Saturday. I wrote in this blog that on Saturday, or at least a few Saturdays past Bonnie and I walk up the hill to our "special" place where we pause and consider many things. We are together discussing our life, our challenges, our opportunities of service, etc. Well we are planning on doing that on Day 51, today. (As most of you know, I write this the day before so I can post it in the morning on that specific day. Does that make sense?)
So when you read this, we will probably have been up the mountain to our place to think, ponder and pray. Joseph Smith counselled that we need to take the time to distance ourselves from "life" and it's challenges. We need to create pondering time to converse with the Spirit and hear Father's influence. Most of the revelations that Joseph received, it was following a pondering time for him. So, we are planning on pondering together about our upcoming mission today, this morning. We did hike the mountain and enjoyed our conversation talking about the upcoming mission.
I shared with someone the other day about one of my favorite scriptures, 2 Nephi 2: 24, where it says, "But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of Him who knoweth all things." As I consider "things" that happen, I ponder the reasoning of many them. There are reasons why things happen, and if we are listening, often we can KNOW why we are blessed with those things.
Why did we have to wait so long for our mission call? Why are we going to Dominican Republic? Why am I living with one of my sons? What am I supposed to learn working where I work? Why do I struggle with patience? Etc. There are divine reasons for all of these things and everything that happens, for Father is aware of and in control of things that happen in our life.
On our walk, I mentioned that since most senior missionaries have to wait 4 - 6 months to go, and we only have to wait two from our call to go, I guess we would rather wait for the call than wait for the time to go. So that long wait for our call was destined and good, since we can leave in 51 days.
So, back to the concept of pondering. It is a wonderful pastime to take the time and ponder reasons, thoughts, and even pray about them. I have been doing lots of that recently.
Pondering is another event, past time that we should use for every verse of the Book of Mormon, for as I read it, I often pause and try to figure out why that verse was put in there for me. Everything was put in there for divine reasons. I just have to figure out what it is?
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