My Gethsemane
Yesterday was an oh-so-sickly day for me. My and my stomach waged an epic war which left me laying in my bed for most of the morning and wishing I understood more about why this whole gastroparesis thing (or as I like to call it sometimes, Goob Jr., but I'll explain that more another day) is happening to me.
Then i had to put on my grin and bear it face and go to a class that I knew that I just could not miss. And then haul my sorry sickly body to my favorite place in the world, Divine Comedy rehearsal. These people just make my life so much more awesome. And so, I went feeling so gross but knowing that they needed me there with all the props that I had in my car.
And somehow I survived.
Today, I woke up. And surprisingly felt much better. And then I went to my all time favorite class and got to learn more about this talk right here. And I remembered the way I felt when I first heard this talk, sitting in a lonely LDS chapel in Virginia feeling very sick and very alone. And then sweet Elder Robert D. Hales, an Apostle of our Savior Jesus Christ who has been called of God to testify of our Savior, bore a powerful witness that we are never alone. That we all have to travel to our own personal Gethsemane to be able to return to our Father in Heaven some day.
And so, sitting in my class this morning, I remembered that my travels through Gethsemane are not yet over. I still have much to learn from this experience. But, in some small way, I feel like I learned something small about my Savior today. I remembered that HE knows more about me. He knows EXACTLY what I am going through and as a result, He knows EXACTLY what I need. I am forever grateful for a Savior who went through His Gethsemane so that He could be here to help me through mine.
baby step of a success, i hope.
Then i had to put on my grin and bear it face and go to a class that I knew that I just could not miss. And then haul my sorry sickly body to my favorite place in the world, Divine Comedy rehearsal. These people just make my life so much more awesome. And so, I went feeling so gross but knowing that they needed me there with all the props that I had in my car.
And somehow I survived.
Today, I woke up. And surprisingly felt much better. And then I went to my all time favorite class and got to learn more about this talk right here. And I remembered the way I felt when I first heard this talk, sitting in a lonely LDS chapel in Virginia feeling very sick and very alone. And then sweet Elder Robert D. Hales, an Apostle of our Savior Jesus Christ who has been called of God to testify of our Savior, bore a powerful witness that we are never alone. That we all have to travel to our own personal Gethsemane to be able to return to our Father in Heaven some day.
And so, sitting in my class this morning, I remembered that my travels through Gethsemane are not yet over. I still have much to learn from this experience. But, in some small way, I feel like I learned something small about my Savior today. I remembered that HE knows more about me. He knows EXACTLY what I am going through and as a result, He knows EXACTLY what I need. I am forever grateful for a Savior who went through His Gethsemane so that He could be here to help me through mine.
baby step of a success, i hope.
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