Some people call them "tender mercies." But sometimes I feel like they're even smaller than that.
I don't know the science behind it or how it is done, but I do know that God is acutely aware of me individually. The thought to me is incredible. That he knows what I feel and what I need. He knows where to put me and where to put other people at the right time and the right place.
Aside from having a special experience of being in the right place at the right time to help someone find something they had lost, or saying something that someone needed to hear, I have been the recipient of small "chance" meetings, conversations and experiences.
God knows that sometimes I just need a little reassuring. He does that through people I run into or things I see or hear. The causality of existence is very interesting to me; how one thing sets in motion other things and how something might not have happened had the other small thing never happened; dominos I guess.
Just wanted to say that I'm grateful for the tiny things. For the ripples of tiny stones.
Also. This. Posted it last week, but in case you haven't seen it yet:
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
i do not know all things.
In Words of Mormon in the Book of Mormon, Mormon is talking about why he has compiled the different books the way he has and what he hopes will come of all his work.
He then says, "I do this for a wise purpose; for thus it whispereth me, according to the workings of the Spirit of the Lord which is in me. And now, I do not know all things; but the Lord knoweth all things which are to come; wherefore, he worketh in me to do according to his will" (v. 7, emphasis added).
I think often times we can't see the end from the beginning; we don't know where our decisions will lead, but if we listen to the whispering of the Spirit we can be tools in God's hands and do our part in a chain of events that accomplishes his will. We can also have the confidence that we'll be where we need to be when we need to be there. And as always, that the future is bright and that God has something in mind for us.
Mormon didn't know the full impact that his work would have, but he felt like he was following the Holy Spirit and he knew that that was God's will, and that was all he wanted to do.
He then says, "I do this for a wise purpose; for thus it whispereth me, according to the workings of the Spirit of the Lord which is in me. And now, I do not know all things; but the Lord knoweth all things which are to come; wherefore, he worketh in me to do according to his will" (v. 7, emphasis added).
I think often times we can't see the end from the beginning; we don't know where our decisions will lead, but if we listen to the whispering of the Spirit we can be tools in God's hands and do our part in a chain of events that accomplishes his will. We can also have the confidence that we'll be where we need to be when we need to be there. And as always, that the future is bright and that God has something in mind for us.
Mormon didn't know the full impact that his work would have, but he felt like he was following the Holy Spirit and he knew that that was God's will, and that was all he wanted to do.
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