Recently, another friend made the same suggestion and the Lord has been giving me many reasons to consider why it might be a worthwhile endeavor. It’s been something that I’ve been seriously pondering and looking into—that or something like it. In considering this new venture, I have been thinking about thoughts, themselves. Self-improvement within the structure of the gospel of Jesus Christ has to affect the most basic parts of us in order to bring about the most permanent results. Actually, this is the reason why the widely-held and current view of repentance is ineffective in most cases. People today focus on their actions instead of on their actual constitution—what they are made of.
We are spiritual and so, in order to change, we have to change our spirit. Well, what is spirit? What, exactly, are we made of? How is it possible to bring about a change in what makes us us?
7 There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes;8 We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter. (D&C 131)
It is going to take too much time to lay out all of my thoughts about this whole subject in one blog post—or even several. Maybe a video format would be best. I’m not sure. We’ll have to see. For now, I’m going to provide this link to an article on thoughts that I found very interesting and let the reader do some thinking on their own. If I do end up communicating my thoughts using some other platform, I’ll post a link here and in the sidebar.