I just got home from HFPE and it was so good. I felt awful all day and it just seemed to get worse all day. Mariah called and said she would be by to pick me up, I called her back and said that I should drive. Then as I got to feeling worse, I had to wonder, should I be driving . . . . or even go? So I called her, canceled, and ate a little supper, laid down to rest, again, and decided I had to go, the feeling was too strong that I needed to make it.I am so glad that I made the effort. Sandra taught us so much about how our decisions can make such a difference by using our free agency. I hope I can have Sandra can email all her pin-ups so that I can read and study them along with the scriptures and ponder all that she talked about. Maybe pin them up around my house to help me to go through this refining process.
Keri led a discussion about why diamonds are so valued as opposed to CZ's. The difference is the process that takes place that takes millions of years, a lot of heat and pressure. Kind of sounds like our mortal experience, doesn't it?
I have a lot to think and learn about. They both taught me principles that I have been struggling to figure out for quite some time. I pray that I will continue to be guided to the right time, places (geographically and "scripturally") and people to make this journey. I am so blessed to have had this experience. I am also blessed that my very ornery daughter is in the same ward with me and continues to light a fire under her drowning mom, or perhaps throws a life preserver, when it is needed!
4 comments:
Hey, glad you made it. I have found that sometimes its those days when you are so tired, or in the slums, and you think you just can't make it that these things mean the most to us. If we can get ourselves to go and make that sacrifice, then we are blessed. I am looking forward to our FHPE night coming up next week. In the spring I can almost never go because of choir events, so I want to make the ones in the fall...NO MATTER HOW TIRED I AM! hehe. (That's a reminder to myself!)
Glad you had a nice pick me up. :)
It sounds like a great lesson, one that I should hear, too. Glad you were inspired to go.
People tell me that I am in the refiners fire all the time. Whoo hoo! Why are some peoples fires hotter than others...sometimes I wonder? One day this whole thing will make some type of sense to me. Then maybe one day I will be just thrilled about all of this.
That meeting was such a timely one. Now that I know every time I'm ticked off or ready to tear the next person I see to shreds how to change it, I sure hope I can remember got to fix it.
Crystal, I agree that some people do seem to have hotter fires. You don't ever have to be thrilled about it, and anyone who thinks that you should feel that way is downright crazy. I have a good friend that just passed the one year mark of losing her little one, she still aches and misses him, and wonders why. We continue praying for your family often.
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