For ye are mine

So some of you may know I am currently on we will call here an "extended camping trip", and last night as I listened to the rain hit my tarp while going to bed the line in D&C 50:41 kept coming to mind "Fear not little children, For you are mine..."  this really caused me to think about the atonement and the price that christ paid. the line from the LDS hymn "I Stand All Amazed" really seemed to hit home with how I was feeling:

I think of his hands pierced and bleeding to pay the debt. 
Such mercy, such love and devotion can i forget? 

if we really get down and think about the atonement and Christ assertion in D&C that we are his, i realize that we are his! Christ has already paid the price for our sins regardless of if we chose to except this gift our not, the price has already been paid and our souls have already been bought. I thought about this and ow it compares to Christ as the shepherd. when you purchase a sheep it still has the ability to choose to follow its shepherd or not, often you do see sheep that wander away from the shepherd, but even thought the sheep has wandered away it is still the owned by the shepherd, he has already paid the price for the sheep, weather the sheep is aware of it or not.

Looking at it this way helps to really illustrate what follows in D&C 50:41,42:

"...and I have over come the world. and ye are of them that my Father hath given me.

42. And none that my Father hath given me shall be lost"

We are the Christ sheep, He has already paid the price for us, and as such he will give us shelter and care for us, when we are lost he shall seek for us. wither we want it or not the atonement was performed, the price for our sins was paid, so will we let such a great gift go to waste?

Why? Why start now and why the name

Ok so I have been seeing all my friends and select members of my family (I'm looking at you Mickelle) blogging and what not I decided that  (blogging) is the grown up thing to do, it has also been something I have been wanting it I do for awhile now. The last year has been probably one of the most eventful years since I got back from the land down south (Argentina) and I have been wanting to write things down as a way to process what I am learning, gasp so selfish I know! (It's probably why I am still single) another reason that I have been wanting to start this is because I have the majority of my family living in another state and this seems a better way to keep them in the loop of how I am doing between visits, I am sorry but sometimes phone calls don't cut it, and sorry Facebook you just fall short in this. 

Well I guess at this point is where I explain the title of this Blog (this being the first post and all). it has been my experience since my mission that inspiration doesn't come with out a little bit of work, I realized this while thinking about the verse of scripture found in Jeremiah 16:16 "Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.". at this point you may be thinking "but Spencer this is talking about missionaries", well yes it is, but we can also think of this as methods of seeking inspiration, blessings, guidance, or what ever it may be from the Lord. to explain I myself have dabbled in fishing, and it is a long process where i cast my line and wait.... and wait some more, maybe sneak a nap or two, and then after a long day of waiting with my line in the water I may have one or two fish to show for the effort. while as is explained here the hunters shall be out actively pursuing their prize, and at the end of the day what they have to show for their effort is way more than a few fish! to me it is like that with seeking the Lords help, of course he will help those who reach out to him by casting their line into the water, but those who set out and hunt, work, will obtain so much more hence the line "inspiration through perspiration"! so to wrap up this post which i apologize is longer than I intended for a first post, Sorry Not Sorry, I plan to share some of what I am working through and learn through that work here.