I try to read my scriptures every morning. I've been doing pretty well. Sometimes I really hate to do it because I feel like it doesn't really benefit me anyway. But sometimes I learn something wonderful.
Today wasn't really either extreme, but I did come across some verses I'd like to share.
From Mosiah chapter 7:
29 For behold, the Lord hath said: I will not succor my people in the day of their transgression; but I will hedge up their ways that they prosper not; and their doings shall be as a stumbling block before them.
30 And again, he saith: If my people shall sow filthiness they shall reap the chaff thereof in the whirlwind; and the effect thereof is poison.
31 And again he saith: If my people shall sow filthiness they shall reap the east wind, which bringeth immediate destruction.
32 And now, behold, the promise of the Lord is fulfilled, and ye are smitten and afflicted.
33 But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage.
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Something else interesting happened today. I've been in a cloud all week, all depressed and cold. Can't really focus on anything important. I've been trying to repent and feel good again and feel like I'm good with God again, but I'm pretty low. Well today I was with my best friend, and her son had an experience that terrified him, poor kid. Well his mom went to check out the issue and he was there in the room with me, looking so scared and on the verge of tears. I scooped him up into my arms and told him he was okay, he's just fine, and just hugged him, and he cried and cried in my arms. I gave him my heart, my full self, in that moment.
It was nothing. I love that boy like he's my own, and it was instinct to reach out like that. But I noticed that I felt so much better afterward. I was more myself, for a while anyway.
It's a lesson I've learned over and over. Service heals. Giving of oneself makes oneself whole, or at least closer to it.
I definitely need more service in my life.
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