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| author | Collin Williams <96917990+bluedragon1221@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-10-27 08:57:49 -0500 |
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| committer | Collin Williams <96917990+bluedragon1221@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-10-27 08:57:49 -0500 |
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maybe I finally fixed all of the linking issues?
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diff --git a/md/42_A_Date_with_Eternity_Epilog.md b/md/42_A_Date_with_Eternity_Epilog.md index bcfc915..d6426da 100644 --- a/md/42_A_Date_with_Eternity_Epilog.md +++ b/md/42_A_Date_with_Eternity_Epilog.md @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ lesson: Do things every day to retain that vital eternal perspective that aids o <!-- TODO: Escape characters and image formatting --> -This story is a follow-on to the original article. It will be an +This story is a follow-on to [the original article](21_A_Date_with_Eternity.html). It will be an addition of insights that have come with the perspective of time. I suppose a better title would be "The Wisdom of Perspective". Please be -patient as I explain what I mean.\ -\ +patient as I explain what I mean. + In late Summer of this year (2018), Lori and I traveled to California to meet with Angela Salmon and her family to do a tour of some of the Redwood forests. It was a delightful drive with great anticipation of @@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ However, when we glimpsed the first of the redwoods at a distance, I was rather disappointed. From a distance, the forest looked a bit like the following photo. -{width="6.5in" +{width="6.5in" height="4.44375in" alt=""} The forest is a pleasant and beautiful sight, but it didn't seem like it @@ -30,25 +28,17 @@ was some kind of indicator in the scene that would give our brains an appreciation of the scale of these enormous trees. The following photos illustrate my point. -{width="6.5in" -height="8.666666666666666in" alt=""} - -{width="6.5in" -height="4.875in" alt=""} +{width="49%"} \ {width="49%"} When you see Lori and me in the picture, you can see how truly enormous these trees are. By comparing the size of our tiny bodies with the mighty trunks of the trees, this new perspective creates a significant -difference in the appreciation of the wonder of the experience.\ -\ +difference in the appreciation of the wonder of the experience. + Thus, I hope you can see that perspective is vital to the full understanding of what we experience in our lives. To illustrate more -fully, I'll give you another example.\ -\ +fully, I'll give you another example. + Lori and I celebrated our 40th anniversary on August 26th of this year. One of the activities to celebrate the occasion was a trip to the Portland temple to do an endowment session together. We were asked to be @@ -62,16 +52,16 @@ only had an inkling of what was in store, but I had no real perspective to add depth to the experience. At this moment of my life, I had not only the eternal perspective brought by the temple session, but also the perspective of the passage of 40 years. It was a remarkable realization -of how important perspective can be.\ -\ +of how important perspective can be. + It all boils down to a valuable life lesson. We need to do things often to retain a perspective of life that will influence every experience we have and decision we make. A view into the eternities can be had daily from simple practices like reading the scriptures and praying. I now have a new resolve to be better at doing the daily things that keep my perspective wide enough to fully appreciate the experiences of each -day.\ -\ +day. + Now I'll try to wrap up the reason this article is an epilogue to the original article. The first article explained how I had a glimpse of the nobility and greatness of the soul of the person I was hiking with. Now, |