Posted by:
anon fer dis
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Date: June 25, 2017 01:04PM
We're fixing to move, and paring down the stuff. I was cleaning the garage and throwing stuff in the large bin, and saw she had thrown away a bunch of LDS church books. One was "Miracle of Forgiveness." That book is the source of a lot of her problems, and she's been really hurt by being forced by her bishop at BYU to read it when she very nearly got thrown out of the university. So much later, I got rid of the copy we had. Then another copy popped up again over time, and I was going to throw it out a few months ago, but I noticed that it was inscribed by her mother who has since passed away, and I was afraid to throw it out. Her mother was a master of passive aggression, so she had gone through the book and had underlined a bunch of things that she wanted my wife to see and read. But yesterday it was in the trash, along with several others, including "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith," given to her father, and an antique LDS hymnal from the 1800's. I thought about fishing a couple of them out. I went through "Teachings" to see if it was worth preserving for doctrine that the church pretends they never had, but it was just not worth it. I threw them all back in.
I have no particular hope for her. She is a true believer. But it's nice to see her make this decision to discard the books, and that the Miracle of Forgiveness may have got too painful for her.