Blessings: Day 3

Sunday, 29 May 2016

I love church. I love singing hymns and participating in the sacrament. Regardless of what else does or doesn't happen, I love those constants, those sources of pure doctrine.

Yesterday, during Sunday School, I received just a tiny building block more of understanding. As I participated in class, I understood a little better about how Satan blinds people. Many people around me who reject truth, not because they're bad but because they're blinded. I've been blinded to certain things and feel thankful to and for many things that kept me from falling away and being further blinded. The Spirit also helped me understand a little more about how I can help those people in my life right now. Understanding the problem helps me understand how to be an instrument in healing. Ultimately, it is the Savior who heals blindness, but I can certainly play a role in helping. So glad for additional understanding and direction of how to move forward.

In the evening, I spent a couple of hours visiting with a new friend. (Thankful for the Church which brings people into my life that I would never know otherwise.) We were talking about our lives and afterward I was awed again by how the Lord had directed my choices. I am so thankful for the gift of the Holy Ghost. Not only for its direction in the past, but for the assurance I felt yesterday that God (the whole group) will continue to guide me as I need it.

And finally, I am thankful for promises the Lord has made to me, personally. I won't go into details, but I've recently had good and bad experiences when I've trusted the Lord's promises and when I've forgotten. In a time when I am remembering and trusting, I'm thankful He has given me promises AND shown me (mostly through others, especially scripture, but many other ways too) that His promises are sure.

This day I was incredibly blessed by the gospel of Jesus Christ, by many gifts that come only with the restored gospel, and by lots of things that the Church brings me.