A Picture is worth more than a blank page. Take out those dusty photo albums. Pick out photograph #14. Count however way you want but make sure you stop
at photograph #14. Look at the photograph
for 2-3 minutes. Then for 10 minutes
write all the feelings that photograph makes you feel. Don’t censor yourself. Just write.
First I did this a little different from the
suggestion. I let my screen saver come
up and I picked the #14 photograph from those in my screen saver.
I love this picture. It is the second in a series of pictures
taken by a couple of elders at my last district meeting while I was serving in
Syracuse. The first picture got deleted,
if I remember right, but I was telling Elder Tanner not to take the picture
yet, and I was in the middle of saying it when he snapped the picture. The other elder got this one as all 3 of us
are laughing about what just happened.
As I was looking at the picture I
was thinking about what was going on around this time. This companionship was a trio. We got a long fairly well, we had some ups
and downs but overall I think we did well together. We
knew something/someone was going to change.
This was one of our last opportunities for pictures. I think, as much as I didn’t want to admit
it, I knew I was going to change. I didn’t
want to. I wanted to be in Syracuse
forever. But, change did happen. Sister Belnap, the one in the middle, stayed
behind while Sister Cox and I moved on to Endicott together. This picture is full of joy, and laughter. But as I sit and think about it more and more
I see sadness, and uncertainty. Only
because I know what happened next. Within a week we would be separated and
working through challenges we never saw coming.
I am so grateful for the time I was able to
work with these two amazing sisters.
They both taught me wonderful things about myself and about the gospel.
No comments:
Post a Comment