Bodies and Light

On the sweetness of Mormon life

In your small rural ward on the high plains, its your resident Britisher’s turn to speak. She talks about when she was a free-spirited hippy student at art school back in England. She had a dream. She was walking with two dowsing sticks. The sticks came together and light erupted from the ground. The light went before her to a quarry. When she went down to the quarry, she found that the rock walls were painted with animals and trees. Then Christ came out to greet her.

After she graduated, she got a job at a natural history museum. She worked in a kind of open air well in the center of the building with exhibits and displays all around her. She decided to check out the local LDS church for curiosity. She tried to sneak in inconspicuouly but didn’t succeed (hippy, torn jeans, tank top, frizzy fro, one wonders why). As the missionaries were talking to her one day she learned about the stick of Judah and the stick of Joseph. The Spirit told her that was her dream.

She then went old school LDS talking about light both physics and metaphysics. Her inner artist was showing. She concluded—this was obviously very important to her—that we spirits had come to earth to be bodies because bodies gave us more ways to interact with light.