ATOMS stands for "Aaron's 'Things of My Soul'". As such, this blog is a compilation of my spiritual thoughts and insights as I study the scriptures, pray in faith, and have daily experiences. These things are the symbolic atoms that make up my life, and are personal to me. With the belief that "there hath no temptation [or experience or trial or joy] taken [me], but such as is common to man" (1 Corinthians 10:13), I post them in the hope that they bless someone, somewhere, somehow. If it be one soul, my joy is full.

Please feel free to browse, to search, to comment, to correct false doctrine you find, and to let me know if they have been positively (or negatively) influential to you.

It is my prayer that we all sail the seas of life with happiness, and obtain the wonderful blessings that God has in store for us, including living with our righteous loved ones forever, the answers to every question in life, and eternal happiness.

My posts are not to be taken as the official doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They are a reflection of my progressive learning and growing into said doctrine, though.

Friday, 17 March 2017

Nature's Musical Testimony

“Earth with her ten thousand flow'rs...”

So begins a song I listened to today. Another line says,

“Songs beneath and songs above bear this record: God is love.”

It is an acapella cover by Eclipse of the hymn "God is Love.”

As that line was sung, I looked out the window of the train to see a landscape of rail roads, roads, weedy grass, houses, a cloudy sky... and I heard tunes!

I've been waiting for this for a while... To hear tunes inside me from phenomena or objects around me.

I looked at the weeds and heard a staccato-textured, spontaneous tune on a xylophone and plucked string instruments.

My mind turned to the rails of the traintracks, and I heard brass instruments, with lots of percussion.

The overcast sky filled my mental music player with strings and gentle drumming.

Albeit the tunes were smudgy for what my mind could conjure, but I could hear them faintly, and I could feel them.

Then my mind applied the doctrine regarding nature's Creator: “All around and all above bear this record: God is love!”

I smiled to myself and agreed, “Yes, they do. They indeed do.”

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