Tonight they had a beautiful and touching fireside with Richard G Scott as the speaker. It's amazing how you can know who someone is your whole life and never meet them yet they still have the amazing capacity to touch and to change your life forever. Tonight was one of those night's when my eyes where opened to the strength of someone that the chances are I will never meet. Being in College you start to hear a lot about courting and marriage, sometimes you get a little tired of hearing it, some times you feel just a little bit like it's being rubbed in your face that your still single, and you have no one specific to share you life with just yet, And then there are other times that I don't mind at all. Tonight was one of those night's that I felt ready and receptive to the spirit and the message. Elder Scott spoke a lot about marriage and the dedication and loyalty he had for his wife who he had married so long ago, and who passed away many years ago, but he spoke with the dedication of someone who had just seen her yesterday, and with the love and fervor of someone who was still keeping their marriage covenants, and was as in love with his wife today as he had been the day they got married. He told of all of the time the realized it was her strength beside him that got him through, he told of how in his point of view behind every great man there ever has been there's always a great woman.
I realized all over again tonight that I want to be that type of woman, someone inspiring, a woman who a man of god could gratefully call his, regardless of his calling. Whether he ended up being an apostle, prophet, bishop, or a humble farmer who dedicated his life to serving the lord. I want to be someone loving and supportive, that they could feel my support in everything they do. I want to be someone strong that a man could lean on when they felt weak, I want to have the courage, and faith to be able to support and be a strength to who ever I marry. I want to be someone that my future husband could look at as his equal partner, someone he could share his strengths and weaknesses with, and someone I could be able to share my weaknesses and strengths with in return.
The more I learn about the gospel the more I realize, that this gospel is all about love stories. It's about God's unending love for his children and their love for him in return. It's about the lost being found. It's about the wrong being made right, and about everything being put in the right order, through love and because of love. And the more I learn about love the more I am amazed by what love makes possible, and the capacity of love to change our lives
I realized all over again tonight that I want to be that type of woman, someone inspiring, a woman who a man of god could gratefully call his, regardless of his calling. Whether he ended up being an apostle, prophet, bishop, or a humble farmer who dedicated his life to serving the lord. I want to be someone loving and supportive, that they could feel my support in everything they do. I want to be someone strong that a man could lean on when they felt weak, I want to have the courage, and faith to be able to support and be a strength to who ever I marry. I want to be someone that my future husband could look at as his equal partner, someone he could share his strengths and weaknesses with, and someone I could be able to share my weaknesses and strengths with in return.
The more I learn about the gospel the more I realize, that this gospel is all about love stories. It's about God's unending love for his children and their love for him in return. It's about the lost being found. It's about the wrong being made right, and about everything being put in the right order, through love and because of love. And the more I learn about love the more I am amazed by what love makes possible, and the capacity of love to change our lives
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