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"And behold, all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me."

Moses 6: 63

When those who wander ARE lost...

"The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein."

Isaiah 35: 1, 8

Best LDS fiction book EVER

Sorry Orson, but it's true.

The Music Man

My "sister" in the orchestra pit for her high school's performance of The Music Man.

It was a great show, and naturally I found the following passage to be more than appropriate:

"I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun."

Ecclesiastes 2: 8-9, 11

Do you see it yet?

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

John 14: 6

But integrals did not prepare me...

...for the hardest part of my AP Calculus test.

My cell phone went off.

My scores have been invalidated.

The 50 others in the room with me should have technically had the same fate.

In the blink of an eye, I became the most hated person in the testing room.

And as I watched an entire year worth of study cease to exist right in front of me, I can honestly say I hated me too.

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

John 15: 18, 24-25