Sunday, October 23, 2011

I hope that I remember lots of stuff from today.  Our stake (regional) conference was a wonderful meeting.  It was broadcast to 95 stakes and had another 20 in attendance at the conference center.  I felt that the 40 minute address by Elder Bednar was just for me.  I know that it wasn't, but everything that he said was related directly to some area of my personal pondering over the last several months.  I told Sheila that it was a 40 minute 'aha moment' for me.  I believe that I will be carrying it around in my head for a long time to come.  I just read a Facebook comment from someone else who had listened to it who apparently had much the same reaction as I did.  They wondered if it would be published.  I doubt it but I'm sure that what he said has or will appear in other things that he has or will do.  (a book or a printed talk from somewhere else)  The rest of my day has been pretty low key.  Sheila has done well by us for someone who was unable to go grocery shopping yesterday ( except for the quick milk trip last night)  I purposely left an hour after I finish here to just sit and think about what I learned today.  That should be a positive and allow me to move into tomorrow having spent one of my better Sundays in quite a long time.  I do find one thing from all of this positive stuff that does bother me just a bit.  When I get to thinking 'out of this world' like this I tend to want to be even more out and I lose interest in what I have to do here and now.  Its my long time problem of how to reconcile what I want most with what I need to do now, or what I want for eternity and how does that relate to today.  For sure the things that I learned today while they do add to my confusion I am equally as sure that they will eventually add to my understanding as I am able to sort them out properly.

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