Recovery

7-10-15

OK. Yesterday was a day for the books!  Today was way better! We were planning on going to this theme park, but got rained out. We had already paied for tickets, so instead we decited to go to Liberty Jail.

What a great visit for our family!  We left weston bend and enjoyed a nice overcast rainy drive to Liberty.  On the way we read Docterine and Covanance 121-122, where Joseph Smith wrote revelation he recieved while in the Jail.  Those two sections are amazingly poetic and heavenly!  I could read and re read and re re read the whole thing over and over and over again.

I think it was very fitting that we had our "nature walk" yesterday to the Missouri River.  In those verses Heavenly Father is trying to comfort Joseph in his frustrations at the persecution the saints, himself included were being subjected to.  Something that stood out to me was in verse, 33 How long can rolling waters remain impure? What power shall stay the heavents? As well might man stretch forth his puny arm to stop the Missouri river in its decreed course, or to turn it up stream, as to hinder the Almighty from pouring down knowledge from heaven upon the heads of the Latter-day Saints.  What a visual!  When truth is truth, when our Father in Heaven has a plan, there is nothing that can stop it!  Will he stop bad things from happening to goo people?  No, Joseph Smith was asking at the begining, "where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place?"  He is then gently rebuked throughout the passage, asking if he as yet suffered like Job? Or if he thinks he is better than Christ?  Christ suffereed the ultimate pains and afflictions.  However, throughout the scipture Joseph is promised great things for staying valient, and comforted grately.

It made me really ponder our life, and the attitudes we sometimes have when we face hard things.  We have had a great life!  Sure there are a few unpleasent bumps along the way, but overall there is no need to complain, ever.  Before Joseph was unjustly locked in the basement prison, with 4 foot thick walls, on a cold December day for the next 4 months, he said to the people outside the jail, "Good Day Bretheren".  To have such love for those who hate you and make life miserable gives me even more of a desire to be like our Savior.  Such a great spiritually refreshing day!

We drove back into Kansas City and began searching for a hotel...cause honestly, it was needed!  We parked, ate lunch out of the back of the trailor like hillbilllies, Checked in and swam for hours!  It was so refreshing to just goof off and play!  We all had a blast.  Near the end we played a crazy game of keep away.  Cameron clung to Martins back like a champ!  Now the kids are all tucked into bed horizontally so they all fit on one full size bed together.  I hear deep, steady breathing.  Every Moms Dream.