Poem 1

Though The Window

Inside it is dark
And it is cold.

The people gather closely around the empty fire
Yet they say there is

I stand at the window
I am surrounded with light
And warmth

Out here the sun shines down
Chasing away the bitterness of the night

I talk often to them
Most days about nothing
Other days I venture to ask the question
Why do you stay in the dark?
In the cold?

They then say that it is not dark
It is not cold
And ask me why I do not come in
Why I stay away form the warmth of their imaginary fire?

The truth is they don’t like it when I come inside
When I come in they are uncomfortable
They feel as thought something is wrong

They feel what warmth really is
They see what light really is
But they can not comprehend it

They know like
It is the darkness they live in

They know warmth
It is what comes from their imaginary fire

Light and warmth being
What they don’t know it to be
Is inconceivable

So they only let me at the window
Always on the outside

For I refuse to give up the light and warmth I have
And exchange it for the darkness and cold that they live in

Burning

Mormonism is based on a emotional high. a Burning in the bussom. And over and over again i have been told by well meaning family members and missionaries to pray and ask, like james says to ask without being double minded.

I always hate it when i hear this. because one it assumes that everyone must have the exact same kind of emotional reaction, and this is the basis, the foundation of the average LDS. and two because it tells people that they don't have enough or the right kind of faith when they get a different answer.

this is like when Job's friends told him that he must have done something wrong or he wouldn't have been suffering. or like telling some one with cancer of Diabeties that if they just have faith God will heal them. so when they die it means they did not have enough faith to be healed.

any I lost count of the multiple times i have been told pray and God will tell you it is true. I have I truly wanted to know that if mormonism was the turth. I thirst for truth, but when i go to the author of turth he tells me the same thing over and over again, "this is not of me."

and when i tell this to the missionary or my multiple relatives they simply say i must have had in my mind the answeri wanted to hear. And that hurts, questions my sinsarity and my intergrity.

He ascended into heaven

Now although Mormons do believe that Jesus ascended into heaven eventually. First he made a trip over to the Americas to talk to the Jews who were there. And there of course would be where the book of Mormon comes into play

The third day He arose again from the dead.

This point is another easy one. Mormons agree that he rose from the grave and met with the disciples. Their belief simply adds that after Jesus spent time with his disciples he went to the Americas and had a similar ministry over there with the people there.

Whether or not this happened historically is not the point of this series and will be addressed in another blog.