You Are Engraved Upon His Hands

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato

"For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, and love stronger than force." 

At the MTC, I picked up a call from a Christian woman who moved recently to New Jersey from somewhere close to where my brother served in Cote d'Ivoire, Africa. She really wanted to go to a church to feel more at home. When I sent her the address to the nearest chapel, she eagerly accepted a visit from the elders and a Book of Mormon! I sent her contact information to where my ma's friend is serving as the mission president's wife. The elders there had already gotten it that day.

Jill Thomas –––> We live in a world of yellow or a world of blue. 

The world of blue is full of grief, pain, suffering. It's full of new ideas and questions that you never would have had in the world of yellow (happiness, success, safety). Once you have lived in yellow, all you want to do is leave blue. Is that the test? We may think that the test is if you get exposed to blue but make it back to yellow, then you're okay. We think, "If I could just go back to yellow, then I'll be happy again" – but those things that once seemed so yellow to you no longer feel yellow. It's because once you've experienced blue, yellow will never look the same. What do you think now? "Well, I guess my world is always going to be blue. If I can just endure the blue, then one day I'll die and the answers will come." Yellow is a part of you. Likewise, blue is a part of you. So, provide a space for yellow and blue to exist together within you. The Master gave you both. He gives you two contradictory colors so you can see green. Yes, you're happy; and yes, you still suffer. No, it's not just happiness; and no, I don't suffer... at the same time! We must learn to see between the opposing worlds to find green. You were never intended to stay in blue or yellow. See green. Perhaps, springing from the earth as trees and plants, green represents new life, alive in Christ.

“Yea, they may forget, but will I not forget thee... Behold, I have graven thee upon my hands.” // 1 Nephi 21:15-16 

Let's remember... He does; and one day we really will feel His hands!! Yay!

Love, Hermana Jerman