Right now I'm reading a book called The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life by Terry L. Givens and Fiona Givens. It's been enlightening thus far, though the philosophizing goes a bit over my head at times. It approaches Mormon belief from spiritual and intellectual viewpoints, illustrating how our mortal existence points to a higher power that is lovingly invested in our lives. Within the first couple chapters I've already found myself nodding in agreement at a number of passages. Here is one I read today...
Though we may be in the infancy of moral development, as individuals and as a species, surely we are striving toward a perfect model that God already embodies. And while personal and collective progress may be shaky and uneven, some moral imperatives have only grown more sharply defined across time: we reject inhumanity, cruelty, caprice, and callousness. We prize kindness, we value tenderness, and we esteem compassion. Who can doubt that the most transcendent instance of human love is a testament to a more perfect source, a love without limit? We are continuing, with tragic and devastating exceptions, on the trajectory inaugurated by Adam and Eve, becoming ever more like God, as we become ever more adept at discerning good and evil, and nourishing the wellsprings of human love. And in so doing, we grow more capable of discerning a kind and merciful God among His many counterfeits.
