It finally got hot here. After the wettest May in Utah’s recorded history, and cold temperatures to go with it, it is rather nice to have some warm days. This was officially the first year I put my garden in in the rain. Two days ago we turned the air conditioner on in our house and so our basement is now freezing. At bedtime Lizzie went hunting for all her blankets (she has a fuzzy blanket collection- thanks to the influence of my sister Rebecca) and found that Sam had one of them. Sam, in older brother teasing fashion closed and locked his door and refused to let her in to get her blanket. Lizzie was so frustrated! She went in her room and got in bed. She had the following conversation in her head with herself:
“You haven’t read your scriptures yet today.”
“I am so tired, I don’t want to read my scriptures”
“Read them, it will help. In fact, go to 2 Nephi chapter 2 verse 1”
“FINE!” She opens her scriptures, not to where she is reading chronologically, but to a completely different part of the Book of Mormon. And reads the following verse:
“And now, Jacob, I speak unto you: Thou art my firstborn (Lizzie substituted firstborn for second born) in the days of my tribulation in the wilderness. And behold, in thy childhood thou hast suffered afflictions and much sorrow, because of the rudeness of thy brethren.” 2 Nephi 2:1
See God really knows His children
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