My temporary crown has stayed in for another 24 hours. After getting it on Monday, having it pop off on Tuesday, and reattached Wednesday morning, it still remains in my mouth. I never imagined the mark of a good day would be that all my teeth stayed in my head. 🙂
This morning I feel positive and excited to get some things done.
My first piece for my 8 in 8 campaign will be ordered today. I need to get the second one created and ordered.
I think I’ll have all of the ***’s paperwork in order to submit today for short sale approval. Crossing fingers on that one.
I have many Christmas ornaments from the ward party and books to get delivered today.
Last night I got the graphic done for ***. He’s making a clock for Sis. *** from family photos. It’s been, I think, 4 years since her husband passed away, and she misses him a lot. It’s impossible to know how that feels. I hope I never do.
I thought I might do some deliveries after that, but Sienna came home and asked if I wanted to watch Malcolm together. That was much more enticing. Spending time together watching TV might not be the most enriching, but it’s something. I’ll take it.
Jenn had her YW activity, and after she got home we went to the store so she could get some things for her resident Christmas party at work. I disappointed myself by buying Ben & Jerry’s pint and eating it all before going to bed.
Come Follow Me
I’ve been pondering, a little bit, the track of thought I had yesterday on the topic of mercy. I’ve been thinking of what it means to pity someone or something.
I have clear memories of being a young child and seeing very old people and feeling what I would describe as ‘pity’ for them. I’m not sure why these memories stayed so vivid. I think they probably did because of an epiphany I had at some point that these people would not want my pity. Something in my young brain recognized a contradiction between ‘pity’ and dignity.’
How does one feel or show mercy to someone else while also maintaining a sense of their dignity? Mercy and compassion while also esteem and respect?
I’m not sure how one treats someone with mercy and compassion without inherently thinking the giver is somehow better, or better off, then the recipient.
The answer to that is not completely worked out in my mind, but I think it lies in the doctrine of a ‘third party’. I call it the ‘doctrine of’, because I don’t know what else to call it.
Whatever one calls it, it is the concept of having a third party involved that makes compassion, pity and mercy compatible with respect, and holding someone in high regard, and dignity.
I think the word to use is discipleship.
Discipleship – the doctrine of a third party. (That’s an interesting idea)
It’s our discipleship, our representation of Jesus Christ, or representative-ness of Him, that allows us to feel and show compassion, mercy, and pity towards someone while simultaneously holding them in high regard, dignified, and at a station equal to or even above us.
Discipleship allows for divinty to be exercised at the same time as humanity. I’m not exactly clear on what that statement means, but I believe the concept of a ‘third party’ solves so many paradoxes or contradictions in the world.