Never ending questions
It has been another week. What has been on your mind? Any earth shattering revelations? Any insights? Accomplished goals? New found desires, wants, or needs? How about just questions in general?
I found myself in this boat several times throughout the week. I guess it all started with this weeks reading assignment for our Sunday School class. I don't know what lesson you are on, but we found ourselves in 3 Nephi 22-26. I did my best to give the assignment it's due respect. However, I also found myself reading and reading and reading again. I even took up listening to the chapters each time I could. I listened while driving, running, and while reading at the same time. I know I have read and heard it all before, but still, I walked away saying, "What was the meaning of that? What did I just read? How does this pertain?" How many of you have ever felt this way.
Interestingly enough, each time I read, I found myself listening to or reading a conference talk that seemed to say one thing, "There is a purpose!" I even found it in my weekly ponder verse, 2 Nephi 2:12. "...wherefore there would have been no purpose in the end of its creation. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God and his eternal purposes, and also the power, and the mercy, and the justice of God."
We are not here for naught. The organization of the family is not for naught. The opportunities, chastening, disciplines, teachings, expounding, trials, tribulations, experiences, oppositions, etc... that seem to present themselves before us in so many forms are not for naught. They are done in wisdom, the wisdom of God. He sees, He knows, He understands who we are, where we come from, and what we can become. He allows hard things to happen to us because he knows that we can endure them or overcome them. He trusts our abilities, whether we see them in ourselves or not. It is up to use to choose how, what, and when we will deal with them as they come.
I don't know or understand His wisdom at all times, but I do believe in Him. I believe in His plan. I move forward in faith, not always perfectly, but that is for me to learn, not you. I am not here to do or not do things based on what others have chosen, but based upon what the Holy Spirit has guided me to do in my life. Many times, it is a feeling of right, more than a knowledge of right. Then it becomes a knowledge, as a puzzle piece falls into place, a door way opens, or a path is cleared. But first, I had to take the step forward to the unknown. Not because someone else is or isn't doing it, but because I need to.
We are all part of the same plan. We each have an important piece in it. It is up to us to choose to be part of the plan or not. I am grateful for the personal witnesses I have received. I am even more blessed by the opportunities to repent through the living sacrifice of Christ's Atonement. I am eternally indebted to guidance and instruction given through His living prophets today. This is what I know.
Yep, just more ramblings. I hope you are able to get something out of them.
Like I said in the beginning, it has been another week.
The Queen has been preparing for new training opportunities. When she is not working, she is working on something. We spent a great deal of time preparing for our ward's Christmas humanitarian project and getting packages ready to send off to distant lands due West.
The Professor wrapped up another tracking period and is now enjoying her winter hibernation period. I am sure she will be busy in the next few weeks pulling things together for the upcoming holiday.
Tall Man and Ehl-Bo are plugging along. There continue to be long nights at the theater and busy days at work.
Though we had many highlights this week, the one that continues to shine so thus far is the opportunity we had of joining the Bellhopping Belnaps as one advanced in rank and authority. We were blessed to be part of it. I fought back the misty madness as the spirit overcame me. From this weeks reading 3 Nephi 22:2. Our tents have been enlarged and our stakes strengthened.
I found myself in this boat several times throughout the week. I guess it all started with this weeks reading assignment for our Sunday School class. I don't know what lesson you are on, but we found ourselves in 3 Nephi 22-26. I did my best to give the assignment it's due respect. However, I also found myself reading and reading and reading again. I even took up listening to the chapters each time I could. I listened while driving, running, and while reading at the same time. I know I have read and heard it all before, but still, I walked away saying, "What was the meaning of that? What did I just read? How does this pertain?" How many of you have ever felt this way.
Interestingly enough, each time I read, I found myself listening to or reading a conference talk that seemed to say one thing, "There is a purpose!" I even found it in my weekly ponder verse, 2 Nephi 2:12. "...wherefore there would have been no purpose in the end of its creation. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God and his eternal purposes, and also the power, and the mercy, and the justice of God."
We are not here for naught. The organization of the family is not for naught. The opportunities, chastening, disciplines, teachings, expounding, trials, tribulations, experiences, oppositions, etc... that seem to present themselves before us in so many forms are not for naught. They are done in wisdom, the wisdom of God. He sees, He knows, He understands who we are, where we come from, and what we can become. He allows hard things to happen to us because he knows that we can endure them or overcome them. He trusts our abilities, whether we see them in ourselves or not. It is up to use to choose how, what, and when we will deal with them as they come.
I don't know or understand His wisdom at all times, but I do believe in Him. I believe in His plan. I move forward in faith, not always perfectly, but that is for me to learn, not you. I am not here to do or not do things based on what others have chosen, but based upon what the Holy Spirit has guided me to do in my life. Many times, it is a feeling of right, more than a knowledge of right. Then it becomes a knowledge, as a puzzle piece falls into place, a door way opens, or a path is cleared. But first, I had to take the step forward to the unknown. Not because someone else is or isn't doing it, but because I need to.
We are all part of the same plan. We each have an important piece in it. It is up to us to choose to be part of the plan or not. I am grateful for the personal witnesses I have received. I am even more blessed by the opportunities to repent through the living sacrifice of Christ's Atonement. I am eternally indebted to guidance and instruction given through His living prophets today. This is what I know.
Yep, just more ramblings. I hope you are able to get something out of them.
Like I said in the beginning, it has been another week.
The Queen has been preparing for new training opportunities. When she is not working, she is working on something. We spent a great deal of time preparing for our ward's Christmas humanitarian project and getting packages ready to send off to distant lands due West.
The Professor wrapped up another tracking period and is now enjoying her winter hibernation period. I am sure she will be busy in the next few weeks pulling things together for the upcoming holiday.
Tall Man and Ehl-Bo are plugging along. There continue to be long nights at the theater and busy days at work.
Though we had many highlights this week, the one that continues to shine so thus far is the opportunity we had of joining the Bellhopping Belnaps as one advanced in rank and authority. We were blessed to be part of it. I fought back the misty madness as the spirit overcame me. From this weeks reading 3 Nephi 22:2. Our tents have been enlarged and our stakes strengthened.
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