Today our closing hymn in Sacrament meeting was hymn number 97, Lead, Kindly Light. When we started singing it (well, I should say when everyone else started singing it. I don't sing. Not because I don't want to, but because I can't. My voice is not a pleasant sound.) I felt an overwhelming peace come over me. Not that I was searching for peace. Not that it had been a rough day or week. It was just a comfortable, reassuring feeling. Some words in the hymn really stuck out to me:
"I loved to choose and see my path; but now, Lead thou me on!"
I am a very opinionated, strong-willed, independent person. I don't like being told what to do. So something I've been working on is putting His will in place of my own. It is so hard to make that decision! To decide that I'm no longer going to control my life, but instead put it in the hands of my Father in Heaven. But I know that by doing so, I can become the person I need to be.
Mosiah 24:15 "And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; year, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord."
I know that if I rely on the Lord, all will fall into place. As my roommate Kristi said the other day, "Have faith in the Lord's timing, take a leap of faith, and trust that everything will fall into place."
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