A few words about the title of my blog.
It took me a while to figure out what to call it. First of
all, most of the good ideas are taken, and some really weird ones are taken too
(I was half tempted to look up some of them just to see what kind of crazy blogs used some of those domain names, but I digress). So I continued to brainstorm, but
after my husband vetoed my last brilliant
idea, “The Mediocrity Chronicles” (it was getting late); I realized I needed to
do some real soul searching. What I came up with was, “Walking by Candlelight”
and to my relief it was available!
But why this title? First, I think it’s pretty clear from my
earlier post that I am a person of faith. I belong to the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. I believe in God. I believe that Jesus Christ is
the Savior of the world. I believe in, and try to live my life by, His words. But
doing that is not as simple as it sounds. Life is full of “darkness”, whether
that is trials, mistakes, or simply the unknown.
There are many places to find answers to help us in this
darkness, but I believe only one place to find true “light”, and that is from
God. There are times when I feel like that light is a raging fire: I can see the path
ahead of me, and I know what to do. It brightens my life and fills me with
hope. But more often, I feel I am following the light of a single candle.
I actually think that
is how God wants life to be most of the time. Not that He wants us to fumble
and struggle in the dark, but He wants us to trust Him enough to take that step
into the dark. Life isn't meant to be simply following a neatly laid out
plan. He created us as vibrant and diverse
souls, to whom he gave the will to choose. His Gospel gives us the guiding
principles, but the rest is up to us. Essentially, all we need is that candle. If
we stay close to its light, he trusts us to find our way back to Him. His confidence in my ability not to botch this whole thing both frightens and inspires me.
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