Don't let yourselves be diverted from your Mission

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 you, there is not some one prescribed method to discovering it outside of your desires to learn of it expressed through prayer and then following impressions that you get from the spiritual "back-channel". As you learn to hear and then follow inspiration, you will be led (through something like the Psychic Proximity Principle's "weak magnetism") to your life's mission.

I believe that most of what we call "mental health problems" are tied to essentially being "off-mission", either through having been distracted from it or simply not trying to discover it  People who seem to have their "sh** together" are usually at least on the path toward their mission if not already working it. 

In the https://www.exalts.net simulation, one might get the impression that life is just a pile of good choices made and rewarded, but I can't figure out a way to decently simulate the work of finding your personal mission in life. God knows what it is and will lead you to it through spiritual impressions, but I can't program that! You have to do that work for yourself!

A string of good choices determine our future

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.

Embracing the Constitutional "Burdens of the Past"

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. My fear is that these are noting but hollow words, most likely to be filled by shadowy forces that want to use the presidency and our nation as bubble-headed prostitutes for private and sinister purposes. Perhaps for nothing more than expanding the fabulous wealth of certain persons or groups.

I much prefer the constitutional principles that apparently "burden our past".  I want a very constrained government that fulfills its constitutional duties and cannot do anything else, even if the majority of the people clamor for it. If this is burdensome to some, I am happy to see such people thwarted. I thank God everyday that we don't have a "pure" democracy and the rule of the mob that is easily bought off with trinkets and flattery. We have a constitutional republic designed to protect rights rather than granting political favors and buying votes.