Friday, May 22, 2009
Why was I so blessed?
A late-night talk about crumbling marriages that are all around us, makes this video seem like a fairy tale. It's a fairy tale I'm living. So grateful Camber shared this with me in her blog saying she is living the same thing.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Angels Surround Me
SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY:
2 Nephi 10:23-24
"Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves---to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved."
I have to mention gratitude for two things:
1) I had the impression to pray for angels to ride with me as I was going over Suncrest and truthfully, coming down the other side is a bit dangerous.
2) Angels not only surrounded me, but orchestrated the location and softened what could have been a serious fall. I was climbing over the Point of the Mountain. I may have been looking down into the sand pits. At any rate, all of a sudden the guardrail was getting too close. I reached out to it (why, I don't know) and next thing I knew I was under my bike on the other side of the guardrail. Weird! I took inventory of myself quickly and then my bike. We both seemed to be okay. I sat there for a few minutes to gather enough stability in my legs to get back on my bike. The only injury was a bruised thigh and ego. I can live with that. Had I been just 100 feet further into my ride and had that happen, I quite possible would have stopped at the bottom of the hill in the sand pits. Phew!
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Lorenzo Snow
"I often ask myself, what am I in the world for? Where did I come from, and where am I going? Well, we have learned something in regard to this. We have learned that we existed with God in eternity before we came into this life, and that we kept our estate. Had we not kept what is called our first estate and observed the laws that governed there, you and I would not be here today. We are here because we are worthy to be here, and that arises, to a great extent at least, from the fact that we kept our first estate.
"I believe that when you and I were in yonder life we made certain covenants with those that had the control that in this life, when we should be permitted to enter it, we would do what we had done in that life---find out the will of God and conform to it. I have not the least idea that I would be here today talking to you, unless it was distinctly understood in that life that when I came into this I would be obedient to the will of God as it should be revealed. Of course, we have forgotten these things; but the Lord is beginning to illuminate our understandings and is bringing to our recollection certain things in regard to how we were there, and for what we have come into this world.
"What you and I now want to know is how to secure the position we occupied in the other life when we go back, and that which will naturally be added to us in consequence of the experience that we had in this life; for the Lord has told us that those who would keep their second estate, glory should be added upon their heads forever and ever. It seems to me that no man or woman can afford to do anything in this life only that which, directly or indirectly, will be in conformity to the will of God" (Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, p. 91-92).
2 Nephi 10:23-24
"Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves---to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved."
I have to mention gratitude for two things:
1) I had the impression to pray for angels to ride with me as I was going over Suncrest and truthfully, coming down the other side is a bit dangerous.
2) Angels not only surrounded me, but orchestrated the location and softened what could have been a serious fall. I was climbing over the Point of the Mountain. I may have been looking down into the sand pits. At any rate, all of a sudden the guardrail was getting too close. I reached out to it (why, I don't know) and next thing I knew I was under my bike on the other side of the guardrail. Weird! I took inventory of myself quickly and then my bike. We both seemed to be okay. I sat there for a few minutes to gather enough stability in my legs to get back on my bike. The only injury was a bruised thigh and ego. I can live with that. Had I been just 100 feet further into my ride and had that happen, I quite possible would have stopped at the bottom of the hill in the sand pits. Phew!
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Lorenzo Snow
"I often ask myself, what am I in the world for? Where did I come from, and where am I going? Well, we have learned something in regard to this. We have learned that we existed with God in eternity before we came into this life, and that we kept our estate. Had we not kept what is called our first estate and observed the laws that governed there, you and I would not be here today. We are here because we are worthy to be here, and that arises, to a great extent at least, from the fact that we kept our first estate.
"I believe that when you and I were in yonder life we made certain covenants with those that had the control that in this life, when we should be permitted to enter it, we would do what we had done in that life---find out the will of God and conform to it. I have not the least idea that I would be here today talking to you, unless it was distinctly understood in that life that when I came into this I would be obedient to the will of God as it should be revealed. Of course, we have forgotten these things; but the Lord is beginning to illuminate our understandings and is bringing to our recollection certain things in regard to how we were there, and for what we have come into this world.
"What you and I now want to know is how to secure the position we occupied in the other life when we go back, and that which will naturally be added to us in consequence of the experience that we had in this life; for the Lord has told us that those who would keep their second estate, glory should be added upon their heads forever and ever. It seems to me that no man or woman can afford to do anything in this life only that which, directly or indirectly, will be in conformity to the will of God" (Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, p. 91-92).
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