Now that I'm coming out of my daze (see my previous post), I have something to say, and it relates to more than just polygamy.  In our society, we define "freedom" as the ability to do whatever we wish in our quest for happiness, and bold innovation is exalted; but does this lead to true freedom?  There is a God-given human desire to seek freedom and fulfillment; but there's a terrible price to pay when we don't seek these things from God in the way He created us to receive them.  Having not seen and believed that God's way is the way of joy, we rebel and grab at pleasures we think will make us happy and then suddenly find ourselves trapped in an empty world where nothing seems to make us happy and from which none of our efforts can quite free us.  Though this tendency of the human heart extends beyond the subject matter of Big Love, a true story of polygamy illustrates the point well.

There's a book called Wife No. 19, written in 1875 by Ann-Eliza Young, Brigham Young's 19th wife...   more »