Comments on: A Gift of Grace http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/ Uplifting, edifying, and enriching reading by and for Latter-day Saint Women Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:59:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: EmilyCC http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-6093 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:40:49 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-6093 Naiah, this is a lovely story--it illustrates the BKP quote perfectly. I hope I can be more attune in my own mothering. Thank you for sharing. Naiah, this is a lovely story–it illustrates the BKP quote perfectly. I hope I can be more attune in my own mothering. Thank you for sharing.

]]> by: Naiah http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-6000 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:49:31 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-6000 RoAnn (#2), I am so grateful. It was a precious, precious gift. I hope it'll help me let go of future power struggles better. Eric (#3), The Spirit speaks, sometimes even through mortal mouths. :) Stephanie (#4), By all means, feel free to share it with your friend. I hadn't considered that I had allowed it to happen. I suppose I could have overridden it, but it was so beautiful, 'transcendent' to use RoAnn's word from above, that I'm glad it never occurred to me to cut it off and continue as I had been. It's good to know that can happen. We can both be on the lookout for such opportunities, and by being more mindful, allow them. :) RoAnn (#2), I am so grateful. It was a precious, precious gift. I hope it’ll help me let go of future power struggles better.

Eric (#3), The Spirit speaks, sometimes even through mortal mouths. :)

Stephanie (#4), By all means, feel free to share it with your friend.

I hadn’t considered that I had allowed it to happen. I suppose I could have overridden it, but it was so beautiful, ‘transcendent’ to use RoAnn’s word from above, that I’m glad it never occurred to me to cut it off and continue as I had been. It’s good to know that can happen. We can both be on the lookout for such opportunities, and by being more mindful, allow them. :)

]]> by: Stephanie http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-5998 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:01:50 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-5998 Naiah, This article couldn't come at a more perfect time. I have a friend in my life who is having difficultites and struggles with her daughter and this would be perfect for her to read. :] Do you mind if I share it with her? By the way, I am glad that you were humble enough in the moment to LET the Spirit work through you. I can't tell you how many times I have had experiences like that and I haven't listened and continued doing the same thing even when i should have done what the Spirit prompted me to do instead. You and your daughter will be blessed I feel for your willingness to follow the sweet whisperings of the Spirit. Stephanie Naiah,
This article couldn’t come at a more perfect time. I have a friend in my life who is having difficultites and struggles with her daughter and this would be perfect for her to read. :] Do you mind if I share it with her?

By the way, I am glad that you were humble enough in the moment to LET the Spirit work through you. I can’t tell you how many times I have had experiences like that and I haven’t listened and continued doing the same thing even when i should have done what the Spirit prompted me to do instead. You and your daughter will be blessed I feel for your willingness to follow the sweet whisperings of the Spirit.

Stephanie

]]> by: Eric Nielson http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-5993 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:43:41 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-5993 Very nice. I sort of experienced something like this while giving a blessing once. I'm happy for you. Very nice.

I sort of experienced something like this while giving a blessing once. I’m happy for you.

]]> by: RoAnn http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-5987 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:47:34 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-5987 This is such a powerful, inspiring example, Naiah. Why is it so hard for us to let go of our power struggle in situations like this? What a blessing for both you and your daughter that you allowed the Spirit to take over. Thanks so much for relating this transcendent experience. This is such a powerful, inspiring example, Naiah. Why is it so hard for us to let go of our power struggle in situations like this? What a blessing for both you and your daughter that you allowed the Spirit to take over. Thanks so much for relating this transcendent experience.

]]> by: Naiah http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-5938 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:55:16 +0000 http://roxcy.synthian.org/2006/09/21/a-gift-of-grace/#comment-5938 I couldn't phrase it this way, as I felt a very reverent spirit as I wrote this piece, but I just have to tell you guys that when I first conveyed the story to Michelle (the source of that quotation from Elder Packer) over the phone, my actual wording was something like "I mean, seriously, it's like the Spirit hijacked my brain." It was that distinct. It's actually happened twice in my life--where I've just heard myself saying the <em>right</em> thing, even though it had been nowhere in my mind a moment before, or even as I spoke it. For all that I may marvel at it, and phrase it in ostentatious ways to my friends in an attempt to convey the magnitude of my sense of the shift, it has been, both times, an experience of reverence beyond words. I couldn’t phrase it this way, as I felt a very reverent spirit as I wrote this piece, but I just have to tell you guys that when I first conveyed the story to Michelle (the source of that quotation from Elder Packer) over the phone, my actual wording was something like “I mean, seriously, it’s like the Spirit hijacked my brain.” It was that distinct.

It’s actually happened twice in my life–where I’ve just heard myself saying the right thing, even though it had been nowhere in my mind a moment before, or even as I spoke it. For all that I may marvel at it, and phrase it in ostentatious ways to my friends in an attempt to convey the magnitude of my sense of the shift, it has been, both times, an experience of reverence beyond words.

]]>