A new way of thinking

Calvin told me that the welfare specialist talked to the Stake Leaders last night and we both had some new thoughts from it. Rich people know things that average people don't, average people know things that poor and rich people don't know, and poor people know things that either of the others know. So when rich people, like the ones that run Congress, try to give homes to poor people, the rich people expect the poor people to know what the rich people know, but they don't. They don't know what they can and can't afford, they don't know what to do to be able to afford it. They don't know how to keep the house or keep it up. They just haven't been taught rich people knowledge. The rich people in Congress think they are doing something so good and so noble, and when it crashes they don't understand why. I plan on writing some paper letters to a few people in Congress. Maybe if they can understand what went wrong, maybe they can fix it. Instead of just ranting and raving at them, maybe they just were trying and did it the wrong way. There is a story of refugees coming to America and nearly starving to death cause they were given canned food and a can opener, but no one ever showed them there was food in the cans or how to use a can opener. Maybe it is a little bit like that?

Music is God's language to me

I can't think of how many times I have listened to music and ended up with tears falling. My kids used to just sit next to me and rub my neck while I cried. But it is like God is speaking to my heart. I think it is so important to listen to only the good music so that we don't cloud up our ability to hear that spirit to spirit communication. Our school went to a "contemporary ballet" a few months ago and it was not uplifting. One of the students turned to me and said about some younger children that were watching, "Mrs. Winward, those little kids shouldn't be watching this." She stopped then added, "We shouldn't be watching this!" She was right. People confuse art with indecency. They are not the same, and allowing yourself to be pulled into indecency with the call of, but it is art, is just shameful. Art is to uplift. If it doesn't pull you closer to God, it isn't art, no matter what any expert says.