(December 15, 2013)
It is difficult for me to imagine what Moroni was feeling during these last days and years of his life. Here he was – alone in the world, with no hope in mortality. Did he pray for death? Did he pray for life? My difficulties seem relatively minor in comparison, and yet he is handling them so much better.
The other thought I had in reading this chapter was on miracles. We know that miracles begin to cease as the people stop believing in them. And I think if we look around ourselves, we start to see the loss of miracles in comparison to the past. I think that at least a portion of that is the way we revere science (science is valuable, but is only a part of the whole). Even us, as members of the Church, look at science in a way that diminishing our capacity to believe in miracles as we ought to. We want a miracle to happen in a public way so science can engage it and we would know it was a miracle – not recognizing that miracles need no recognition from science.
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