General Conference Sunday Morning Session April 2016

Part 3 of 4

President Monson
Small choices make big changes.
Choose the harder right over the easier wrong.

Bonnie L Oscarson
You may know it, but do you believe it? Knowledge and belief are two different things. Strive for belief.
Do we become so accustom to the blessings we get that we forget what it takes to get those blessing? This is how the pride cycle starts. People focus on all the sideline good things like the lifestyle, the culture, and the like of the church but overlook their own salvation and thus fall.
To believe we need to get the gospel form our heads into our hearts.

W. Christopher Waddell
Sometimes it's just hard for me to think about Jesus! Pain and sorrow is unavoidable. But our ability to face those trials with faith is what counts. Peace of mind is not avoiding the storms but in enduring them. Learn, Listen, Walk. Gain the information you need, Take it into your life (see believe vs knowledge above), ACT on what you know.
The peace we seek requires more than desire, it requires action. If you want peace you need to DO something.

D. Todd Christoferson
Fathers are unique and irreplaceable. Fatherhood is not merely supplementary to Motherhood, they are equal.
Prepare now for fatherhood, (assuming you're, y'know, a dude)

Quinten L Cook
See yourself in the temple. Get a goal to go there. For me the temple is a special place of meditation, where I can make sense of the world, or rather were I can step back from the world and understand it.

Dieter F Uchtdoft
If mad can rebuild a city then God can rebuild us. Healing can happen. Healing DOES happen. "There is no life so shattered that it cannot be restored". We don't need to know all things to be saved. We only need to be loved by Christ and have faith enough to follow him.
But nobody will be forced into heaven. If we want it, we can get it. If you cannot muster faith, you can hope. Start from where you are.
Obedience is not a popular word these days, but it is needed in the Gospel. It is the life blood of faith.
Obedience is a means to an end. It unleashes the true, divine, powerful version of yourself.

Easter Saturday

          I said I'd be back so here I am! Saturday post!

          No! Come on, get back here!

          It'll be short, I promise.


          In thinking on what to share for today I realized that the Saturday after the Crucifixion was probably the second most uneventful day recorded in scripture. (The first was when back in Genesis when God took the day off ). At least it would have appeared so from the perspective of the early Christians. On this day all the action happened behind the scenes, and the followers of Christ were left to just think.
          Why did he do that? Simple. Because boy-oh-boy did those people have a lot to think about. Their leader who they believed to be the Son of God, who preformed many miracles right in front of them, who time and again escaped death had just been killed. They were feeling lost and confused and sad and probably a million other emotions that I will never know. So they were given time and space to feel those things.
          Sometimes people get the misconception that we need to suppress our feeling in order to master them. This makes our feelings far more complicated than they need to be. It makes our emotions out to be invaders or conquerors who want to take over and make us do all sorts of things. This is false. Feeling only want one thing; to be felt. Let them do that and they will pass. They may be strong feelings and long lasting ones, but they will pass. So much suffering is caused from people refusing to accept how they feel. Accept how you feel and you can realized why you feel that way. Once you realize the origin of those feelings you can then act on them.
          So for today I would like to challenge you to slowdown for a second and just process your life, your feelings, who you really are. Then you can figure out where you're going.

Namaste, y'all,
Michael

General Conferance Sunday Morning 2015

Sunday Morning Session thoughts. Heeeeerrrrrreeeeeeee we go!

President Monson

"Let your light so shine"

Be an example. Live you life in to the best of your abilities. This doesn't mean to be perfect just to follow Christ.
"Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other." You cannot serve two masters. Usually we understand that to mean that you cannot serve God and Greed, but it has many other applications. You cannot seek happiness and misery. Faith is light and doubt is darkness. in order for one to exist, the other must be removed.
Stand out, be different, receive light.

Rasband
"Love, Love, Love l-l-love, makes the world go 'round"

"The Lord has said ‘love one another as I have loved you’. I am confident there is no mistake you could make…that would cause him to stop loving you."  Christ's love is unattached love. It is not dependent on our actions. It's like the Sunshine. Though we can hide from it we cannot ever extinguish it. It contiunes reaching for us intently and purposfully.

"We are to reach out to our fellowman in love to invite, persuade, serve, and to rescue. … Jesus Christ looked past people’s rank, ethnicity and circumstances in order to teach them profound truth." Our love for others should relfect the unattached love of Christ. Love without stings attached.

Stevenson

"Anchor"

"Anchor yourselves in the gospel of Jesus Christ" Once again, we need some sort of grounding or center which we can use to find balance in life. Balance will facilitate our happiness.

Dale G. Renlund
"What's up, doc?"

Avoid emotional distance. We are here to feel. Feelings are meant to be felt, don't suppress or ignore them. they are part of you as much as you hands and feet (apologies to any readers without those). Love others and be filled with the pure love of Christ. "We cannot mourn with those that mourn or comfort those that stand in need of comfort unless we see them through Heavenly Father’s eyes."

Russle M. Nelson
"All the Mormon Ladies, All the Mormon Ladies"

The women of the church are needed to help build up the church. Men and women are different in many important and necessary ways. Women are necessary to the church

Gregory A. Schwitzer
"Play us a song Piano man"

True disciples don't make excuses for the gospel. They testify and stand by it. It is often not convenient or comfortable to stand up for Christ.
"One man or woman who is willing to testify when the world is going in the opposite direction can make a difference."

Claudio R. M. Costa
"There's always that one that makes getting a clever quote and picture difficult."

"The sacrament is a time for our Heavenly Father to teach us about the Atonement of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, and for us to receive revelation about it." Meditate on the sacrament prayer. It is not repeated each week just for kicks and giggles. It is something we need to think about each week. Meditate during sacrament. Be mindful during the Sabbath.

Henry B. Eyering
"Just DO IT!"

Having the spirit to be with us always lets us recognize truth. Act on promptings. “When you demonstrate your willingness to obey, the Spirit will send you more impressions of what God would have you do.”

General Conference Saturday Afternoon Oct 2015

Second sesh.
Let's do this.

Hales
"Hey Dieter, let's switch talks"

Remember that we live in the real world. Look out for debt. Apply gospel principles practically. Have a plan and be in control. We are meant to act rather than be acted upon. "You’re a pilot, and you’re in charge."

"If you want more than what you now have, reach up, not across." Though we are meant to help each other, true help can only come from above.

Holland
"Mama! OoooOOOooohh!"

The Divinity and importance of Mothers. It seems to be given to the entire church (rather than just to the women) to combat the worldly view of mothers as essentially the same as men with minor differences in plumbing. Motherhood is a creative act and is close to Godhood.

Bradly Foster
"Preaching to the (children's) choir"

So, he said he was speaking to the children but he seems to be speaking to their parents. “Our children learn when they’re ready to learn, not when we're ready to teach them.” Children are smarter than we tend to think they are.

Hugo Montoya
"Smile, smile, smile"

"Please smile, your smile will help others." We're in this life together, we can believe that we should share each other's burdens but what about sharing each other's joys?
Meditate on the great and wonderful love of the Redeemer. Meditate on the sacrament weekly. It's a structured opportunity to meditate for a set time and with a set purpose

Vern Stanfill

"I want to ride my bicycle"

We can't avoid all the darkness of the world but we can move towards the light of the Gospel and trust in the light of others.

James B. Martino
"I can't think of a clever quote so have a dog meme"

God does not answer prayers merely to satiate curiosity. You get out what you put in. This is the law of the harvest. The sons of Mosiah had similar experience to Laman and Lemuel but those good ol' Mosiah boys invested more into their faith and as a result, got more out of it. "Work without faith is dead."

Dallin H. Oaks
"We're all going to die and that's okay."

"The Savior experienced the pains, sicknesses, and infirmities of His people." Christ knows our pains because he bore them. Sometimes infirmities are removed other times we are strengthened to withstand them. "Sometimes [Christ] succors, or helps, by giving us the strength to endure our infirmities."

General Conference Saturday Morning Oct 2015

For what it's worth here's some of my thoughts and impressions on the talks in the first session of Conference. You should know, though, I worked the night shift last night so I'm running on maybe four hours of sleep. 

Uchtdorft

"Simplify."

The path to happiness is to simplify. This goes with the idea of being unattached or un-shenpa'd. While there a lot of good things in the Church and in the world that can benefit one's spirituality and place you on the path to happiness remember that they are only sign posts, to the destination, not the destination itself.

Ballard

"On the Good Ship Lollipop Zion"

I liked how he referred to the church as a vessel, a ship, a vehicle. I often hear people say that the church is not true because they espoused doctrine X or theory Y. This, in my opinion comes from a misunderstanding of what the phrase "The Church is true" means. I take the word 'true' here to be used in the same way that one could say that a compass and map are true. They are true because they will get you where you want to go. A map does not need to have every rock and funny looking tree marked nor does it need to be exactly to scale, provided that it will get you where you want to go. As long as it does that, all else is unimportant.

Richard J. Maynes

"Let's get down to business, to defeat the Huns"

We must have something to ground ourselves on, a Center. "Once you find your center/ you are sure to win"
Our core, the center of our lives, must be Jesus Christ and His gospel. To do this is to live after the manner of happiness.

Neill F. Marriott

"I'm from the deep south"

"When we are yeilded and still our minds can be directed to where we need to change." That may not be an exact quote but it is important to know what leads you forward and what leads you back ”Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.” – Buddha
When we offer our broken heart to Christ He ACCEPTS our offering.
Your resentment diminishes your progress and damages your ability to have healthy relationships.

Larry R. Lawrence

"Forgive me Father for I have sped"

The Holy Ghost eternally challenges us to be better and strive higher.
"What is keeping me from progressing? In other words, “what lack I yet?”" Once again "Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."

Francisco J. Viñas

"I can't think of a clever quote."

To re-quote and misquote Buddha again, "Repentance leads to happiness, Lack of repentance leads to lack of happiness."
"Repentance is a process, and not something that happens in one particular moment."
"Having the companionship of the Spirit will make us better people. It will whisper peace and joy to our souls."
"The pleasing word of God … brings comfort and hope."

Know where happiness come from and go there.

Quentin L Cook

"#spirituallyswole"

"We must determine to be temple worthy regardless of what befalls us." Do not let your worthiness be worthiness with stings attached
Self control is like a muscle. If you work out you get ripped Bro. Like,  Nephi ripped....Bro.

Meditations on the Church's Easter Message

I would like to apologize right now for not keeping up the blog content. The truth is I've just had trouble thinking of something interesting to write about. I'll be honest, I couldn't think of anything.





So, um...yeah, I guess that's it, you can all go home now.






Or I could give you my thoughts on the Church's Easter video this year.
Yeah, that second one. Let's do the second one. Let's do that thing.

For those of you who haven't seen it here's a link and another one to the Youtube version.
I'll be honest with you (again), this thing had me bawling worse then when Zayn left One Direction

"Too soon?"

Okay, I'll be serious now, because there was some really good stuff in this thing.
It starts out like you'd expect it to, nice music, talking about Jesus, all good stuff. But what turned the faucets on for me was around the 1:22 mark. It says "He is here/ During the good/ the bad/ the in-between" What really got me was that 'in-between bit where it shows a woman causally eating ice cream straight from the carton. 

"I can relate to this."

But I found it very insightful. Much of life is neither good or bad. It is very much in-between. Yes, Christ is there in the dark moments when we need him the most and he is with us in the high moments of our lives, but we don't really talk about him being with us in the rest of our lives. The times when you're just siting improperly in a chair in a dimly lit room eating ice cream straight from the carton because it's just been that kind of day. You know those moments, when everything is just...blah. It's in those moments that I think it's hardest for us to accept Christ. When we're not on some spiritual high, but far from our darkest most desperate moments. He cares about us even in those moments. That is a beautiful thought to me.

My second rain of tears (note to self: copyright "Rain of Tears" for band name/video game/special finishing move) came around the 1:34 mark. "He is here/ no matter who you are/ or who you were/ no exceptions/ no lost causes"
This got me thinking about outer darkness. I've always understood that in order to be sent to outer darkness a person needs to have a perfect testimony of Christ and then completely deny him. Because of the veil most of us will never reach the level of having a perfect testimony of Christ. I also believe that a huge majority of humanity will make it into the Celestial Kingdom. Christ does not give up on people. He is not a quitter. Think about it, He walked on water because his friends were about to give up. He toughed out basic laws of physics, just because His buddies were having a hard time. He will give us every chance possible to make it back home with God. He puts a lot of work into each and every one of us and He is not about to let that go to waste.

The video ends with #BecauseHeLives and encourages us to share. So here's my thing.
#BecauseHeLives a little weirdo like me who is chronically sarcastic can find peace and beauty in the mundane monotony of everyday life and function as a semi-normal human.

Namaste y'all
Michael

Love-dovey

I've been thinking a lot about what to write about this week. I wondered if I should write about current events in the Mormon world, but I figured that I don't have enough followers who are worried about Brother Dehlin to justify that. I also thought about geeking out about the meditative prowess of Enos, but I figured I would save that for later.
Finally I decided to talk a little about a certain holiday coming up real soon...that's right, National Flag Day (Canada)!  Valentines Day!
Or rather, I want to talk on the theme of love..kind of...just bear with me for a while.

Yep, I went there. I'm sorry I'm not sorry.

Now, I'm kind of a quiet, reserved person. Actually I'm a very quiet and reserved person. And I can definitely support what they say, it's always the quiet one you need to worry about. But not because we'll go postal on everyone. It's because quiet people tend to notice a lot more than you think.
So, here's a few things I've noticed.
1. Nobody sits quietly and listens to the prelude music at sacrament meeting. Everyone talks during the prelude music. That's just sad to me. Especially in my current ward, we have some extremely talented people who play glorious and uplifting music before the meeting. It's tragic to me to think that while they could be cleansing their minds and souls in preparation to commune with their Savior they instead choose to talk about the latest episode of The Bachelor. Don't get me wrong, though, I get it. People are social and like to talk with each other. It's entirely healthy and normal. There are also quite a few conversations at that time that are important and entirely appropriate. But far too often the chatter becomes a noisy din of gibberish that becomes so loud on can't even hear themselves think. I'm sure everyone would agree with me when I say that nobody should ever be denied the the ability to think, especially in a church. I get a little upset with this not only because of how important it is that we sit and meditate before the sacrament, but also because this is such an easy problem to fix. If you want to talk with friends, arrive a few minutes earlier and talk in the foyer, or hold off on talking to them for an hour, or perhaps just lower your voice to a whisper. Watch yourself and what you do in the minutes leading up to sacrament meeting and you will see who you love more, the Savior or your friends.
2. People don't talk to people they don't really know. I often hear stories about how friendly our churches are. How everyone is so warm and friendly. I honestly can't say that I ever experienced that. I suppose it's because people see me and, knowing that I tend to keep to myself, assume that I prefer it that way and leave me alone. At times I do want to just be with my thoughts, but other times I desperately want somebody to just talk to me. I would just like to point out to anybody reading this that the people who need to see kindness the most will never say so. Speaking for myself, I've worked though many problems on my own and often approach my problems with the mentality that this is something I will have to deal with on my own. I wish I didn't have to think like that, I wish there was another option, I wish that some outgoing soul who can hear the Spirit's voice would just give me a little encouragement. I don't know how many others find themselves in a similar situation and I shudder to think how many of those have had their faith and hope crushed under burdens that could have been lightened. Being alone has made me stronger and taught me to rely on Christ and the Spirit for support, but still, I wish that just one person who is willing to cheer me on.

I think the main problem is that we don't really think about why we do or don't do the things we do. But we really need to. God filled our heads with think meat for us to use it. So I would encourage you to take the time in your meditations to think about how you show your love and who you show your love to.

Now, if you made it all the way to the bottom of the post here, congratulations! You're reward is...a small sense of accomplishment. Also you get to read about the site's new E-mail address segolotus@gmail.com. If you have any questions, concerns, ideas for future topics, fiery rebukes, watery rebukes, etc. send them there. or use the new thing-a-majig on the side of the page.
Namaste y'all
Michael

Put on the Chakras of God

Recently I tried a chakra meditation. Chakras, for those of you not in the know are positions on the body where, according to certain ancient meditative practices, energy pools and converges. Each school has a different idea of where these chakras are and what the represent. The guided meditation I used seemed to agree with this school. The meditation was very good and I thoroughly enjoyed it, but there were a few things that I didn't like. Namely, it wasn't Mormon enough.

Close, but not really.

So, I thought I'd restructure the chakras into something use Mormons are familiar with. The closest parallel I could find was the Armor of God (Ephesians 6:11-17). So, here's my restructuring.

First there are about 7 chakras.

1. Crown. Located on the top of the head and deals with understanding.
2. Third eye. Located between the eyes. Deals with perception and intuition.
3. Throat. (Gee I wonder were that one is). Associated with communication.
4. Heart. Located in the center of the chest. Focuses on love and compassion.
5. Solar Plexus. Located behind the belly button. deals with power and will.
6. Sacral. located in the middle of the hips. Focuses on sexual desire, pleasure, and procreation.
7. Root. Located at the tip of the tailbone. Deals with basic survival desires (food, shelter, security).

With the Armor of God there are six parts.

1. Helmet of Salvation
2. Breastplate of Righteousness
3. Sword of Truth
4. Shield of Faith
5. Belt of Truth (loins girded)
6. Feet shod with Peace

Now to compile the two. 

• The Helmet of Salvation absorbs the Crown and 3rd eye chakras and encompasses the entire head. It focuses on what we think and know and our perceptions of the world. We should make sure that our thoughts and perceptions are in harmony with the concept of salvation. Not only knowing what needs to be done to achieve salvation, but also to see the world around you as something worth saving.
• The Breastplate of Righteousness replaces the Solar Plexus chakra and covers the torso down to the hips. While the Solar Plexus chakra focuses on merely acting and doing, the Breastplate focuses on acting and doing righteously. 
• The Sword of Truth takes the place of the throat chakra and is moves to your dominant hand (if you're ambidextrous just pick one and stick with it). The sword is the only thing here that is intended to extend, just as our words extend to others. We must speak truth and dispel lies. 
• The Shield of Faith takes the place of the Heart chakra and is placed in the unused hand. Faith is at times, the only defense we have against certain attacks. This is essentially our testimony. What we know through the spirit. 
• The Belt of Truth replaces the Sacral chakra. It covers the hips and groin area. It still focuses on sexual desire, pleasure, and procreation but with a noticeable change; it focuses on the truth about sexual desire and the like. Satan has spared no expesnse at confusing and spreading lies about sex and desire. The best defence for this is to learn the truth about those things and to use the power and engery of those desires responsibly and properly. 
• Finally the Boots of Gospel Peace. This replaces the Root chakra and is located in the feet and lower leg. The feet are our foundation and represent our most basic goals. This is like the rock the wise man built on. We must focus our goals and foundation on the Gospel.

Here's a suggested cleansing meditation using the Armors.

As always, find a comfortable place to sit or lie down where you can be undisturbed and you won't fall asleep. Close your eyes (if you want) and start breathing.

First get into a meditative state with a few deep, relaxing breaths. As you breath imagine that you are breathing in clean, pure air and breathing out any negativity and uncleanliness. In breaths are accepting the Atonement into your life and out breaths are Christ pulling impurities from you.

Next pick any of the six Armors to start with. You can start with where you need the most help or where you need the least help. You can also just start at the top and go to the bottom or vise-versa. It's up to you. Once you know which Armor you will start with focus on that area. As you breath, think about why you need that armor and how you have used it in the past. Imagine that the pure cleansing air you breath in goes straight to that area and as you breath out any flaws or dents or scuffs on your armor are pulled away and bit by bit the armor becomes stronger and more polished. 

Continue polishing your armor until you are satisfied and then move on to the next one. Once you have gone though all the Armors take a few more deep cleansing breaths, imagining that the purity travels throughout your whole body and breath out any negativity and uncleanliness. Gently open you eyes  and come out of the meditative state.

So, there's my thoughts for the day. But I still don't know what to call this thing, maybe the Armors meditations? Any suggestions?

Namaste, y'all,
Michael

Thoughts on Anchor Meditation

A while back  wrote on different ways to meditate, but due to space I couldn't write all I wanted, so here's a little more in depth look at what I call Anchor Meditation.

Fig. 1: My topic

As I mentioned before, Anchor Meditation is a basic meditation. If you ever find difficulty with other forms of meditation you may just need to work on Anchoring your self.

The main goal of Anchoring is to train and sharpen your focus. All it requires is to pick one repetitive thing focus on that. I already wrote on how to do this meditation, so today I'll focus on the effects of it.

Anxiety sucks. Being anxious is worse that just being stressed. It's stressing about being stressed. What happens when we experience anxiety is this; first we encounter the thing that causes stress and our bodies react by increasing the heart rate, breathing faster, tensing muscles, and so on. The problem of anxiety occurs when our brains don't make the connection that the external stressor is the cause of the physical response. The subconscious mind notices that the body is freaking out and, not knowing what it's suppose to be freaking out about, sends the message to the conscious mind telling it to find something to freak out about. So your brain looks for something to freak out about and find it, but it knows that that's not the thing that the body was originally freaking out about and so it starts freaking out about being wrong. The body sees the mind freaking out an it doesn't know why so it goes back to freaking out some more with the high heart rate, faster breathing, tense muscles, etc. Basically this devolves into an Abbot and Costello routine.

"Only instead of baseball, its a mortgage, which is considerably less hilarious."

Basic Anchor Meditation allows you to focus on and deliberately slow your breathing. This lowers your heart rate and allows muscles to relax. The physical reaction signals to the mind that it's okay to relax a little. The mind stops looking for things to stress out about and begins to look for things to enjoy and ways to relax.

As you force yourself to relax a remarkable thing starts to happen; your brain learns to relax. It actually begins to rewrite itself to be better at relaxing than stressing. When the brain engages in an activity over and over again, such as stressing about things or relaxing, it assumes that it will have to do this again in the future so the brain, hoping to be lazy in the future, tries to make it easier to perform that action. Each time the action is performed the brain finds a new short cut until eventually you find yourself doing the action without even thinking about it. You may have noticed this phenomenon each time you drive home from work. You step out of the office and next thing you know you're at home, wondering how many red lights you ran. Doesn't that make your brain just the coolest of all organs?

Fig 2: The Fonzie of internal organs.

Constant meditation takes advantage of this unique trait of the brain. Each time we react to stress in a calm manner we increase our ability to remain calm in stressful situations. But there is a down side to meditation.

It only works if you do it.

Seems obvious right? If you stop trying to relax and anchor yourself your brain will think it's not important to relax and will start duping all that stuff. The brain is a muscle and like any muscle it will atrophy if you let it.

So, here's an exercise that I hope ya'll will do with me. Each day for just a minute do an anchor meditation. Focus on your breathing or maybe a piece of classical music. Just pick something to be fully aware of for one whole minute. After you do that, come back here and share your experiences in the comments. Leave any tips you have for others (Like avoid doing this when you're way sleepy).

Namaste, y'all,
Michael

Boring, Explanatory, Maiden Voyage Post GO!

I've been intending to start a blog like this for a while now. I had so many excuses, but I guess I finally caved. So since this is the first post I suppose I'll try and explain what I hope to accomplish with this. Of course, to do that I'll have to explain a little about myself.

Boring, explanatory, maiden voyage post GO!

My name is Michael. I was raised as a member of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and still am a member. Back in 2012 I attended (and, as of 2014 still am attending) Brigham Young University-Idaho. I've always had a fascination with the various religions and cultures of the world, so when I found that they offered a world religion course here I pounced n it. It was my great fortune that the class I enrolled in was taught by one Gary Purse. Brother Purse had had a unique practice of beginning each of his classes with a moment of meditation, which he justified and helping us learn about Buddhist and Hindu practices as well as improve spirituality in our own faith. To put is simply I got hooked on meditation and mindfulness.

Since that time I have attended Brother Purse's meditation workshop as often as I can and have found this practice of mindfulness and meditation to be remarkably compatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I guess that brings me to what I'm trying to do with this blog. I believe that the Church's doctrine and practices point us to mindfulness and encourage the art of meditation. However, I find that my fellow Mormons do not have a culture of meditation or are wholly ignorant of how and why to meditate. I hope that with this blog I can, in some small way perhaps, encourage meditation among Mormons.

So, here's what you can (and can't) expect from this blog.

What you can expect:

• Discussions on the mechanics and 'how to's of meditation.
• Commentary on doctrines and statements of Church authorities in regards to mindfulness and meditation.
• Insights and observations from me.
• My opinions, for which I alone am entirely responsible.
• Assertions that Meditation helps all humanity (including Latter-day Saints).
• Assertions that we would all be better off using the Deseret Alphabet. Because it's my blog and I do what I want, yo.

What you can't expect:

• Politics.
• Me agreeing with you.
• You agreeing with me.
• The Spanish Inquisition.

So that's what you'll get here at the Meditative Mormon.

Expect a post soon where I discuss mindfulness principles that popped up during General Conference.

Namaste, y'all.