Press Forward

I feel excited and happy today, because I know that as I am doing the things that the Lord wants me to do, I can feel the Spirit is whispering to me every moment now and then.

I was driving to the Church together with the children this morning, my mind was not really focus on the Savior this morning. There were so many thoughts here some pieces and there some pieces flooded in my mind when I tried my best to think of the Savior and get ready for the sacrament.

I prayed in my heart that I can be focused and forgo the thousand thoughts which were non-related to the Savior. While I was making a U-Turn, suddenly there was a hymn that I do not remember what the title of it and I was humming the melody of the hymn.

I was stunned for a while which it made me recalled that last week I had experienced the same thing during my driving to the Church. I was humming one of the sacrament hymn and I remembered that because I did ask Issac what is the title of the hymn that I was humming, and he was answering me with the name of the hymn.

Later in the sacrament, we were singing exactly the same hymn which I was humming earlier on in the car, and it was actually Hymn no. 169 As Now We Take the Sacrament, and not the one that Issac told me in the car. We were discussing about that after the Sacrament ordinance last week.

I was quite upset this morning as last night Alvin did not call and my mind became distracted. We were singing the Hymn no. 172 In Humility, Our Savior. And, my eyes came across these few lines:

Fill our hearts with sweet forgiving;

Teach us tolerance and love.

Let our prayers find access to thee

In thy holy courts above.

When I sung the sacrament hymn I was touched by this words, and at that moment I was thinking of Alvin. I know that Heavenly Father ask me fill my heart with forgiving and learn tolerance and love. I was shedding my tears during the Sacrament. I was touched by the Spirit.

And the closing hymn was Hymn 81 Press Forward, Saints. It was exactly the hymn that I was humming in the car this morning. It happened again. I feel as it is the Spirit is whispering to me, ask me to press forward no matter how and whatsoever circumstances that I am in.

And, just as I thought that everything is alright, I was upset with the things which I am facing now. I think first thing is I should put my trust and faith in Jesus Christ, despite the things that happened to me that I do not know what to do now.

Press forward, Saints, with steadfast faith in Christ,

With hope's bright flame alight in heart and mind,

With love of God and love of all mankind.

Press forward, feasting on the word of Christ.

Receive his name, rejoicing in his might.

Come unto God; find everlasting light.

Press on, enduring in the ways of Christ.

His love proclaim thru days of mortal strife.

Thus saith our God: "Ye have eternal life!"