Come, Follow Me - Additional Music Study Guide
As our meeting have been cut down we don't have as much time for music to add to our meetings. So I have been looking for ways to bring music into my personal and family studying. I wanted to share my passion for music with others and maybe I can provide a different insight to the things you study each week. These are things I have learned and discovered and I'd love to hear from you in the things that have helped you and your family.
ABOUT
This blog is here to add to the weekly study of Come, Follow Me. Because music is not a part of a lot of our worship meeting any longer I felt it was important to add this into my daily and weekly study of scriptures and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints.
I began adding these posts to my Ward bulletin after I was called as the Ward Music Chair and Sacrament Meeting Music Director. I had thought about this a lot last year and once I had this calling and was a part of the music needed in our meetings I felt I had things to add to others study experience. Thus began this blog!
I guess I've been slacking a bit with this blog. I have a few things going on and I apologize. I will make up for it this coming week. As for today, I wanted to share a personal event taking place right now. Yes, my husband and I are celebrating our 24th Anniversary!!!!! Can't believe we made it 24 years and our son is a high school graduate this year! TIME TO CELEBRATE!!!
WOW! We made it! 24 years
together on the 24th of May. What an accomplishment! And to top it off, our son
graduates, I guess you can call it that! Graduation is officially on June 4th
for him. (I believe that was the date I graduated from high school too!)
This was May 24,
2005, our last family picture, I think
The section about “applying my heart to understanding God’s word” is so pertinent today and from the early foundation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many people, good people, can quote scriptures and speak of the commandments and Bible stories yet that’s all it is. They teach the right things but it isn’t “written in their hearts”. The teachings are good but until it is in their hearts and until they truly ‘understand” God they are just words. But we need to speak the words and then follow the words. Keep the commandment, follow Christs’ example and truly be His disciple by taking all He taught, and still teaches, into your hearts and stand as His example and act as He did and would.
We learn this week how the Lord will bless and sustain us as we do His work. We can all do His work in our own ways. We don’t all have to go on a mission and serve for 2 years just to show the Lord we are doing His work. We can do His work everyday by how we treat one another and how we live our life in line with His teachings.
With all of this, we must each look into OUR hearts. What should we be doing or should we change to do better and truly show the Lord what is written in our hearts? What does your heart look like? How can we help others around us learn for themselves what we know to be true? It’s not going to be easy, nor is it supposed to be, but what little thing can we do now to lead and help others to know of Christs’ teachings? I’m grateful for this knowledge that IS in my heart. I’m not perfect and I’m so thankful the Lord knows this, but I will keep trying to be better. I will continue to be whom the Lord expects me to be.
As we live in this world where there may be much uncertainty for some I truly look forward to the day,
hopefully very soon, we can join together in worshipping out Lord and Savior again. On that day my heart will be filled with this beautiful hymn about the wonders and blessing of a Sabbath day!
Sabbath Day (Hymn #148)
Help each to work a quiet hour To read thy word and feel thy pow’r,
To hear thy voice, through small and still, Renew our strength to
do thy will.
Father, on this he Sabbath day, Be with us in our hearts, we pray.
