"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Monday, January 24, 2011

D&C Class :)

~Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.
~Samuel M. Shoemaker

I swear I had this great epiphany today. And I was going to share it, but I've forgotten. Sad day.

But, I have to say I had an amazing lesson in D&C! I'm loving this class. I've never looked at the Doctrine and Covenants this way before. Learning all the background and going more in the order everything happened rather than just reading. And, of course, the classroom discussion :)

We talked about personal revelation today. And, as my teacher put it, the "million dollar question" is how to tell if it's your own thought or one from the Lord. I've always had problems with this. But he talked about how the greater the form of revelation (angels and visions) the more they decrease in frequency. And the other way around-that there are more of the smaller kinds of revelations-thoughts and feelings.

Ah, it sounded so much better when he said it. He later said that you hear about people saying they had a feeling of peace but wish they'd seen an angel. But you never hear about people saying they saw an angel and wished they'd had a feeling. Kind of humorous, but it made me think.

Oh, and then I failed the quiz! I'm doing wonderful in a class on something I've been reading my entire life! No wonder I'm failing French-I've only been working on that for two years!
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