Hearing The Voice of the Lord (Gerald Lund)

Recently I observed something that bothered me. Someone that I care about had some things going on in life that I felt were a red flag. Others felt similarly concerned. However, she didn't seem to agree that it was a problem. A number of us were praying for this person and about the situation. Two people received seemingly opposite messages. I wondered how it could be that God could give two very different messages. When Allen came home with this book I was eager to get into it right away. I wasn't disappointed. Gerald Lund goes into great detail in this book of principles and patterns of personal revelation. It helped me resolve my issues with the revelation question regarding my friend, and provided an amazing framework of understanding on personal revelation. This is a book that will need to be read again and again. It will definitely find a long term home on our book shelves!

Funny People in Our Zoo

This reminded me of the page in I'll Love you Forever by Robert Munsch. She's listening to her Ipod shuffle here and dancing away without realizing I'm video taping her. In the book it says: The boy grew. He grew and he grew and he grew. He grew until he was a teenager. He had strange friends and he wore strange clothes and he listened to strange music. Sometimes the mother felt like she was in a zoo!

Little interesting fact that I didn't know prior to looking at the Robert Munsch website: he wrote the little song in the book after he and his wife had two stillborn children.

That time of the month.....

It's that time of the month again....I've emailed everyone, and called everyone, and there is still a handful of people who haven't let me know if they've done their visiting teaching or not. That has to be the worst part of this calling - the people who just won't respond. If you didn't do it fine. Could you just call me back and let me know so I don't have to guess? I have decided it's probably safe to assume they didn't do it if they haven't called back after two calls and an email. However, I still get frustrated with the fact that they just don't respond.

I read another blog about visiting teaching today. Home and visiting teaching is an interesting thing. It can be a really great thing....perhaps I'll be struck for this, but sometimes I think it's more pain in the neck than it is a blessing.