Wo, wo, wo

2 Nephi 15

Nephi is still sharing Isaiah with us.  This chapter gives me chills and it is not hard to see he is talking about our day.

I love the first verse because it explains why there are so many beautiful hymns written about our Savior and His love for us.  I love to sing the songs of the church.

As I’m reading this entire verse, it is being seen through my daughter’s eyes.  The entire chapter screams her life, but I will mention v18 “Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope”.  The deeper she goes, the heavier the burden.  The thrashing that is being done seems almost unbearable.  She calls evil good and good evil (v20).  Wo is mentioned at least six times (quick count).  What does wo mean?  The online dictionary says “intense grief or misery”.  That pretty much sums up what we’re able to see in her life.  Why or why is it so hard for a person sitting in such grief to see none other than himself or herself is generating it?  And yet in v25 it says “. . .but his hand is stretched out still.”  How is it stretched out?  Is it anger?  Is it in love?  Yes to both.

Heavenly Father must grieve terribly to see his children messing up so badly.  He’s given us this beautiful gospel to guide us home to him.  And yet some say “I don’t believe it”.  What is so hard about believing we have a Heavenly Father who loves us and wants us to return home?  What is so hard about viewing His family as we would view our own small families?  He has patterned the family after his own.   We long to be with our family.  Even my daughter wants to be with family; but it is so painful because we have something she wants.  What she doesn’t understand is that the only have to have what we have is to embrace the truth that family and gospel are the same. 

Dare I even post this?  These are the feelings of my heart.