Elder Bednar

I'm glad you brought this up, Nor. Because I came across a great Elder Bednar talk this morning that I'd never read before. He talks about how we receive revelation--that it's often a subtle process instead of a big event. One of my main take-aways is that if we wait around for a big, spectacular answer to our prayers, we may be misled into thinking that our prayers aren't being answered--when, in fact, we just aren't in tune to the way Heavenly Father communicates with us.

Elder Bednar gave several examples, but I especially liked this one:

Sister Bednar and I knew each other for 19 months and dated for 15 months before we were married. I do not recall ever receiving a single, overwhelming spiritual confirmation that she was “the one.” I do recall that as we dated, as we talked, as we became better acquainted, and as we observed and learned about each other in a variety of circumstances, I received many small, simple, and quiet reassurances that she was indeed a remarkable and spiritual woman. All of those simple answers over a period of time led to and produced an appropriate spiritual reassurance that indeed we were to be married. That reassurance did not come all at once; rather, it was spiritually subtle and gradually distilled upon our minds as the dews from heaven, as described in the 121st section of the Doctrine and Covenants (see verse 45).

https://www.lds.org/new-era/2010/09/line-upon-line-precept-upon-precept-2nephi-2830?lang=eng

I'm sad that this blog died...

I have really loved this blog and I hope that it hasn't completely died.  I just wanted to publish something in hopes that others will remember the blog and we can start posting again.

So here we go, I wanted to post my all-time favorite talk/devotional and I listen to it every year.  I recently listened to it again because I need the extra help with moving and the new changes in my life.  It's Elder Holland's "Remember Lot's Wife."

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/jeffrey-r-holland_remember-lots-wife/

Here's my favorite quote, "I just want to talk to you for a few minutes about looking back and looking ahead.  One of the purposes of history is to teach us the lessons of life. George Santayana, who should be more widely read than he is on a college campus, is best known for saying, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” (Reason in Common Sense, vol. 1 of The Life of Reason [1905–1906]).  So, if history is this important—and it surely is—what did Lot’s wife do that was so wrong? As something of a student of history, I have thought about that and offer this as a partial answer. Apparently what was wrong with Lot’s wife was that she wasn’t just looking back; in her heart she wanted to go back. [...] In short, her attachment to the past outweighed her confidence in the future."