I listened to this talk
this morning:
I love this quote:
My grandmother Ellen Hanks Rymer was a young mother in 1912
when she received her patriarchal blessing. When I read her blessing, these
lines jumped off the page and stayed in my mind: “Thou wast chosen from before
the foundation of the earth, and a chosen spirit to come forth in this day. …
Thy testimony shall be magnified and thou shalt be able to testify. … The
destroyer has sought to destroy thee, but if thou wilt cleave unto thy God, he
[the destroyer] shall not have power to harm thee. Thou through thy
faithfulness shalt have great power and the destroyer shall flee from before
thee because of thy righteousness. … When the hour of fear and trials come upon
thee if thou wilt retire to thy secret closet in prayer thy heart shall be
comforted and the obstacles removed.”2
This talk in a way shows
the opposite of what it looks like to separate ourselves from God.
She says to write about how
does past hurt cause me to separate myself from the Lord.
I think in a very real way
the difference is where we turn in our thoughts when we hurt. If we look down we doubt and feel pain
because of doubt. If we look up we feel
hope because of faith. In moments of
remembering past hurts the natural man in us tends to want to lick our wounds
and feel sorry for ourselves. This is
separating us from God. We keep our
burdens to ourselves and do not ask Him to heal us. We fail to trust in the Lord.
p.111 I like the imagery of the word “kinks”. I often get kinks in the water hose and it
stops the water either a little or a lot.
When we hold offence, grudges, resentments, or feelings of estrangement
then we stop the flow of the Spirit or the love of God in our lives. This seems to answer her question above.
p.111-114 This is such a beautiful parable and dream
she had. I think I want to send it to
everyone for Christmas. I wonder if I
need permission?
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