Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Authors Notes - Samuel

Have you ever felt unsatisfied with normalcy? --stuck in the day to day, looking at what you have ahead of you, feeling like you were meant to do more? become more than what you could imagine? It's an itch that cant be scratched, a yearning that cant be identified let alone satisfied.

That's what Samuel is feeling when he turns 14. He feels trapped by their little valley, trapped by superstition, and trapped by too many rules. Although he cant define it, he feels the greatness lying dormant within his soul and aches to identify it and answer its call.

Not really planning to go over the edge, he is simply given a taste of freedom, and lets it take him beyond the limits of safety, one small line at a time until it is too late.


 His life, and the lives of his family members, as well as everyone around him for miles around, will never be the same again.

Feb 16, 2020 - Today in Sunday School we were studying the Fall and the Atonement.

They shared the  following quote: The definition of transgression is to go beyond the limits - the formally prohibited boundries that have been established!

Samuel's choice to go beyond the establish boundaries could represent Adam and Eve's choice to step beyond the boundaries that were set for them. Each situation set in motion a turn of events that were filled with both pain and joy beyond what they could ever have comprehend before.

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