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[Mariner]

From Daniel Peterson's Blog on June 15:

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There’s no reason for us to like diseases, financial setbacks, wars, betrayals by friends, interpersonal hostilities, misunderstandings, physical injuries, injustice, unmerited humiliations, and the like. It must needs be that offenses come, but woe unto him by whom those offenses come. They hurt. They’re painful. And their costs are, many times, very high and quite permanent. However, they do serve to school us, to train us, to smooth and polish us (as Joseph said of the persecutions that afflicted him throughout his life) as we, stone-like, roll down the hills of our lives.

Seems like a strange entry for an LDS Church apologist from overseas.

Insights?

Edited by Mariner, 17 June 2012 - 05:21 AM.

[BookofMormonLuvr]

Maybe it is related to this?...

http://www.mormondia...072-is-it-true/

[Mariner]

BookofMormonLuvr, on 17 June 2012 - 05:30 AM, said:

Maybe it is related to this?...

http://www.mormondia...072-is-it-true/

Thanks.

Greatly appreciated.

Anybody know why?

Anybody seen denials or confirmations?

[JeremyOrbe-Smith]

The entry is entitled A Very Difficult Promised Land, which consists of musings on how the harsh nature of the landscape and the religious/political turmoil of the region he is currently visiting has at the same time been the birthplace of very good things. It's a commentary on the idea that in order to progress and learn and grow, we had to leave the peace of the Garden. Seems rather àpropos, actually.

Edited by JeremyOrbe-Smith, 17 June 2012 - 06:00 AM.