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Holding fast!!

Not having the best day this morning. Sometimes when reading the scriptures there are certain key words or phrases that kind of jump out at you. Then you are led to ponder and question. That happened this morning. Normally I am pretty good with that sort of thing, but this morning I was agitated because I thought I was good in that area and was really a bit confused that those words were used. The key word for the day was prepare. Alright for what? I just figured that I needed to brace myself, in one area, I guess I should have braced myself in other areas too. I went about my other activities but still with much agitation and really not much peace at all. I don’t know if my kids are tuned into me or not, but they pick the worst possible times to require something complex like a crown braid. Really I’m lucky I know how to do a regular braid let alone one of those and of course I only have 5 minutes to do this. That didn’t go well at all. Then the push to get them out of the door. Really frustrating. Back to the business of my day, then I realize I am out of coconut milk. Now I only have 30 minutes to run to the store buy it get back and make my smoothie. Yea, lets cut it close why not. If that isn’t bad enough the store only had one cash register open on the other end of the store. Of course. After I managed that, the lady who was cashing me out cuts in front of me and the store manager pushes a cart in my way. Unbelievable, of course I don’t handle any of this well at all because I am human and already agitated. I saw all of it happening in front of me and although I got over it quickly doesn’t mean to say that I enjoyed it at all. Like I said some of it was expected, but other things not so much. The point is that I tried to hold fast to the information that I received, and prepare myself. I didn’t excel at it for sure. However, I could see how I caused some of my own agitation by thinking that I was good, that right there is called pride!!! Granted, I appreciate that I was prepared for my day, however, I was not prepared for all of my day happening before 7am. If you happen to start your day like mine and are given some bit of revelation, don’t question it too much, just do what it tells you to do.