Perspective

Last night we had our quarterly enrichement meeting and it was one of the best meetings I have ever been too. The night started off with speakers who spoke on the subject of Joy. One of the speakers shared her life changing experience. She was involved in a serious car accident where she almost died. She was in the hospitals for several days and doctors didn't expect her to make it. She had to re-learn to talk, write, walk, and breath. She shared how she was grateful for everything and how some things we get upset about isn't worth getting upset about. She really made me think about how silly it is to get upset over trivial things. Everything we have is such a blessing.

The last speaker was also a real eye opener. She started off by having us answer a question on a piece of paper: "What are your burdens? What are your worries?" When we were done, we placed the paper into a bucket. Then, she began sharing the scripture 'Adam fell that we might be and men are that we might have JOY." After we discussed what the word BE means, she shared a story about her roomate. Her roomate had come across a scripture saying we were here to be "inflicted upon." What? We hare here to be toyed with? As she shared her rommate's experience, she then shared the scripture about how we are to be perfect and that Christ, through trials, learned line upon line until he became perfected. There's no way we can be perfect, but we are in the process of being perfected. She then read what everyone wrote on the piece of paper, but instead of saying "What are your burdens, What are your fears?" She changed it into "What are you being perfected by?" People were being perfected by struggling with self esteem, worrying about their children, and dealing with health problems. Talk about perspective!! I had never thought of our burdens and worries that way. If we could all think of our burdens and worries as things that are perfecting us, how much easier is it to endure those things. I was definitely grateful for her lesson. Hopefully it will be one that will stick with me forever.