Alma 37: 35-37

 

How have you been blessed so far because of honoring, listening to, and obeying your parents or those who acted as your parents? 

"35 O, remember, my son, and learn wisdom in thy youth; yea, learn in thy youth to keep the commandments of God.

36 Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever.

37 Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day." (Alma 37: 35-37)

And here's the commentary entitled: “Counsel with the Lord.” : 

"In Alma 37:35–37, look for Alma’s invitations to his son Helaman. Which of these invitations do you feel prompted to act on? For example, you might ponder what it means to “counsel with the Lord” (verse 37). How have you tried to do this? How has He directed you for good?"

I've always believed that parents always want what's best for their children. And even though I'm not a perfect daughter myself (I didn't really listen to my parents all the time), I've always wanted my parents' blessing so when it comes to making big decisions in life like in terms of career and in marriage, I would choose to obey them as much as possible. Most of all, I want my parents to be proud of me. 

I love Alma's invitations to his son Helaman. Counseling with the Lord makes so much sense to me. If we want to keep our needed connection with the Lord while we are living in this troubled world, we truly need to counsel with the Lord regularly, throughout the day every day. I've been doing this myself and I feel so blessed for doing so because I've been seeing how the Lord is truly involved in the details and the details and the details and the details of our lives. He does make even simple miracles happen for us. We see them happening more often and they bring us more joy when we are more aware of them. When you are expressing gratitude to the Lord throughout the day, you'll see more miracles happening. Today, a simple miracle happened to me. I didn't have to go back to get my glue gun from my former staffroom at school (Grade 1-2 staffroom) because the opportunity for me to go there came up as I got asked by my Thai teacher to accompany our Thai Assistants to the main campus of our school to pick up some stuff we're using during our Thai Mother's Day Activities next week. So, I was able to glue up to fix and strengthen the craft I'm using during our Morning Time activity on Monday. I didn't have to do it right before we start doing our activity at 7:30AM. I didn't have to be at the Nursery building 15 minutes before the time at the most because the things I'm using for our Morning Time activity no longer needed some fixing and strengthening--I already got it done today so I'm just picking them up on Monday.