I wasn't going to post anything today... I am just trying to get out the door to mail packages to Taylor, Britta, and my nephew Kade. Then I started clipping coupons... And all the while I have been trying to hurry and get through yesterday's mail (which included mail since Saturday). Oh, and I had to get all the random checks laying around from babysitting and birthday gifts ready for the bank. Needless to say, I need to take my own best advice that "to be everywhere is to be nowhere." While I have been hustling around this morning the TV has been on. Good Morning America. Then Inside Edition comes on. I know, I know... it's certainly NOT news. But it comes on right after GMA, so occasionally it remains on until I hear something absolutely disgusting or ridiculous, then it either gets turned off, or I switch over to Rachael Ray. I've asked myself WHY I leave the TV on, when most of the time I'm not even listening. But that's a thought-provoking and soul-searching question to contemplate another day. I'm too busy today, can't you tell?
Back to why I am posting anything at all today. Disappointment. Disbelief. Frustration.
As I was flipping through those coupon flyers (which I am not one of those dedicated super couponers -- so I'm not sure if my time is worth the monetary benefit in the end), a story came on that show. It was about Marie Osmond's son and his sad death. The reporter talked about how the funeral was held at the TEMPLE near their home in Provo. Come on, now. The temple??? I am seriously worried about the news we get in general. Clearly, the funeral was not at the temple, it was at a church building. Oh, and then they cut to another reporter who attended the funeral. At the temple.
This only compounds the frustration I felt when reading an article in the Parade magazine (or one of those type periodicals that come with the Sunday paper...) recently about Glenn Beck. It said he joined "The Church of Latter-day Saints" because his daughter felt good when she attended. I've heard the story. There's a lot more to it than that. But my BIGGEST frustration is with how reporters, who we trust to bring us an accurate and true portrayal, tweak it to fit their own belief and opinion. In our own local town paper and in the larger Denver Post I have read about "The Church of Latter-day Saints." Where is Jesus Christ?? I mean, seriously... they choose to leave the most important part of the name out. And people don't think we are Christian.
Give me a break.
(This is the xray of Shilo's break back in 2005... with the pins in her arm. Makes me cringe just remembering it.)
My husband recently attended a meeting with Elder L. Tom Perry. Elder Perry shared some really interesting statistics on how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is viewed in the U.S. as well as world-wide. I don't have the actual numbers (Bill does... in his meticulous notes), but it was fascinating to hear that there is a fairly large percentage of people that don't know anything about us and our beliefs right here in the USA. And that some view us as members of a cult. Maybe the only exposure some have are from those great news-magazine shows about polygamists. The fundamentalist LDS. And from the newspaper. So if those reporters could just give a little more attention to the ever-important details (like the name of Jesus Christ), we could possibly have a head start with sharing the truth about who we are and what we believe.
I guess for now we will just have to open our mouths and do it ourselves.
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