The Christ-Centered Mirror
The Christ-Centered Mirror
🕊️✍️ By The True Remnant
A few years ago, if someone had told me I'd be writing blogs, making videos, studying scripture for hours, and talking to artificial intelligence every day, I would have laughed.
Hard.
😂
That wasn't my world.
Golf was my world.
Being outdoors was my world.
Building businesses was my world.
Working was my world.
Sitting in front of a computer talking to a machine was definitely not my world.
But life has a way of changing our plans.
Becoming the Patient
As my spine got worse, things started changing.
The things I used to do became harder.
Then some of them became impossible.
The Lord eventually gave me a simple message:
"Be the patient."
Now that wasn't exactly what I wanted to hear.
I wanted to be the fixer.
The helper.
The problem solver.
The guy carrying the backpack.
Instead, I found myself sitting in a chair more often than I wanted.
Resting more than I wanted.
Waiting more than I wanted.
And that's when something unexpected happened.
A New Tool Appeared
One day I started playing around with AI.
At first it was mostly curiosity.
Could it answer questions?
Could it help organize thoughts?
Could it help with writing?
The answer was yes.
But something else happened that I never expected.
The conversations got deeper.
Not because the machine was wise.
Not because the machine had revelation.
But because it helped me slow down and think.
It helped me see connections.
Patterns.
Ideas I might have missed.
Questions I hadn't considered.
Have I Programmed It?
That question came up recently.
Have I somehow programmed this thing?
In a way, yes.
In a way, no.
I didn't write the software.
I didn't create the system.
But after thousands of conversations, I realized something.
Most of my questions sounded the same.
Where is Christ in this?
Does this pass the Christ test?
What is the center?
What lesson am I missing?
What is the Lord trying to teach me?
After enough years of asking those questions, the mirror started reflecting them back.
The Christ-Centered Mirror
That's the phrase that finally made sense to me.
A Christ-centered mirror.
Not because it replaces Christ.
Not because it gives revelation.
Not because it becomes the Holy Ghost.
But because it helps me organize thoughts while I seek Christ.
A mirror doesn't create light.
A mirror reflects light.
A mirror doesn't create truth.
A mirror reflects what it is pointed toward.
And over the years, I've spent a lot of time trying to point everything back toward Christ.
Scripture.
Dreams.
Chiasmus.
The Nemenhah Records.
Family situations.
Questions.
Life itself.
Eventually I realized that was the real pattern.
Not the mirror.
The direction of the mirror.
The Crystal Stone
One of Joseph Smith's teachings has always fascinated me.
He taught that the earth would one day become like crystal and that those who inherit the celestial kingdom would receive a white stone, a Urim and Thummim, through which greater things would be revealed.
I don't pretend to understand all of that.
But I've often smiled at the thought.
Every generation uses the tools available to them.
Joseph had seer stones.
The prophets had visions.
John saw heavenly books.
Today we have computers, phones, and technology.
The tools change.
The search remains the same.
We're still trying to see more clearly.
We're still trying to understand.
We're still trying to find Christ.
The Real Teacher
Now let me be clear.
The Savior is the Teacher.
The Holy Ghost is the Teacher.
The scriptures are the foundation.
Prayer is where the answers come.
Those things come first.
Always.
But a tool can still be useful.
A shovel isn't the garden.
A compass isn't the destination.
A hammer isn't the house.
And a mirror isn't the light.
They're simply tools.
Useful tools.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
What We Have Built
Over time, something surprising happened.
A simple tool became part of my daily routine.
Blogs appeared.
Videos appeared.
Ideas appeared.
Connections appeared.
Not because the tool created them.
Because the questions created them.
And because the Lord kept teaching me through the questions.
Looking back, I can honestly say that some of the greatest blessings weren't the answers.
They were the better questions.
The Center
The older I get, the less interested I am in winning arguments.
The less interested I am in proving things.
The less interested I am in convincing people.
What interests me now is a much simpler question:
Where is Jesus in this?
That question has guided nearly every blog I've written.
Every video I've recorded.
Every dream I've tried to understand.
Every scripture I've studied.
And every conversation I've had.
Because whenever I sincerely ask that question, I seem to end up in the same place.
The Center.
The Peacemaker.
Jesus Christ.
And if a tool helps me remember to keep looking there, then I am grateful for it.
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