My Wilderness

Yesterday, church was good. You know how sometimes you just go through the motions, and then other times something really sticks and makes an impression. It was a day where everything 'stuck.' It may partially be due to my shifting emotions due to the upcoming delivery, but the Spirit was particularily strong.

Our RS president was recapping the women's broadcast from Saturday (which I totally forgot about and missed!). The main thing that imporessed me was she started talking about her 'wilderness.' She was saying how we all have our own wilderness. For one girl there it was moving to California. That was her big wilderness. We all have something in our lives that is our wilderness. Our big trial. The big unknown that causes us stress, grief, sadness, and maybe even anger. But she quoted a scripture (no I can't remember, but it was in Alma, 24 or 27 maybe?) that tal;ked about how we all can and should seek the Savior in our wilderness, just like Lehi did when he truly was in the wilderness. And just like Lehi was supported and guided through the wilderness, we too will be directed through our own personal wilderness if we but seek guidance and support from the only one who can truly understand what we're going through, and knows how to help us through. Our Savior Jesus Christ.

My personal wilderness right now changes daily, with changing emotions of changing family life. And I have been forgetting that hanging pictures won't be what gets me through, but it will be my spirituality. I don't often have these spiritual moments, due to me, but when I do I want to make sure that I remember them. So I share it with you.