Being of a somewhat more advanced age
is like being high on a mountain trail and looking back over your life and
remembering so many events. In them all I can now clearly see the Hand of the
Lord, guiding me, opening the way before me, or closing it.
It will be incredible, bordering on
overwhelming, when my memories of the eternities before this mortal life are
restored. That will be like looking from a very high mountain indeed! With those memories, all of the events of
this mortal life would have even more meaning as I see how the Lord has given
me experiences to fit what I had done in
that preexistence for my own eternal progression.
This week with another doctor I went
to teach a doctor. This was my third experience with this wonderful woman, who
is our investigator. She speaks in a manner that is very hard for me to understand.
For this reason I was very grateful to have Doctor Ortiz with me. In our
investigator, I see a common problem which many people have in accepting the
Gospel of Jesus Christ as restored in these latter days. She does not yet have the
faith to let go of the life she now knows and accept the change that is the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. She is reluctant to reach out in faith and enter into
this strange, yet so familiar, and wonderful world that we invite her to enter.
I wish that I could have taught her when she was a young child and before all
the things of the world began to intervene. Yet, that is not the nature of
things. Perhaps the reader would call me judgmental. But that is not my intention. I speak from love and a sure knowledge borne from my own experiences with the Lord and as a missonary. As I can now look back at the experiences of my life and see the Lord
in it all, so will she one day come to an understanding of how it all comes
together. I pray with all of my heart that it will not be too late.
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