Time is Part of the Plan
Good Morning,
It is another beautiful day in the neighborhood. I hope your hood is as beautiful. If not, what can you do to make it that way?
Interesting question right? I have had uber amounts of time to just sit and ponder this week. In some ways it has been good. In others it has been a challenge. But it has all been for my improvement. The challenge has been separating all the points of pondering from each other. I have found myself melding all of them through out the week. I started worrying a little about it when a member of the Sunday School Presidency called yesterday and asked me to give the lesson in Gospel Doctrine. I am hoping this morning that I can keep on topic.
Let's see, scripture verses of pondering - Alma 42:4-5. Last week I was thinking about Adam and Eve, being drawn out of the garden and sent forth to till the ground. This week is been about the WHY? As I pondered it went further and further.
Why were they sent out of the garden? Why didn't the Lord just punish them right then and there? They had chosen to disobey. It was pretty black and white. So, where does the WHY come in?
The first thoughts that come to mind are, "Because He loves us." If you really think about it, He had already lived the life they were living. He knew that poor choices happen. More importantly, He knew that even when poor choices have been made, they can be overcome. Because He had lived it, He knew it was possible, and He would not ask His children to do anything that He, Himself, was not willing to do. He has been granted Mercy. He had paid Justice. He knew that Plan worked, from experience.
It is that experience that made all that He has possible. Hence, He extended the same law of Mercy. Time was given to all to repent, change, adapt, conform, learn, grow, experience the joys and sorrows of mortality. Through those experiences, we have the choice to become as He is. The key word there is CHOICE.
Everything that I have pondered and studied this week, come back to the Choices we make. The question is, what do we do with those Choices?
I will leave that for you to ponder.
The Week -
I am bored out of my mind. Recovery is super slow. It is Time. Loads of Time. There are also restrictions. I find myself getting frustrated when I cannot do small and simple things. I feel lazy. I want to be productive and recover at the same time. Finding the balance has been my challenge.
The Queen has done her best to keep her eye on me. When she goes down to work, I sit upstairs and do crunches, kettle ball swings, and high knees, in my dreams. She has been a trooper. She has taken on all the extras and I have tried to help when she is not looking.
The Professor is supposed to be off track. However, it seems that she has spent every waking moment of the day tied to her laptop, creating lesson plans, re-vamping current plans, and mapping out the adventures of the year to come. Then on Thursday, she got up at the crack of dawn and went on an adventure of her own. We look forward to hearing about it tomorrow when she returns.
Tall Man and Ehl-Bo returned to the grind. The continue to look for new opportunities and overcome the challenges they face. They are always in our thoughts and prayers. We had a few brief moments with Ehl-Bo yesterday, a longer moment with Tall Man. It was good to catch up.
Puddin and Lady Hawkins are always going. We see them occasionally at meal times and sometimes before they go to bed. It was good to visit with them as well yesterday. However, at the end of the day, we learned the wicks on their candles are getting shorter. They have got to figure out a way to slow down the burn.
We got a glimpse of Songbird on the last day of her Junior year. She was prepping for the Summer adventures. We hope that we will get to see her occasionally between each of them.
Yesterday we spent the afternoon looking for opportunities of service. It walked away dizzy and overwhelmed. I am glad that we were able to offer a small bit of relief to those in need. I am even more grateful for the opportunity that I had to even be with my family. The chance to visit, catch up, start fires, put them out, and sit on the sidelines while the young ones ran circles, swam, and played games. It was memories that I will always cherish.
It is another beautiful day in the neighborhood. I hope your hood is as beautiful. If not, what can you do to make it that way?
Interesting question right? I have had uber amounts of time to just sit and ponder this week. In some ways it has been good. In others it has been a challenge. But it has all been for my improvement. The challenge has been separating all the points of pondering from each other. I have found myself melding all of them through out the week. I started worrying a little about it when a member of the Sunday School Presidency called yesterday and asked me to give the lesson in Gospel Doctrine. I am hoping this morning that I can keep on topic.
Let's see, scripture verses of pondering - Alma 42:4-5. Last week I was thinking about Adam and Eve, being drawn out of the garden and sent forth to till the ground. This week is been about the WHY? As I pondered it went further and further.
Why were they sent out of the garden? Why didn't the Lord just punish them right then and there? They had chosen to disobey. It was pretty black and white. So, where does the WHY come in?
The first thoughts that come to mind are, "Because He loves us." If you really think about it, He had already lived the life they were living. He knew that poor choices happen. More importantly, He knew that even when poor choices have been made, they can be overcome. Because He had lived it, He knew it was possible, and He would not ask His children to do anything that He, Himself, was not willing to do. He has been granted Mercy. He had paid Justice. He knew that Plan worked, from experience.
It is that experience that made all that He has possible. Hence, He extended the same law of Mercy. Time was given to all to repent, change, adapt, conform, learn, grow, experience the joys and sorrows of mortality. Through those experiences, we have the choice to become as He is. The key word there is CHOICE.
Everything that I have pondered and studied this week, come back to the Choices we make. The question is, what do we do with those Choices?
I will leave that for you to ponder.
The Week -
I am bored out of my mind. Recovery is super slow. It is Time. Loads of Time. There are also restrictions. I find myself getting frustrated when I cannot do small and simple things. I feel lazy. I want to be productive and recover at the same time. Finding the balance has been my challenge.
The Queen has done her best to keep her eye on me. When she goes down to work, I sit upstairs and do crunches, kettle ball swings, and high knees, in my dreams. She has been a trooper. She has taken on all the extras and I have tried to help when she is not looking.
The Professor is supposed to be off track. However, it seems that she has spent every waking moment of the day tied to her laptop, creating lesson plans, re-vamping current plans, and mapping out the adventures of the year to come. Then on Thursday, she got up at the crack of dawn and went on an adventure of her own. We look forward to hearing about it tomorrow when she returns.
Tall Man and Ehl-Bo returned to the grind. The continue to look for new opportunities and overcome the challenges they face. They are always in our thoughts and prayers. We had a few brief moments with Ehl-Bo yesterday, a longer moment with Tall Man. It was good to catch up.
Puddin and Lady Hawkins are always going. We see them occasionally at meal times and sometimes before they go to bed. It was good to visit with them as well yesterday. However, at the end of the day, we learned the wicks on their candles are getting shorter. They have got to figure out a way to slow down the burn.
We got a glimpse of Songbird on the last day of her Junior year. She was prepping for the Summer adventures. We hope that we will get to see her occasionally between each of them.
Yesterday we spent the afternoon looking for opportunities of service. It walked away dizzy and overwhelmed. I am glad that we were able to offer a small bit of relief to those in need. I am even more grateful for the opportunity that I had to even be with my family. The chance to visit, catch up, start fires, put them out, and sit on the sidelines while the young ones ran circles, swam, and played games. It was memories that I will always cherish.
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