My Christmas gift

For Christmas, I gave to my children my testimony handwritten and personal. I want them never to doubt that I know!!!

Alma ponderized!

This week's ponderizer is sorta-kinda from the Book of Mormon but sorta-kinda from a book of scripture that hasn't been read much for several hundred years! I only get to read it because Alma quoted it... This teaches me a few things: that there are other scriptures out there yet to be discovered! Also, that Alma was reading his scriptures and ponderizing them as well. 

God's handkerchief

I feel like this can happen even before heaven... I feel like God has wiped my tears in my difficult moments. Verses 3 & 4:

Focusing on the love of God as a power

This past week I was preparing to lead the gospel doctrine discussion about the three epistles of John. Lotta love conversation going on there! Here are the specific verses that I want to ponderize:

Clay

This concept has always felt beautiful to my heart... And it was mentioned in two conference talks this past October! 

Back to singing!

I like these verses because they put singing parallel with prayer!

A follow up from Hebrews

This week, I stayed in the book of Hebrews. There are several good verses in this book and I wanted to focus on the first two in chapter 12.

I just recently learned how to take a screenshot with my phone. Press the power button at the same time as me home button.

So I have the screenshot pictured below set as the lock screen wallpaper for my phone! 

Speaking of ponderizing...

The three verses I'm going to focus on this week aren't consecutive. These two are: 

And the next one is on the same spread of pages in the dead tree version but on the left:

Nice how they meld together eh ? And really emphasize ponderizing!!!

It worked!

Last week's attempt to post from my iPhone was successful so I am quite hopeful this week! I'm continuing with the idea of the singing but this set of verses expands the concept! I especially like how it links to thankfulness since we're entering this time of year.

Trying again from my iPhone

Last time you tried to post from my iPhone, it didn't upload. I'm trying again though because I am blessed to have a sleeping baby on my lap! 

This coming week, I will be ponderizing the joy of getting a song stuck in my head! This really is only a joy when I purposefully choose a hymn to memorize and therefore have a lovely time letting the words go through my mind over and I!

Here's my screenshot:

Apparently...

Posting from my phone must not work. I've posted a couple of comments as well as a whole other Ponderizer post and they aren't showing up. Weird!

Well, like the post that didn't show up that talked about running with patience the race set before me (Hebrews 12:1), I feel like I will just keep running and not spend much energy worrying about that lost post...

So, this coming week, I will be focusing on Acts 28, verses 26 and 27. Here, Paul is realizing that he is living proof of prophecy coming true. As he tried to teach the Jews and they simply would not accept his message, he pondered back on the words of Isaiah and saw them being played out before his very eyes:

26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with theirears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

My first attempt to ponderize

I will be leading the discussion in gospel doctrine next Sunday so I'm choosing to ponderize a scripture from the reading assignment, which is the book of Hebrews. 

I can see already that one of the challenges of ponderizing is narrowing down which verse to focus on!!

Soooo I decided to say a little prayer and felt good about the following from Hebrews 6:

18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;