This past week I have had the song Simple Gifts on my mind a LOT (I listen to the Alison Krauss/Yo Yo Ma version). I have heard it several times over the course of the week as I listened to my ipod and painted (4 rooms down, 2 to go + as many baseboards as I can get done).
To me, the meaning of the song totally relates to submitting ourselves to the will of our Heavenly Father - and how, through turning and bending (challenges and trials) we become perfected, or we "come 'round right."
Making the "turning" a "delight" is what we are all trying to learn.
My internet default page (not sure what it's really called) is set to lds.org, and this morning when I got up to work on some Primary stuff, I noticed a few new links on the homepage. I was delighted to find this one:
Just what I needed to get through this next week.
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be.
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend we will not be ashamed.
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning we come 'round right.
Still learning patience (and trying to submit gracefully),
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