Many Fountains

The Book of Mormon for a long time was more seen as a miraculous sign than as a source of scriptural content.  For a long time, the Doctrine and Covenants has been the opposite: mined for doctrine.   But it would be better if we balanced that by also seeing the Doctrine and Covenants as itself a miraculous sign that the heavens are still open.  In a sense it almost doesn’t matter what God wants to talk to you about–the mindblowing thing is that God is talking to you!  Let it be his views on the dimensions of the temple, so long as it be His!

Approach the Doctrine and Covenants not only for what is in it but as a celebration that it exists at all, pay extra attention to your patriarchal blessings and General Conference talks this year, make a revelation journal yourself, and you will not be far from the mark.  Your theme this year should be that the Heaves are Open.

In Lehi’s dream, there is a fountain that starts clean and then quickly becomes dirty.  The image  you should have in the D&C is not a fountain flowing from Joseph Smith from which we now draw refreshment.  The image is a fountain that sinks into your soil, and mine, that saturates all of mount Zion, and now a new fountain is springing up where I am and where you are, saturating the soil even more, and my children and yours are also now fountains, and our neighbors, our friends, their children, fountain after fountain after fountain, and now the whole  hillside is one great spring and the flow is too wide and too clear to ever be dirtied.