I have to share this one important life experience with you. I think you will appreciate the humor in it. I'm a bit embarrassed, but if you can't laugh at yourself in your time of need/ desperation, than you're bound to go crazy.
Let me set up the scenario for ya:
Setting: Joe has been gone for 4 months, and 2 long more months are tos still to pass, and the longer he is gone the harder it is getting. Not so much physically, but mentally. I missed him. He was my friend and the other adult in the house to talk to and commune with during the evening. When he was gone, I had a smarty pants 9 year old and a 4 year old to talk to after a long day of speaking to 6th graders.
I felt desperate, out of tune with myself and just plain lonely. And for some odd reason, Jersey Shore and Orange County House wives didn't quite meet my needs to fill in that loneliness gap. Go figure.
In this time of great need, I tried my hardest to depend on GOD and allow him to meet my needs. I failed at times, trying my own formula for this, but other than that, He taught me a lot about my selfish nature and my stubborn human nature to try and quick fix my dilemmas.
I digress...
In this new age of high tech classrooms, parents communicate and plan e-via mails and I saw at the bottom of one e-mail a quote that I really could identify with and it seemed to have encouraged me. I thought about it for a week and then went back to the e-mail and wrote the quote down.
“Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.
- Neal A. Maxwell
I felt encouraged reading this and thinking on it. However, all week something in my spirit kept pressing to identify the quote or to dig deeper into it's truth. Hence, I googled it (this was before I knew about BING Jason)
Lo and behold my first click onto the first web site enlightened me!
EMBARRASSING REVELATION!
Here is what I found:
Neal A. Maxwell
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Neal A. Maxwell
Full name
Neal Ash Maxwell
Born
July 6, 1926(1926-07-06)
Place of birth
Salt Lake City, Utah
Died
July 21, 2004 (aged 78)
Place of death
Salt Lake City, Utah
LDS Church Apostle
Called by
Spencer W. Kimball
Ordained
July 23, 1981 (aged 55)
Ordination reason
Gordon B. Hinckley added to First Presidency
End of term
July 21, 2004 (aged 78)
End reason
Death
LDS Church General Authority
Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Neal Ash Maxwell (July 6, 1926 – July 21, 2004) was an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1981 until his death.
Okay, I am so brought down to my real size, and to make a learning moment out of this, when desperate people seek guidance,unfortunately there are more CREEPY creeps out there providing it over REAL Christians, established in their faith, to help a person out.
SHAME ON US CHRISTIANS!
Any who, Jesus and I had a good laugh over this situation, and I happily call myself LDS, because I feel like I have to be one now, solely out of loyalty to the cause and my location.
If you want to figure out how LDS saturated my area is, BING Liberty or Independence, MO or Liberty, MO for it's LDS history.
Their prophet was jailed in Liberty, exactly 1 mile from my house. Call me and we'll schedule a tour through the jail sometime, it's now a LDS national monument. And then we'll drive to the stair way to heaven, where Jesus will walk down, it's 20 miles from my house.
LOL, and one small tear
