Love

Recently in church, we discussed the divine identity of God's children as sons and daughters, men and women, and how those identities are immutable, unchanging.

In today's world, that's outright blasphemy (irony intended)! There are those who struggle with reconciling their sense of self with the biology with which they were born, and the sociopolitical climate requires conceding to the sense of self rather than biology....

Despite the immutable divinely-given identity.

In 2018 October General Conference, Pres Henry B Eyring told about something a colleague said to him, "Hal, if you treat everyone you meet as if they were in troubles, you'd be right half the time." Pres Eyring then went on with the belief that this estimate is woefully short.

The reality is that of anyone in this world, those who struggle with this existential trial have more struggles and troubles than most.

Contrary to what too many may think, my deity has called me to love. Not judge.

When He reached out of the cloud and wrote on the stone tablets, He wrote, "Thou shalt..." and "Thou shalt not..." He didn't write, "Thou shalt make sure thy neighbor Bob doeth/doeth not..." As I've said before, His commandments were designed to be a mirror for accurate personal reflection, not a microscope to analyze the minutia of our neighbors' flaws.

So when it comes to those who...

identify with something other than their biological sex as assigned at birth

experience same-sex attraction

struggle (or not) against addiction

live with mental illness (of their own or of a loved one)

worry about wayward children or spouses

struggle with their own questions about (insert whatever)...

The answer is to love them. No matter what else I may think about their situation- who's at fault, who shoulda known better, who has evil intents... that's not what I should focus on. He's asked me to love. He'll sort everything out later. It's not my place to do His part.