Comments on: On the Sweetness of Mormon Life: One Face http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2006/06/on-the-sweetness-of-mormon-life-one-face/ Truth Will Prevail Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:57:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick Mason http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2006/06/on-the-sweetness-of-mormon-life-one-face/#comment-203453 Patrick Mason Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:11:02 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3226#comment-203453 I usually enjoyed nursery too (although I missed interacting with the adult members of the ward), but I especially enjoyed it because it ended after just under two hours. Mad props to all of you who do it for hours, days, weeks, months, and years on end. One of these days we'll have kids and I'll love it, but from here it looks pretty daunting. I usually enjoyed nursery too (although I missed interacting with the adult members of the ward), but I especially enjoyed it because it ended after just under two hours. Mad props to all of you who do it for hours, days, weeks, months, and years on end. One of these days we’ll have kids and I’ll love it, but from here it looks pretty daunting.

]]> By: annegb http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2006/06/on-the-sweetness-of-mormon-life-one-face/#comment-203450 annegb Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:53:35 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3226#comment-203450 I contemplate this topic of faces quite a lot, more so the older I get. I watch people carefully in church, knowing most of their history, and wondering what they're thinking. Sweet and terrible, indeed. I contemplate this topic of faces quite a lot, more so the older I get. I watch people carefully in church, knowing most of their history, and wondering what they’re thinking.

Sweet and terrible, indeed.

]]> By: Adam Greenwood http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2006/06/on-the-sweetness-of-mormon-life-one-face/#comment-203447 Adam Greenwood Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:26:25 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3226#comment-203447 Patrick, I appreciate the comparison you make to the endowment. It makes life richer, somehow, to think that we are all wearing our roles now and in time to come we'll strip them off and smile and catch-up with each other in the celestial room. You may appreciate a few prior posts in this series, especially the second one which is very like your counselor reading from a script: http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=2715 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=2657#more-2657 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3149 I do think you're cut out for fatherhood, but I have to admit that I loved my time in nursery, though it was mostly because Dave and Matt had got the thing ticking over smoothly like a tuned engine. Patrick,

I appreciate the comparison you make to the endowment. It makes life richer, somehow, to think that we are all wearing our roles now and in time to come we’ll strip them off and smile and catch-up with each other in the celestial room.

You may appreciate a few prior posts in this series, especially the second one which is very like your counselor reading from a script:

http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=2715

http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=2657#more-2657

http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3149

I do think you’re cut out for fatherhood, but I have to admit that I loved my time in nursery, though it was mostly because Dave and Matt had got the thing ticking over smoothly like a tuned engine.

]]> By: Jim F. http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2006/06/on-the-sweetness-of-mormon-life-one-face/#comment-203441 Jim F. Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:57:39 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3226#comment-203441 Poignant thoughts, Adam. Thank you. Poignant thoughts, Adam. Thank you.

]]> By: Patrick Mason http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2006/06/on-the-sweetness-of-mormon-life-one-face/#comment-203436 Patrick Mason Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:44:46 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3226#comment-203436 Stuff like this makes me want to be a father, Adam. It may help even overcome the six months that Melissa & I served in nursery right after we got married. I can't fully relate to the beautiful feelings of fatherhood, but I can say that I quite often have small observations about the people around me in church, such as you mention. I can't always articulate it as well as you have, but it is one of the things that keeps me not only coming back to but also enjoying church: -the handicapped boy whose father helps him pass the sacrament -the new convert brimming with excitement but sad and lonesome over his family's rejection of his newfound faith -the bishopric counselor who, after over a year on the job, still has to read a script when he is making announcements or sustaining people in new callings, because he is a man who lives with his hands and his heart, not his mouth The reason I love live endowments, despite the length, is that it gives me a more poignant feel of our human participation in sacred drama, and the fact that it is people just like you and me -- not just actors on a screen -- who are progressing toward godhood. Isn't this church -- and this mortal probation -- absolutely wonderful? (Thanks Adam) Stuff like this makes me want to be a father, Adam. It may help even overcome the six months that Melissa & I served in nursery right after we got married.

I can’t fully relate to the beautiful feelings of fatherhood, but I can say that I quite often have small observations about the people around me in church, such as you mention. I can’t always articulate it as well as you have, but it is one of the things that keeps me not only coming back to but also enjoying church:
-the handicapped boy whose father helps him pass the sacrament
-the new convert brimming with excitement but sad and lonesome over his family’s rejection of his newfound faith
-the bishopric counselor who, after over a year on the job, still has to read a script when he is making announcements or sustaining people in new callings, because he is a man who lives with his hands and his heart, not his mouth

The reason I love live endowments, despite the length, is that it gives me a more poignant feel of our human participation in sacred drama, and the fact that it is people just like you and me — not just actors on a screen — who are progressing toward godhood.

Isn’t this church — and this mortal probation — absolutely wonderful?

(Thanks Adam)

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