Covered

I was asked to speak in church on finding hope and joy in discipleship and asked to reference Hebrews 10 “cast not away thine confidence” and Elder Hollands final talk at April Conference.  I was feeling pretty good and had my basic outline done.  Then I headed off to Relief Society Presidency meeting where I got a text from H-er.  He was letting me know that he would not be coming down for Scout camp (because he is heartbroken that we are over) and could I please let the scout leaders know.

Scout camp was the NEXT day.  This means that they would be short an adult and seeing as it was now Sunday the chances of finding an adult who already had a physical done was going to be pretty darn near impossible.  In addition, guess who was going to get to break it to their boys that their dad wasn’t going anymore.  Plus H-er was going to take the boys at the end of scout camp for his summer visitation and I had already made plans for the weekend which means I don’t know how they are going to get to Utah now.
 
But all of that wasn’t what really bothered me.  It was that I was supposed to be giving a talk and I wanted to have the spirit with me when I spoke.  And it’s hard to have the spirit when you are mad.  So I was mad that I was mad.   But I made the conscious choice that I was not going to be mad and I gave it all to God.   I said “Take it. You deal with it”.
 
And it turns out that one of the priesthood leaders had gotten a physical anyway even though he hadn’t planned on going. And my daughter came to church to hear my talk (hasn’t been since September and usually refuses to go), and I had the spirit with me and the boys weren’t too upset.
 
I need to turn stuff over to Him more often.   Clearly He's got it all covered.