Getting Back in the Swing
Yep, it is time to get back in the swing of updates. I am going to do my best to keep on top of it this year. Feel free to let me know how I am doing or not doing.
School has or is starting back up. Everyone is busy trying to figure out which way is up. There is the nerves of newness and the unknown in the air. Princess is feeling the effects of her job and unknown of a new apartment. Tall Man is a senior jumping right back into the swing of school, but focusing on getting behind the wheel. Cannonball is entering his first year of high school and figuring when and what to start accumulating graduation credits in. Silver Horn has been dropped into his first year of junior high and is figuring out how to meld with the crowds and earn as many brownie points as possible. The Queen is getting ready to transition back to the office and juggle keeping tabs on the home front. I am just hanging on to the log and hoping I don't hit a waterfall or rapids.
Work, as appears to be the norm, is ever evolving to new and exciting things. I attended a meeting yesterday with an individual who has a reputation of always being negative. It does not matter what is proposed, he will find something wrong with it. It is like he does not want to be happy. Even if we follow a plan that he proposes, within minutes of implementing it, we hear him bad mouthing the new procedure, change, suggestion, or path we are following. It makes for a very difficult work environment at times.
Anyway, for some reason, he has been on my mind. I had the opportunity to work in the temple last night and he came to my mind. I have been reading in Mosiah a great deal as of late and while doing sealings, he and the verses I had been reading came to mind.
In the sealing session I was in, we had been going for almost an hour and the sealer was concerned that we had not finished up a full sheet of sealings and fact that asking us to stay a few minutes longer would impose upon our Friday evening when we could be doing other things. He politely asked the group what they thought. One of the brethren quickly responded, we should say, someone is probably waiting to move on in their progression. Wow.
I started thinking about this co-worker. Was it that he did not want to progress? He does not seem to be happy with the way things are and yet he is not happy with change either. I started thinking about how long some of these people we were doing the work for had been waiting to progress. Now that they had passed the veil, they did not have the opportunity to progress like they would have been able to in this life. I wondered how many of them were like my co-worker. They may have had the opportunity in this life, but did not take it because it was different, challenging, new, unknown, or out of their comfort zone. I am sure there are many that just did not have the opportunity to progress in this life. But now they have to wait for us to do the work.
I wonder if they are negative on the other side. Do you think they are going to be any different there than they were here? I don't think so. Yes, I think they are waiting. Some with anticipation and excitement for the opportunity to move forward, some with dread, anxiety, and fear of not knowing what to expect. I wonder if they will really ever move forward.
I realized that we need to make the choices now, in this life, to seek the opportunity to progress. We read that all that is expected of us is to keep the commandments. One of those is to knock, seek, and ask. All three of those are actions. They all deal with unknowns. We don't know what to expect on the other side of the door. We must seek what we currently do not have. And we are to ask that we may learn and progress. The Lord does not want us to stop moving. He wants us to reach all of our potentials. It is up to us to firmly grasp the iron rod, keep putting one foot in front of the other, and to ignore the whisperings of Satan and his minions as they try to fill our minds with negative fear, doubt, and unhappiness.
I love serving in the temple, reading the scriptures, and filling my life with reminders of what I should be doing when I am not. I love being reminded that I need to look for the good in all things, not the bad. Change/Progression is going to happen. We just grab on to the log, hold on tight, and learn to steer, float, and eventually build a raft.
School has or is starting back up. Everyone is busy trying to figure out which way is up. There is the nerves of newness and the unknown in the air. Princess is feeling the effects of her job and unknown of a new apartment. Tall Man is a senior jumping right back into the swing of school, but focusing on getting behind the wheel. Cannonball is entering his first year of high school and figuring when and what to start accumulating graduation credits in. Silver Horn has been dropped into his first year of junior high and is figuring out how to meld with the crowds and earn as many brownie points as possible. The Queen is getting ready to transition back to the office and juggle keeping tabs on the home front. I am just hanging on to the log and hoping I don't hit a waterfall or rapids.
Work, as appears to be the norm, is ever evolving to new and exciting things. I attended a meeting yesterday with an individual who has a reputation of always being negative. It does not matter what is proposed, he will find something wrong with it. It is like he does not want to be happy. Even if we follow a plan that he proposes, within minutes of implementing it, we hear him bad mouthing the new procedure, change, suggestion, or path we are following. It makes for a very difficult work environment at times.
Anyway, for some reason, he has been on my mind. I had the opportunity to work in the temple last night and he came to my mind. I have been reading in Mosiah a great deal as of late and while doing sealings, he and the verses I had been reading came to mind.
In the sealing session I was in, we had been going for almost an hour and the sealer was concerned that we had not finished up a full sheet of sealings and fact that asking us to stay a few minutes longer would impose upon our Friday evening when we could be doing other things. He politely asked the group what they thought. One of the brethren quickly responded, we should say, someone is probably waiting to move on in their progression. Wow.
I started thinking about this co-worker. Was it that he did not want to progress? He does not seem to be happy with the way things are and yet he is not happy with change either. I started thinking about how long some of these people we were doing the work for had been waiting to progress. Now that they had passed the veil, they did not have the opportunity to progress like they would have been able to in this life. I wondered how many of them were like my co-worker. They may have had the opportunity in this life, but did not take it because it was different, challenging, new, unknown, or out of their comfort zone. I am sure there are many that just did not have the opportunity to progress in this life. But now they have to wait for us to do the work.
I wonder if they are negative on the other side. Do you think they are going to be any different there than they were here? I don't think so. Yes, I think they are waiting. Some with anticipation and excitement for the opportunity to move forward, some with dread, anxiety, and fear of not knowing what to expect. I wonder if they will really ever move forward.
I realized that we need to make the choices now, in this life, to seek the opportunity to progress. We read that all that is expected of us is to keep the commandments. One of those is to knock, seek, and ask. All three of those are actions. They all deal with unknowns. We don't know what to expect on the other side of the door. We must seek what we currently do not have. And we are to ask that we may learn and progress. The Lord does not want us to stop moving. He wants us to reach all of our potentials. It is up to us to firmly grasp the iron rod, keep putting one foot in front of the other, and to ignore the whisperings of Satan and his minions as they try to fill our minds with negative fear, doubt, and unhappiness.
I love serving in the temple, reading the scriptures, and filling my life with reminders of what I should be doing when I am not. I love being reminded that I need to look for the good in all things, not the bad. Change/Progression is going to happen. We just grab on to the log, hold on tight, and learn to steer, float, and eventually build a raft.
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