There are a few things that I live with knowing, without any doubts. Some of these truths are easy for my brain to access (the Church is true, I love Allison and she loves me, and spiders are the most terrifying creatures on the planet) while others my heart knows, even if my head doesn't. Unfortunately, I got shaken up recently.
Apparently, one of the things that I believe is that there always truth to a situation. What I mean is, if you say something and I say the opposite, only one of us can be right (or, as is usually the case, the truth lies in the middle). But what happens when two people are saying things that oppose each other and their both right? I won't say what happened, just that Allison and I disagreed about something and we were both right! I kept going it over and over in my head to try to see where I was wrong or where Allison was, but I got nowhere. It shook me pretty deeply.
Now, I'm not saying that I am now questioning all the other true things in my life. Not at all. I'm just trying to wrap my mind around the fact that there can be two right sides to something that isn't a geometric shape.
Although, I'm sure all you married people figured this lesson out already, right?
3 comments:
You are two different people. Don't sweat the little stuff and agree to disagree on minor things.
Different viewpoints are like snapshots of a statue or the interior of a house. No single snapshot cane represent the whole object. The Savior's parables are like these snapshots. In a single sermon, he says that the kingdom of God is like a pearl, a field, and a bunch of fish. How can all of them be true? Yet they are because he is representing different aspects of a greater thing.
Both are good pieces of advice.
The reason that "agree to disagree" is hard is because we've always been able to agree. 4 years of dating and we'd always come to a consensus, but after 2 months of marriage we need that concept.
As far as the Savior using different parables to represent the same thing, it's different because those were analogies and metaphors. They each represent a different part, but they don't actively oppose one another. It's like if he were to say that the kingdom of God is like a pearl and also not at all like a pearl. That is hard to understand, and that's what we were left with.
Anyway, it's just interesting what lessons you learn when you can't avoid it.
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