Accountability
This last little while I have run into some set backs. I've had some things going on taking time and some decisions of my own making that have not helped. I've been overtired and overslept yesterday being the first day since early December that I entirely missed a workout (not even a token workout). I was in a rush in the morning and thought I'd get it later, but it just didn't happen as I became engaged in the goings on of the day. I suppose there is a lesson there about putting anything off likely meaning we won't get to it. I've had a miss here and there with kneeling prayers right upon awakening, but I catch myself before leaving the house and get it almost every time I realize (I expect I occasionally might just not even realize I missed it). Still on the whole improvements are happening. I haven't really been reporting on it, but I've been trying to improve my diet by crowding out poor choices with better ones with an aim to get a bunch of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and pulses throughout the day. I've been doing quite well with this.
Ponderings
So my listening, as you know if you've been following, has me back in the early chapters of the Book of Mormon. Here Lehi's family takes flight out of Jerusalem and prepares for their journey to the promised land. If we take the promised land as symbolic of our Celestial inheritance, the journey could well symbolize the covenant path leading there. In this journey for Nephi, we see a willingness to follow the spirit at his own peril. We see him take the life of Laban to obtain records for his family. The records of course being scripture which help lead the way back to true promised land, while also helping connect generations by connecting fathers of the past with those records yet to be written. In this way Nephi could be symbolically killing worldly ways to begin his journey to the promised land where family generations are connected in the land of inheritance. The brothers need to return for spouses, and the fulness of the inheritance can't be had without the union of a man and woman. Similar to the Jaredites, they need to prepare to cross the great deep at the hands of the lord having been given a Liahona to help them navigate, but it only works when they are faithful. Perhaps there is something we can take from these ideas with symbolism to see what part of the journey we are personally on and ensure we are staying the course and following the direction.
Be strong!
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