Heroic Sonnet, definition and example

Heroic Sonnet

Definition & Example

This is my first out of what I hope will be many blog posts about not only the poems I create but a little information for those looking for answers. What is a Heroic Sonnet??? How do you even begin to write one??? Well let me tell you, yes they are not the typical easy poetry format, but I personally love this form!

A heroic sonnet is a poem written with 210 lines of poetry. Not only is it long but it is made up of 15 normal sonnets, usually in iambic pentameter form. Now if you're not sure what iambic pentameter is, I’ll explain it. Iambic pentameter is basically 10 syllables on each line. Or the other way you can put it is the iamb stand for foot, and it consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Pent means five, so one line of iambic pentameter consists of five iambs. I don't know about you but I personally find the 10 syllables per line definition easier to follow and understand. (daDUM)(daDUM)(daDUM)(daDUM)(daDUM) is the beat you want on each line.

For example:

Doth cre/ate in/ a blink/ a mas/ter's eye

(daDUM)(daDUM)(daDUM)(daDUM)(daDUM)

Forms plac/es that/only/moments/ago

(daDUM)(daDUM)(daDUM)(daDUM)(daDUM)

This is two lines from my first Heroic Sonnet I ever wrote. Each line has 10 syllables and so follows the iambic pentameter form. Not all are written this way but the majority are.

How do you write a heroic sonnet? There is a major key to writing this form that you must remember. You have 15 sonnets to write, but you MUST write Sonnet 15 first if you want your poem to flow and make sense. You see with a heroic sonnet you're not just writing 15 sonnets and 210 lines of poetry. You have guidelines you have to follow as with any poetry from. Line one in sonnet 15 will be line one is sonnet 1. Line two in sonnet 15 will be line one in sonnet 2. Line three in sonnet 15 will be line one in sonnet 3, and so it continues on tell sonnet 14. A sonnet is a 14 line poem, and line fourteen in sonnet 1 will be line one in sonnet 2. Line fourteen in sonnet 2 will be line one in sonnet 3 and it goes on from there. You also want to make sure that the last line in sonnet 14 is the first line of sonnet 1. So it can be quite confusing and I have placed my heroic sonnet example below in case you did not follow this. A heroic sonnet is also typically written with a rhyme scheme similar to this: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

For example:

A-Doth create in a blink a master's eye

B-Forms places that only moments ago

A-Could not yet exist, but now we do spy

B-Yet moments ago we did choose to roe

C-To roe upon this master mind of mine

D-We seem to find that rhythm does not end

C-We shall find no end to a twinkling time

D-That does seem to want and will wait to bend

E-A creation that only I command

F-To my tongue the words will try to make sound

E-Hand me a pen for the words are unplanned

F-To fly off my pen to seek to be crowned

G-Create in the mist an image of gold

G-Gold painted not for the eyes to behold

I hope this has helped you understand a little about a heroic sonnet and how one is written. I personally really enjoyed not only writing this blog post but creating the heroic sonnet. I plan on writing many more.

Here is my Heroic Sonnet Example:

A Writer’s Sonnet

Doth create in a blink a master's eye

Forms places that only moments ago

Could not yet exist, but now we do spy

Yet moments ago we did choose to roe

To roe upon this master mind of mine

We seem to find that rhythm does not end

We shall find no end to a twinkling time

That does seem to want and will wait to bend

A creation that only I command

To my tongue the words will try to make sound

Hand me a pen for the words are unplanned

To fly off my pen to seek to be crowned

Create in the mist an image of gold

Gold painted not for the eyes to behold

Gold painted not for the eyes to behold

I did create that in this world of mine

For you see among us the dark takes hold

Takes hold among the hearts and minds of swine

The swine of man who only likes to spy

They try to create that world of their own

Although here I sit choosing the winds cry

Choosing those that will sit upon that throne

So tall so small they may or may not be

When counting down the seconds are soon gone

Seconds that did not have to go pay that fee

As they soon come to know they are all pawns

They masquerade around acting the part

So beautiful created not with dye

So beautiful created not with dye

I find fiery breath of the dragon strong

Yet greater I do find the gift to try

Try and  succeed in creating this song

For those among the crowd do watch me dance

Laughing and scorning at my chosen speed

Wait, you there do you not see this romance

That in time builds and with speed might just bleed

How could you, know that in my hidden mind

There sits a place upon that edge a rest

Worlds that hidden may or may not be kind

Where in that place shall that phoenix take nest

You try to capture the phoenix to hold

My words they seem to create something bold

My words they seem to create something bold

Hidden not, they flow above they create

Something you might just be able to hold

Or will you choose to close  to lock a gate

Oh how far do the wild thoughts do roam

Aboad, about inside the wild blooms

Upon this stoney path you see a gnome

That gnome hidden and whose name seem to loom

To touch my pen the ink to the blank sheets

Although the words like magic they will seem

Once born  alive they come as words like sweets

To melt and mix to build the needed cream

I create words of cream to make the toon

Something that I shall spin upon the moon

Something that I shall spin upon the moon

Seems to me nothing more than a odd dream

Yet here I do write a tale of a  loon

That you might just dance to upon that stream

So seeking that adventure in the mist

I choose to take not the headed advice

Yet here I do choose those who might be kissed

Upon that hidden mask of words with spice

Create those hidden places among things

Mysteries when seen seem to be untold

The story of that so full of those rings

That echo loud and far to those few sold

Finding I choose the story of that tusk

As the fairy doth dance into the dusk

As the fairy doth dance into the dusk

I laugh to create the forest within

The forest that the fairy full of lusk

Created to hide away his great sin

To laugh inside I fly upon the words

I use the words to melt and mix my spell

For there is no need for those lies and cords

That you will tie around the gated well

Seeking only entertainment they come

Seeking entertainment they do not count

Counting down those echoes that silent drum

That only become the stories account

Sometimes I have to wonder on that tune

That I create a story of a loon

that I create a story of a loon

Or could it be a story for a soul

You see the loon is only in the moon

Yet the soul does delight all in the goal

I sit here, I create to my content

I don't stop to say aloud hidden words

I make sure to record that which is spent

Upon the moon sits and sings a blue bird

I find so many in this maze of mind

here it is written down upon the page

No longer we find it is intertwined

With the words that I did write for that wage

Then once again the fairy is a lusk

Yet there in the mist is the stories tusk

Yet there in the mist is the stories tusk

There full of the hidden secrets of men

The men and fairies who are full of lusk

They do hide them away here in the glen

Here they are hidden away in this place

A place so full of both the spies and lords

We shall find the women adorned with lace

Yet they so clueless to the hidden cords

As here men or faires that walk about

Hiding the truth or them in your plain sight

Yet here I do create a stage of doubt

As men of faires care not for the right

Looking I find I can't be overthrown

Oh wait, I find you sit upon that throne

Oh wait I find you sit upon that throne

You try to create, rule that which is mine

Waiting and watching as you take the zone

Creating something of your own design

Waiting I watch you as you take control

You the character seems the master now

You do dance away you do take your scroll

Down and about you do start to bestow

From afar you do grow and develop

Yet  soon do I learn I do not create

You leap out over land to envelop

Now only a king can control your fate

Fighting to create I find in your eye

So high, so mighty  you feel you might fly

So high, so mighty  you feel you might fly

As you the master of your mighty fight

Seem to be in the line of that dark sky

You seem to think your fate is not a knight

You choose to dare and to defy my words

Transforming my words to air it doth seem

You reason with the story not as a byrd

You discover that you do like that stream

You follow that twisted path to the north

You go not alone but so full of those lies

The lies and spies of fairies that do go forth

Out ,about your followed by silent cries

You wrote a path yet if  you could of known

Yet you do not know that I in the zone

Yet you do not know that I in the zone

Can still control this path if I so choose

So don't you dare try to cry or to moan

You do choose to ignore those hidden clues

Oh dear character of my heart, my soul

You did leap, bound farther than any before

Although far in mystery here is the troll

That you did not see upon your dark shore

As here I sit counting down those long paths

That will lead you to my desired one

For inside I do fight that wicked  wrath

So free and loved you do think you have won

After a battle fought I stand nearby

Can create the path that causes you to die

Can create the path that causes you to die

Quietly I do watch you be so mighty

Totally unaware you feel so high

You do sit, you laugh feeling almighty

Yet I the writer is spinning this tale

You see you did catch me when unaware

Although I did figure out that it was frail

It that was my idea I’m  in despair

As those hidden small words did launch so far

Off this silk pen and down this blank white page

They did land to create something bizarre

Hidden and unknown they did upstage

That plan I had is now in a debate

With my passion and love doth I create

With my passion and love doth I create

A character that of his own design

who was a knight did design his own fate

Now on that throne you're all but intertwined

The writer had believed to know it all

As the seconds fled upon a lost thought

To find that only you who was so tall

You could conquer all that was so distraught

There in that place you were so far of path

Following your mind fate did lead you to

That path I had fought with a writer's wrath

Here in this end we sit long overdue

I the writer now do open that gate

My world so full of stories that doth await

My world full of stories that doth await

It is full of those things only in dreams

Things created by those who don't debate

Between that which is created by schemes

If only I the writer had only known

That a character of such strong design

Will not be made to be only outgrown

But shall develop into that which will shine

To shine like this brave character of mine

Is something we all seem to all but lose

When we the writer choose to cry or whine

We then take a risk at being confused

Yet here I chose to choose and then apply

Doth create in a blink a master's eye

Doth create in a blink a master's eye

Gold painted not for the eyes to behold

So beautiful created not with dye

My words they seem to create something bold

Something that I shall spin upon the moon

As the fairy doth dance into the dusk

that I create a story of a loon

Yet there in the mist is the stories tusk

Oh wait, I find you sit upon that throne

So high, so mighty  you feel you might fly

Yet you do not know that I in the zone

Can create the path that causes you to die

With my passion and love doth I create

My world full of stories that doth await

-Written by: Emma J. Willden

© April 9, 2016 - Emma Joy Willden

My Thoughts on Poetry. . .

My Thoughts On Poetry . . .

Hello dear readers. What are your thoughts on poetry? Have you ever written a poem that flows or a poem that just seems to go? Have you ever thought one in your mind and liked how it rhymed? Or are you one of those many individuals who just don't understand it, or care for it? Or like I used to be, do you love to write it but hate to read it? Or do you love to write and read those words that seem to just flow?

Well my thoughts on poetry are so vast and far it is hard for me to put it all into thoughts without me creating a poem to do so. You see I as a writer have a hard time putting my emotions and feelings into words to be said aloud. But if you give me the chance to write it down a poem will be formed. It may or may not make sense to anyone else but me, but its an emotion, a memory or perhaps even a dream captured for all time and eternity on paper. When I write I get lost in a world that may not ever exist here for you my dear reader. But for me that world is opened up with a simple door and a simple key. It is called pen and paper. When I start to write I seem to just float away, all my worries and stresses are then set free. If only for a time have I escaped, it is just like picking up a novel that you just cant put down.

I enjoy writing poetry, and all differnt types of things. I hope to create something more with this blog then just a place to spin a fairy tale in poetry. I am going to start writing articles that will describe differnt forms of poetry, I will create one or two examples for each differnt type of poetry. I am wanting to express my love of writing in other ways then just poetry. But I shall start to expand my writing abilities by expanding not only your knowledge but mine as well.  I shall start with a simple article on poetry.

Emma Joy Huls Creative Mind: Who do you want to be? LifeVantage

Emma Joy Huls Creative Mind: Who do you want to be? LifeVantage:                                                     WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?                        What are you seeking in life?      ...

Who do you want to be? LifeVantage

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                       What are you seeking in life?
                                Where are you going?
                                             Is tomorrow the same as yesterday?
                                                       Will you retire?
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Do you ask yourself these questions? Are you worried about losing your home, vehicle, extra. Well I was. 1 year ago today my life did not look like a pretty painted picture. Or even one in the making. Right now its not complete, but its in a much better  place then a year ago.

October 2014 we bought our dream home. Small, affordable, with a orchard, garage. LOVE IT. We were able to afford it. January 2015 we welcomed our son into the family. Life wasn't easy but it was looking up. House, jobs, baby..extra. By the end of January my husband was looking for a new job. How we didn't lose our home, truck and minds this last year don't ask me because I have no answer except the Lord watched out for me and my family.
In October of last year I was given the opportunity for something and I took it. I don't regret it. Not only has it helped me out financially, but its helped me. And what I mean by that is I am a better person today because of it. I am learning new things every day. I am truly happy for the first time in a long time. I am not stressed. I am not worried. I am excited, passionate and ready to change my life for ever. Guess what? I already have. I have goals again, and for once in my life I KNOW without a doubt in my mind where I am going. I know without hesitation, worry, confusion and WHAT IF"S clogging up my  view.

LifeVantage has saved my life in more then one way. Not only have the products worked on me. But the company has given me a vision that no one can remove. I see myself clearly achieving my dreams for the first time in my lifetime I don't just dream. I believe. I believe in myself, I believe in a future full of hope, laughter and love. A future that I can give back to all who have given to me. My depression is gone, my stress, anxiety and negativity. Gone. I am ready to stop being here, and read to start living.

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My 2016 New Year's Resolution ...

                                                 My 2016 New Year's Resolution .....

Every year for as long as I can remember I have dreaded New Years. Mainly because, everyone meaning my parents, friends, teachers,.. extra would ask me the same question every year. "What is your New Year's Resolution?" Well to be completely honest I never truly have ever set one. I may say one thing one year, and something else the next. Yet I have never said it with any real intent of completing any one of them. I never have.

So why would this year be any different? What is so special about 2016 that I have actually set more than one?? To be honest I don't know for sure. All I know is I am excited about this year. I am excited about life, and I want to live this year like I have never lived any other years. I want to make choices that will benefit my family, my future and myself. In this article I am going to share a few of my New Years Resolutions and why I have set them.

A few of my resolutions for my at home life are : 1- Clean house, 2- No clutter, 3-Schedule(cleaning,cooking,daily life). I struggle juggling a job, running a store, a business and being a wife and mother. Forget the house, meals, organization. Its LONG forgotten this last year. Its gotten to the point where I take one day a week to do nothing but deep deep clean my house and that is if something doesn't come up to take me away from home that day. So this year for the sanity and health of myself and my family these are top goals of mine. I want to create a daily schedule where I wake up do one or two chores, get ready for work. Drop baby off at sitters, After work have one or two chores...extra. So that my house doesn't look like a bunch of wild animals live here. This will be something I will defiantly struggle with because as I said I have a lot going on and little time to spare. I just need to discover how to properly manage my time. Any suggestions for proper time management?

My resolutions for my spiritual side are: 1-Read & Pray daily with family, 2- Read & Pray daily by my self, 3-Finish Book of Mormon with family, and by my self, 4- Receive my Temple recommend 5- Receive my Temple endowments , 6- Be sealed to my family, 7- To not miss a tithing or fast offering ,and 8-to attend every Sunday. I love having a relationship with my father in heaven. I enjoy the connection I know I am able to have with him. I used to have a strong testimony, a strong relationship with the Lord. Yet in the last 3 years I have let it shrink and fade. Where I used to never miss a tithing, I struggle to pay it. Where I used to read and pray daily, I struggle once a week to do so. Where I once attend church faithfully I allow life to prevent me from going. I still have my testimony, that is one thing I will never allow myself to lose. I have seen, felt and experienced way too many things in my 21 years to allow it to fade into nothing. I know without a doubt in my mind that I am a daughter of my heavenly father, and that he not only loves me and guides me but he loves and guides us all. My main goal this year is to draw closer to him then I ever have before, so I can succeed in my ultimate goal to be sealed for time and all eternity to my family.

I have many resolutions for my pride and joy, Country Nook. I love being at my store. I wish I could be there daily. My resolutions for Country Nook this year are: 1- Double my income from last year, 2- Paint the outside of the building (What color should I do so??) 3- Acquire a new sign for the store, 4- Advertise everywhere possible, 5- Relay for life, and 6-Start doing Craft lessons. I love my shop so much and want nothing more then to see it succeed the way I know it can. Yes my location is not the greatest, I am on a main road, but not in the main town. I know if I don't quit in the next 5 to 10 years my store will be doing so much better. For now though I need to get to work on it. The outside of the store is not all that great for a place of business. I am wanting to find a color that POPS and says look here I am here! But I also want it to say, come check us out we have treasures that are hand crafted and amazing. So any ideas on this are greatly needed and appreciated. I am also needing to get more advertisement out there. I have a website so anyone can order from my store. But I need to get the word out there. Where besides Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pintrest can I advertise?? I will really appreciate all suggestions. My other fun goals are to create a Relay for Life team this year. Who wants to be apart of the Country Nook team??? Contact me and let me know so we can start planning. I am way excited and have many ideas, and goals for it. The last two years I have been apart of it but haven't done very much. This year will be awesome! My other fun goal is to start doing craft classes. Something to raise a little extra for the store, and to help teach people new talents. Ideas and suggestions are welcome on this one as well. Years ago I had a dream about a small store full of dreams and wishes, and hopes. When I awoke from it I remember trying my hardest to go back to sleep so that I could continue to be in the shop. A few days ago as I stood looking around my small boutique store it hit me. That store in my dreams so many years ago is identical to Country Nook. And there is indeed many hopes, dreams and wishes piled in side. They are the hopes, wishes, and dreams of me, and so many others. All my vendors work so hard at their day jobs, and part time on their passions. I opened Country Nook with the hopes to create a place to inspire those crafty people. A place for them to sale and show case what they love to do. I only hope I can help us all accomplish the dream that I know Country Nook can be.

My last resolution is definitely not the least of them. I have a goal to reach Pro 3 in my LifeVantage business by the end of this new year. I love being in this company, the people are amazing, the products are extraordinary.  I have never felt so right about doing something as I do this company. Three years ago when my brother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer I went down hill. I became depressed. And even though I have been aware of it for the last 3 years, I fought it and some days I won...but most days I lost. In October 2015 I was introduced to Protandim. And within a few weeks I woke up. I felt a load taken off my mind and I was able to focus. For the first time in 3 years I am alive again. I am not just going threw the motions of the day, I am living the motions. I am remembering things, but most importantly I care again. I care and I never want to live in that dark cloud again. I am setting goals, and one of the top goals is  LifeVantage. I know what this company can do for the world. I know what the products can do, and I want to pay it forward for all the service I have been given in my life. If I can help but one person I will be successful.

I used to think goals were pointless, and unnecessary. Yet threw this last year I've discovered the value to not only making goals, but achieving them. Happy New year everyone. Good-bye 2015 hello 2016.

I am not a victim, I am a survivor

Often I have heard so many times "I am broken, so why should I be a better person?"

I have seen so many people who have so much potential give it up. Because something terrible happened in their life. At that point they stop. They stop caring, they stop progressing forward. They start making decisions that they probably should not of made. They say and do things that they never would of done.

Too many times I have seen scares become an identity. Too many times have I seen hope become forgotten, as despair becomes their motto.

Are you a victim? Doesn't matter of what, of anything. Are you a victim of a bully? of a sex crime? Did someone lie to you? Did you have bad parenting? A bad education? Or did someone miss use your trust? Or by chance did cancer steal into your world? The list goes on and on. But it is still the same question. Am I a victim, or a survivor?  Did you push ahead? Did you not let what ever came stand in your way of becoming who you are today? Or did that event or events create who you are? Don't get me wrong, every life experience we have will make us into who we will be. But the question is, will it make you, or will it break you?

Those who read this wont know my whole life story. Some may know me and a little of my story. Although I know many of you will not know. So I will give a brief introduction into how I have learned this concept of making a challenge into a ladder to climb, or a stairway to ascend.

I am almost 21 years old. I am a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother. When I was 11 years old my older sister my hero, was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of 13. She under went chemotherapy, but the tumor grew. She then went through radiation, again the tumor grew. She ended up spending her 14th birthday in the hospital for brain surgery. Her tumor has not grown since, but that does not mean all is well. My family has had to watch her go threw the after effects of chemo, radiation and brain surgery. The medications prescribed to her sometimes made things worse more times then not. She suffered from seizes for years. And she continues to suffer from extreme vertigo which causes many set backs. I can not describe to you unless you've been there the feelings. When you hear the words at the age of 11 that your sister, your hero has a brain tumor. There are no words, and I am a writer. When you go to church, to school and cringe at every loud noise. Knowing your sister could drop into a seizure. When that fire alarm would ring at school and your on the other end of the building and because it is a drill your not aloud to go make sure she is okay. There are no words, none to describe the heartache the pain. When my sister is one of the hardest workers I know, yet she can not work. What employer will hire someone who will work hard for them for one or two days but be down for a week? It breaks my heart to see the things I have that are so easy that are mountains for her. Although slowly she improves, one day she will be healthy again. But its hard to watch.
Then at the end of my senior year, at the age of 18 disaster hit again. My brother who was 16 at the time was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. The doctors were not hopeful, and gave us little hope. I do not remember that year very much. I remember the heartache, the pain. I remember crying and breaking down out of the blue because I was powerless to heal him. And to top it off when you walk down a hospital hallway and all the rooms on the cancer floor are filled with children. There are no words. There is no word to the anguish you feel for those fighting the battle to live behind those closed doors. My brother was one of the oldest children who were there. While he was fighting my family got to know a few others and out of the 3 we really got to know. Only 1 is here still today. My brother is thankfully now cancer free. But if it comes back, there is nothing the doctors can do.

These two trails are two that I can think of at this moment. But I will say that they have only been the frosting on the cake to the last 20 years of my life. It seems as soon as one thing happens and dies down and things start going good again, something else happens. But you have to keep looking forward and beyond.

Too many times I have had people tell me these things: "your so strong" ,and " How are you so positive? How did you come out happy?"

When people say these things too me, I have a moment of pause. A moment of confusion. Because I don't understand it. The way I see it is my life is easy compared to others. My life is blessed. I do not have an easy life but I have a good one. And as I look at it, it is because I focus on the good on the positive. I do not give ear to the doubt inside me. To the despair of the occasion. So many wonder how I have been able to create something good out of something bad. And its simple. Its called you keep going. If you continue walking, and moving eventually you will hit something good in life. You just need to keep going, and remember that your worth something better. Remember that you are worth accomplishing your dreams.

When I was 12 years old I thought my life had absolutely no meaning. I remember being alone allot of the time because my family was divided. My mom ,sister and little brother were up north for my sisters treatments. My dad was working , and working hard to pay the bills. My older brother was not around. It was me and my younger sister. And it was hard. I didn't have someone to lean on at school when the day got hard for me. I didn't have someone to talk to when Dad worked late and the house was quite. I started thinking about suicide. I started thinking really hard about it. At this time one of my truest friends moved to town and she helped give me a hand to hold. A shoulder to lean on at school. She gave me more then hope. And as our friendship grew I started seeing things differently. How could I be so selfish to think of causing a bigger hole in my family? How could I cause more pain to my family? And I could see my baby sisters face if I killed myself. But another thing I could see, was my future. I knew that one day I would become a wife, a mom. I knew that one day I would marry. Who would be a wife to my husband if I were gone? Who would be a mother to my children if I weren't here? Yes I was only 12, and 13 at this time, but I started thinking of a future without me. and I could not allow that to happen. I started making plans, dreams and goals.

When my brother got sick I was dating my husband. We were married a month after my brother was finally able to come home. We became parents to a beautiful baby boy a year latter. We have a beautiful home, and live in a beautiful town. We both have loving and supporting families in the area. We both work jobs, and work as parents. But you know what is truly important. I am here not as a victim of the cruelties in life. But I am here as a survivor. I am here to be a mother, a wife. I am here today because I didn't quit when life got tough.

I know that not many read my blog posts. I know that not many will ever see this post. My hope is that if one person reads this, and it gives them hope. Or teaches them something positive to help them in their lifetime. That is why I wrote this.

God is the same yesterday, today and always....

I have felt compelled many times , too many to count to sit and write this. I have struggled with this because I do not wish to cause contention, or negative feelings. But this must be said.

I want to start this article out with a scripture that has been resonating in my mind, my soul ever since the new Latter Day Saint Church announced the new policy concerning children of same sex couples.

"For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing?" (Mormon 9:9)

Is it really a surprise that the Church has placed same sex marriage in the apostasy category? I will admit that when I heard that they had placed in the policy that the children had to wait tell the age of 18 I did question it, even though part of me understood it, even though I did not know why. But then as I have done my research I have come to realize why I did not jump to anger or hostility. I understand why they have made this policy.

Imagine this: You are are 8 years old, one or both of your parents are in same sex relationship(s). You have made a sacred covenant with the Lord into the LDS church. You have been baptized, you go every Sunday and sit in a class full of other children. And as you are taught about the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the LDS religion. You discover that your parent(s) are considered to be living in sin. They are un worthy to enter into the Temple. And the life they live is opposed to the covenants you made with the Lord. You then go home and are taught by your parent(s) that same sex marraige is ok. Its not a sin, and its alright. And that the church is wrong.

How would you feel? What would you think? Place yourself in the position of a child who is told 2 different things. Which are they to believe? Who are they to trust?
Ask yourself why you would place a child in that position, to choose between their baptism covenants and their parents.

I understand why the church placed this in the policy. We are really big on the family foundation. We believe that families can be together forever. So why would we want to divide a family home? This is not only for children with parents in same sex marriages. This applies to Polygamist's , and to Muslims as well. This is not an act of hostility but an act of love. And if you do not believe what I have written. If you do not believe the words of our Church leaders. That is your decision. But I will testify to you and to the world that it is so.
If you have not yet had the chance to hear from the LDS church's leaders on why they placed this in the policy go to this link, and watch as Elder Christofferson is interviewed. http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/handbook-changes-same-sex-marriages-elder-christofferson?HP_FR_11-6-2015_dPAD_fCNWS_xLIDyL1-A_

With that said, I want to go and reflect on the scripture above.

"For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing?" (Mormon 9:9)

This article is not to focus on the new policy. It is only what inspired my thoughts. Do you believe in God? Do you believe in a higher power of some kind? What ever religion you are, do you believe that there is some one, something bigger then us all that created this world? Created us , and everything here?  Well if you do then why do we try to change him? Would you tell your teacher in a class room that 2+2=10?? Would you argue with him that 2+2=10 when he tell you the answer is 4? Truly is it not common sense? Do you really believe that you know more then he? Did he not create you? Did he not create this world? Why do we try and take his simple commandments and try to change them? Why do we tell him " Lord, I know this is a sin to you, but everyone is doing it so you must be mistaken"? And I am not just talking about same sex relationships here. I am talking about it all. There are too many people who come to church every Sunday. They partake of the sacrament. They renew those sacred covenants only to go the next day and knowingly break them. My heart breaks into so many shards for those individuals. My heart shatters for all those who do not truly understand the Lord when the answers are there in front of them. I love everyone I meet in life. I love my enemies my friends.  I have tried to hold grudges, but when they are in need or hurt I am one of the first to give them a helping hand. And yes it has stabbed me in the back plenty. But I will not change how much I love you all. Even if I do not know you. And that is why my heart shatters for all of you who happen to look the Lord in the face and tell him you know better. Because my brothers, and my sisters we know nothing compared to him. We know very little. Even if we were to learn all that his world has to offer we will not have all the knowledge that he has. So why do we think we know better? Why do we believe that if it is popular is right, even if the Lord says no?

I do not understand why people will walk away from the Lord, when he tells them no. I do not understand why his simple doctrine is looked at as difficult and hard.

Yes living in this sin filled world is hard. Yes it is hard to watch as wrong is made into right and right into wrong. But no it is not hard for me to say "no". It is not hard for me to walk away from a crowd that is shady. It is not hard for me to say no to alcohol, drugs and extra. And no not because I am religious. No not because my church is against these things. But because why would I partake in something that will cause damage to me. Why would I allow myself to become a slave to a worldly item. I am happy having no addictions driving my life.