I actually feel good and capable and ready to plow through on simplifying things and getting my life in balance, with the switch of me taking on more responsibility, in our life. Of course when you get started on well-laid and well-thought out plans for your life, then life itself interferes. Not in a bad way but just a delay. Like a road trip and traffic stops for an avalanche clean-up and in your real life you are trying to clean-up the debri and feel you can't stop.
But...stop you must. So time out for a bit of refreshing with those I love. My family!
Jeanee arrived from Alaska and was so sick. She felt it was food poisioning (which proably didn't set well with the friend that cooked her last dinner!). I don't think so, about the fp, as I then started feeling lousy the next day. Now we are on the mend and plans are moving ahead for an abbreviated, as far as attendees, for McCall.
Kip, the Kip d.'s, the Greg's & Jen will not be with us this year. Kip d. is home from hospital/rest home and continues working towards learning to walk in 2-3 months. Usually we go to McCall every other year but we have access to the time share every year (last year I took over Dixie's week). Next year will be our regular year.
So...Jeanee and girls, the Ben's and the Dave's (minus Jen) plus Terry and I will be our family vacation time. it will be lowkey. well, that is what we say it is going to be. time will tell on that one!
I was so eager to share blogwise when the computer plummeted about my study of angels. Suddenly everyone seems to be writing about angels! like here.
I was going to share this paragraph with you and someone beat me to it!!
“In like manner our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth, having been faithful, and worthy to enjoy these rights and privileges, may have a mission given them to visit their relatives and friends upon the earth again, bringing from the divine Presence messages of love, of warning, or reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh” (Gospel Doctrine, p. 436).
Caution has always been my course in studying topics that aren't mainstream like the Word of Wisdom or Temples or Tithing or etc. Angels have been in my thoughts and on my mind for years but the subject is not something that we hear on a regular basis in a testimony meeting or in our gospel conversation. Extremism definition for me is-- touting subjects that makes others uncomfortable? I think that is true for me.
At this point I don't believe that we each have a particular, solely assigned angel, as our guardian angel. I do believe that angels guard us and therefore are guardian angels in that sense. but specific one on one assignments? not feeling that.
While I do not believe we pray to specific angels, like deceased family etc.... I do believe that we can pray for angels to "be dispatched" and we can "ask for angels to help you". I'm not inclined to disagree or argue with Elder Holland! those words are his from 2008 and 2010. two General Conference talks. you know how I feel about the words spoken at Conference.
Way back in the early 70's, living in Homer, invited to Anchorage to participate in a Woman's Conference, and received a plaque (as did everyone) with the quote by Joseph Smith (from that first RS meeting) stating in part...If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates. That is a very long time to think about a subject!
I do believe that we are in for hearing of more contact/connection between the realms of mortality and the spirit world as these last days unfold. Hymn #2...
The visions and blessings of old are returning,
And angels are coming to visit the earth.
May as well also throw out there that I do not believe that angels supersede the Holy Ghost.
I need to pull all of my quotes together but that is not going to happen this morning! To much going on getting ready for McCall. I say we are going all relaxed etc. me the lying tongue. IF I was a betting woman...that little truck will end up looking like the Clampett truck from the Beverly Hillbillies show!
Oh, and I believe that we can be angels to each other. Not all angels are on the other side of the veil.
Actually I believe a lot of things but most of all....I believe the Gospel has been restored and it is a truth that permeates my being and I simply love it!
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(I know I shared this before but just wanted to again. Enjoy!)
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I believe we need to speak of and believe in and bear testimony of the ministry of angels more than we sometimes do. They constitute one of God’s great methods of witnessing through the veil, and no document in all this world teaches that principle so clearly and so powerfully as does the Book of Mormon.
For a Wise Purpose by Jeffrey Holland-1996 here
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(D&C 84:88.)
When do the angels come? If we seek to be worthy, they are near us when we need them most. The mountain might even be full with the horsemen of Israel and their chariots of fire.
When Do the Angels Come? by Bruce Hafen - 1992 here
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