Church Related Poem's

Prayer written on 11/09/03 rewritten on 11/18/03 date thought of unknown

Now that I am older I have come to realize something . I have come to realize that we for the most part we repeat, repeat, and repeat the same things. Like bless the prophet, bless that everybody gets home ok and stuff like that. Something people forget is that the savior says that you should not keep repeating the same thing. I was either taught, told, or I heard when my family used to listen to the scriptures on tape that the savior said that god knows your heart. So I say this to you instead of saying everything you can think of to say like, thank you for this, this, and this or bless so and so, and please help me with this or please help me do or get this or that. I ask you to tonight or the next time you pray to say this when you pray say heavenly father you know my heart you know what it desires, what it needs, and what it wants. I ask that you grant me what you think would best help me and in my constant struggle to be worthy of returning to you. And make me a better person and example to those of your children who have yet to see the light and felt your love and power flow through them.

By Brother Joseph Michael Ford Jr.
Interesting fact: This is something I talked with my bishop about at great length during my priesthood interview for the office of priest and then months later, on 11/09/03 in sacrament I was inspired to write it down. Then I was inspired to ask permission to read it in priesthood meeting and having got permission I just said basics of what the above talk says. I was more or less rambling about the talk than talking because I was so scared.

The Temple written on 11/09/03 rewritten on 11/18/03

The temple is a place that god has ordered built as a sort of a fort of goodness for the protection of the of the righteous from Satan.
It is also a place free of temptation and filled with the love, power, and spirit of GOD.
It is a place where you can show thanks to your ancestors for what they did for you and repay them for it.
The temple is the one place you can always feel safe.
It is the one place in which you can feel totally safe and where the problems of the world disappear into nothing.

By Brother Joseph Michael Ford Jr.
Interesting fact: I was inspired to write the things written above about the temple during the priesthood lesson on the temple and some of the things written there were written before they were even talked about in class. The rest just came to me out of the blue.