Suffering

I'm at home with a newborn waiting out the scary flu season while you're all at church. Since I'm not getting my spiritual fill with you, I have taken to the internet and lds.org to create my own Sabbath "feast", and I found this quote that I can't stop reading. Thought I'd share:

"God loves us, so He makes us the gift of suffering. Through suffering, we release our hold on the toys of this world, and know our true good lies in another world. We're like blocks of stone, out of which the sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much, are what make us perfect. The suffering in this world is not the failure of God's love for us; it is that love in action. For believe me, this world that seems to us so substantial is no more than the shadlowlands. Real life has not begun yet." ("Shadowlands," p. 1)

Women

Am I still allowed to post here?? I hope so, cause I know there are some of you who'd love this as much as I did...



Thank you for being the amazing women you are in my life.

Sunday will come...

Marriage and Divorce

A Father Indeed

Consider the lilies...

This has always been one of my very favorite church songs. The message is amazing, and the MoTab choir's delivery gives me serious chills.

(Click play, then pause it for a minute so it can load completely.)



The writer of the song tells of his inspiration here.

Alma 5:59-60

"For what shepherd is there among you having many sheep doth not watch over them, that the wolves enter not and devour his flock? And behold, if a wolf enter his flock doth he not drive him out? Yea, and at the last, if he can, he will destroy him."

"And now I say unto you that the good shepherd doth call after you; and if you will hearken unto his voice he will bring you into his fold, and ye are his sheep; and he commandeth you that ye suffer no ravenous wolf to enter among you, that ye may not be destroyed. "


Keep the faith.

Love you all.