Elevated

Every few months I receive the Clark Memorandum. It's the BYU Law school alumni magazine and it is a superb publication. I always feel uplifted when I read it. (Sometimes I feel sad too, because I feel like I'm not doing much with my degree, but that's eased some with where I am now.) And always it makes me happy to  be an attorney, and an LDS attorney at that.

I love mornings. Always have. My mind and heart are clear; I feel connected to heaven; and it's easy to see things as they really are and feel the Spirit enlightening me.  The sunlight, the new day...it's just glorious.

And I appreciate study time in airplanes. People talk about the chance to be disconnected from electronics -- and there's that. But there is also the fact that I'm removed from my normal routine and all the tasks I think I should be doing. And then there's the fact that I am literally elevated above the world. Being up in the sky, surrounded by light, it affects me for good.

Well, this morning I had a 3-hour flight. And my reading material (grabbed as I was packing earlier) was the Clark Memorandum. I usually read it later in the day and it was startlingly how much better I understood because I was reading when my mind was fresh and clear. Put all 3 of these things together and the revelation just flowed. I mean, flowed. I have oodles of notes and that's just what I could articulate. I feel so grateful that for a few moments I was lifted up above the mundane and touched by Heaven.