"Therefore, let your hearts be comforted; for all things shall work together for good to them that walk uprightly, and to the sanctification of the church."
Doctrine and Covenants 100:15
This scripture struck me today... probably because I have been thinking about wholeness... not being one person in one situation, but being the same person always. :) And how does everything fit together... for instance: in my patriarchal blessing it says that I will have a "happy and contented" life. And then, later in the same paragraph, it says that I will have an "exciting and interesting" life. so... how do contentment and excitement go together (and I definitely believe they can) and then the whole fun theme that I have been working on at work... people think that work can't be fun, and unfortunately I think most people feel the same about the gospel... that it's all about rules and limits and not *really* about "man is that he might have joy."
So anyway, hopefully that made sense to someone. This scripture seems to pull everything together for me in a way. Saying that all things work together for good... the contentment part, the excitement part... the part we experience at church, the part we experience at work... the part we experience in relationships with all the people around us. and that, if we are trying to walk the path, that it will all fit together... and work towards perfecting and purifying the church as well. Because we'll be there, perfecting and purifying ourselves within it... building a community of whole people who realize that our "normal" selves and our "church" selves are the same people... who can worship God every day wherever we are, as well as in church every week. That the gospel *is* fun, and everything that you want it to be... that perfection isn't boring and full of limits... but it's *everything* ... with enough wisdom to deal with it all.
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