The theme of distraction keeps popping up from me and specifically how distraction can keep us from

doing the most important things. So today we're talking about some of the ways to combat this,

how to identify it in your life, and where you'll find the best solution that's exactly meant for you.

So today we're going to talk about something that has come up for me at least three times

in the last week.

And I always know that God's trying to tell me something when it comes up more than once,

but especially three times.

So about a week ago, I was reading a book

that I've wanted to read for years called The Infinite Atonement by Tatar Ocalister. I actually

heard about this book first when my brother Jake was on his mission, gosh, like five-ish years

ago. And I remember him writing me more than once on his mission and saying, Corrani, please read this book. Like, he begged me to read it. And I was like, yeah, yeah, I'll get to it. I'll read it. I'll read it. I'll read it. I think I even promised him at one point that I'd read it before he got home. And I never did. Have you read this book, by the way? I'm not. Not yet. I need to. Yeah, that's excellent.

But I was reading just one of the first couple chapters, and this part really popped out to me. In fact, right when you got home that day,

I was like, oh my gosh, I have to tell you about something that I read because it was super

interesting and I had never thought of

it this way. So Hugh Nibbley says, so cool has been the reception of the message of the

atonement that through the centuries while heeded controversy and debate have raged over

evolution, atheism, the sacraments, the Trinity, authority, predestination, faith, and works,

and so on, there has been no argument or discussion at all about the meaning of the atonement.

Why were there no debates or pronouncements on the synods?

I don't know what that word is.

People either do not care enough or do not know enough even to argue about it.

For the doctrine of the atonement is far too complicated to have the appeal of a world religion.

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