Showing posts with label trials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trials. Show all posts

Friday, February 20, 2009

The Trial has Landed


Last week I talked about a sense of foreboding that I had. Turns out I'm not crazy, and the Lord did have something extra special in mind for me...

A hurt ankle.

On the trial spectrum, a hurt ankle is not the worst thing that could of happened, but it's not super low either. Especially living in Rexburg during the winter.

I live on the 3rd floor of my apartment complex, on top of a hill, in a town where it snows regulary, across the street from a big campus, with my classes spread out on said campus, with some of those classes upstairs. I guess I'll finally get to use the elevator.

I've always taken the stairs, not just because I need to, (you've seen me...) but also because I heard once that until the day he died, President Hinckley took the stairs. I figured that if a 90+ man can do it, I can too.

My injury follows my attempt to get involved and be a little active. During my dodge ball game last night, I was the last one standing on my side. I was dodging left and right trying to miss the balls thrown by the beefy guys on the other team. I succeeded for a while too. Until the inevitable happened.

I. Didn't. Dodge. The. Ball.

I was struck.

Wounded.

Maimed.

I was out.

While trying to dodge the fatal blow, I jumped to the left hoping to miss it. But when I landed, my ankle decided that it was tired of holding me up and quit. No two weeks notice or anything.

So now I am lying on my bed, feeling sorry for myself as I prepare to crawl to the bathroom and commence cleaning for clean checks.

Moral:
Look out for those beefy dodge ball players, they play dirty.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

All Signs Point to Trials...

What trial is up next for me?

I've noticed a trend in my life this week. Trials.

Everyone and their mother seems to be talking about trials and how we are refined by them.

Some guy talked about how our trials shape us on Sunday, then we studied a whole chapter about the refining power of trials in one of my classes, then we read a silversmith analogy about trials, then Katie's spiritual thought at FHE was about trials making us stronger. I feel like Heavenly Father is trying to tell me something, or help me get prepared for a bomb to drop.

It's a scary thought to think that He knows what's coming and I have absolutely no idea. I don't like to think that I have the worst trials in the world, and that I struggle constantly to make it through the day, but my life's not perfect.

I've been trying to think what He could possibly want me refined for? What part of me needs to change to fulfill His task? I wish He would just tell me without all this trial business, and then maybe I could work on it.

This waiting thing is making me totally antsy.