A Curious Instrument

The whole purpose of life is to see if we will let ourselves be diverted from a path toward exaltation. As an example, the temptations of Christ during his fast in the wilderness were done by Satan to try to divert Christ from his mission. Jesus is our example of not being diverted from our mission. You have to know your mission. Generally, this is to pursue exaltation through getting and keeping covenants. Beyond this, we often have individual missions tied to family, place, or circumstance. One very large reason to cultivate a personal relationship with the heavens is to determine your individual mission in life and to pursue it rigorously. This mission pursuit was a larger feature of a religious life in the past that needs reviving. This effort requires an active connection with the Father in prayer and cultivating the 'back-channel' of listening to the Spirit to get needed inspiration toward fulfilling your individual mission. Because your individual mission is unique to yo...

My simulation project at https://www.exalts.net has just gone live. I can't say I really strongly designed and planned it out based on some higher ideals, but it certainly worked out that way.  As one moves through the simulation, it is the collected consequences of rather small choices along the way that determines one's ultimate score, which can be looked at as a destination. I think living our lives as if each choice make up our eternal reward is something that God reveals to us. Even if we realize this later in life, our choices going forward can overcome bad decisions in our past, effectively allowing us to 'repent' and change for the better. We really do decide what we will ultimately become through every step we take and every choice we make. Although I present this as part of a simulation, I have assurance that God respects our choices and more-so desires that we make better choices.

It is disheartening to see the democratic candidate for the US presidency rising through pandering, guile, and a lack of anything approaching proper governance, ready to prostitute herself and the highest office in the strongest country in the world to the highest bidder. From her tagline 'What can be, unburdened by what has been’, it is hard to see what exactly she means and what precisely she stands for. When I think of 'what has been', I see an America founded on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with a constrained federal government and enshrined personal liberties, both in abandoned and cherished. I don't know if this is what Mrs. Harris means in that phrase, but I hope we can get some clarification very soon, as I cannot support someone who may see our founding principles as so much baggage to be 'unburdened' by. Similarly, it would be useful to know the vice-president's clear vision of 'what can be' once the burdensome past is jettisoned...