Little Miracles

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I am involved in a few different organizations, the Church being the main one. In each, membership and activity are dwindling. We question in each group why this is so. Personally, I feel the reason is that our world in commotion is beating people so far down that they just want to spend their “free” time at home, safe and sound, with their doors locked, with their family or TV or game console, emerging only to earn an ever increasing difficult-to-pay-for living, or to accomplish modern day chores. 

To me, success in any endeavor comes down to choice and decision. I can choose to engage or to disengage. By choosing to engage, I make decisions necessary to make such engagement effective and fulfilling. Regarding my Church participation, I choose to be active. I pondered my Church engagement as I watched our recent General Conference. Why in a world working so hard to convince humans that God is dead and humans are gods do I continue to participate? Because I choose to believe. 

I choose to make covenants, to be a member, to fulfill callings, to serve because I choose to live my life as a human being who patterns my life after the mortal life Jesus Christ lived. Patterned after who He really is, not like who people think He is with their misguided interpretations of His life and character. I also am naive enough to think that if enough people lived this way, our world would be the best place, not just a “better” place. 

I also choose to be concerned with what’s in store for us after this mortal life ends. I am certainly interested in history and how science attempts to explain the universe. But those fields of study do not adequately answer the most pressing humankind questions: Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? 

I also recognize the worldly conflicts posed by living the Gospel. In response I choose to stick with the fundamentals, the Doctrine of Christ: Faith, repentance, baptism, Gift of the Holy Ghost, endure to the end. That I can do, regardless of what the world dictates. The rest will eventually be sorted out.

What does all this have to do with publishing a small local LDS-focused magazine? Both burn the same fuel: Faith. Little miracles keep each issue printed and in your hands. These little miracles show me that faith in what I do to publish this thing allows me to continue to choose to believe in the magazine. And for that I am grateful. Thank you for reading!

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