When I was at the store last week, I parked, then turned and looked at the car next to me--I thought wow, I sure parked sideways in here. But when I got out, I was in the parking spot nice and straight while the neighboring car was the one crookedly parked. Sometimes the things we do may seem off, or not popular and the more the world goes its way (further from truth and light), the more crooked things will look, but as we evaluate our own lives and decisions we can see if we are true and straight or if we need to adjust course to get true & straight. We can stay on the straight and narrow path, and as we do so everything else will look crooked. If we align ourselves with the world, it may appear we are in the straight path, but really we aren’t. Truth and right doesn’t change; what was true and right 100s of years ago, is the same today. Things like honesty, morality, virtue and kindness. The world would say that it’s ok to lie a little, or to wear immodest clothing or to take advantage of another because you are in a position to do so--that doesn’t make it right! But just because the media or others do it or make it seem right (very crooked thinking) doesn't make lining ourselves up with it right.
These are simply my thoughts and the thoughts that came to me as I was in the parking lot. Whatever life throws our way, I know that by following our Savior, Jesus Christ and His gospel we can and will be following what is right and true, and we will be happy.
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