I'm not a think on my feet kind of gal. Whenever someone asks me a question, I freeze and all the information I have previously learned becomes jumbled and irretrievable. This is not good practice. Especially when the information is of vital importance and the person asking the question is one of the most important people in my life. My son was using a new system of note taking that looks like a complex star chart. Like all of us, he was trying to make sense of his place in the universe, especially in the grand scale of time and historic existence. If we can't wrap our head around the answers, the information can wrap up our head in a big jumbled mess of confusion.
There surely is a universe of information-like stars in the sky, like grains of sand, like the atoms swirling around, like digital data in cyberspace. It's overwhelming when trying to make sense of it all or try to organize it in a helpful way. Or to know where to start? What knowledge really matters and when does it matter? Why do I exist? Who am I? What's my purpose? How does it all fit together? Does it fit together? Is it chaos? What is "it" anyway? Is it possible to think too much?
Simplicity helps. I know who I am, where I came from, why I'm here, where I'm going. I learned the standard gospel answers years ago contained in The Plan of Salvation, Plan of Happiness, Plan of Redemption, Rather than rehearse all the knowledge I've been acquiring over the past 59 years, I want to simply it even further. In all the learning, learn wisdom. Supposedly, my gray hairs suggest that through the years I've acquired some deal of wisdom. At least that's my goal as in Proverbs 4:7 reads "Wisdom is the principal thing...and with all they getting get understanding". The more I understand about the plan, the more I see how everything fits, every piece of knowledge comes together in a great, organized whole, complete, creation or world. God's construct is big enough and expansive enough for all truth. I don't have to leave anything behind, cover my eyes, or pretend it doesn't exist. Faith and questions can exist together. I do not have to choose between science and religion.
I know things. I really do. But of all the things I know, the most important is not what I know but WHO I'm trying to know-my Father. Even though I'm about as significant as cosmic dust particle, My Father in Heaven KNOWS me and cares about me. I share the lyrics from my very first solo I sang as a young child "I know my Father lives and loves me too. The spirit whispers this to me and tells me it is true. He sent me here to earth, by faith to live His plan. The spirit whispers this to me and tells me that I can."
My greatest quest for knowledge is not only know He lives and know His plan but to know my Father who already knows me! That will only be accomplished through daily efforts to connect with him. I want to connect to his power. He makes sense of the chaos and inner turmoil. Little by little, I'm developing my relationship with Him. Each time I feel His spirit in my heart and head telling me something is true or what I should do in the next moment, I know him better than before. That's my priority. He's my priority. And if I know Him, he'll teach me everything that is most important for me to know in order to sift through the sea of knowledge to find the treasured truths.
Where to start digging? I say, the "Come Follow Me" app. Each morning I like to click on the icon picture of Jesus and see what my "Come Follow Me" reading assignment is for the week. It has been the BEST thing I relied on during Covid to feel connection. It's the best thing to connect with him now. Followed with prayer and listening to the spirit, that's about as simple as I can make it as a way to navigate through the sea of knowledge. It makes sense. It's simple. It's my easiest, most simple way to approach universal knowledge and not get sucked into a black hole.
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