I love being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I joined back in 1964 after a long struggle with faith. I had loved the Savior ever since I could remember, but the church of my youth deserted me as it moved into the intellect movement of the 60's. Without spiritual guidance, I fell away. The Lord distinguished between the words of my mouth and the longing of my heart. He knew that I wanted to believe and so he sent a young woman who told me the story of the Restored Gospel. She bore her testimony of Jesus Christ and promised me that I could know for myself and have my own testimony.

Now forty-six years later I can only thank her from the bottom of my heart for introducing me to the church. Indeed I do have my own testimony. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet, called to restore Christ's church to the earth. We have a prophet today who leads and guides us. I am so grateful for Latter-day scriptures that bear testimony of Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon is the Word of God. It stands as another witness of the Savior and it's truths have touched my life in very personal ways.

I hope that my poetry reflects the growth of my testimony and my love for Jesus Christ.

Proof

The past!  How do you prove it?  Doesn't it all seem like a dream at times?  Imagine yourself being whisked out of the present time and place into a new world by some warp in time.  Your memories of your life on earth remain.  You could teach and testify of what your life was all about but there'd be no proof.  But you would know.

Our spiritual experiences with the Lord are like that.  So very real to us yet beyond proof.  But we know. 

When we share our testimony it is that spiritual experience that we are testifying of.  We know and we want our friends and family to know that we know so that they too will seek for such a confirmation.  As it says in Moroni 10:4-5,  And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.  And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.

In prayer we not only learn the truths we need to live by, we come to know God.


 

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