Comments on: Aging with grace http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:48:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: annegb http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-88452 annegb Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:08:09 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=892#comment-88452 good point, queno good point, queno

]]> By: queuno http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-88444 queuno Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:53:12 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=892#comment-88444 <i>It may just be me, but I wonder if we as Latter-day Saints generally tend to shift from focusing on works to relying on grace as we grow older. This doesn’t mean that we abandon our efforts at service to others and personal righteousness — quite the contrary — but that we realize how far short we will always fall from where we need to be.</i> Maybe this is a sign that we've "accepted" grace in our lives. I find that when I was younger, I was "grace-proof" -- I could save myself, thank you very much, with all of my great works. As I get older, I find that I need that grace more and more... It may just be me, but I wonder if we as Latter-day Saints generally tend to shift from focusing on works to relying on grace as we grow older. This doesn’t mean that we abandon our efforts at service to others and personal righteousness — quite the contrary — but that we realize how far short we will always fall from where we need to be.

Maybe this is a sign that we’ve “accepted” grace in our lives. I find that when I was younger, I was “grace-proof” — I could save myself, thank you very much, with all of my great works. As I get older, I find that I need that grace more and more…

]]> By: Jeff Bennion http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-88440 Jeff Bennion Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:12:56 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=892#comment-88440 Beautiful work here, Bruce, which I sympathize with and agree with. The rumor I heard was it was cut out of the hymnbook due to pure oversight! When they put it back (and when ARE we due for a new hymnbook?), I hope they include the Ebeneezer verse! (BTW, that is a tiny altar used for kneeling.) Beautiful work here, Bruce, which I sympathize with and agree with. The rumor I heard was it was cut out of the hymnbook due to pure oversight! When they put it back (and when ARE we due for a new hymnbook?), I hope they include the Ebeneezer verse! (BTW, that is a tiny altar used for kneeling.)

]]> By: annegb http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-88434 annegb Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:32:56 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=892#comment-88434 Yup, great post. I love that song, also. Yup, great post. I love that song, also.

]]> By: no-man http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-88362 no-man Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:09:42 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=892#comment-88362 >>A large part of that enduring is, I think, enduring ourselves, particularly our own imperfections, and not becoming discouraged thereby. I think we run the real risk of giving up in frustration at our own failings, at the messes large and small that we’ve made in our own lives and the lives of those around us.<< Amen. Excellent thoughts. >>A large part of that enduring is, I think, enduring ourselves, particularly our own imperfections, and not becoming discouraged thereby. I think we run the real risk of giving up in frustration at our own failings, at the messes large and small that we’ve made in our own lives and the lives of those around us.<<

Amen. Excellent thoughts.

]]> By: Devyn S. http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-88361 Devyn S. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:01:46 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=892#comment-88361 Thanks Bruce This is beautiful. Yesterday in Sacrament meeting the speaker spoke about our reliance on grace in our lives. It was fairly heretical from a traditional Mormon perspective, but really spoke to my soul as does your post - thank you. Thanks Bruce
This is beautiful. Yesterday in Sacrament meeting the speaker spoke about our reliance on grace in our lives. It was fairly heretical from a traditional Mormon perspective, but really spoke to my soul as does your post – thank you.

]]> By: Bethie http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-88360 Bethie Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:45:46 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=892#comment-88360 Thank you! I love this article.This is my favorite hymn, too. "Grace" is just <strong>total dependence on God</strong> and what better "works" could there be than that? God Bless! Thank you! I love this article.This is my favorite hymn, too.

“Grace” is just total dependence on God and what better “works” could there be than that?

God Bless!

]]> By: Sam http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-88359 Sam Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:27:17 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=892#comment-88359 Absolutely spot on! Absolutely spot on!

]]> By: JA Benson http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-88357 JA Benson Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:13:00 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=892#comment-88357 Thank you Bruce, Like you so eloquently expressed; one of the precious gifts of middle age is humility before God. Enduring to the end thru God's Grace does bring peace. Thank you Bruce,
Like you so eloquently expressed; one of the precious gifts of middle age is humility before God. Enduring to the end thru God’s Grace does bring peace.

]]> By: Bored in Vernal http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/07/13/aging-with-grace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-88353 Bored in Vernal Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:56:41 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=892#comment-88353 Beautiful, and inspiring. I love the hymns we have which reference the OT. You may all know this, but "Ebenezer," or "stone of help" is mentioned in the OT when Samuel erects a memorial stone north of Jerusalem to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines. I feel sure that God can help us to defeat the sin and problems--the Philistines--in our lives, but I, too have made little progress over these many years. Your post encourages me to keep trying. Beautiful, and inspiring.

I love the hymns we have which reference the OT. You may all know this, but “Ebenezer,” or “stone of help” is mentioned in the OT when Samuel erects a memorial stone north of Jerusalem to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines. I feel sure that God can help us to defeat the sin and problems–the Philistines–in our lives, but I, too have made little progress over these many years. Your post encourages me to keep trying.

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