Peace

Life is a super funny thing sometimes. 2011 has, so far, been the year of the craziness and this week is no exception. I have been SOOO busy. There is something going on every single day until next Tuesday.

The house building is going fantastically. If you saw the last post, you saw the pumper truck pouring our basement walls. That was seriously exciting. I don't think Adam was as impressed. He was okay with taking a couple of pictures and leaving but I told him I needed to stick around for at least a few minutes because this was never going to happen again in my life. It is so exciting to watch everything taking shape.

And, by the way, now that I see the basement walls I think the house is huge. It's strange how that works. I read about it in the books I read during my preparation time. They all said that once the footings were poured you would look at it and think "Gee, that's kind of small. Maybe we need to expand..." but once walls started going up, especially during framing, you think it's huge. Then once it gets sheetrocked, it just feels normal-ish. I'll keep you posted on how that changes for me, but for now, it's huge.

Anyway, the whole point of this (now that I've rambled a bit) is that in spite of the craziness in my life right now, I feel competely at peace. Weird, right? You'd think I would feel super stressed out about the house building, raising children, being a wife, serving at church, etc. going on in my life but I don't. Not at all. I actually had a chat with our bishop last night and he asked how I was doing. When I told him I was great, he was shocked - like his eyebrows went up and his eyes got big shocked. It's true though. I have had this amazing sense of peace since my surgery in January. And I have been working really hard at listening to what the Lord is trying to tell me. I can feel His hand guiding my life right now to the extent that it's almost tangible. It is a great place to be. It's like it says in Doctrine and Covenants 88:63 "Draw near unto me and I will draw near unto you; seek me diligently and you shall find me; ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." The harder we work to be close to the Lord, the closer He will be. And since He promises peace, I shouldn't be surprised that I have discovered such an abundance of it in my life.