I was reflecting that the two times I've been warned spiritually of future pain or adversity it has been so much worse than I anticipated. I've wondered if I could withstand another warning and have any grace or patience about it.
One of the times was when I received my patriarchal blessing. The patriarch stopped and cried for five minutes in the midst of it. I wrote that off as his being old and didn't believe it could really be that bad.
The other time was when we were thinking about having Courtney and we got the strong message that having a child at this time was optional because of the hardship it would cause. I naively thought that was that the economic stress was something we could put off. I had no idea that it related to her dying between the deaths of Jessica and Robin.
So I consider how I would react should I receive another warning that did not include a promise that I'd be able to avoid the experience or mitigate it but only told me not to get to upset about an oncoming disaster.
Guess I'm getting old when I ponder things like that.
1 comment:
So sorry for your loss.
I lost children. I think of them everyday.
God Bless.
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