On a Sunday years ago, I woke up and made Trevan a special birthday breakfast. Well, not incredibly special, just pancakes with whipped cream and strawberries, and scrambled eggs with sausage. But I did bring it to him in bed (a tradition in our family for those who have a birthday), so that was something.

After that, I went downstairs and turned on the Roku to see what program I could watch to kick off my Sabbath before the kids woke up. Originally, I thought I might find an episode of the discussions on the scriptures from BYUtv. My mom has raved about them many times. Since interruptions were imminent and I enjoy those more when I can focus, I instead selected a talk from the October 2017 General Conference. Scrolling through the sessions, I decided to watch John C. Pingree's address called, "I have a work for Thee".

His opening words were:

"To Moses, God declared, 'I have a work for thee' (Moses 1:6). Have you ever wondered if Heavenly Father has a work for you? Are there important things He has prepared you—and specifically you—to accomplish? I testify the answer is yes!"

And while I usually think that kind of a message is talking about serving my family, or sharing my blog, books, or podcast, etc., I know they also very much refer to my calling (a.k.a. my assignment at church).

Normally, I feel like I should be making some kind of giant splash with my work, whatever I'm working on. But the thought often overwhelms me and sometimes renders me motionless. Gratefully, in that moment, the Spirit gently nudged me with a simple idea of what I should do NEXT. I was to put on my Sunday clothes and go to each of the 4 buildings in our stake, and post a pamphlet for my calling on the bulletin boards at each of the buildings.

That's it. That's all I needed to do. It wasn't a big splash, but it planted a seed.

I knew that if I did my part to get those pamphlets posted, the Lord could guide the right people to notice them. I was reminded once again that it is by small and simple things that the Lord does his work. Knowing this helped me calm down and enjoy my day just a little better.

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