Spiritual Sunday

I've decided to do a reflective post on my blog every Sunday with thoughts I'd like to capture before I forget them. I'm going to call it Spiritual Sunday. Here are some thoughts for the week:

• I never realized until lately the power that is found when one praises the Lord in prayer.  And by that I mean literally I say "I praise Thy name and Thee."  Wow, try it sometime.  The power and reverence that is found in that sentence is quite overwhelming.  It's a hard feeling to explain.  It puts me in my place in a way and the best way that I can describe it is it makes me feel like I have said this sentence for billions of years and it feels right, soooo right to praise the Lord and say it out loud.  I picture all of us in the pre-existence saying those words.
• I've been listening to the Mormon Channel a lot lately.  I LOVE it!  They have the best interviews and you gain so many nuggets of wisdom from it.  Here's one thing I loved.  A missionary was being interviewed who said she was not even active until she was 18.  She said what changed her mind is that her young woman leader told her "Yes, you can probably be happy with the path you are following but it will not be the life you always dreamed of having."  Powerful statement, no?  Something I must remember and it's true.  This path is the true path and only path.  The life I am living now is a life I have only ever dreamed of having and I praise the Lord for that.
• We've begun the 30 day Book of Mormon Challenge again.  This time, we are reading it together and I really like that we need to carve out an hour of out time to read together.  Not a better way we could spend our time.  Well, I think that's all for now but I really look forward to these spiritual Sundays.