New Author Jessica Tanner
We learn about gravity pretty early on in our lives. When we first try learning to walk we stumble and fall down many times. We don’t see what it is that makes us fall, we just feel the result of falling. As we get older we learn that there are things we can do to avoid falling and we usually take necessary precautions, as most of us don’t enjoy falling. When we get into school we get introduced to a name that explains the reason why we fall down instead of falling up. It is called gravity. Gravity is not something we can hold on to.
I believe in things I cannot see. I may not see God but I believe He exists and I see evidence of Him all around me daily. I see His creations, I see His interventions on the behalf of mankind and I see His hand in my life guiding, helping, protecting, lifting, teaching. One may choose to say “I do not believe in God” but that will not make Him any less real. I would say that in this life we experience both a physical gravity and a spiritual gravity.
The physical one, the gravitational pull that keeps us on the earth, is not one we overcome. But the spiritual falls we experience from the weight of the world pulling us down can be overcome. It is God’s gift to us—the sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ as he wrought the Atonement—that allows us to overcome the downward pull of this other type of gravity that causes spiritually falling. Through the Atonement we can rise up and become like our Savior and He will make our burdens light.
Alma 32:21
“And now as I said concerning faith—faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for thingswhich are not seen, which are true.”