Black Sheep Corianton

What the blast was Corianton thinking?  To go and serve a mission for the Lord and end up taking a tumble in the hay with the HARLOT Isabel!  I mean, it just can't be one decent young lady.  No!  Alma couldn't just come out and call her a "whore".  LOL.  Harlot is a nicer way to put it. 

Alma 39: 4  Yea, she did ^asteal away the hearts of many; but this was no excuse for thee, my son. Thou shouldst have tended to the ministry wherewith thou wast entrusted.

I just couldn't help but giggle at the way Alma was trying to counsel his son firmly yet lovingly. Corianton was still in his youth.  Helaman and Shiblon was faithful and stalwart.  While this young kid was lustful!  Of course he must have been innocent and that "harlot" Isabel must have tempted him beyond all reason.  She's experienced after all because from the above verse, she apparently "steal" away many hearts which to me, in other words, she "screwed" many and the poor kid fell straight into her lustful grasps.  He did not know what hit him and just couldn't resist her tempting ways. 

Alma 39:9  Now my son, I would that ye should repent and forsake your sins, and go no more after the ^alusts of your eyes, but ^bcross yourself in all these things; for except ye do this ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God. Oh, remember, and take it upon you, and ^ccross yourself in these things.

This is old news.  Many a male missionaries get send home because instead of focusing on a mission they allow themselves to be distracted by the female species.  Many of them got send home without finishing their missions.  That is one of the saddest things to see.  Alma advised Corianton to "CROSS" himself of all these abominations of the flesh.  Lust and Sexual Sins are an abominations before God and he needed to stop and repent. 
Alma 39:7 And now, my son, I would to God that ye had not been ^aguilty of so great a crime. I would not dwell upon your crimes, to harrow up your soul, if it were not for your good.

What Corianton did was devastating.  Not only did he commit a grievous sexual sin but by doing so, led away many of the Zoramites that Alma and the missionaries were trying to convert to the church.  His choice affected a lot of people. 

I love the fact that Alma was close to his sons.  To serve a mission together with them as they were still in their youths.  It must, of course, tore his heart apart when he found out about his Corianton's fornications and address the matter face to face with his son instead of ignoring them like that priest Eli in the Old Testament  So many characters in the Book of Mormon.  I love reading this magnificent book. 

 

PRAY PRAYING PRAYERS

We stumble we get up we try and try again.  School has begun!  With all the hectic scheduling, we need to put some kind of order back in our family.  Last week our Bishop Falepapalangi said:  "If your home is not organized, Satan will have power in your homes."  That went straight to my heart because we are far from being organized.  I pray that Heavenly Father will still continue to watch over my family as I work to put some order back in our chaotic home. 

The power of prayer has always been my constant companion.  That direct, clear line between myself and my Father in Heaven has never been more define and clearer.  I am forever grateful for the power of prayer.  That I don't have to be in a certain situation or condition.  That I can prayer anytime, anywhere for the desires of my heart.  That line is always open, never busy and never disconnected from the other end, only from ours when we choose to.

Alma 33 tells of prayers by Zenos the prophet.  This is during Alma and the sons of Mosiah missionary journeys.  They discovered that the Zoramites has erected magnificent synagogues to offer their prayers only once a week.  They had cast out the poor among them and they dress in their finest attires to climb their synagogues and pray the same rehearsed and memorized prayer once a week.

This greatly astonished Alma and his companions.  They became successful among the poor people of the Zoramites and they taught them about prayers using the prophet Zenos words. We can pray in the
...wilderness, in our fields, in our closets, within our house and in the midst of our congregations.  We can pray for our enemies and to endure through our afflictions..

We can pray anywhere for anything we desire.  My endings however are always the same:  "Thy will be Done!"  It doesnt' matter where I  am, there's always a prayer of gratitude that graces my heart and shoots straight to the Heavens every second of that day that I'm reminded to be grateful.  And it will be from the most minuet things as a pen to write with or a car to ride in but most of all for the time I still have to enjoy this life.

My prayers are constantly for the safety and happiness of my children.  What parents pray for anything less?   "Bless my children, Leveni, Fusi and Selamafi, Leli, Silia, Mahonrai, Pati, Mele and Beverly. Help them make the right choices and keep them safe from harm and evil.  Wrap thy loving arms around them and blanket them with thy protection night and day.  Keep them safe and sound.  Bring them home to me at the end of each day"

It's never ending utterances of pleading and begging.   To a mighty Heavenly Father who foresees and have to power to do anything and everything.  Yet He chooses to give us our free agency to choose.  There are so many other things and people I pray for.  But never let it said that I failed to express my sincere gratitude at the beginning of each prayer and the ones that are always in my heart.  I AM GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING IN MY LIFE.    FOR A LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER AND HIS EVERLASTING SON JESUS CHRIST WHO HAVE SAVED US ALL. 

The power of prayers are magnificent.  I am grateful to be able to pray to a living GOD.  Amen