Sunday, May 19, 2013

A Year of Growing Closer to Thee

So it's been over a year since I last posted anything here. It isn't that I didn't try. I have drafts saved of journal excerpts that just never reached publish-worthy quality, IMHO, but then I know I can be my own worst critic..

So much has happened in my life since last April/May. I have learned so much about my church, about God, our Heavenly Father, His son Jesus Christ, and His Plan of Salvation. I am constantly humbled, inspired, edified, repenting for something, and growing ever more eternally closer to Him. I've grown in my prayers and in my ability to tune in to hear and *feel* Him better when His Holy Ghost speaks to me. I've made lifestyle choices to change many habits that were revealed to me as not up to His standards. In doing so, I've had to sacrifice many things I used to enjoy. There are a few things I still can do and I no longer take them for granted.

I pray that I will be inspired with His words to elaborate on many of my lifestyle choices and changes in future posts.

If there is one specific area I am *feeling* prompted to elaborate on before ending, it's about how I am able to *FEEL* Him and *know* that it is truly Him speaking to me.

Growing Closer to Him 
Means
Trusting in The Lord.

I recently watched a movie I hadn't watched in a long time & it was interestingly refreshing to watch it from my Latter-day Saint point of view. In the 1998 movie City of Angels starring Nicolas Cage (Seth) & Meg Ryan (Maggie), there's a scene where Seth explains it in a very simple way to Maggie:

City of Angels "Touch" 
http://youtu.be/FEq2C-LTOK0

(At about 1:50 into the video) 
Seth: You're an excellent doctor.
Maggie: How do you know?
Seth: I have a feeling.
Maggie: Well, that's pretty flimsy evidence.
Seth: Close your eyes. Just for a moment. (He takes her hand and with his finger running across the palm of her hand asks...) What am I doing?
Maggie: You're touching me.
Seth: Touch. How do you know?
Maggie: Because I feel it.
Seth: You should trust that. You don't trust it enough.


Trust can be a big word for many of us in today's world. For so many people, it doesn't come naturally, nor easily. . .But with courage and daily practice, it will get easier. 

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