The Lord's hand today

Well today I decided that I am going to write on my blog as often as I can about how I have seen the hand of the Lord in my life during the day. I always start out with great ambitions so we'll see how that goes. Can I just say though how grateful I am for him today. I have to make this quick because I have a paper to write, so here we go. This morning I got up and it was actually a rather relaxing morning which is very different from my usual mad dash to the door. I got to work and I was able to finish everything I needed to to. I worked on every appeal, answered every email, and returned every phone call. Can I just tell you how good that felt? Usually I, one: really don't have the motivation to work on tedious emails and appeals. And two: I don't have the time to accomplish much with constant phone calls and people walking in needing admissions counseling. But today every thing was done by 10:30 am. How does that happen?!?!

Then I got to spend some time in the temple and it was nice to see the usual faces. I am so blessed to be able to go once a week and usually it is on Wednesday. I have missed a few Wednesdays and have had to go on Fridays or Saturdays. I have missed Wednesday and it's routine. It was so nice to see my friends and familiar faces again. There is one really chatty temple worker who I adore. We usually talk about her great grand kids in the dressing room as I am towel drying my hair. As Tressa and I were leaving today we said our good byes and she said "see ya next week!" It was a small thing but it was very comforting and made me smile. It is such a wonderful peaceful place to be and nice when you know you have friends there and are loved.

After I got home the day kind of started to go down hill. I began my math homework and lost my motivation all together.
I mean really..... when in the world am I ever going to need to use the quadratic equation to find all the factors of a given polynomial in real life? (That was a rhetorical question by the way) So I put it a side and watched Gilmore Girls. The more and more time I wasted the worse my mood got. Anyway, I was pretty down by the time I stopped to write my Communications paper. (wow what happened to this post being short?)

During the show I had been reflecting on a past experience that has given me a lot of grief and was kind of feeling like a failure. I am some one who likes to make people happy and I was feeling like I didn't really do so well in this situation. You know when Satan gets to you sometimes. Then I couldn't really remember a situation I did do well. Well I opened my Gmail account and found a very unexpected email from a friend. He said some very sweet things and thanked me for nothing really but I appreciated it. That little note made my day ten times better and I am so grateful he was listening to the spirit when he sent it because it was just what I needed. I started thinking about it and I felt like it was heavenly father's little way of telling me that I am appreciated and do, do some good. So over all today was full of evidences of the Lord's hand. What a good day! It is so nice to know that the Lord really does know who you are and is ready to bless and lift you if you are willing to let him. That's kind of fun to think about. I'm off to write my communications paper!