I was reading ahead in Come Follow Me as I was preparing for the next Primary post and one of the topics I decided to focus on was trust in the Lord. Alma's people were being obedient and yet still put in bondage. Yet, they still trusted in the Lord. Right now we are going through a difficult time. Here are a few things where I feel blessing coming:
1. In a recent Church News article the First Presidency said that they had been trying to figure out for awhile how to do missionary work in a world where there is ever increasing security measures being added to homes, home developments, and apartment buildings. They mentioned in this article that in these past few weeks of the pandemic as many missionaries have been in quarantine the creativity of how to keep the work moving during the pandemic has also helped with keeping the work moving with this type of residence security. 2. There is a prophecy that said that there would be a period of time when the temples were closed. Now for this brief time they are indeed closed, but the work for the dead hasn't completely stopped as the family history research to find names has ramped up as people have been home with time on their hands. There will be now be much more work ready to do in the temple as soon as the temples open back up. 3. Home centered Church. This has been a great time for our family to really build each other up. 4. Be Still And Know. This has also been a great time to do this as some of the extra things have been taken away. It's not that I won't go back and doing many of the things I can't do right now, but I definitely will keep time to Be Still And Know a priority. 5. Increased faith. There are a couple of videos that I have held onto during this time. Here is one and here is another. 6. Increased commitment. As we are seeing prophecies being fulfilled we are remembering warnings of the Prophets. Now is most definitely the time to prepare for the Second Coming. It is time to put things into order. This was kind of a wake up call and even though this isn't the "it," I feel it is kind of like a practice run for us. Now, we have a bit of time to continue preparing and we have figured out more specifically what we need to do in some areas. In other areas we have been told, we just need to remember. 7. Miracles have happened. After the World-Wide fast there was:
8. Bonus time with my grown children. It has been a really long time since we have all been together this much. (Since Ashly's Senior year of high school. It's been missions, college, etc that has kept at least one person gone, but we even have Brooklyn back for a short time.) Might we see a few things that are a "new normal?" probably. Were there a few changes that stuck after WWII, 9/11, etc - yes and they were the things that really needed to change, or really make sense, or really aren't a huge deal. Things like keeping your bags with you at airports, or taking your shoes off before the metal detector, or a movement that really started the ball moving for jobs for people of all, regardless of gender, race, etc. The human race is resilient and we've proved that over and over. At this point, with time and data, I personally think we have to categorize this pandemic with other things such as Chicken Pox, etc. That grip of fear where this was compared to World Wars, etc and of a mega bug that lasts on surfaces for up to a month, everyone who gets it will have extreme sickness with potential life long affects, life can never be lived the same, as some examples of what was out there at the beginning has been proven wrong. People are going back to normal life. People do want and need to be around people. Many people are getting it and getting over it. (This is certainly not to down play the sadness of those who know someone who was taken from us because of this disease, because anyone who is taken of us for any reason; cancer, or a car crash, etc. we will mourn, and yet we can also rejoice in the knowledge that we will see them again.) This pretty much sums up my thoughts on this topic.
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