Dallineation

I have been spending much of my free time trying to learn more about my Latter-day Saint faith and about Catholicism – reading, listening to podcasts, watching videos, seeking to understand. It's been like drinking from a firehose and I need to pace myself.

In reality, this is exactly what I had hoped would happen – that removing my favorite distractions and time-wasters would cause me to stop avoiding uncomfortable questions and doubts and to seek answers. But more often than not, seeking answers to one question has prompted several more related questions. Combine that with an insatiable desire to learn more and it's a deluge of information that I'm trying to comprehend.

I need to give myself time to process what I'm learning. I need to be patient with myself. And I need to make time to seek after and commune with God, too.

These are the deepest theological and philosophical questions I have ever explored in my life. I can't expect to absorb and seriously think about everything I'm learning at breakneck speed or I'm going to burn myself out.

Much of my study today was on the LDS and Catholic beliefs about the nature of God and how they worship God. This has been a recurring topic of exploration and I hope to share some thoughts about what I have learned after I have had some time to really process the information I have found thus far.

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