My beautiful Sister Dopp!
How was your
week? I just got home from Evyn's homecoming. He gave a really good
talk on missionary work. He looked good. He sounded wise. He has grown a
lot as a person.
So anyway...I'm reading a good book about
women in my stage of life, whose kids are leaving the nest. I guess I
solved the "What to do next" question by buying a massive business and
figuring out how to run it. I kinda forgot I still have six kids to
raise! I'm trying to do a good job as a mom, so hopefully, I'm not
totally failing. I had some deep thoughts from the book that I was going
to send you last night, but I was too tired. Now I can't remember them!
I think it was about embracing the stillness and taking time to just be
who you perfectly are in that moment, instead of always looking for the
next solution. As a society, we're really solution-driven and prone to
solve problems, move on and put things all in a neat little package then
say, "OK, Next!" But Heavenly Father doesn't work like that, and
sometimes we have to...my favorite Vacation Bible School saying..."Let
go and let God." Let HF work on a solution while you just live in the
moment, knowing you don't have to solve anything. I bet you have learned
very well how to rely on the Lord and trust His timing. It's Pretty
remarkable how little control we really have, and how little control we
really need, when God is guiding our lives.
Today in Sunday
School, our lesson talked about the atonement, and we discussed all the
ways we can let the atonement work in our lives. Part of the hard part
for us humans is the "let" part, as in letting God in to work in our
hearts, rather than controlling the whole operation. Tough! The
atonement is so simple yet so all-encompassing, it takes a lifetime to
really absorb the magnitude of it. I still don't get it. :)
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