Pure heart clean hands4/11/2024 It says, “I want something that doesn’t belong to me.” The Savior warned about lust when he said: Living Step Ten results in our being enabled to recognize and attend to smaller sins, as the bigger ones are put behind us. Like this accomplished artist, I, too, in the spirit of Step Ten, must be willing to see my life as “a work in progress.” As long as I am mortal, I will need to look for areas to improve at a deeper and finer level of repentance. When he got to the point where nothing about the painting bothered him, he decided it was finished. He said he would usually repeat this process several times-each time fixing smaller and smaller problems. (He said his wife could never understand why he couldn’t push a vacuum cleaner around while he was studying the painting!) But as he studied it, some part of the painting would stand out because it “didn’t look quite right.” Then he would take the painting back to his studio and work on the part that bothered him the most. Then he would sit down on the couch and look at it long and hard. As we students wrestled with the process of creating our own pictures, someone asked the teacher, “How do you know when you’re finished with a painting?” He smiled and replied that every so often, as he worked on a piece at home, he would take it off his easel and set it on the mantle above the fireplace in his living room. When I was in college, I took an oil painting class from an artist whose work I had long admired. As I look for a metaphor to represent the power in living Step Ten, I am reminded again of my life-long interest in oil painting.
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