Yesterday, I was grateful to be able to go to the temple. Grateful that it is so close, than I'm worthy to go, and just the fact that there are temples on the earth and the authority to administer the covenants that are made there.
Last week, I was at Chipotle, and the guy right behind me in line at the cash register leaned over and said, "I'm LDS, too." Wha? How? He had seen my temple recommend in my wallet as I was paying. He thought that it was really cool to see another LDS person out and about in the wide world. It is cool to know that there are many, many, many other people who believe as I do, who are doing what they can to be worthy of temple blessings.
Today, I am grateful that Rowdy made it almost two years before having a Crohn's flare. He woke up at 4:30 with some issues. He's hanging in there and being strong. I wish that I could do something to help take his pain away and make the flare stop.
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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
Gratitude Month, Day One
So, today is the first of November, and time to blog daily about the things for which I am grateful. Here's a somewhat novel one for my first entry:
Patience.
Last month's YW topic was "Becoming More Christlike". Interestingly, one of the weekly lessons was titled, "How can I become more patient?" Perhaps I hadn't realized the importance of patience as a Godly quality. But after all, how in the world would God be able to deal with us and our whining and complaining without perfect patience?
I think that I can be pretty patient overall, but I have been trying to improve over the past week. Of course, since I was trying to improve, I felt very tested. The last two days at work were particularly trying. What I found was that my day went much more smoothly, no matter what was happening, when I was working hard to exercise patience. Who knew?
Please enjoy this terrific, short video with President Dieter F. Uchtdorf. Would you be the kid who at the marshmallow right away, or would you wait? I think that I was a pretty obedient child, and I don't really like marshmallows. I'm pretty good at delayed gratification.
Patience.
Last month's YW topic was "Becoming More Christlike". Interestingly, one of the weekly lessons was titled, "How can I become more patient?" Perhaps I hadn't realized the importance of patience as a Godly quality. But after all, how in the world would God be able to deal with us and our whining and complaining without perfect patience?
I think that I can be pretty patient overall, but I have been trying to improve over the past week. Of course, since I was trying to improve, I felt very tested. The last two days at work were particularly trying. What I found was that my day went much more smoothly, no matter what was happening, when I was working hard to exercise patience. Who knew?
Please enjoy this terrific, short video with President Dieter F. Uchtdorf. Would you be the kid who at the marshmallow right away, or would you wait? I think that I was a pretty obedient child, and I don't really like marshmallows. I'm pretty good at delayed gratification.
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