http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/10/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/ A Mormon Blog Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:31:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/10/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83361 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:44:05 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83361 Thank you Sam. I have been pondering this post for the last couple of days and appreciate your beautifully written insights.

]]> http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/10/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83360 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:49:10 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83360 The reason that Christ is a baby, the reason he is the lamb, is tied up with youthful innocence. The earth is six billion years old, but spring is always achingly brand new. Innocence doesn’t have to mean ignorance. Christ’s innocence, his idealism, his springtime, is forever.

]]> http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/10/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83359 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:53:02 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83359 I have driven through Helena, Montana nearly 100 times in my 75 years on earth and I have wondered about Mt. Helena many times. In fact, the whole area north and south of Helena have always been beautiful to me and bring back many fond memories of when I was very young and saw the Missouri river, its waters filled with fly fisherman, the pelicans soaring over the waters landing gentley on the flowing currents. Wolf Creek with its constantly winding roads, before the highway was expanded from a two lane road. I will always remember coming over the mountain pass that precedes Helena and seeing the city in the distance, so near and yet many miles away with its Capital building clearly in its skyline. Then as we passed through Helena and headed south to Butte, the amazing drive through the national forest and the constantly rising road climbing on and on and on until you would think you would never reach the top. The most amazing recolection however was along this same road in the middle of a winter night just past Christmas driving our student children down to Utah to BYU. As we passed down the road south of Helena the beauty of the homes brightly lit against the falling snow and the solitary splendor, I will never forget, nor do I want to. Thanks for the reminder about Montana and its many beauties and of times with my young family together in a Buick station wagon when a cold winter night seemed very beautiful.

]]> http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/10/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83358 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:17:21 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83358 Very nice, Sam. (Scripture Power was to my mind the highlight of the Primary Program in November, with the little kids doing their power salutes up on the stand.)

]]> http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/10/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83357 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:11:27 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83357 Wonderful, Sam. That childhood majesty is something I hope I can provide to my children as well.

]]> http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/10/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83356 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:29:53 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83356 Beautifully written, Sam MB. I agree very much with your sentiment. I currently read the weekly emails from my nephew who is on a mission in the UK and it is wonderful. In many ways I get to relive my own naive and enthusiastic missionary experience…and I am grateful for him.

]]> http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/10/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83355 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:40:32 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83355 Living now in the Mormon corridor, we are enjoying our children’s affection for a song called “Scripture Power” which features those blue soft-cover scriptures as amulets and a primal beat. That and their great affection for Jesus and Joseh Smit.

]]> http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/10/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83354 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:54:13 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83354 Superb.

]]> http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/10/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83353 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:39:14 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2006/12/an-adult%e2%80%99s-view-of-mormon-origins/#comment-83353 You have managed to creatively hit the nail on the head of an important decision my wife and I recently came to. We realized that, in spite of how different our perspective on so many important gospel- and church-related questions is from what we get in primary and sunday school manuals, we still want our kids to be brought up in the gospel the way we were–all the smoothing out, all the powerful myth, all the revision–because there is an indelible connection between our rich appreciation of our faith from an “adult” perspective and the idealistic vision that nurtured us as youths.

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