April's Ensign came today and it's chock full of good stuff. I'm not usually one of these "pick up the Ensign the day it comes and read it cover-to-cover" people but I did tonight, and wow, it was great. I felt peace and calm and good stuff.
I'm staring down the barrel of a new calling, and suffice it to say, reading the Ensign tonight really helped me feel better about it. I've been feeling so guilty this week for whining and crying and ranting and huffing my less-than-stellar attitude about it, but now, I feel loved, I feel I can do this thing I've been asked to do, and as an added bonus, I don't feel broken anymore. How's that for progress?
Sometimes my blog seems preachy to me, but then, I'm figuring out a lot of this stuff for the first time. It's exciting to see something I believe in so strongly, actually bear fruit. It's like praying to find your keys, because you've heard all your life that prayer works, so you pray and then... you find 'em! That's really encouraging. It's probably why I talk about genealogy so much. I don't really care if YOU do it. I mean, I do, but... you know. I happen to find it a really joyful and fun experience, so you get to hear about it ad infinitum. Even after we're dead and we're all hanging out in Heaven, I'll still be talking about it. Love me, love my dead people.
Anyway - this is how blogging works for me: like a 2-year-old with stomach flu. When I get it, we all get to experience it.