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I had an interesting experience that happened to me two mornings ago. I awoke out of a deep sleep at about 4:30am. I wasn’t really tired and then the thought came to me that I should go to the temple. On Tuesdays the temple in my district opens at 5am, and I hadn’t been to the temple since March so I figured I would give it a shot. My head hit the pillow again, then I thought maybe I should at least check the online temple schedule to confirm if what I thought was true; it was. So, then I rationalized at this point that maybe I just needed that info to plan ahead the next time. So, I went back to bed. I cannot sleep so I arise from bed again and by this time it is 5:15am. This time I’m serious and I get dressed in my Sunday best-I find my tie, shoes, white shirt, slacks, and even dress socks (usually I’m hunting high and low for those)! However, I realize I cannot find my wallet that contains my TR. I remember jumping on the trampoline yesterday and placing my wallet on the patio table (my wallet was not there). I check my bedroom (it’s not there). I check everywhere (my car, the bathroom, the entertainment center). I say a silent prayer and try to envision where it might be. It becomes 5:25am at this point and I really wanted to make the 6am session. I finally give up, get changed and hear Darth Vader’s voice in my mind, “Your lack of faith is disturbing.” I glance at my bed realizing that I guess today the dark side is stronger. I placed my clothes back in their place, nice and tidy. Later that morning I tell my wife how frantically I was searching for my wallet and the fact that I could not find it. I took the kids to the park. My wife and two boys meet me there later and my son has my wallet. My wife found it and told me that I could see where it was as clear as day. I felt like an idiot and wondered, “why do people have these remarkable experiences at praying and finding their lost keys, etc.” and I cannot even find my wallet containing my TR. My wife taught me this lesson, “I always keep my TR in my jewelry box, since I cannot always find my purse. I replied, “I guess Satan hid my wallet then and just chuckled.” Any thoughts or opinions or is this just a silly coincidental-get better organized due to the master of chaos of a delusional mind? You could become Catholic… http://www.ehow.com/how_4609439_something-praying-st-anthony.html 😆 When it comes to “little” moments, we tend to remember the good (when we find things) and forget the bad (when we don’t) – so the good experiences are the only little ones left in our active memories after a while. When it comes to “big” moments, we tend to remember the one bad and forget the six or seven good – so we need to have WAY more really good experiences to de-emphasize the really bad ones (or have the good one be SO FREAKING GOOD that it outweighs the more numerous bad ones).
Life, by its nature, delivers lots of bad ones – so we generally have to “manufacture” the good ones that will overcome the bad ones (and I don’t use “manufacture” negatively, at all).
I have many similar stories about not being able to find my keys or Security ID to go to work. But I don’t think it is Satan. It is me not planning ahead and being lazy about not putting them in the right place when I get home. I think you get an A for effort and the rest gets chalked up to being a human.
Thanks Brown, I really appreciate what you said, and I feel that was pretty much my predicament. Glad I could help. Basically I was trying to say that I think often we as church members give Satan too much credit and power, when really it is just the “natural man”. And the ironic thing is that Satan doesn’t make us weak and fallible, God did.
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