Preserved
Sitting, unmoved, useless
Glass bottles, shrouded in dust
Shrouded in warped time.
Deep within a memory,
Shadows dance on a wall,
But they make no sound.
And nothing can hide them,
only vapour of darkness.
Glass bottles, shrouded in dust
Shrouded in warped time.
Deep within a memory,
Shadows dance on a wall,
But they make no sound.
And nothing can hide them,
only vapour of darkness.
posted by HLR | September 12, 2010
4 Comments:
1 comment and 1 question from your Mormon profile:
comment: You probably want to fix this from your profile, " and that His church is on the church".
Question: Why did you go on a mission if you did not have a testimony, or believe in it, before you went?
Thanks for sharing what you did.
Thanks for letting me know about that typo.
In response to your question, I suppose my testimony before my mission was somewhat superficial (not necessarily a total lack of belief) besides the fact that I knew that I loved God and just wanted to do what He wanted me to. Is that considered a full testimony? I don't know. I believed in it all, in a way, but didn't really understand the importance and the eternal significance of it until I had a chance to go out and tell people about it myself. Am I making sense?
I don't want to say that I went just because there is so much pressure on all young men to go on missions. There may have been an element in that in going, but I assure you, the main driving force was my love for the Savior. I was still scared, and part of me, I'll be completely honest, wanted to stay home. Yet I knew that if I went, however hard it would be, my testimony would be strengthened, I would have grand experiences that I would treasure for the rest of my life, and that somehow or another, God would bless me throughout my life.
Maybe the right thing to say would be "my testimony was weak" before my mission, compared to what I gained in the mission field.
Sorry I went off there, but I hope that all makes sense.
Yeah, I kind of guessed that was the case because I'm LDS, but in trying to read it from the perspective of a non-LDS person, I saw it as something that could give false impressions about you and other missionaries. I like how you put it in your response.
I don't spend my time reading and critiquing profiles. I just bumped into LDS profiles and read a couple to see what was out there for people. I think I picked yours because you had a 'normal guy' picture and I saw that you went to the same mission as I did, albeit a while after me. I think it's great that you took the time to write. Yours is done well. I should probably do it too sometime.
BTW the typo is still there...eh, who cares. Good luck in school.
Yeah it is, and I have no idea how to fix it. Heh heh.
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