Compiling of selected scribblings from the past

I have some prior writing that I am going to slip in here to my blog.  It will be easier for me to find it and collect it here I believe.  Such a handy little tool this is.  Cheers.  .: D

Sherri Crowley, Journal entry 8-2-2009

It is almost overwhelming to start here again a habit that I abandoned years ago. There are reasons for the abandoning and there are reasons for the resuming of this practice, but those reasons are complex and deep seated, and so I will not begin there.

I will begin instead with today. Today I know that God loves me and that each time that I have been in deep need of something and I have begged for his help or called out to Him from inside myself, whether or not that prayer was said on my knees, that He has come to my aide. His response has been quick, sure, and often miraculous; and so I have seen His hand in my life—how He has guided me and cleared my way.

I have learned that above all things physical or earthly that men would aspire to to make them secure, that He is the rock and the anchor and the only thing that we can truly find hope and security in.

This has been the lesson of my life between the journals of my past and the journal of today.

I have learned to trust Him.

I have several favorite scriptures, but one that I have come to rely on is Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding,

In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.

This has been true for me for many years.

Another scripture that I love is Ether 12:4, especially vivid in my mind is this line:

“which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast.

The image of an anchor of faith holding me fast through wind and storm has keep me “in the boat” holding on for dear life through many of life’s storms.

And my last scripture is one of comfort:

D&C 50:40-44

Behold, ye are little children and cannot bear all things now; ye must grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth.

Fear not little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world, and you are of them that my Father hath given me:

And none of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost.

I am in the Father and the Father in me; and inasmuch as ye have received me, ye are in me and I in you.

Wherefore, I am in your midst, and I am the good shepherd and the stone of Isreal. He that buildeth upon this rock shall never fall.

I am far from perfect, but one thing I do know. God knows me, He knows and understands my needs. He will come to my aide when called upon. He has never left me alone.