">of my </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">e</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=2-ne&chapterUri=4&noteID=35e&lang=eng" id="footnote67" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">righteousness</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">. Behold, my voice shall forever ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God. Amen.</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.35" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.35" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">-----------</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.35" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">I'm grateful for a God that knows my heart, and knows my aches. I'm grateful tonight, that he knows how to speak to me.</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.35" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">He lives.</span></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/4.35" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">To comfort me when faint.</span></p></span>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-47119704149021866052011-06-05T21:33:00.000-07:002011-06-05T22:26:18.379-07:00Saying no.<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">No is a harsh word.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"></span>As I was curled up in a ball, tears pooling onto Chris' shirt, I almost couldn't breath. As I wept, I declared, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">"The only thing I have ever wanted was to be a mother; to have more children. This is all I've ever wanted. I don't want to say no anymore..."</span></div><div><br /></div><div>It felt suffocating.</div><div><br /></div><div>We have been on a strict voyage to find the babies that are promised for our family alone. I always assumed that it would be those babies alone, that would make it down the pathway leading into our humble abode, guarded by my ever tender heart. I forgot to conceive that Heavenly Father is the master architect of my bizarre, blessed world. </div><div><br /></div><div>Stretch and molding is most certainly uncomfortable.</div><div><br /></div><div>My body is best at following the Lords agenda of "Teach Taylor". Where it has failed me in the past, I am convinced it is His greatest tool in chipping away at me, making me the master piece that He so desires. As I fight, and pull, trying to simply "BE", my mind tries to battle, declaring what would be "better". Somehow, "better" usually ends up being synonymous with "easier"; while the Heavens seem to think "better" means a completely different direction.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, commence the stretching and molding.</div><div><br /></div><div>Only once I think, "Oh ya. I'm not the Master in command here," am I able to really and truly become the image of perfection, the Lord so badly is striving to have me become; yet, here I am, only a fraction of what I hope to some day amount to. </div><div><br /></div><div>So, as I am filled with hope, wonderment, joy! "This could be it! I want <i>this to be it</i>!"Heavenly Father continues to intervene, and kindly, only sometimes abruptly, directs me down a different path. While my hope is sometimes dissected, with shreds being left at the fork in the road, I try to always bring some along with me on the journey. What is left, is shaped, stretched, altered.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">Each loss, has been just that: a loss. I have mourned accordingly.</div><div style="text-align: right;">Then brushed my hands off, and moved, sometimes staggering injured, sometimes leaping enthusiastically, forward.</div><div style="text-align: right;">Upward an onward.</div><div><br /></div><div>At this point in the game, I feel like I am bases loaded, already past three strikes, but have been given an extra chance because, hey, I'm the new kid. So, I stand tall, keeping my eye on the ball. As I stretch my arms for the big swing, with all of my heart and soul absorbed by the bat, I swing.</div><div><br /></div><div>I miss.</div><div><br /></div><div>I look around to see if anyone noticed, hoping, praying, that I have<i> just one more chance.</i> Because, gosh, I know I can hit the ball. I've done it before. I've just been on a bad run lately, is all. And while I stand here, looking foolish to the on-lookers, this situation has felt like sitting in a bath full of ice cubes. I can not ignore the pain.</div><div><br /></div><div>But then why say no? Why not just say yes?</div><div><br /></div><div>Ha. Oh yes. Exactly.</div><div>Why not just hit the damn ball? Why not make it a home run?</div><div>I simply can.not.get.the.two.to.collide. </div><div><br /></div><div>As I battle with <i>what I really want,</i> and <i>what the Lord really wants for me</i>. right. now. my head spins. My heart hurts. My hands shake. My soul shudders.</div><div><br /></div><div>I wonder if I will ever get the chance to bat again. I wonder if I will be kicked out of the game. I want this. This is what I want. This is perfect. Ideal, even! I want this. This is what I want.</div><div><br /></div><div>And then the ever-so-present whisper that seems like a booming voice within my head, continues to reassure me: This is not <b>my</b> plan. Wait for it. Wait for it...</div><div><br /></div><div>That is when I curl up into a ball, sobbing into my best friends shoulder. Because, while being told no is hard, accepting no, is a whole new ball game.</div><div><br /></div><div>After the shuddering subsides I can breath.</div><div><b>I'm going to hit a home run.</b></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-56287928024835114922011-05-16T20:50:00.001-07:002011-05-16T20:50:10.793-07:00Remember.<div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Find the compensatory blessings in your life when, in the wisdom of the Lord, He deprives you of something you very much want. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">To the sightless or hearing impaired, He sharpens the other senses. To the ill, He gives patience, understanding, and increased appreciation for others' kindness. With the loss of a dear one, He deepens the bonds of love, enriches memories, and kindles hope in a future reunion. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">You will discover compensatory blessings when you willingly accept the will of the Lord and exercise faith in Him.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">"</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div></span><div align="right" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">-Elder Richard G. Scott</span></div><div align="right" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">"Finding Joy in Life"</span></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-5204929702431282052011-05-05T23:36:00.000-07:002011-05-05T23:38:37.298-07:001200<div style="text-align: center;">Our LDS Family Services Profile officially hit 1200 views today.</div><div style="text-align: center;">If you have found our blog through itsaboutlove.org</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>please do not hesitate to contact us.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">We are waiting to hear from you.</span></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-74166200178140703712011-05-04T10:09:00.000-07:002011-05-04T10:09:00.515-07:00...and never lose hope.<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(1, 1, 1); line-height: 22px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><div class="quote_text" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">One of <a href="http://joshandkenna.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-my-sweet-r.html">my blog-crush friends</a> had this on her blog forever ago and I just now found it.</span></span></div><div class="quote_text" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="quote_text" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="quote_text" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“My message to you today, my brothers and sisters, is simply this:</span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the Lord is in control</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. He knows the end from the beginning. He has given us adequate instruction that, if followed, will see us safely through any crisis. </span></span></div><div class="quote_text" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="quote_text" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">His purposes will be fulfilled, and someday we will understand the eternal reasons for all of these events. Therefore, today we must be careful to not overreact, nor should we be caught up in extreme preparations; </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">but what we must do is keep the commandments of God and never lose hope!”</span></span></b></div><div class="quote_text" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="author"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">-M. Russell Ballard</span></span></span></div></span>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-36808173026064144732011-05-01T21:03:00.000-07:002011-05-01T21:08:40.153-07:00Amazing.<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 15px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Verdana;font-size:small;"><div class="inner" style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 35px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; zoom: 1; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 27px; line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(50, 68, 101); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; ">Why Adoption?</h1></div><div class="inner article" style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 35px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; zoom: 1; "><p class="citation" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 11px; ">Rebecca M. Taylor, “Why Adoption?,” <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Ensign</i>, Jan 2008, 46–52</p><p class="intro" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-size: 17px; ">In placing their faith in the Lord as they make a truly selfless choice, many unwed birth mothers find that from the ashes of their deepest pain, He makes something beautiful— for her, the baby, and a loving family.</p><a name="4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">When Chuck and Rachael Sharp learned they would not be able to conceive a baby, Rachael thought her heart would break. She had yearned to be a mother, and she knew Chuck would be a wonderful father. For years the couple had dreamed of skiing and camping trips with their children, of noisy conversations around the dinner table, of music lessons and parties with cousins and picnics in the park. What would they do with all of those dreams?</em></p><a name="5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">That same year, in another city, Jessica Anderson (name has been changed) was struggling with heartbreak of her own. She had recently learned she was pregnant and the father didn’t want to be involved. Her mind reeled with questions: With so little education, how would she financially support her child? How could she fill the roles of both a mother and a father? What kind of future could she provide?</em></p><a name="6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Over the past several decades, societal attitudes about unwed pregnancy have changed dramatically. For most unwed mothers 30 years ago, the choice was clear: they would either marry and raise the baby, or they would place the baby for adoption. Today, by contrast, most unwed mothers choose to either raise their babies on their own or get an abortion. In the United States, for example, only about 1 percent of unwed mothers place their babies for adoption.<a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=c68776978ac17110VgnVCM100000176f620a____#footnote1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">1</a> In many other countries the percentage is almost negligible.</p><a name="7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">While Church members lag behind much of the rest of the world in the single-parent trend, more and more Latter-day Saint unwed mothers are choosing to become single parents. Yet the official position of the First Presidency remains consistent: when a successful marriage is not likely, unwed parents are encouraged to place their babies for adoption into a loving, two-parent, Latter-day Saint home (see sidebar).</p><a name="8" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Why does the Church support adoption?</p><a name="9" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">What’s Best for the Baby?</h2><a name="10" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">A popular modern catchphrase is “A family can be anything as long as there is love.” Yet the proclamation on the family declares, “Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity.”<a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=c68776978ac17110VgnVCM100000176f620a____#footnote2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">2</a> Numerous studies have shown that children are better off when raised by both a mother and a father. These children are less likely to drop out of school, have behavioral problems, participate in delinquent behavior, become single mothers themselves, and live in poverty.<a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=c68776978ac17110VgnVCM100000176f620a____#footnote3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">3</a></p><a name="11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">In her book <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">For the Love of a Child,</em> social worker Monica L. Blume points out, “Almost every birth mother I have ever seen who is choosing to single parent believes she will be one of the very few who beat the odds.”<a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=c68776978ac17110VgnVCM100000176f620a____#footnote4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">4</a> Many of these unwed mothers count on the father remaining fully involved or on having their own father help raise the child. And many Latter-day Saint single mothers hope to eventually get married and become sealed to their child in the temple.</p><a name="12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Unfortunately, such hopes are not often realized. And many unwed mothers find that single parenthood is much more challenging than they expected. Studies have shown that single mothers have higher rates of illness, have less social involvement, and, if they are teenagers, are less likely to eventually marry than those who place their babies for adoption.<a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=c68776978ac17110VgnVCM100000176f620a____#footnote5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">5</a></p><a name="13" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">But as Tammy Squires with LDS Family Services says, none of her clients wants to be labeled a “statistic.” These mothers feel great love toward their babies and may believe that others cannot offer the same love and care a biological parent can provide. “I try to help them see that it’s not about biology; it’s about stability and what is best for the baby,” Sister Squires explains. “Their decision will affect their child not only throughout this life but in eternity. They need to pray about it and feel peaceful about their decision, whatever that final decision may be.”</p><a name="14" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Chuck had already accepted the possibility that children would come to their family through adoption, but for Rachael, acceptance came less readily. She felt angry at God for denying her what she longed for most. One day, however, a friend spoke about adoption in a way that resonated with her. “Imagine having a baby placed in your arms,” her friend said. “Think about looking down at that little face and knowing that child is yours. You can still be a mother!” Rachael felt the first stirrings of renewed hope in her heart.</em></p><a name="15" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Meanwhile, Jessica struggled with her decision. Her parents, especially her father, felt she should place the baby for adoption. Her friends encouraged her to raise the child herself. So many decisions, so many questions! Finally, she decided to get an abortion. That would make everything so much easier—wouldn’t it?</em></p><a name="16" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Latter-day Saint Theology and Adoption</h2><a name="17" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">A primary reason the Church supports adoption is that children who are adopted by temple-worthy Latter-day Saint couples can be sealed to their adoptive parents. The sealing ordinance is the capstone ordinance in the Church, and its blessings are present in this life as well as in the next. As President Joseph Fielding Smith (1876–1972) declared, children who are born in the covenant—and, by extension, those who are sealed to their parents in the temple—“have claims upon the blessings of the gospel beyond what those not so born are entitled to receive. They may receive a greater guidance, a greater protection, a greater inspiration from the Spirit of the Lord; and then there is no power that can take them away from their parents.”<a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=c68776978ac17110VgnVCM100000176f620a____#footnote6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">6</a></p><a name="18" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Fred Riley, commissioner of LDS Family Services, says that although adoption is rarely discussed in Church meetings, it is a profound gospel principle. He points out that when the prophet Elijah restored the sealing keys, these keys encompassed adoption. And one of the ways in which Jesus Christ is our Father is through adoption, for we become His sons and His daughters when we are adopted into the family of Christ.</p><a name="19" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Additionally, Church members who are not direct descendants of Israel may be adopted into the house of Israel through their faith (see <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/rom/8/9#9" target="contentWindow" class="scriptureRef" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">Romans 8:9</a>; <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/rom/9/4#4" target="contentWindow" class="scriptureRef" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">9:4</a>).</p><a name="20" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">“From the time of Adam, adoption has been a priesthood ordinance,” says Brother Riley. “It’s a principle of the gospel that probably all of us will experience at some point as we’re literally adopted into our Heavenly Father’s kingdom.”</p><a name="21" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Rachael and Chuck started participating in the training LDS Family Services offers prospective adoptive parents. They listened to birth mothers tell their stories—birth mothers who were so different from the rebellious girls they had envisioned. Many of these young women, by contrast, seemed wise beyond their years. Rachael and Chuck sensed some of the pain, as well as the peace, these young women had experienced. Maybe they too would one day be on the receiving end of such a sacrifice. Their excitement at the prospect of parenthood grew—as did their awe for these birth mothers.</em></p><a name="22" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">On a warm day in late August, Jessica sat in silence as her friends drove her to a class at the abortion clinic two hours away. With every mile, her heart grew heavier and her dread increased. When they finally drew near the clinic, she told her friends, “I can’t do this.” She couldn’t take an innocent life. She would have to make a different decision.</em></p><a name="23" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Taking Care of Our Own?</h2><a name="24" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">One of the most powerful factors that influence an unwed expectant mother’s decision regarding her baby is the opinion of her parents. It can be heart-wrenching for grandparents to consider relinquishing an infant grandchild. Like their daughter, grandparents often bond with the baby even before birth, and they have hopes and dreams for the baby’s future.</p><a name="25" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Many parents feel a grave sense of responsibility when their child becomes pregnant out of wedlock. They may feel that the most moral decision is to support their child in raising the baby rather than releasing the baby to the care of others. Church teachings about self-reliance and using family resources may seem to reinforce this belief. However, the First Presidency has addressed these concerns.</p><a name="26" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Not only does the choice to be a single parent leave the child bereft of the sealing ordinance, but its outcome can be confusing when the child is raised by extended family members. Shanna Bake of LDS Family Services explains that these children “often don’t know who to call mom. Who do they listen to? Who do they go to first when they have a problem? What about discipline? It’s undefined.”</p><a name="27" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Some may view placing a child for adoption as “abandoning” that child. But, as Sister Bake emphasizes, adoption “is not abandoning your responsibility. It’s taking <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">more</em> responsibility. It is truly taking care of your own, because you’re saying, ‘I can’t give this child what he or she needs, but someone else can.’ ”</p><a name="28" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">One writer expressed it this way: adoption is “not the abandonment of a baby but an abandonment of self for a baby’s sake.”<a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=c68776978ac17110VgnVCM100000176f620a____#footnote7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">7</a></p><a name="29" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Jessica grappled with her two remaining choices. She decided she would keep her baby, despite her father’s strong feelings in favor of adoption. But then she realized that the things she valued most from growing up in her own family—a loving mother </em>and<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "> a father with a temple marriage, the knowledge that she was sealed to her parents, financial security—were things she would be unable to provide her baby. She could give her baby love, but was love enough to raise a child? She hadn’t prayed much for a while, but now she poured out her heart to Heavenly Father. The answer, when it came, was not the one she wanted, but she knew it was right.</em></p><a name="30" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Changes in Adoption Practice</h2><a name="31" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">In years past, most birth mothers who placed their children for adoption had little or no involvement in deciding who would be the parents of their children. “It was almost as if the baby went into a big black hole,” says Brother Riley. Often the birth mothers were not even able to see the baby after the birth. They were left with unanswered questions: Is my baby OK? Is she in a good family that loves and cares for her? Does he know how much I love him and why I made my decision? Does my baby know how hard it was for me?</p><a name="32" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Many adopted children faced questions of their own: What were my birth parents like? Why did my birth mother choose to let me go? Didn’t she want me? What about my birth father?</p><a name="33" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Today, many of these issues have been addressed as adoptions have become more open. Usually the birth mother chooses the adoptive parents for her child, and she meets them before the birth. Together she and the adoptive family determine the type and frequency of future contact that will work best for them, whether such contact is through letters, photos, or face-to-face visits.</p><a name="34" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Sister Bake says that this type of adoption “really helps the birth mothers move on. Part of their grief comes from wondering, ‘Did I do the right thing?’ Through regular contact it’s reaffirmed: ‘Yes I did the right thing. He’s happy, he’s doing well, they love him.’ It helps them heal faster.”</p><a name="35" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Jessica couldn’t get enough of her baby. For the past three days she had stroked little Aliza’s soft skin and hair, breathed in her baby scent, cried over her, and loved her. Another couple would be taking her home—a couple who had all the characteristics Jessica had hoped for as she searched for her baby’s new parents. Jessica knew, deep in her soul, that Rachael and Chuck Sharp were supposed to be Aliza’s eternal parents. But for these three days, Aliza had been </em>her<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "> baby.</em></p><a name="36" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Now it was time to place Aliza with her new parents. Jessica didn’t think she had ever shed more tears. Behind her sorrow, though, was the peaceful assurance that she was giving her daughter the most priceless gift she could ever give: both a mother and a father.</em></p><a name="37" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Beauty for Ashes</h2><a name="38" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">The Lord gives compensating blessings to those who sacrifice their will to His. Speaking messianically, the prophet Isaiah proclaimed, “The Lord hath anointed me … to give … beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness” (<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/isa/61/1,3#1" target="contentWindow" class="scriptureRef" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">Isaiah 61:1, 3</a>). In placing their faith in the Lord as they make a truly selfless choice, many birth mothers have found that from the ashes of their deepest pain, He has made something beautiful.</p><a name="39" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">“Most likely this is the hardest thing these birth mothers will ever do,” says Sister Bake. “But in the end, almost all the girls I’ve worked with have said, ‘I’m a better person now—I’m stronger, wiser, and more mature.’ ”</p><a name="40" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Audrey Johnson (name has been changed), who placed her baby for adoption six years ago, acknowledges that, like many birth mothers, she used to wonder how she could recover from her grief. But, she says, “I believed Heavenly Father had a plan for my baby, and if I would submit to His will and follow His guidance, He would get me through it. And He did.”</p><a name="41" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">She says that at times she feels a little pensive, usually around her baby’s birthday. “But the overriding feeling is one of peace,” she says. “I know I did absolutely the best thing I could have done for her—and for me. It turned my whole life around. And I learned that not only could I be happy again, but I could be happier than I was before.”</p><a name="42" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Six years have gone by since Aliza’s adoptive placement. She is now an energetic six-year-old who loves eating popsicles, doing art projects, and playing with her three-year-old sister, Katy, who was also placed through LDS Family Services. Her parents cherish their little family, and they can’t imagine it coming about in any other way. Among the memories they treasure most are the days when Aliza and Katy were sealed to them. They will forever be grateful for the two birth mothers whose sacrifices enabled them to have the family they had hoped, prayed, and prepared for.</em></p><a name="43" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Jessica has since married in the temple and is attending school, with plans to become a nurse and to have children of her own someday. She still keeps pictures of Aliza in her living room. She receives letters occasionally; she’s even seen Aliza several times since the placement.</em></p><a name="44" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; ">Her experiences have changed her. She’s softer now; her family members tease her about her tender side. She is grateful to the baby girl who inspired her to return to church and put her life back on the right path. She knows she made a difficult but truly selfless choice, and she draws strength from that knowledge. Her future, like Aliza’s, is bright.</em></p><a name="53" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">First Presidency Statement on Adoption</h2><a name="54" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">“We … express our support of unwed parents who place their children for adoption in stable homes with a mother and a father. We also express our support of the married mothers and fathers who adopt these children.</p><a name="55" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">“Children are entitled to the blessing of being reared in a stable family environment where father and mother honor marital vows. Having a secure, nurturing, and consistent relationship with both a father and a mother is essential to a child’s well-being. When choosing adoption, unwed parents grant their children this most important blessing. Adoption is an unselfish, loving decision that blesses the child, birth parents, and adoptive parents in this life and throughout the eternities. We commend all those who strengthen children and families by promoting adoption.”</p><a name="56" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">First Presidency statement, Oct. 4, 2006</p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">--------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=c68776978ac17110VgnVCM100000176f620a____">FIND THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE</a></p><a name="57" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); "></a></div></span>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-20985811249582814762011-04-29T08:17:00.000-07:002011-05-02T07:49:19.124-07:00BUST A MYTH. OR TWO.<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(1, 1, 1); line-height: 22px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 107, 136); line-height: 26px; font-weight: bold; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.resolve.org/takecharge"><img src="http://www.resolve.org/national-infertility-awareness-week/images/bust-a-myth-badge-1.gif" /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 107, 136); line-height: 26px; font-weight: bold; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 107, 136); line-height: 26px; font-weight: bold; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:20px;">The National Infertility Awareness Week® challenge </span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 107, 136); line-height: 26px; font-weight: bold; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:20px;">is about breaking the myths that surround infertility </span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 107, 136); line-height: 26px; font-weight: bold; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:20px;">and the ways people build their families.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#006B88;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 26px; font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have been staring at my computer screen all week.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Trying to make something appear on the screen.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Typing.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Deleting.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Typing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Then, yesterday, I called my sister practically in tears, because my 2 year old doesn't know the alphabet.</div><div style="text-align: center;">True story.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">As I started grumbling about this and that, I came to one conclusion: clearly all the problems in the world, were an indication that I was dropping the ball as a mother<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (say what?? Ya. I went there.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span>Then she handed the phone over to the big guns: My mama.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My Mom started to explain all the reasons why I am actually <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">THE BEST MOM THERE EVER WAS</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(right?? You said that, right mom??)</span> and then her phone died. So there I was, sitting in the car outside Trader Joe's, waiting for husband plus two offspring, to finish their shopping... </div><div style="text-align: right;">I needed some ice cream, ya know?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Once husband buckled the babes into their car seats, he kindly reached over and put his arm around me. At that point, the water gates really let loose. He held me a little tighter, and ever-so-sincerely said, "It's ok. Our boys will learn to read some day!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Funny, right?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Then I just melted.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Truth be told, it's not about reading. It's not about the fact, that for some reason, both of my boys ALWAYS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (I mean always. WHAT GIVES??)</span> skip the number four when they are counting. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>It's the fact that I love to put everything on me. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">MYTH: My infertility is about me. Personally.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">This blog post is for me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Dear Taylor,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You are a good mom. You love your children.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Heavenly Father knew that you could handle this trial.</div><div style="text-align: center;">He CHOSE you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is hard.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You can do hard things.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes when you feel your blood boil, and you want to scream at the top of your lungs,</div><div style="text-align: center;">"IT'S NOT FAIR"</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's ok.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Because it's not fair.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Life is not fair.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And that is what makes it all so beautiful!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You are right, it would be far easier to have a body that works.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But yours does not.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And even though you are learning and growing so much because of it,</div><div style="text-align: center;">sometimes the pain feels like it might suffocate you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But your infertility is not about you.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It is not an attack of your character.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It is not a punishment for something you have done.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It is not because you are incapable of being a great mother to many.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; ">You are not broken on accident.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; ">Heavenly Father did not skip over you because you were undeserving.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">You were not forgotten.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Instead, He hand chose you out of the crowd, and precisely changed you to be the person you are. I believe he took you aside, put his arm around you, and with tears streaming down his very own face, knowing it will break your heart, asked if you if could carry this burden.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">He promised you would never be alone. And he would bless you!</div><div style="text-align: center; ">But, he would need to make you differently. </div><div style="text-align: center; ">Not to break you.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><b>But to create miracles for your eyes to see.</b></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Every day.</div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You were not stripped of the most sacred act of multiplying and replenishing to your hearts content, because you were not worth it to be made whole.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You may feel broken, and forgotten, in your divine right of motherhood.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But you were made from scratch!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Everything you have been given, has been given by God.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 15px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"</span></b><em style="font-style: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Lord giveth</span></b></em><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, the </span></b><em style="font-style: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lord taketh away</span></b></em><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. </span></b><em style="font-style: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Blessed be the name of the Lord</span></b></em><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Cry until your soul hurts. Because it is hard.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But don't ever feel broken.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">According to Wikipedia:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Infertility</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">p</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">rimarily refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilization" title="Fertilization" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">conception</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">.</span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Infertility may also refer to the state of a woman who is unable to carry a </span></span></b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">pregnancy</span></span></span></b></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">to </span></span></b><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_term" class="mw-redirect" title="Full term" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">full term</span></span></span></a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>MYTH: Only families without children, suffer from infertility.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">CLICK HERE:</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.resolve.org/infertility-overview/what-is-infertility/">a basic understanding of infertility</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.resolve.org/national-infertility-awareness-week/home-page.html">the background of National Infertility Awareness Week® (NIAW)</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.resolve.org/takecharge" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(240, 152, 20); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">http://www.resolve.org/takecharge</a>.</span></span></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-1118043968818925792011-04-16T20:58:00.000-07:002011-04-16T21:11:25.398-07:00Roll Call.<div style="text-align: center;">So, my home girl <a href="http://www.thecoterieblog.com/">Heather</a> did this once on her blog.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I want to do it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Are you here? Or there?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Who's with me?</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I mean, I know that my sister reads this (hey sissy)!</div><div style="text-align: center;">But is anyone else out there??</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's be honest, I have sitemeter, but, uh, I have no idea how to use it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">All I know is it got me all sorts of curious.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Be a dear, and let me know you stopped by</div><div style="text-align: center;">...so that I don't think everything I write is dissolving into thin air</div><div style="text-align: right;">... with the exception of my sister.</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">PS FOR EVERY COMMENT LEFT, I WILL GIVE YOU A $100 GIFT CARD.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wait. Wrong blog.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That's not true.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">At all.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Just tell me who you are.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For FREEEEEE.</span></span></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-48473165443632920352011-04-01T15:03:00.000-07:002011-04-01T17:19:36.569-07:00The best of days, the worst of days.<div style="text-align: center;">**post originally written on March 13. My 25th birthday**</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">This week, I am hating adoption.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">GASP.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I know.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My heart is just hurting.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes I feel like it's this overwhelming discomfort.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I walk around with this stabbing pain in my chest, and just have to keep on breathing. Keep on going.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There is just so much involved. So many involved.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I watched some show about adoption the other day, and it all just seems too surreal.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Adoption doesn't REALLY happen, does it?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I am not whole.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes I wonder if this is just how it's going to be.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Birthday to me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Yikes!</div><div style="text-align: center;">My three year old is a total drama queen. At least I know where he gets that from. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have really debated publishing the above post at all. It's just such.a.downer.post. But, then I remembered that I want to ALWAYS remember EVERYTHING about this journey. Some day, when I'm holding my beautiful child in my arms, or threatening time out to the same rambunctious toddler, I want to remember the miracle they are; how there were moments, days, weeks, and long months, where I thought there was just no way I would be able to find them. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>And no way that they could defy everything, and make it into my family.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">Right now, it seems impossible.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So, I'm going to publish it. All heart broken and self loathing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Because this is our journey.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And no. This is not an april fools joke.</div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-39084706737419455402011-03-20T19:31:00.000-07:002011-03-20T19:35:48.770-07:00Oh. My. Gosh.<div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">Wow.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.mtv.com/videos/16-and-pregnant-season-2-ep-19-ashley/1654754/playlist.jhtml"><span style="font-size:180%;">This moved me.</span></a></div><br /><br /><div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000; WIDTH: 520px"><div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 4px; PADDING-LEFT: 4px; PADDING-RIGHT: 4px; PADDING-TOP: 4px"><embed height="288" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:videolist:mtv.com:1654754" flashvars="" base="." allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; MARGIN-TOP: 4px; PADDING-LEFT: 4px; PADDING-RIGHT: 4px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; PADDING-TOP: 4px">Tags:<br /><a style="COLOR: #439cd8" href="http://www.mtv.com/shows/16_and_pregnant/season_2/series.jhtml" target="_blank">MTV's 16 and Pregnant (Season 2)</a>, <a style="COLOR: #439cd8" href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/" target="_blank">MTV Shows</a>, <a style="COLOR: #439cd8" href="http://www.mtv.com/shows/16_and_pregnant/season_2/series.jhtml" target="_blank">MTV's 16 and Pregnant (Season 2)</a>, <a style="COLOR: #439cd8" href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/" target="_blank">MTV Shows</a></p></div></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-56257775535987503622011-03-18T17:42:00.000-07:002011-03-18T17:50:03.718-07:00From NatNort.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwAXxiAc3We7KxmqA10mqg8Xr_SFYGjqqt1Vo3_rV_uD52JtLxeB32D3Ldp4BVZcDiVm5MBGYKxF1DrnS-npZgu5jTF2pxAtHvRh1z_sjcPtpX6fih0Z7BD-ZY8_qUxdJyBhkdl2dn9U/s1600/natalie+quote.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585586920920523858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwAXxiAc3We7KxmqA10mqg8Xr_SFYGjqqt1Vo3_rV_uD52JtLxeB32D3Ldp4BVZcDiVm5MBGYKxF1DrnS-npZgu5jTF2pxAtHvRh1z_sjcPtpX6fih0Z7BD-ZY8_qUxdJyBhkdl2dn9U/s400/natalie+quote.jpg" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /><div></div></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-4296551619341528392011-02-25T13:15:00.000-08:002011-02-25T15:24:56.147-08:00Friday.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">This post is not for you. It's for her.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dear you,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">I have never felt more love for you than I do now. Are you reading this?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">For whatever life that is awaiting this precious spirit you are bringing to the world, I have felt this compelling sense of protection and love for you. I feel so strongly, an intense feeling, that I just want to "take care of" (for lack of a better phrase) you. All I know is Heavenly Father wants us so badly to show you his love, and wants you to have a beautiful life. I feel like shouting from the rooftops, because I know that a marvelous life awaits you, and I feel like you are just sitting on the edge of something incredible the Lord has saved just for you at this point in your life.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">Whatever the outcome, we pray that the spirit will guide us all.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">Honestly, I don't know what to expect. At all. I have no idea of what is to come. As vulnerable as we feel in this situation, we know we could end up heart broken; however, for whatever reason, I am moved to love you completely. We pray for you every day! We know that whatever the outcome, both of our lives will be enriched by knowing each other.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">Thank you so very much for sharing your life with me!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">I have only ever considered adoption as a true miracle. I haven't been able to wrap my head around the true trenches that must be walked through, in order for the miracles to be brought forth. My heart and soul ached, to think about the shadow of the valley of death your family must walk through; the anguish and pain is beyond anything comparable, something close to an actual death. The death of a life that would have, could have been.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">I suppose that is why birth families must always be held in the most highest regards. To choose a child's life over their own, is beyond commendable. It is choosing death. But it is choosing life.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">It shakes me to my core, to know that in order for me to complete my family, something I am driven to do, that others would have to be broken, to have their soul wracked in pain, in order to give me the greatest blessing in life; one that I could not provide on my own. One that the Lord was not willing to provide for me---without adoption. I have suffered a similar (not comparable. only similar) death, when realizing that I would never be able to create that gift on my own. I can not fully comprehend the reverse of the situation, yet can see how it would torment the soul.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">I strongly desire to protect my children, and give them the world, too! I would hope that I would be able to die for them, if needs be. Something that I now view similar to adoption. It IS a death, in some way. It is the death of the life that could have been. With that, I commend you for choosing to give that sweet baby the most precious miracle of all: a family. One where he could accomplish all the dreams that you could ever think of for him, where he is allowed to learn and grow with a righteous priesthood holder as his father, be sealed to his two parents, and always be grateful for the life his birth family offered him from the start. That is incomprehensible.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">I have to believe that adoption is Plan A for Heavenly Father. I have to. I have to believe that he would not give me a broken body, incapable of producing children on my own, without providing me with a Plan A. I have to believe that I am as loved, protected, and watched over, as anyone other child of his. I have to believe that Heavenly Father DOES have specific spirits that he has set aside specifically for me. And that they will come through adoption. And that it will not be a back up plan. It will have always been my plan! And because it will have always been my plan, it will have always been that precious birth families plan, as well. He will know that I would find a kindred spirit, dear enough to break her very own heart, to give the absolute best for their child; in turn blessing me with that baby that was always meant for me!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">While I know that you know all of the things that I have already said through your own experiences, I can guarantee that it will never be easy to compensate for the loss that is incurred in your family. While your arms are left empty, I hope your hearts can find the satisfaction with the miracle that you were able to help orchestrate. That you have protected and loved your child to the highest degree. That is not something that I will pretend to know anything about. I will only be able to continue to pray that your hearts can be healed. That the balm to your aching heart can simply be the truths that you already know.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:medium;">I know I have a kindred spirit that I knew before I was born. She decided she would help the Lord make me whole. Without her, I am not... If you feel like you are that kindred spirit, let's do this! Let's make some magic. Let me love you and give you strength as you dare to attempt the impossible.</span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="line-height: 17px; "><div style="line-height: 17px; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-family:Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">With all my love,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Taylor</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></span></div></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-61054716466704420462011-02-24T20:24:00.000-08:002011-02-24T21:15:48.507-08:00Happy 24 Days of approval.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Today we officially turned down our first adoption situation.</span><div><br /></div><div>And as I sat on the couch with Chris, sobbing about it, all I could muster up was, "Dang it."</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">.</div><div><br /></div><div>We really want to go for this situation. Everything in me is pulling towards it. My brain says: It's perfect. It's exactly what I would have always wanted. </div><div><br /></div><div>Twins.</div><div>Fraternal.</div><div style="text-align: right;">And those are the best.</div><div style="text-align: right;">...says the fraternal twin herself.</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We want it! We want it so bad. </span>But tonight, as we sat on the couch, with tears streaming down our cheeks, begging Heavenly Father to tell us "YES!" I felt it go straight to my heart, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"You already know the answer,"</span> and I crumbled into a ball, right into Chris' arms, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"They're not our babies..."</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">And then the reminder that we are fully incapable of completing our family on our own, consumed me, and I had to remind myself to breath.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>I will never again KNOW that a child belongs in my family, simply because I can feel him moving within my own pregnant body. I don't know how on earth my children will make it into my arms; where they will come from, when they will arrive. I don't know what they will look like, or how long it will take for them to get here. I have no concept of how they will defy all odds and make it into my family. This time around, I don't have a pregnancy calender, reminding me daily of what is awaiting for my family ahead.</div><div><br /></div><div>Instead, we can only follow the spirit, and pray that he will guide us. And pray that we will KNOW.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I have felt so stretched this past year. </span>Seeing-what-you're-made-of tricks are really painful. And I'm tired. I'm ready for the red carpet to roll out in front of me, with bright lights leading the way to a billboard that says, "THIS CHOICE", while I sit back and enjoy the ride, with nothing actually expected of me, and then WA LA! Done.</div><div><br /></div><div>No more thinking involved.</div><div>No more tears involved.</div><div>No more wondering involved.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">But that would mean no more faith involved.</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ah ha.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Sometimes I don't think I have the strength to do this. I want to pack up my family of four, and call it even. But I am pushed forward, with the knowledge that Heavenly Father has a better plan for me. He knows what I can handle. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I want the easy road to be the right choice.</span> I want so badly to e-mail back the case worker that I've been talking to every day, and say, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"YES! We are in."</span> But, instead, I some how have to figure out how to walk away from something so obviously easy to choose.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">And have faith my baby is still on his way.</span></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-20017911059725474222011-02-07T08:06:00.000-08:002011-02-07T08:19:28.996-08:00Say what??<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Once we decided to adopt, </span>I started scouring different adoption blogs I could find. Chris would always laugh when he would see me reading some blog, and he would ask, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"Oh, who are these people,"</span> as he would plop down next me. Then, I mumble something along the lines of, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"Uh....well... I don't know. I just found them. BUT LOOK!"</span> and then go on to tell their <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">whole</span> life story. <div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">He thought I was totally creepy</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">(well...it is) </span>because I would spend hours reading blogs of people that I had never met; simply to learn about their adoption journey. The whole idea of someone wandering around with their heart on their sleeve, searching for these little spirits that are meant for their family, is just intoxicating. Especially for an adoption novice like myself, that happens to loose sleep about the "how, where, when" aspect of our journey.</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; ">IT GIVES ME HOPE.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>There are a few blogs that I have actually saved, because I was enamored by them. I am honored that our family is being spot lighted on dear <a href="http://joshandkenna.blogspot.com/2011/02/looking-for-their-little-pierce-family.html">Kenna's blog</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">(after stalking her all these months....ahem)</span>. She is an amazing woman who has walked through the valley of the shadow of death. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">A few times.</span> And she is alive and kicking!! They just recently adopted their FABULOUS little guy after an exhausting search.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>I couldn't be happier for them.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://joshandkenna.blogspot.com/2011/02/looking-for-their-little-pierce-family.html">Check her out.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And when you are still reading her blog a few hours from now, and your husband rolls his eyes at you because he thinks you are weird to look at a blog of a total stranger, don't say I didn't tell you so.</span></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-570926965284465102011-01-31T17:25:00.000-08:002011-01-31T17:56:43.613-08:00And... approved!!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';font-size:x-large;">THAT'S RIGHT! </span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';font-size:x-large;">WE JUST GOT THE HAPPIEST E-MAIL OF THE YEAR (SO FAR!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;">.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">SUBJECT: CONGRATULATIONS</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">It came in!!! We have all your prints. I was able to approve you as of today, Jan 31</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">st</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">. And you are on the website…check it out!!!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style=" ;color:black;"><a href="https://www.itsaboutlove.org/ial/profiles/25437184/ourMessage.jsf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">https://www.itsaboutlove.org/<wbr>ial/profiles/25437184/<wbr>ourMessage.jsf</span></a></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style=" ;font-size:22pt;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Christine</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style=" ;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Christine Robey Jolley, LCSW</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style=" ;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Children's Services Manager</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style=" ;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Fountain Valley and San Diego Offices</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Ummmm... I am excited. I am really, really, really excited. So excited, that I couldn't wait the whole two minutes it was going to take for Chris to get home from work, I just.had.to. call him immediately. But then I couldn't stop crying long enough to tell him the news over the phone. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">I'm sure he thought I was dying.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:x-large;">Either way folks, today is a good day.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:x-large;">Today is a really great day.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">We turned in all of our paper work 14 weeks and 5 days ago </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">(but who's counting)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">. </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">I feel like we are announcing we </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">made it past the "first trimester"; and with my track record, that's </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">AMAZING NEWS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">. I </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">will write more later, when my hands have stopped shaking so bad, and tears aren't streaming down my face. Chris just walked in the door from work and is on the phone telling someone the good news! Oh, and Hugh is sitting inside the toilet<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> (what? Yes. I'm serious. Who is that child?) </span>so I should go. I just had to post this!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">I am more than thrilled.</span></span></span></span></p><p></p></div></span></div></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-38459892776737298412011-01-31T14:54:00.000-08:002011-01-31T15:13:19.024-08:00Goodbye January.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Poor, sad blog. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm sorry to be the one to inform you. I'm just the messenger.</div><div style="text-align: center;">As of today, we officially were <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">not approved</span></span> in January.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We are sticking with the "pre-approval" status that we received . . . uh, three months ago.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Although it would appear that our work got sucked into a giant black whole,</div><div style="text-align: center;">I promise that we did, indeed, finish applying <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">months ago</span></span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Chris keeps reminding me this is the "morning sickness" part of adoption:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">You don't actually feel like a child could possibly come of all of this,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">you just think you are dying.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Here's to next month??</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Cheers.</span></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-41882337202695510462011-01-20T13:15:00.000-08:002011-01-20T14:43:45.840-08:00Moving forward.<div style="text-align: center;">Good ol' Utah finally let California know that we are not murders.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Our background checks cleared from Utah!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now we are just waiting on Hawaii.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Surprise, surprise.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Come on Hawaii. You can do it!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It's funny how great that little bit of information has made me feel. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">I feel relieved. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';font-size:medium;">Happy.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;">We are one step closer. My goodness, there sure are a lot of steps, but each time we get to check something off our list <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">(even if it takes months to do so)</span>, I get a little burst of happiness.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I remember the first time we met with Christine. When we told her that we had lived in three different states over the past five years, she tried to hide her grimace. She's obviously the professional in this party, and knew what we would be in for. She let us know that it would probably take "a while" to get back the information from each state, so we could "take our time" on our paper work. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">When we completed our paper work 12 days later, she must have realized that we didn't get the picture</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I guess when you feel like your heart is on fire, you move. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';">It's hard to compensate the burning desire the spirit brings, while the simple logistics of the matter are unavoidable.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">We have felt divinely directed towards adoption. We figured we would just fly through the process, and we wouldn't really have to wait on anything to get approved.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I have been checking my e-mail multiple times a day, and actually expect to see an e-mail announcing our approval. Of course, followed by an e-mail announcing we have been matched.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Each time I check.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">We have been completely naive; which has brought an additional source of impatience and disappointment. In some round about way, we f</span></span>elt like since we had followed through with what was expected of us, of course a baby would show up on our door step, dropped off fresh from the stork, after we left the LDSFS office.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></div></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Because life is just that easy. Right?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: center; ">Amateurs.</div><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;">And here I was thinking that we had checked the box that said: </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;">EASY ROAD.</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;">But I have to live life, <i>just like every body else?</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;">Who'da thunk it.</span></div></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Learning the lesson of following the spirit, and still having to wait, has been a humbling one.</span></span> <b>Obedience and Patience</b>. As I sit here and think about how long it's been since we first started this process, it feels far longer than reality. My calendar tells me it's really only been 13 weeks and one day. I think, "that can't be!" and recount. Again. </span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">I feel like I have been holding my breath for far longer than that! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Every night we crawl into bed, and like clock work I always say, "Well, looks like we aren't getting our baby today." and then, without skipping a beat, Chris replies, "Well, the day isn't over yet."</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And then we laugh and fall asleep.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">W</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e wake up the next day with the same status we have had since we turned in our paper work:</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">NOT YET.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I am learning to be happy with knowing that I am on the right path, and even though I keep getting the answer, "not yet", that it is still the path for me. I am no less important, and loved no less. So, these little accomplishments, these mundane e-mail conversations, that still tell me, "not yet", give me HOPE. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">They let me know that while I feel like I am standing still, we are in fact, on our way.</span></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-84622301251310346902011-01-14T14:07:00.000-08:002011-01-14T15:06:36.363-08:00Find me.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Every once in a while, I feel the strings that pull at my heart.</span></span><div><br /></div><div>Yesterday, it was while I was at Target.</div><div><br /></div><div>My boys were at playgroup and preschool. So, I was all by myself. I took my freedom to roam up and down the isles. Just wandering. I got everything on my list, and then felt free to meander as I pleased.</div><div><br /></div><div>As I wandered around, I found myself on the same isle as a brand spakin' new baby. I'm talking, straight from the hospital, Mom still waddling, looking like she just got hit by a semi truck, waiting to pick up their prescription, brand new kind of baby.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Dad was on cloud nine.</div><div><br /></div><div>I smiled as I passed, with a nod of congratulations. The Dad felt the need to add sentiment, "You have no idea how bad it really is!" as I looked around to see who he was talking to, I realized his non-sensical statement was directed at me.</div><div><br /></div><div>"What?" was the only thing I could come up with.</div><div><br /></div><div>"This baby business. It's hard stuff!" As his wife laughed from embarrassment, no doubt, and hit him in the arm, he added "I'm serious! I'm sure you don't have kids, but just you wait."</div><div><br /></div><div>And I actually laughed out loud from the irony. And then I felt that pounding feeling in my heart. The one that happens to actually speak to my soul.</div><div><br /></div><div>All I could think of the rest of day was: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">I'm looking for you baby. I'm trying. I really am.</span></span></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-89599266549062609632011-01-14T13:58:00.000-08:002011-01-14T14:07:32.687-08:00Rinse. Repeat.Every week or so, Christine and I have our normal e-mail conversation that goes something like this:<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"Hey, it's me again. Have you heard anything new?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"No. I can't believe it!!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"Dang."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Rinse. And repeat.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">She usually explains to me what she has been up to, trying to figure out what on earth is going on with our MIA background checks, and then I go back to twiddling my thumbs. It's the cool part about "waiting". There's only so much I can do.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yesterday had some spark! Believe it or not, my finger prints that got scanned last week showed up! That was amazing. I thought it would have taken at least a few more weeks to get back to them. So, that was exciting news. I had smile slapped across my face, until her next e-mail back to me said we have to wait<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"> a couple more weeks</span> before we can re-re-re-follow up on the background checks.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Ha! Oh the joy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">DARN YOU, HAWAII AND UTAH. Darn you.</div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-79412482256194792032011-01-06T11:00:00.000-08:002011-01-06T11:05:41.798-08:00And we will be ready.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, arial, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(61, 53, 53); line-height: 19px; "><p class="style7" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Starting off this New Year, with no real sense of direction could be some what unnerving; however, I'm actually quite calm about the whole subject, which is so not typical of me. A month or two ago, I realized that our adoption process is out of my hands. I had all these expec</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: medium; ">tions and goals that were just not coming to pass; I realized that I could only do so much, and the rest would have to be orchestrated by the Lord</span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; "><br /></span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; ">I had to have that Faith.</span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; ">and let go of the fear.</span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; "><br /></span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: medium; ">Since then, I have been blessed to have that urgency in life, lifted off my shoulders. And I truly count it as one of my precious blessings.</span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">I know that we have children (plural) that will come to our family through adoption. I know it. While I have a great plan on where/when that should happen, I know there is a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "><b>better</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "> plan.</span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">So we continue to do all we can to make sure we are ready and willing for when <b>the Lord is ready</b> to bless us.</span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">And we will be ready.</span></span></p></span>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-8327592037336421002011-01-06T10:00:00.000-08:002011-01-06T11:00:35.734-08:00One more time.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">It's been a month </span>since I heard from the DOJ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">(Department of Justice) </span></span>about the whereabouts of my sad, lonely missing livescan results. If you remember correctly, Chris and I both submitted three sets <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">AT THE EXACT SAME TIME</span>, but for whatever reason, one of my results dissolved into thin air.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Funny how things happen.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Yesterday, I bit the bullet.</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;">Instead of sitting around twiddling my thumbs, waiting to hear back from the DOJ, I went and got my fingerprints rescanned. Creative, I know. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">According to the tech, "stuff like this happens </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">all the time," </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">which is unfortunate, since </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"a</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">ll institutions and professions with applicants for employment, licensing, or certification have to get a livscan: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Security Guards, Teachers, Schools, Realtors, Notaries, CPAs, Stock Brokers, Contractors, Nurses, Doctors, Hospitals, Attorneys, Insurance, Pilots, Pharmacists, Volunteers, Dental Assistants, or Caregivers for children and elderly, including Foster Care and couples hoping to adopt. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I know this information, because that's what the brochure said sitting on her table. I took one as a souvenir</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.)</span> That seems like it covers a lot of people--- a lot of people who would really like "stuff like that to NOT </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">happen all the time</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">."</span></span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(61, 53, 53); line-height: 19px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', verdana, arial, 'Times New Roman';font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:14px;"><p class="style7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">She must have sensed my uneasiness</span> about the casualty in her tone of voice. She let me know, "the DOJ and FBI </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">process the fingerprints, and send results</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> back within 48 hours."</span></span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">I think she forgot my first visit was back in October.</span></span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Ha.</span></span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Here's to hoping that I'm one of the <b>positive</b> statistics that gets results in a timely manner; not one of the other statistics that happens to get lost<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"> all the time.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">-----</span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PS We are still waiting for our background checks to come back from Utah and Hawaii. Same situation there. Just waiting; Christine is all over it, trying to figure out what exactly is going on. </span></span></p><p class="style7" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We are so lucky to have her.</span></span></p></span></span></div></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-83452423432928169222010-12-22T09:51:00.000-08:002010-12-22T10:11:53.229-08:00No news is {not} good news.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: x-large; ">We are still waiting.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Our current status is the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">EXACT. SAME. </span>as it was last time I posted.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Obviously, we are not going to be approved by Christmas.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's been 62 days since all our paper work was submitted.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But, ya know, who's counting.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">And it's hard to feel like we are any further ahead in the process than we were <b>62 days ago.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new'; ">Let's be honest: I am not thrilled.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">But, strangely enough, I feel calm amongst the storm.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank heavens.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And I do every day.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sincerely.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We heave done ALL that can be done up to this point.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>And I have to be content with that.</b></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-739278476485257752010-12-05T19:06:00.001-08:002010-12-05T19:55:03.390-08:00MIA<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">**DISCLAIMER: I promise you don't care even slightly about this post. Promise. It's simply for a matter of keeping track of what is what, and where, and when. Not sure on the why. Besides that we are dealing with the Government. Yes. That's why.**</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Well, out of the 12 different <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">livescans</span>/fingerprints/background checks that we did back in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b>OCTOBER</b></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">LDSFS</span> has received a whopping 7 back.<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">That's better than nothing, right?? </span></div><div><br /></div><div>We had to get background checks for every state we have lived in over the past five years (CA, HI, UT). Good <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">ol</span>' California is the only state that pulled through and declared us as non-criminals. Whew. We are still cheering for Utah and Hawaii to get their act together. Come on state of my birth, and state of my heart. Do us well!!</div><div><br /></div><div>In addition to that pile of papers, we each had to get three sets of fingerprints done for our <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">livescans</span>. All three of Chris' are back <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(good boy)</span>, and only two of mine are back <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(naughty girl)</span>. One of mine is missing. The original five were received within a couple weeks of submission, leaving my single set all on it's own in lonely limbo land. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Even though we did all six sets on the same exact day, at the same exact time, at the same exact office, with the same exact technician. One after the next.</span> Awesome. </div><div><br /></div><div>Confused?? Yes. Me too.</div><div><br /></div><div>And even though I spent the day on the phone, talking to Joe and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Shmoe</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">alllllll</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">daaaaaayyyyyy</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">looooonnnnnggggg</span>, it's no more clear than before. </div><div><br /></div><div>Basically, my missing finger prints got to where they need to go. But they didn't get totally pushed through the system. But I can't just pay to resubmit prints <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(which I was totally willing to do)</span>, because they have, in deed, received them. So while they have been received, they are not yet complete. And while they are submitted, they are not yet finalized. And have no idea where they are; therefore, obviously not yet approved.</div><div><br /></div><div>uh...</div><div><br /></div><div>So, I filled out yet another form to "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">finish what you started, like right now, please"</span>, and faxed it to them. It could take <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">UP TO 30 DAYS</span> to hear back from them - - - not including furlough, holidays, and weekends. Joy. </div><div><br /></div><div>Now, we just sit back and twiddle our thumbs, hoping that once the fax is received, Joe Government will say, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"Ah ha! This paper work that has been sitting on my desk for two months actually needs to be completed and finalized. Who knew?"</span> and batta bing, batta boom. Approved.</div><div><br /></div><div>BUT. Just to make things fun. I was made fully aware that their reply, could, in deed say something along the lines of: UH, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO TELL YOU. PLEASE RESUBMIT ANOTHER FORM TO HAVE US LOOK AGAIN.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>And on, and on and on.</div><div><br /></div><div>Funny, right?</div><div>Ya.</div><div>Super funny.</div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3836137756583245432.post-14919369375783311132010-12-01T19:42:00.000-08:002010-12-01T20:13:37.174-08:00So let it be written.Tonight as I was reading scriptures with the boys before bed, I had a hard time finishing the page we were on: tears were streaming down my cheeks, and the words were only getting more and more blurry as I read.<div><br /></div><div>After I tucked them in, I hurried back to my bed to read over the words, again and again. It was like my heart was exploding. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Thank you. Thank you.</span> were the only words that I could clearly muster up, as thanks to my Heavenly Father for watching over his moody, pouting daughter, that might have had a minor melt down earlier in the day, all in the name of lousy finger-prints.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#40">MORONI 7 37-48</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(47, 57, 58); line-height: 22px; "><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">37</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(47, 57, 58); line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Behold I say unto you, Nay; for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">it is by faith that </span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(47, 57, 58); line-height: 22px; "><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">a</span></b></span></sup></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(47, 57, 58); line-height: 22px; "><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=37a&lang=eng" id="footnote61" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">miracles</span></b></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(47, 57, 58); line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> are wrought;</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> and it is by faith that angels appear and minister unto men; wherefore, if these things have ceased <b>wo be unto the children of men, for it is because of </b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(47, 57, 58); line-height: 22px; "><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>b</b></span></span></sup></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(47, 57, 58); line-height: 22px; "><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=37b&lang=eng" id="footnote62" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>unbelief</b></span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(47, 57, 58); line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>, and all is vain.</b></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(47, 57, 58); font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; "><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.38" id="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.38" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="38" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">38</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For no man can be saved, according to the words of Christ, save they shall have faith in his name; wherefore, if these things have ceased, then has faith ceased also; and awful is the state of man, for they are as though there had been no redemption made.</span></span></div></span><p></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.39" id="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.39" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="39" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">39</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But behold, my beloved brethren, I judge better things of you, for I judge that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ye have faith in Christ <b>because of your meekness;</b> for if ye have not faith in him then ye are not </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=39a&lang=eng" id="footnote63" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">fit</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> to be numbered among the people of his church.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.40" id="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.40" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="40" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">40</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And again, my beloved brethren, I would speak unto you concerning </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=40a&lang=eng" id="footnote64" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">hope</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">How is it that ye can attain unto faith, save ye shall have hope?</span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="highlight" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41" id="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(254, 251, 191); line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="41" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">41</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">And what is it that ye shall </span></span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">a</span></span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=41a&lang=eng" id="footnote65" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">hope</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have </span></span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">b</span></span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=41b&lang=eng" id="footnote66" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">hope</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life </span></span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">c</span></span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=41c&lang=eng" id="footnote67" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">eternal</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise.</span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.42" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="42" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">42</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Wherefore, <b>if a man have </b></span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>a</b></span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=42a&lang=eng" id="footnote68" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>faith</b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b> he </b></span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>b</b></span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=42b&lang=eng" id="footnote69" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>must</b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b> needs have hope;</b> for without faith there cannot be any hope.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.43" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="43" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">43</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">And again, behold I say unto you that he cannot have faith and hope, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">save he shall be </span></b></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">a</span></b></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=43a&lang=eng" id="footnote70" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">meek</span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">, and lowly of heart.</span></b></span></div><p></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.44" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="44" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">44</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">If so, his </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=44a&lang=eng" id="footnote71" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">faith</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> and hope is vain, for none is </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=44b&lang=eng" id="footnote72" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">acceptable</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> before God, save the </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>c</b></span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=44c&lang=eng" id="footnote73" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>meek</b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b> and lowly in heart;</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and if a man be meek and lowly in heart, and </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">d</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=44d&lang=eng" id="footnote74" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">confesses</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> by the power of the Holy Ghost that Jesus is the Christ, he must needs have charity; for if he have not charity he is nothing; wherefore he must needs have charity.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.45" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="45" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">45</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=45a&lang=eng" id="footnote75" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">charity</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> <b>suffereth long,</b></span> and is </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=45b&lang=eng" id="footnote76" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">kind</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">c</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=45c&lang=eng" id="footnote77" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">envieth</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> not, and is not puffed up,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">seeketh not her own,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> is not easily </span></span></b></span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">d</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=45d&lang=eng" id="footnote78" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">provoked</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">believeth all things, hopeth all things, <b>endureth all things.</b></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.46" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="46" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">46</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, <b>ye are nothing,</b> for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">for all things must fail—</span></b></span></div><p></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.47" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="47" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">47</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">a</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=47a&lang=eng" id="footnote79" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">charity</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is the pure </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=47b&lang=eng" id="footnote80" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">love</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> of Christ, and it endureth</span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">c</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=47c&lang=eng" id="footnote81" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">forever</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="" uri="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.48" id="/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.48" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 16px/22px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; position: relative; display: block; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="48" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); position: absolute; text-decoration: none !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="verse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">48</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wherefore, my beloved brethren, </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">a</span></b></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=48a&lang=eng" id="footnote82" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">pray</span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love,</span></b> which he hath bestowed upon all who are true </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">b</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=48b&lang=eng" id="footnote83" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">followers</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">c</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=48c&lang=eng" id="footnote84" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">be</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be </span></span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: super; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">d</span></span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.41?lang=eng#" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=moro&chapterUri=7&noteID=48d&lang=eng" id="footnote85" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(72, 111, 174); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">purified</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> even as he is pure. Amen.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He could have written it across the sky. It wouldn't have been more clear.</span></span></div><p></p></div>.From Her.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16353055716653778981noreply@blogger.com0