Like many people, the Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon are not the easiest for me to grasp so I'm grateful that I was given the assignment in my scripture class to study the chapters and report for 2-3 minutes on what I felt was God's message to me during this particular round of reading. As we know, each time you read the scriptures you get another layer of messages from God. My little talk:
What I loved the most was the verses with nature imagery because they remind me of how God shows His love for me through His creations. For example, here are three verses in no particular order that touched me:
Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth; for the feet of those who are in the east shall be established; and break forth into singing, O mountains; for they shall be smitten no more; for the Lor hath comforted his people.
And they thirsted not; he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also and the waters gushed out.
They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the sun smite them; for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them; even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Then I thought about how much I'd been pondering on this quote that a friend had posted on facebook a few days ago:
"There is a big circle that represents God... [and a]... little circle that represents you and me is inside the big circle. The goal... is to realize that you have been all along, contrary to all of your illusions, a dimension of the divine, and in moments of heightened spiritual awareness, the boundary line, which is the little circle defining you inside the big circle, momentarily is erased. Momentarily is blurred and it's no longer clear where you end and God begins." - Rabbi Laurence Kushner
The breezes, the stars, and the leaves on the trees remind me that I am bathed in that big circle full of atoms and molecules of God's love.
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