Moroni 7 :15

For behold, brethren, it is given unto you to judge, that you may know good from evil. And the way to judge is as plain, that you may know with a perfect knowledge, as the daylight is from the dark night.

I wish wish it were so. Oh, how I wish life was so simple, that everything was either black or white, that there were no grey areas. This last year has taught me that what is so obviously good to me (and what verged on just plain evil as well) was not seen the same at all to my fellow church members.

It was the elections and in particular the Trump presidency and his policies and especially the derogatory language that was a constant from President Trump himself. And yet the majority of my LDS friends support him.

We who have the light of Christ, the gift of the Holy Ghost, discerned good versus evil in opposing ways.

This was a great example of how difficult it is to actually identify good and evil in our world today.

I pray daily for the courage to stand for the principles I believe and to be gracious to those who see differently.