Life is full! Loving, serving, caring, sharing, giving, struggling to understand and trying again and again.
Tonight, while tending for J&A to go with H to Tuachan to see Little Mermaid, I was reading Led by Divine Design by Elder Rasband. Powerful testimony of individual value and how to have personal revelation. He challenges us to recognize and identify our unique gifts. He says consider the things you love to do. Consider your family heritage and the talents you have inherited. Recognize those talents and build upon them. That is beautiful to me! How can I recognize my talents? He instructs to ponder our Patriarchal blessing and seek to know and identify our gifts. Ok.
Then he talks about receiving divine direction and shares a couple of stories of being prompted at key moments when he did not forsee doing these things, to 1 - invite his family to come forward during a young adult broadcast, and shared that this was his youth advisory council. Yes our family should play a role in our view of the world. I love that! The second example he shared was that some one clear in the back of a hall he was speaking at held up a heart shape with his hands, and he responded with that heart and the whole audience responded with love bringing unity and love to the whole group. I love these examples of simple promptings.
He also shared opening the scriptures, and finding special direction specifically for him regarding his mission call - opening to D&C 110 which talked about the Eastern States, confirming that he was not supposed to serve in Germany. He would serve there as a young man, and again as a mission president years later. Powerful that he received confirmation just by opening to a page and reading. I do that often. Sometimes I have recorded those moments, but often, I have tucked that miracle into my heart and not really recorded it or shared it, just put it into my "personal treasury of valued experiences" that shape my life.
Tonight I feel I should try to record some of these better in coming days. I am so "abundantly" blessed with spiritual promptings. I know that my Heavenly Father and Savior love me! I see their finger prints in my life daily. Today it was these passages that were sent - from a kindle book on my phone while I was tending the twins tonight until after midnight. The book has been on my phone for who knows how long, but I was prompted to open THAT book tonight to read of the "Personal Treasury of Valued Experiences." I have such a treasury! It is daily that I see my Savior's fingerprints! Thank you Heavenly Father for guiding me!
Years ago, I was worried about something and I shared with my Dad that I was worried. I told him I knew the answer was to pray about it. He answered something that bothered me - he said that Heavenly Father did not have time to care about the tiny details. I knew he was wrong! I believed that My Heavenly Father cared about every tiny thing! I am grateful for my own testimony of prayer, and knowledge that "every move matters" those seemingly small decisions of maybe what to wear or what to do about something as a young person really DO matter!