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We all have and hold values, beliefs and attitudes.  Are those values, beliefs and attitudes held to protect us or hinder us?  Are they fortresses or prisons?   The thought came to my attention one day as I was reading scripture.  "And they were prepared that they could cast stones from the top thereof, according to their pleasure and their strength, and slay him who should attempt to approach near the walls of the city."  Alma 50:5 "Now is the time to do it, while the Lord is blessing us with peace because of our obedience to him, he told his people, "Let us build and fortify cities now, with walls, towers, gates and bars."  II Chronicles 14, 7-8 Recently I have been thrown into the wilderness.   I am in new territory.   I have values, beliefs and attitudes that are being challenged.   How do I know which values, attitudes and beliefs to hang on to and which ones to let go of?  Are they prisons or fortress...

I was a culinary teacher once.  I wanted to teach my students how to covert recipes.   I found a recipe in a notebook for chocolate chip cookies that already had a column on both sides of the recipe for converting purposes.   The recipe on the paper made 3 dozen cookies so I wanted my students to convert the recipe down to 1 1/2 dozen and then up to 6 dozen as we were going to bake them on Friday for an event on Saturday.   We baked over 150 cookies.   I noticed after the first batch we made that they did not seem to settle flat after cooked.   We rolled them up into balls (like you do for chocolate chip cookies), placed them on the pan, baked for 8 minutes, let them cool.  But for some reason they stayed in the shape of balls.   They also tasted a little bit sweet and a little bit salty.   I couldn't figure out what I did wrong?   I asked a former culinary teacher what the problem could be ...