2007-05-11 22:42:02

As I approach 40 years in this world, I am increasingly impressed that I ought to try to write down my personal spiritual journey. I have not seen heaven with my physical eyes. And I have never to my knowledge taken leave of my physical body these 40 years. But I have read the personal words of many ancient and contemporary people who have. And something inside of me (since October 27 2003) undeniably recognizes these experiences as the highest truth. My focus in life is forever changed for the better as a result of the icing my recent awareness has been on the sweet cake of my life. I am extremely grateful to those who have received unusual dispensations of the mercy of Heaven for venturing to share their experiences!

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2005-07-26 22:21:20

This is an experimental Partisanship area dedicated to Reverence affirming in a Partisanship way a reality of Love Transcendence of this world. This area is currently and tentatively titled God Works Wiki in the tentative belief that such a title will speak universally to all believers as to the truth that the transcendent, loving, purposeful Omniscience is revealed continually worldwide in personally surprising and undeniable Experience. The intended message is that the experiential affirmation that Humans have a transcendent purpose and destiny that can only be realized within each individual heart and for humanity through seeking and practicing sacrificial love.

You are invited to contribute experiences of your own and of others subject to copyright law. Because these are personal experiences, I allow liberal locking of narrative pages. But indexes, definitions, guidelines, and policies pages are encouraged to remain open at all times if possible.

Thank you for contributing.

2005-08-09 19:13:53

We are *reverent* by checking that our own hearts feel awe, or at least that our words express respect, when we speak of the subjects this web site affirms. We are especially careful to observe reverence when using terms that are not personally familiar to us, but are used by others in expressing Holy things.

2004-10-26 17:55:26

We avoid splitting hairs about the meanings of words. We try to find in all words an acceptable nuance of meaning, and assume that nuance is the appropriate one.

What Great teachers have said about words

"Wo unto him that maketh an offender for a word."

2005-11-15 03:14:55

We say that God works to build sacrificial love in humans so that they may transcend all things and become one.

2005-10-13 14:05:06

This web site speaks directly and expressly to and about *humans* without denying the love of God toward and the presence of God in all things. We may not all conceived identically of what this means, but at this web site I am generous about Words and agree that the transcendence of God is great.

I say humans instead of humanity because I desire to emphasize the personal nature of our individual transcendence through our individual sacrificial Love.

2004-10-26 17:59:18

We often quote *great teachers* of God and sacrificial Love. When we list multiple teachings on the same point, we try to do so chronologically so as to avoid being mistaken for partisans.

This page may be used as a list of great teachers

2004-11-10 19:01:46

My Dad once said

Perhaps forgiveness is like I read in a book on Kuna recently, "giving permission for the offender to have acted the way he/she did".

2004-11-10 19:02:44

The highest expression of love may be giving that gift that is hardest to give for the sake of the receiver, not knowing that thereby the giver is eternally changed for the better! (kdh)

2006-04-29 05:33:44

Note: I apologize that this isn't more well developed yet.

Howard Storm's experience is a great prototype of death experiences as related to LDS belief. It is heavily reminiscent of Alma II's experience and of Lehi's dream. Storm was invited by spirits into a dark and dreary waste where he wandered for many hours (or weeks) until he came to an abyss where he was racked and tormented until his mind caught hold on the thought of a Savior and called out for Jesus to have mercy on him. Then what light did he behold, and he was filled with joy as exquisite as was his pain.

On June 1, 1985, 38 year old Howard Storm, an atheist, found himself in the spirit overlooking his body in a hospital room. Anger and frustration overcame him. "This is crazy! I can’t be standing here looking down at myself. That’s not possible," he told himself.

2006-09-29 23:07:28

On the morning of Sunday 16 January 2005, before I awoke, I dreamed that I was in a family setting teaching a lesson as in a Family Home Evening. While I shared my lesson, the children started singing, and I thought that soon angels joined with them in singing of the love of the Father in Heaven. When I awoke I tried to write down the song they were singing. I translate it something like this:

We love our Father, he loves us forever. No sadness or danger will make us afraid. Alelluia the children were singing With angels around them arrayed.

Or

We have a father who loves us forever. No sadness or danger will make us afraid. Aleluia, the the little children were singing With angels around them arrayed.

A Song

One night I lay asleep; I dreamed a dream most heavenly. Around me my children gathered, glowing with love. And as I taught them, in answer came a melody, And soon they were joined by the angels above.

A-a alleluia. A-a alleluia. The little children were singing with love. A-a alleluia. A-a alleluia. A song to their Father above.

We have a Father who loves us forever. No sadness or danger will make us afraid. For we are his children; we love Him forever, in warm light He holds us; our strong house He made.

Alleluia. The little children were singing. Raising a song to their Father above. Alleluia. Angelic answers were ringing. A witness of heavenly love.

I kindly welcome visitors to this page, and I regret largely undoing recent changes to this page that appeared to be made in good faith. I mean no ingratitude or offense.

2007-01-24 18:10:39

Lehi left (fled) Jerusalem with his family in 600 B.C. (1 Nephi 2:4, 19:8), "came down by the borders near the shore of the Red Sea", and travelled along the coast of the Red Sea. After travelling three days (240 to 300 km) in the wilderness, he made camp in a valley by a running stream that emptied continually into the beginning of the Red Sea (likely Wadi Tayyib al-Ism, 115 km miles by trail from Aqaba http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=28.562964,34.809494&spn=0.052468,0.045662&om=1 or below).

Is the anomaly on the coast at left indicative of flow at the time of photograph?

http://www.hawsedc.com/wadi.jpg)

While they tarried at their wilderness camp, the sons of the family returned to Jerusalem twice for important things they would need (scripture--Laban's Brass Plates--in chapters 3 through 6 and wives--Ishmael's daughters--in chapter 7), gathered provisions for a long journey (chapter 8), and received further instructions from heaven (chapters 8 through 16).

Finally one night at the camp (one wonders just how many weeks or months they tarried there), the voice of the Lord told Lehi to strike camp the next morning (16:9). The next morning, Lehi discovered "a round ball of curious workmanship", "of fine brass", at the door of his tent, with two spindles inside it, and "the one" (or was it "they" one) "pointed the way" to go in the wilderness. One student has conjectured that the two spindles bore testimony of each other. If they were at odds (or perpendicular), the ball was not functional due to a lack of faith. If they were as one pointing the way (parallel and perfectly overlaid), the ball was functional. (Is there not a type in this thing?)

They packed up all, crossed the river of water, which they had christened the River of Laman, and travelled south-southeast four days to a second camp along the Red Sea coast, which they called Shazer, and where they hunted animals for food.

After the camp at Shazer they continued south-southeast many more days along the Red Sea coast, hunting along the way, and being led to oases by "the directions of the ball", until they made a third Red Sea camp.

At their third camp, where they had stopped to rest and get more food, Nephi broke his steel bow on the first major hunt, and the hunting party returned with no food. (Note that this was likely a fine wooden bow with a steel reinforcing band or spring on its tensile or outer side.) Nephi's brothers were upset at him for breaking his bow, and a general spirit of grumbling overtook the fatigued and hungry company. After trial, tutoring, and repentance, the family got food and resumed their journey south-southeast again for many days.

Ishmael, the father-in-law of Lehi's sons, died (16:34). He was buried at Nahom (likely the Nehem a few dozen miles north of modern Sana'a, the capital of Yemen http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&spn=0.1,0.1&ll=16.27,44.53), and a renewed spirit of grumbling pervaded the group. At this point they wanted to go back to Jerusalem, and discussed killing Lehi and Nephi. But the voice of the Lord spoke to the grumblers and chastened them. They repented (chapter 16) and took their journey inland, nearly eastward (17:1) (likely at the trade route branch in the Jawf valley (Wadi Jawf) just a few miles from Nehem).

For eight years they sojourned in the deserts of modern Yemen, Oman, and perhaps Saudia Arabia. (17:4) The Lord kept them from making much fire, and they lived on raw meat. (17:2,12) The Lord said he would make the raw meat sweet to them and would be their light in the wilderness, and they would know He had led them through.

At last they came to a beautiful land they called Bountiful (likely Wadi Sayq/Khor Kharfot in Oman http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&spn=0.1,0.1&ll=16.67,53.15), where they rejoiced, rested, and prepared to travel across the sea to their promised land.

Camels and distance

"On journeys lasting for several weeks, camels cover a distance of approximately 30 to 40 km per day. On shorter journeys, lasting less than a week, they cover 80 to 100 km per day. In exceptional circumstances, bulls are able to walk more than 120 km in a single day, provided that they have a whole day to rest afterwards." http://www.fao.org/ag/aga/agap/frg/feedback/war/war92/x1700t05.htm

2005-09-07 04:45:31

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2006-06-15 00:24:19

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http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html Very good for immigrants from Windows. Includes some sample setup files.

http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutsweat3.php with JPGraph and GD installation and configuration help.

http://www.phpriot.com/d/articles/remote/graphing-and-image-generation/index.html

http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/howto01.php

JAVA

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/java/network-programming/ for connecting to internet with Java

Care For Life

http://209.8.40.244:2082

2005-09-16 21:50:42

Kato's essays

(Help at bottom. At the moment, this wiki is open for editing unless the administrator locks any page. I think this wiki software only allows the single administrator to lock and unlock pages. Another possible method of configuring this wiki is to allow only signed in users to edit all pages. That means no open pages. Anyway, for the moment, I'm not doing anything. But I am thinking I need to change to the Wikipedia software, which is more robust. It will allow both of us to be administrators and protect pages at will. And it has a better future than this software.)

2006-08-11 18:40:20

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit." Nelson Henderson

"I will prepare, and some day my chance will come." Abraham Lincoln

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened" Sir Winston Churchill

2006-04-29 05:25:52

This is an experimental Partisanship area dedicated to Reverence affirming in a Partisanship way a reality of Love Transcendence of this world. This area is currently and tentatively titled God Works Today in the tentative belief that such a title will speak universally to all believers as to the truth that the transcendent, loving, purposeful Omniscience is revealed continually worldwide in personally surprising and undeniable Experience. The intended message is that the experiential affirmation that Humans have a transcendent purpose and destiny that can only be realized within each individual heart and for humanity through seeking and practicing sacrificial love.

You are invited to contribute experiences of your own and of others subject to copyright law. Because these are personal experiences, I allow liberal locking of narrative pages. But indexes, definitions, guidelines, and policies pages are encouraged to remain open at all times if possible.

Thank you for contributing.

2006-04-29 05:26:06

2006-04-29 05:27:05

This is an experimental Partisanship area dedicated to Reverence affirming in a Partisanship way a reality of Love Transcendence of this world. This area is currently and tentatively titled God Works Today in the tentative belief that such a title will speak universally to all believers as to the truth that the transcendent, loving, purposeful Omniscience is revealed continually worldwide in personally surprising and undeniable Experience. The intended message is that the experiential affirmation that Humans have a transcendent purpose and destiny that can only be realized within each individual heart and for humanity through seeking and practicing sacrificial love.

You are invited to contribute experiences of your own and of others subject to copyright law. Because these are personal experiences, I allow liberal locking of narrative pages. But indexes, definitions, guidelines, and policies pages are encouraged to remain open at all times if possible.

Thank you for contributing.

2006-08-08 16:01:13

1. Little children don't seem to care what I know; they only care about how they feel around me. (2006-05-25)

2. Grant that I may speak in ever softer words, with the tongue of angels, to minister comfort to the weary and troubled around me and glorify thee in power. (2006-05-25)

3. Who has ever coveted a cloud, a rainbow, or a blue sky? (2006-05-26)

4. You are never truly free until you let go. You can tell yourself lies about freedom. You can say, "I will be free when I am rich," "I will be free when I leave my parents or wife," or "I will be free when I die." But the world and the eternites are full of wealthy, single, and disembodied captives. In this world and in eternity, you will only be free the moment you let go of the thing that holds you captive. (2006-06-02)

5. Bruce R. ~McConkie said the Second Coming of the Lord is within the lifetime of every faithful Saint. And perhaps, say I, it is just beyond the lifetime of every living soul. I pray it is not that last day that forces me to reliquish claim on all things worldly. I pray I attain the Kingdom of God by my own free will while the day lasts. (2006-08-07)

2006-08-09 21:53:57

2006-08-08

I had a dream last night of which I remember many segments. It took place in Texas. One of the segments strengthened my faith. I share that segment below:

There was a movie or a play we attended. It had obscenities, and the entire audience walked out en masse, which heartened me to see. Then the thought occured to me we might ask for a refund. I was pricked in my heart and ashamed, because I knew our Lord had commanded not to seek riches. But I waved my wallet and went to the box office window. I must have received the refund, though that was not in the dream, because the next thing I knew I was flying over all the people.

But in the next scene I had a hard time flying. It seems I was weighed down by something. I didn't realize it at the time, but later in the dream I found out what it was (and in the telling to you I am seeing the connection).

In the next scene I was off to the west of the crowd, and I had one of my boots filled with gold coins. I was not able to fly at all. Some young ruffians approached, presumably to steal the coins. I lay down on the ground and cried aloud, "O, Lord God, bless these boys that they may .... " and I don't remember the rest of the prayer. It was either a plea that they remember their mothers or have mercy on an old man, or remember their Holy Father. In any case, the boys stopped molesting me. It later occurred to me I should have either let them dig in my boot for "whatever you need" or offer them from my boot.

A lady saw what had happened and apparently saw something miraculous in it. She started to call to the people to jubilate about the miracle, when I begged her to consider praying first before spreading the word abroad.

She commenced (to my amazement) to have a Texas Baptist style prayer service with the people right there (and I considered how when the fervor of worship comes over the people they miss the mark so lovingly and sweetly), complete with gospel singing in which I joined.

2005-01-16

The Night the Children Sang, a special dream I had and the song I heard

2007-04-05 21:11:00

1966-09-19 Vital: Born Mesa General Hospital, Mesa, Arizona
1981-00-00 Reading: Book of Mormon (Change of heart from evil disposition to good)
1991-08-14 Vital: Married Elizabeth Moore in LDS Las Vegas Temple
1992-03-12 Child: Jeremiah stillborn at Maricopa Medical Center. Buried in Peoria, Arizona
1993-05-30 Child: Sarabeth Elaine born Desert Samaritan Hospital, Mesa, Arizona (2nd pregnancy for Elizabeth)
1997-07-21 Child: Michael Andrew born 2 months early Desert Samaritan Hospital, Mesa, Arizona
1999-03-11 Child: Matthew James born 2 months early Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona (9th pregnancy for Elizabeth)
1999-10-10 CivEng: Moved from AGRA to Hubbard Engineering
2002-01-10 Vacation at Lafayette
2002-11-04 Arizona Gubernatorial Election. Democrat Napolitano defeats Republican Salmon and Independent Mahoney. Mahoney made Colorado City polygamy an issue in the election, and may have cost Mormon Salmon the election. Amid it all I became involved with Flora Jessop, Jim Ashurst, Jay Beswick, and other Colorado City focused polygamy fighters.
2003-10-27 Reading: Near death experiences from www.near.death.com including Howard Storm, George Ritchie, Ranelle Wallace, (God is Love, God is merciful, Man is free, Love is all)
2005-11-18 Voted in jury to convict Daniel ???? of first degree murder
2005-11-23 CP
2006-00-00 Reading: The Kingdom of God is Within You, Leo Tolstoy (Pacifism)
2006-00-00 Reading: Approaching Zion, Hugh Nibley (Gospel and Riches)
2006-00-00 Reading: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John (Life and Teachings of Jesus, forsaking all, seeking God)

2007-04-27 16:46:52

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