well, i'm not a great writer by any stretch of the imagination. and my use of commas -- or lack of use -- will become glaringly apparent quite quickly i'm sure. i have no intention of capitalizing or being exactly correct with my grammar. please don't count on perfection in any form...well, unless you are referring to the word in its scriptural sense. perfection in the scriptures focuses on the idea of being complete, whole rather than on the idea of being without error or blemish.
which amazingly brings me to my first buen circulo. bueno circulos already...as if to prove the point they show up for the introduction....beautiful.
you see, in spanish 'buen circulo' means good cirlce literally. but it's real meaning is more like 'complete circle'. it speaks to the idea of truth being eternal and how so many times in life we can see things coming back to themselves through the learning process thereby creating a 'buen circulo' or complete cirlce. it speaks to the idea that all truth can be circumscribed into one great whole. it speaks of how God works with us to bring us greater understanding of both His plan and our part in it. it speaks of connectivity in life and bonds in relationships. it speak to things as they really are.
oprah refers to these moments as 'ah ha' moments. we know them as moments of enlightenment given as gifts of the Spirit. when you feel one hit you've just gone one full circle and have been given the eye of faith to see a beginning and an end of one small circle within the larger cirlcle itself. but i'm learning that the actual ah ha part of the moment is just a small part of the whole circle...or lesson sometimes...that God is trying to share with us.
hopefully in time this idea with make more sense and begin to cement itself into your mind and your heart. if you open your eyes to them you'll begin to see them everywhere.
this blog is an attempt to write down some of these buen circulos for my posterity. a couple of years ago Elder Eyring suggested we begin to keep a record of the Lord's dealings with our families. he himself, following a prompting of the Spirit, began to keep a journal of sorts and wrote in it everyday about how he'd seen the Lord's hand in his family's life. after his kids had grown up he copied the journals and had them bound and gave them as gifts to his children. what a wonderful gift to give your children -- stories of how they gained their testimonies, how their lives were protected, all the small things that surely would have been forgotten. i want to give my children a gift of this sort. but it's been years now and i still haven't done it. this has been weighing on my mind of late.
this blog will serve as an offering to my children...a reminder that they have always believed in God and have always known His love in their lives.
and to my God a thank you, a tilt of the head -- really a bend of the knee -- for all I've been given and taught by His merciful hand.
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