David A. Bednar: The tender mercies of the Lord are real and they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. The Lord's tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and though the Lord Jesus Christ.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Missing

Feb. 2010: I have a hard time discerning between the spirit or my own mind. One day I really needed my camera for something and I couldn’t find it. My sister-in-law had just stayed with us so I called her to see if she accidentally had taken it with her when she went home. She hadn’t. I called a few of my other sisters who were just at my house the night before, to see if they picked it up by mistake. They hadn’t. So I started searching through the house. I went into Lincoln’s room first and looked at my pile of jewelry supplies for a few seconds. I thought to myself “That’s just my jewelry supplies. It’s not there.” Then I continued to look through the house. I was getting really frustrated and worried that I had left it somewhere. Finally, towards the end of the day after calling a few more people and asking them if they’d seen it, I had the thought to go look again in Lincoln’s room. I thought to myself, “It’s not there! I’ve looked there!” I went in anyway and stared at my pile of jewelry supplies. I was about to leave again when I had the thought, “look under the supplies.” Then I thought to myself, “why would it be under there?! It’s NOT there!” So, I figured I had nothing to lose by looking so I did. Lo and Behold, there it was. I had put it there so my nieces and nephews wouldn’t get it, then I happened to stack my jewelry supplies around it without realizing it. I knew then that I need act on a thought. Especially if that thought keeps coming back into my mind. When that happens, THAT’S the spirit! Not just my mind, telling me what I need to do. D&C 85:6 "Yea, thus saith the still small voice, which whispereth through and pierceth all things, and often times it maketh my bones to quake while it maketh manifest..."

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