"Now I'm closer to the edge"
Can't believe this is it. Last full week. Make it count.
I stepped into this world
of diligence and love two years and two days ago. I have fought as it
describes in Mosiah 20:10-11, "as a lion... and for their lives... and
like dragons." This is my pinnacle, my shining moment, my masterpiece,
and all glory be to God. I will work this week as I've never known
myself to work, I will serve this week as I've never known myself to
serve, and I will love this week as I've never known myself to love.
This isn't about me however. This is all about Him.
I have seen Him here in
DC. I saw Him in the eyes of the first deaf Ethiopians I taught here. I
saw Him in the brothers and sisters that faithfully attend church every
Sunday despite living paycheck to paycheck, and in neighborhoods where I
never would have dreamed of living before my mission. I saw Him in the
laughing and crying children every week in church, at the park, on the
streets. Most recently I have seen him as my dear friend, Z
A, got dressed in white and was baptized. I have seen Jesus Christ
all around me. I hope others see Him in me.
Am I ready to come home?
I have found peace with it. It is OK. It was meant to be an ending so
that I could experience the joy of a beginning again. The Lord wants
us to love things so deeply and so tenderly and then to give them to Him
just as we give Him the things that we don't love about ourselves: our
sins, trials, and pains. The total commitment that is consecration
comes in gifts great and small that we give to the Savior.
I know I have been and
will continue to be engaged in the greatest work that has ever been. I
know that the Lord and Savior of whom we speak and seek is this Jesus
Christ, of whom the Bible and Book of Mormon testify. I know that Jesus
Christ restored His church and worked through a man, Joseph Smith. I
know Joseph saw what he said he saw. I know that the temple is the
House of God on the earth, and I love to see the temple. I know that
the family is so important that the appointment as the fundamental unit
of society was not only given to us by God, it is part of what makes
God. God is our Heavenly Father. He love us and wants us to be with
him. He gives us mountains to climb, hills to sled down, valleys to
walk, and rivers to cross so that we can come closer to Him both in the
journey and desination.
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