An Inspiration

I haven't blogged here for a long time although I've thought of it many times. So many inspirational moments happen but I get distracted...you know.

But I wanted to document something that happened yesterday so I'd not ever forget.

I'd had a hard Saturday. Fight with hubby and then just a rather emotional rest of the day of which I won't go into here. So I decided to fast on Sunday for some extra help through what I was dealing with.

Turns out, because Ward conference is this coming week, Fast Sunday was moved up a week so I ended up fasting...on Fast Sunday. Imagine that! I didn't know that previously because it had been a couple of weeks since I'd been able to come.

Now we all know how much I love fasting (I really do!) and so it was no biggie but I was really in need of the Spirit that day and was desperate for my tank to be filled.

My daughter and I sat in the pulpit as people went up and bore their testimonies. It was pretty typical of any other Fast Sunday. I have to add that I bore my testimony last month and perhaps that may be part of what piqued my daughter's curiosity but a couple kids went up and spoke and that always catches another kid's attention. She told me she wanted to go up there.

At first, I brushed her off, trying to discourage her because it meant I'd have to go up there too, and I just really wasn't feeling up to it. But as I sat there, I realized that to discourage her first request to do something so great would be to sabotage her. So I asked her if she really wanted to go up, and she said yes! We waited until the man that was up there was finished and she ran up there, very excited.

She's only about 3' tall so the podium had to come ALL the way down and then she still couldn't see over it. I leaned over and said in her ear,

"I'd like to bear my testimony." She repeated it. I leaned up to say something else, and she leaned down and kissed me again and again in front of everyone. I was trying to talk in her ear and she kept kissing me. It was so sweet.

I finally got to say the next thing,
"I love Jesus," and then,
"I love my Mom and Dad."

I had thought of a few more things to say but by this time, I was having a hard time not crying because I was so overwhelmed with the Spirit that I couldn't go on. I said,

"In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." As we walked off the stage, my eyes were tearing up.

My daughter is 3.