When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your
mind...Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind. When
some unworthy thought pushes into your mind, replace it with your delete key.--Boyd K. Packer, 2009
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Better Be Big
It's been a whole year. No posts since the last one about waiting for Lucy's mission call. This one better be big and important and profound after going that long right?
What prompted me to right?
I'm studying again. I'm reaching and stretching and trying to find out what my Father in Heaven wants me to do--or better yet, how he wants me to do the things He's already told me to do.
Let me back up a bit.
Lucy got her call last year of course.
She's been serving in the Romania/Moldova Mission for 30 some weeks now.
She's made it through the MTC and Christmas and a transfer and she's thriving. Thriving.
Our family has moved to Wisconsin--in December. This is only a slight change from California!!!!!
Keith got a new job and I was very happy to try a new adventure. Mikey, not so much, but he is managing well and adjusting to a very different life.
People are smiley here. They look each other in the eye. They wave at passing cars--with their whole hand, not just one finger. People here can still rent DVDs and write checks and leave their cars unlocked. It's a change. So is the weather, even though it's been an extremely mile winter this year.
The church is here, in force. It's feels the same and yet different. So many people have a conversion story here. I know that sounds crazy, but in NH and TX and CA it didn't feel the same. People here are still sharing their conversion stories like they just happened and they are still on fire.
Keith was given a calling by a member of the stake presidency--who I was meeting for the first time (Keith moved 3 months earlier than Michael and I) and he asked me about our family. I said we had 3 children and that generally leads to the follow-up question of where they are....I told him that Ian had passed away.
Without even the awkward pause that most people have, he asked, "and what did you learn from that?" I told Keith in the car on the way home that this stranger was so lucky that I was in a decent mood when daring to ask something like that. I still think it's a very impertinent and presumptive question that should probably wait until you've known me for at least 24 hours?!
My answer was this, "I'm not in charge!"
That is still my answer to so many things. It is appropriate and it acknowledges God for who he is what role I allow Him to play in my life.
And when I study and let Him in, I have more to say.
There. Is that post big enough to have been a year in coming?
What prompted me to right?
I'm studying again. I'm reaching and stretching and trying to find out what my Father in Heaven wants me to do--or better yet, how he wants me to do the things He's already told me to do.
Let me back up a bit.
Lucy got her call last year of course.
She's been serving in the Romania/Moldova Mission for 30 some weeks now.
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| My Lulu Belle |
Our family has moved to Wisconsin--in December. This is only a slight change from California!!!!!
Keith got a new job and I was very happy to try a new adventure. Mikey, not so much, but he is managing well and adjusting to a very different life.
People are smiley here. They look each other in the eye. They wave at passing cars--with their whole hand, not just one finger. People here can still rent DVDs and write checks and leave their cars unlocked. It's a change. So is the weather, even though it's been an extremely mile winter this year.
The church is here, in force. It's feels the same and yet different. So many people have a conversion story here. I know that sounds crazy, but in NH and TX and CA it didn't feel the same. People here are still sharing their conversion stories like they just happened and they are still on fire.
Keith was given a calling by a member of the stake presidency--who I was meeting for the first time (Keith moved 3 months earlier than Michael and I) and he asked me about our family. I said we had 3 children and that generally leads to the follow-up question of where they are....I told him that Ian had passed away.
Without even the awkward pause that most people have, he asked, "and what did you learn from that?" I told Keith in the car on the way home that this stranger was so lucky that I was in a decent mood when daring to ask something like that. I still think it's a very impertinent and presumptive question that should probably wait until you've known me for at least 24 hours?!
My answer was this, "I'm not in charge!"
That is still my answer to so many things. It is appropriate and it acknowledges God for who he is what role I allow Him to play in my life.
And when I study and let Him in, I have more to say.
There. Is that post big enough to have been a year in coming?
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