Glamourizing Death

I've read a lot about a woman who is planning to die on November 1 because of an inoperable brain tumor and that prompted me to offer a response because I just lost my father on Sunday evening after a three month battle with stage four of a rate cancer.

As someone who just barely lost their father to cancer, I'd have to say that the time of death should be left to the Lord because there may be things that the person or loved ones have left to do before they go. I'm really grateful that my father died when he did, as it allowed me to do things for him that I never thought possible. 

That is a tender mercy from the Lord and shouldn't be left to man. I think that the woman is now enjoying the publicity that her first decision brought forth and I won't be surprised if she announces a new date to die so that she could get more publicity.

There are ways to find art and beauty in a terminal illness, but this is unnecessary glamorization and must be very emotionally hard for her loved ones to keep enduring because to suddenly have emotions being played with would be frustrating for anyone and I wouldn't be surprised if negative feelings surface.

While I understand that the woman must be in pain, saying you are going to die and then retracting that toys with emotions and drains the loved ones to a point where they are simply praying for God to intervene and end the suffering. Just leave life and death to God, world, and just live each day as if you don't know whether or not there will be a tomorrow without compromising your morals, as everyone will be held accountable for how they spent each day and how they improved through the refining and opportunities to grow that time and trial brought to their lives.

I CAN imagine what dying feels like because I lost my father to cancer on October 26 and it got to a point before that where we were praying for the Lord's intervention because his suffering was so horrible for both him and us. We just had his funeral this afternoon and I am grateful that we left the situation in the Lord's hands because a great amount of peace comes from that and if we had tried to control it ourselves, the peace wouldn't have been there and we would have only felt anger and not great relief.

People think I am hemming and hawing in a judgmental manner, but I better understand death because I saw someone die and you learn incredible things when you see someone die. Death is not an end, but only a beginning and if people let their higher power guide them into the process in a calm fashion instead of trying to run or rush it, it's easier to get used to the idea and it invites peace to be felt. 

I'm not bashing euthanasia, but I am annoyed with the toying of emotions when people decide to die and open the way for people to emotionally prepare for that and then suddenly change their mind; it hurts people deeply when their emotions are toyed with because they were prepared and such a decision shakes that preparation. 

What would we learn if the Lord solved every problem we had with a cure? There aren't always happy endings, but there can be new beginnings that lead to the outpouring of great blessings. 

Covenants and Apostasy

I heard that some women walked into LDS chapels where the Priesthood Session of General Conference and stayed for the session even though they knew that it was online. I'm not sure what to think about this except that Ordain Women is trying very hard to continue their bad behavior.

It boils down to one word. Apostasy.

The Ordain Women movement is of the devil and I truly wish that they would stop their crusade against God and Christ. They HAVE clearly crossed the line to apostasy, as Lynn G. Robbins said in his talk during the Saturday morning session of General Conference, "Lowering the Lord's behavior to the world's inappropriate behavior is apostasy."

The Ordain Women group is trying to lower the Lord's behavior instead of elevating their own, They are apostates and sadly, apostates must be cast out as they have chosen not to walk the path God has set out after making covenants with God and Christ. Everyone has the right to make choices, but nobody has the right to choose the consequences of their choices; they must face them however.

Free Agency and Compassion

Okay, get this straight; God did not authorize same-gender marriage, but he left man to their agency and they chose to make it legal. Man made the choice to authorize this and God did not lower Himself to the world's inappropriate behavior; rather, the world tried to lower God to its inappropriate behavior and such a thing will never happen.

Man has their agency and God, by His own divine law, will not interfere in either the making of the choices or any consequences of the choices made. Everyone has the right to make their own choices even if they do not choose the path of God and Jesus Christ, but they cannot choose the consequences that come forth.

Compassion and understanding are important, however, as we are all children of God and we should love one another even though some may make choices that don't agree with religious beliefs. I just want people to understand that God does not force decisions upon man; man makes their own decisions and has to live with them. God teaches us compassion and love; thus, we should show it to all around us.