Julie’s Blog
I’m spending some time in beautiful Providence, Rhode Island (my first time in the state!), at the United Methodist Association of Communicators conference. Today we had some free time so I drove up to the Boston temple (about an hour away). What a lovely temple! I’m so glad that the Lord prepared the way for it to be built and completed. It has faced some significant challenges. I wish I would have remembered my camera! (I stole this photo from someone else--thank you, whoever you are!) I also regret that I didn’t have time to walk through the grounds. They were exquisite and fairly extensive. I’ll have to come back here someday, I think.
I participated in sealings and an endowment, so it was well worth the journey up here. I’m just so grateful every time I get to come to the temple! It’s been a while; I’ve been so busy with school and work lately. Just what I needed--the opportunity to meditate in the most sacred place on earth. I learned so much from Eve. She teaches me how to be a better woman and a better person. Aren’t we lucky to have her as our mother a few generations back? She ennobles the whole human race. Adam’s not bad, either.
I’m always so grateful for the chance to travel, even though it can be exhausting and the schedules are often not what I would choose and the food is different and strange (although I’ve been very lucky this trip--the Providence Hilton does some awesome catering!) and being surrounded by different people is a little stressful. But I learn so much when I step outside my routine and it also keeps me from going crazy with monotony. Plus, I think I feel a little relieved at missing class this week. It’ll be back to the grindstone soon enough, so I will enjoy this time while I have it.
I’ve been reading The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle, and it’s a little bit challenging and a little bit liberating. Every now and then I read a sentence or phrase and think, “I want to write that on an index card and put it on the mirror so I see it often,” but I never do. I thought that all through the last book of his I read too. I’ll have to be more proactive and carry around index cards, I guess.
Boston Temple
Thursday, October 16, 2008
