Share it Sunday

Some time ago my sister Jeanne joined some friends of hers on facebook in what they call "Share it Sunday." It means just that, they share something they learned, quotes they like, etc. as their status. It's very inspiring and I have been very touched by it and have even joined in myself a time or two.

I've been reading a book recently called "To Draw Closer to God" a collection of discourses  by Henry B Eyring. What an inspiring book! I absolutely love it! I've been very touched and have felt the spirit speak to me. I'm so very thankful for our living prophet and apostles.

 

I wanted to share a story from this book. It's from a talk President Eyring gave at a BYU devotional 18, November 1986.

"Let me illustrate for you what I know about the questions that matter and how they are answered by telling you about the last conversations I had with my father.

He was suffering through the end of a long struggle with bone cancer. He still weighed enough and was in such pain that it was hard work to move him from a chair to his bed.

Others far more heroic than I spent months and the final days caring for him. But I took some turns on the midnight to dawn shift.

The effects of disease had removed the powers of reason he's used to make a mark that is still visible in science. He seemed to me almost like a child as we talked through the night. Most of his memories were of riding across the range together with his father in Old Mexico. But sometimes even those happy pictures could not crowd from his mind the terrible pain.

One night when I was not with him and the pain seemed more then he could bear, he somehow got out of bed and on his knees beside it-I know not how. He pled with God to know why he was suffering so. And the next morning he said, with quiet firmness, "I know why now. God needs brave sons."

Now, when someone tells you the questions that matter yield only to some rational analysis, remember that the stunning achievements of the past three hundred years have sprung from what is called the "scientific method."
I hope you'll also remember, as I always will, the scientist Henry Eyring on his knees, when the questions that really mattered yielded to the method for finding truth he'd learned as a little boy at his mother's knee in Old Mexico. This was long before he took the train to Tucson, and Berkeley, and Madison, and then on the Berlin and Princeton to use the scientific method to create theories that changed the scientific world. What he learned on his knees brought him peace and changed my life.
It changed my life, but reading this story today will change yours only if you know that the answer to his prayer was true. And you can know that only the way he did and the way I do-by the gentle voice of the Holy Ghost speaking to your heart.
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And he needs brave daughters too.
There is a time for all of us that maybe we don't feel so brave. It happens to me a lot.

But for myself everytime I feel that way it just means I need to depend on the Savior and our Father in Heaven a little more. We were not sent here to do things on our own. We are never alone.