:: A Thought ::

Last Sunday in my Sunday School class,

our teacher caught me off guard before the class started and asked me to be her reader.

She handed me two full pages worth of quotes.

I of course smiled and said "sure!"

My heart started pounding really fast though.

I don't do public speaking.

I don't really have a good reason as to why,

But I shake and start to sweat profusely and I get really nervous.

So, I tried really hard to listen to the lesson and not think about when she might call on me to start reading.

As I listened to the lesson, I felt that this one was meant especially for me.

And that there was a reason she picked me to be the reader.

You see, I don't normally pay much attention to the quotes that are read.

For that matter, I have a really hard time paying attention to much of anything in Sunday School.

It's bad, I know.

I am working on it.

But last Sunday,

I was paying such close attention to the lesson so that I didn't focus on having to read in front of everyone,

that I really heard what she was teaching.

And then when it was my turn to read those dreaded quotes,

I almost couldn't read them because I choked up.

I kid you not...

that entire lesson was meant for me.

It was a lesson on Elisabeth and Mary.

The part that felt like it was directed at me what the very first part.

We were talking about Elisabeth and how she was barren until she 88.

88!!!

are you kidding me?!?!?!

I suddenly felt like I didn't have it so bad, seeing as how I am only 29.

And then I read the first quote:

"All righteous prayers are answered, but in the due time of the Lord. There may be some delay until his time is due, as a man well-stricken in years learned when Gabriel appeared to him and said: 'Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard' (Luke 1:13) Though the answer was much-delayed, the prayer was answered in God's time. This experience says much about God's need and his timing." (Keith H Meservy)

Wasn't I just on my knees pleading with my Father in Heaven to let me have a little one?

Yep.

That was me.

Guess I need to learn a little more patience.

and then we moved on to talking about Mary.

I can't even think about Mary without getting teary-eyed.

What an amazing woman.

This is the quote that made me lose it:

Bruce R McConkie said: "As there is only one Christ, so there is only one Mary. And as the Father chose the most noble and righteous of all his spirit sons to come into mortality as his Only Begotten in the flesh, so we may confidently conclude that he selected the most worthy and spiritually talented of all his spirit daughters to be the mortal mother of his Eternal Son."

Wow.

I came away from church feeling very humbled and very much grateful for the women who lived so long ago.