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Sabbath Devotional :: Alma and Agape
During my first couple of years of college, I worked at the campus bookstore café. I learned to make lattes I would never drink myself and I also discovered that deep cleaning was a soothing experience for me. The café manager Sharon (not her real name) was not a student at the university, but a middle-aged mom who worked full time to manage all the student workers and keep the place running. She could be quite difficult to work with and seemed to take pleasure in holding some sort of authority over us. She was inflexible, often demanding, and just not very fun to work for. I was a young…
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Sabbath Devotional :: Infinite Loop of Agape
“An infinite loop (sometimes called an endless loop) is a piece of coding that lacks a functional exit so that it repeats indefinitely.” I have a faint recollection of the concept of an infinite loop from an undergraduate computer coding class I took over 20 years ago. When a young man in my ward used the phrase in a gospel context during his missionary farewell recently, I felt a jolt of recognition as it related to some of my personal spiritual experiences over the past few years. It was a way to describe a state of being that I felt gloriously “stuck” in. It began with love, then became marked…
