Normally I would look up a bunch of quotes or find a talk to base my comments on, but yo! That takes a lot of time! Oooh, but I just thought of something else I can add...
So quick story. Nate and I were out to lunch on Saturday after having been to the temple. We were standing in line at our favorite taco place and someone came into the line behind us. Nate and I were laughing about something and he made a comment about it being a good time to get lunch. We smiled and agreed with him. He then said "are you guys selling something? You must be selling something." Nate told him that we weren't but that we had just been to "church."
We found a seat and starting chowing down on some seriously good tortillas. When we were finishing up the same man came to our table and said "I just have to tell you that you guys just look like goodness." We smiled again and thanked him for his kindness. As he was walking away I wondered if I should have said something like "let me tell you why." I never know how to pull something like that off. I probably would have told the man while we were back inline that we were at the temple, but Nate had answered so I just went with that. You never really know if you are supposed to do more with your opportunities or just let them be a nice moment. Hopefully I didn't let the Lord down. But, he made our day and at least for 1 moment we were radiating the light of Christ or the face of Christ for someone to see. Pretty cool.
The other thing I thought of happened yesterday. I had to take Jordyn to get an immunization. I went to the pharmacy because we don't have a primary physician. They all keep leaving so I gave up. We rarely go to the dr anyway. Healthcare.....aint it awesome? Not! Anyway, when we were leaving Jordyn wanted to check on Jared at his new job. I told her that we could drive past and see if maybe he was out gathering shopping carts. I spotted him out of the corner of my eye and tried to quickly make my way toward him in the car before he went inside the store. When we got close enough I had Jordyn jump out of the car to try and catch him. He was turning around to come back outside. His first words were "do you have any water? someone stole my water bottle." We just so happened to have a water bottle and he chugged it down and went about his way. Jordyn then said to me "mom, that was like one of those things." I said "you mean, a fleck of gold." "yes, one of those." I agreed with her!
Later that night I asked Jordyn to re-tell the story to Nate while Jared was sitting there. He clarified and said that he could have gone in to find one so it wasn't that great. Well, guess what. His water was stolen at 8 am and it was now 1 pm. Obviously he wasn't sure how to solve the problem with his anxiety. So it most certainly was a fleck of gold!
Jared then offered up what he thought was "an interesting thing that happened that was probably not God." OK, I'm in. Let's hear it. He then described wondering if someone he worked with was from France or maybe had a speech problem. He wasn't sure and it was bugging him. Once that kid's mind gets going it doesn't stop. He was really wanting to know and trying to decide how a kid with anxiety finds stuff like this out. Well no sooner had he thought about how to figure it out, he went outside and she was talking to someone and they were talking about being french. I love that he wondered if God cared about him enough to answer a simple question. He did say that he knew that that was indeed what God was saying to him.
I believe that's wonderful and a testimony beginning to take shape. Sometimes God can't answer the big questions we have. Or answer them in a way that satisfies us. But, he can give us little flecks of gold along the way to keep us going. let us know He knows and cares so that our faith will build and eventually we will be ready for the bigger questions to be answered. We forget that some things can't be answered until we are ready to hear the answer. Because once we hear, then we can't deny and we are held accountable to that knowledge.
I've also had many small miracles occur over the last month where I know Heavenly Father is opening the way before me and reaffirming my faith that He is at the helm of the ship Zion and all I have to do is move forward in trust and faith and all thing will work together for my good and for the good of my children. I do not have to take council from my fears if I have this knowledge. It's pretty awesome. That story is coming when I finally sit down to write about it with the new school in one post. That one will take more time and brain power so I'm procrastinating.
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