{"id":1928,"date":"2005-02-03T18:38:11","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2005-02-03T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T23:38:11","slug":"remember-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/02\/remember-the-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alma has a great description of repentance.  <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptures.lds.org\/alma\/36\/19#19\">He writes<\/a>:  <em>And now, behold, when I [repented], I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>Is this a good thing?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start by noting that I&#8217;ve felt like Alma, myself, at various times.  I&#8217;ve done things I shouldn&#8217;t have, and I&#8217;ve repented &#8212; which has always been an incredibly painful, difficult process &#8212; and come out feeling a whole lot better.  <\/p>\n<p>The problem is that with the pain of sin forgotten, I sometimes go and make the same mistakes again.  And that makes me reflect on the whole process.  Given my own weaknesses and tendency to go back to bad habits, I sometimes think that I would do better in the long run if I were better at remembering the pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alma has a great description of repentance. He writes: And now, behold, when I [repented], I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more. Is this a good thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}