I have had a super-engaged semester! From the get-go, I was concerned about accomplishing all the requirements for these 12 credits. I am so grateful to be writing tonight, the night of finals for my classes! Whew! As of right now - miracles I have all A's. It will take miracles! Last night my computer crashed and wouldn't turn on. I worked on it for more than an hour. Finally, just before 5:00 close time, I called our office computer team, and they called back replying they couldn't help me last night, they couldn't get in and didn't know what was wrong with it! I told them thanks, I will pray over it. I did, with my cute Sophia (almost 10) and together we tried to turn it on again. No surprise, but Laus Deo! It turned on, logged me in, and didn't have any other problems last night.
But tonight, the text for my family relations class won't open. I still have a 2 hour 50 question final for that class due in less than two hours! Ugh. I need a miracle!
This was a piece I appreciated from the reading this week:
"We must teach our youth to draw close to the elderly grandpas and grandmas. We live now in troubled times. In the lifetime of our youth, the troubles will never be less and will certainly be more. Old folks offer a sure knowledge that things can be endured."
"In your golden years there is so much to do and so much to be. Do not withdraw into a retirement from life, into amusement. That, for some, would be useless, even selfish. You may have served a mission and been released and consider yourself as having completed your service in the Church, but you are never released from being active in the gospel. You may at last, when old and feeble, learn that the greatest mission of all is to strengthen your own family and the families of others, to seal the generations."
- Elder Boyd K. Packer, "The Golden Years," April 2003.