Little Miracles

I had great plans for this past week.  I always have plans, you know.  Things I want to for sure get done.  I have such a great need to be always productive.  Perhaps I overdo this, as, even in the evenings when I am with Layne watching TV, I must be doing something; folding clothes, exercising, crocheting, etc.  It bugs Layne.  "Just relax," he will tell me.  I think I may be a bit over the top with the whole "must be productive" thing.  I'm going to try and modify myself.

We met with one of the stake counselors this past week, about our pornography addiction presentation.  We were dismayed to hear him say that he wanted us to completely change our presentation and go through the Church web site on pornography prevention and treatment to cover the material.  What?  Layne and I prayed and worked on our presentation and felt that it was interesting and right.  It was alarming to hear that this particular brother wanted it completely redone...again.  My heart rebelled.  I told him I couldn't think of a more boring way to give a presentation.  He persisted.  We left quite disheartened.  In all of our time in the Church this has never happened to us.  We are given the responsibility to present the material, then told to present it completely differently.  It doesn't feel right.  Our stake president and his counselor are very good men, but I can't help feeling that they have handled us a bit roughly.  We redid our presentation, again.  This time we inserted some information directly from the website.  We kept most of our other material as well.  By this time I was no longer excited about giving it.  But our first assignment came up today, in a local ward nearby.

Our Sunday is booked.  We had to sing in Sacrament meeting, then present the pornography addiction show, and tonight go to our pornography addiction support group.  Layne awoke this morning with vertigo!  He felt dizzy and upset.  So now we are to give a porn presentation that we don't feel especially good about and Layne feels unable to do his part.  Not good.  We prayed together that the Lord would heal him quickly, if He wanted us to give the presentation.  Usually when Layne gets this it lasts for at least a full day and he is worn out the next.  I went to Sacrament meeting alone while he rested.  We sang without him.  I came home to find him all suited up and feeling fine!  He said that he had a few extra trips to the bathroom, where it felt like he was being drained of whatever ailed him and he was fine after that.  Wow.  Our own little miracle.  We thanked the Lord and gave the presentation. It seemed to go fairly well in spite of having to change so many things.  Layne has been fine all day.  What a happy experience it turned out to be and what a joy to feel the Lord working on our behalf so directly.

Now to work through our feelings about this whole presentation process with our local leaders.  I want to feel good about this and I think that means we need to talk about it with them.

We took friend Phyllis Salsedo out to dinner for her birthday Saturday night.  Red Lobster, as you can see.  I wonder if something we ate there caused Layne's problem.  His vertigo is a bit of a mystery.

Layne, me and Phyllis outside Red Lobster in a "selfie".  Note Layne's new scar, above his lips.  It is healing nicely after last week's surgery.