Tom Obenchain – Meridian Magazine: Recent Episodes
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I grew up thinking that repentance was an emergency brake. Now, I
know it is really the steering wheel. I literally cannot move forward without
carefully using it every day.
For many years, a daily practice of repentance never quite made
sense. It was a mystery to me. Why would I need to repent each day if
repentance was for emergencies? I remember thinking that if I needed daily
repentance, I should reconsider my lifestyle and that instead of repenting
daily I should consider not sinning daily to an extent that required
repentance.
If sin is the only thing we use repentance for, this thinking
might be adequate. If, for now, we define sin as one of the big seven: lust,
gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride; we can fit most of our mistakes
into one of these categories. Daily …
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I grew up believing in God and trying to be obedient to His commandments. As I struggled through the circumstances of life I eventually realized that I was missing something important—the constant feeling that God loves me. There is a critical difference between the intellectual idea that God loves me and the deeper emotional knowing that comes when I feel His love.
When I was young, I went to church. My parents were good people who lived according to the gospel. They taught my sisters and I to love the Lord by their example and by the way they spoke to God when we prayed as a family. I felt secure as a child in my parents’ faith.
I remember the day I prayed to know for myself that God was really there. I felt a gentle, loving confirmation that He …
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There are days when I open the scriptures and just read. It feels good to have the words of the scriptures just flow through my mind. Some days I listen to the Book of Mormon or a conference talk on my smartphone while driving or walking the dog. My favorite time with the scriptures comes, though, when I dig deeper: cross-referencing, writing notes, chasing down topic references. In the past, I didn’t dig deep as often as I simply read, that is until I discovered some high-tech tools that made going deeper easier.
Reading is as easy as opening a book or pressing play on my device’s screen. Before tablets and smartphones, however, deeper study meant clearing the kitchen table. I needed room to spread out my triple combination and Bible. I had a dictionary that I …
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