A Stranger Here

My favorite hymn (O My Father #292) contains the line, "You're a stranger here".  This is how I feel.  Especially lately.  I feel like I don't belong here.  This mortal experience is becoming more and more foreign to me.

The world is ever-changing as it draws farther and farther away from my values and really from truth.  Society now teaches and embraces evil for good and good for evil.  I haven't watched the news on television since 2012. The mainstream media is completely propagandized and biased.  Towards Satan's agenda.  I can't believe anything on the news to be truth.  I mean, seriously, when you have educated and respected psychologists changing the DSM (whichever volume they are on) to include pedophilia as a normal sexual orientation -- how can you believe or trust anything they claim is true?  I've said it before but it's like living in The Twilight Zone.

Not only is the world becoming more foreign as it veers farther and farther from truth, but my own personal life has turned upside down.  Which makes me feel like a stranger here.  I even feel like a stranger at church.  Living in the same house for 12 years we have been in three different Wards.  Each time they've rearranged boundaries and put us in a new Ward I have felt more and more like a stranger.  I think we've been in this Ward about a year and a half and I still feel like a visitor.

Since Dad's death there have been a lot of changes in my life -- and I despise and loathe change. Which also contributes to me feeling like a stranger here.

Eliza R. Snow, who wrote the lyrics to "O My Father" back in the 1800s, was spot on when she penned "Yet ofttimes a secret something whispered, "You're a stranger here," and I felt that I had wandered from a more exalted sphere."

After nearly half a century on this earth, you would think I would be more comfortable being here, not less. It has been said that we are spiritual beings having a mortal experience, not mortal beings having a spiritual experience.  The farther the mortal experience veers from the spiritual, the more I feel like a stranger here.

That's my two cents.