An effectual struggle to be made

There's a topic I need to start addressing soon, probably in a series of posts—it's been germinating in my heart and mind for several months, and I feel like it's close to being ready to come up out from the soil. My plan is to start after Easter; that seems like the most liturgically appropriate time to begin a new initiative.

For now, here's a scripture that touched me this week. For the past few weeks, I've been rereading the Book of Mormon, using the "fresh" edition I bought in Salt Lake last summer, highlighting phrases and verses where divine light jumps off the page at me, so to speak. Lots of good stuff. What I'm posting here just happens to be something I read last night; plus it has a connection to the theme I want to start posting on after Easter. This passage made me think of the same-sex marriage struggle—not to be a one-note Johnny, but it's certainly an issue that has preoccupied my coreligionists as of late, and one that's pressing for me, personally, as well, albeit in a very different sense.

Lift up your heads and be comforted;
for notwithstanding our many strugglings,
which have been in vain,
I trust there yet remains
an effectual struggle to be made.

Therefore, lift up your heads and rejoice,
and put your trust in God—
that God who brought the people of Israel
out of the land of Egypt,
and caused that they should walk through the Red Sea
on dry ground,
and fed them with manna,
that they might not perish in the wilderness;
and many more things did he do for them.

(Mosiah 7:18-19)

On another note: Continuing prayers for Haiti, and prayers for Chile.