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Re: Right and Wrong [message #2128 is a reply to message #1412] Wed, 30 January 2013 01:09 Go to previous message
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Just came across this thread and can't help commenting. I've had quite the experience with a lot of these things mentioned here.

Pertaining to make up, I don't have a big problem giving up make up. I think I usually look fine without it. But my thing is my eyebrows. I used to have a "Bert" from Bert and Ernie unibrow. I feel so much more attractive if I just pluck my eye brows. But that causes a bit of spiritual conflict for me. I mean, aren't we promised that not a hair of our heads will be lost? I've always cringed at that scriptures. What if it's true!

It's my only problem with appearance that I have anymore, but slowly that concern has faded away. I have come to accept my "overweight" body as beautiful, and so it's a lot easier to accept other things as well. I'm wondering when our view is entirely celestial what we will think about our bodies. Maybe the unibrow will look good to me then.

As for meat, I've grappled with this question for years. I've tried to stop eating it, but I've never been able to stick with it. Not long ago, I thought I would try giving up pork. For weeks after that, every time I went to buy beef at the store, I would accidentally buy pork instead. Finally I said, okay, Lord, I'll give up my attempt to stop eating pork! And then I no longer had that problem anymore.

I read Visions of Glory and in it Spencer says that the people lost the desire to eat meat as they ate the fruits available to them in Zion. I think I may just have to wait for that day. In the meantime, I am still learning about foods and which are healthy and which are not. I try to make things from scratch, when I can, so I'm not exposing my family to chemicals. It would help if I were a better cook. I'm currently interested in grains because they've been problematic for my babies. Whole wheat causes severe reactions in my kids until they are about 3. Even brown rice bothers them. I don't really understand why since the word of wisdom mentions "wheat for man" and calls grain the staff of life. I'm currently testing different grains that are not supposed to have been tampered with in any way, such as spelt and wild rice. So far, so good. (For those of you who know anything about the subject, yes, I did try soaking the grains and they still bothered my babies.)

And then there's the media choices. One day I was trying to rent a movie and was very frustrated because I couldn't find one that looked "good" meaning both interesting and relatively clean. Finally I prayed for help and I went straight to a movie that I had looked casually at before. I briefly checked the cover and I could have sworn I saw something on the label saying it wasn't rated. Anyway, I took it home, watched it, thoroughly enjoyed it, and yet wondered about it's rating because there were some things that I thought would have made it rated R. I checked for the rating again, and sure enough, it was rated R.

Years later I watched the movie again when it was offered on TV. It was in Korea and it was the full movie, unedited. I had avoided it until then since the first time I saw it because of its rating, but that day I felt like it would be okay to watch it again and I did so with the intent to try to figure out why I had been led to it before. I discovered that the questionable stuff was all insinuated. The rating had been given because of the frequent use of the "f" word. I'm still not quite sure what to make of this experience, but it really was quite a good movie. The ending just made you feel good inside.

So those are some of my experiences I've had with the topics at hand. I used to have a pretty set standard for a lot of these types of things, but as I've progressed spiritually, I've let go of those standards. I'm not sure it's bad to drink alcohol anymore. I'm not sure what music is the best to listen to. I'm not sure what the best use of time is. I just don't know anything about anything when it comes to what we should or shouldn't be "doing." I'm trying to discover these things by paying attention to the Spirit, but it's still quite the struggle.
 
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