Sister Johnson: 8/19/25

 

Happy Tuesday morning!! ☀️☀️ it’s a lovely day so far:)

Ok! So here’s an experience I have been feeling like I want to share with you all:

Maybe a week ago? Ish? I was in the temple for to do initiatories. I can’t remember if I had an appointment or I was just walking in… I think I was just walking in.  The PCC temple has a really good system for helping people who walk in w/out an appointment be able to do initiatories. However after they got my name and all that jazz they asked me to sit in the front area where the desk is instead of in the back near the booths bc the benches back there were full. This was sorta upsetting to me, I had gone that day really hoping to be able to feel the spirit. But being up there near the desk meant I had to try and tune out all the happenings and chatting there. Recently I’ve discovered that when I’m anxious I can get pretty sound sensitive. So if there’s any noise going on it can completely overwhelm me with anxious thoughts. 

I started to stress about wether they were going to get me in. Wether they might let someone who came in after me go before me. Starting to feel like the situation was spiraling out of my control and that was making me really upset.

But the spirit calmed me down and reminded me of a scripture: 

“Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.”

- 1 Nephi 21:16

(Or Isaiah 49: 16) 

I had the mental image of him holding me in his hands, cradling me, taking care of me. Everything would turn out ok because even though I felt like I had no control over my situation, He did. 

He has purchased us with His blood. Graven us on His palms. We are His. And that means not only we are His, but our past present and future are His too. When we accept His atonement we enter the covenant path through baptism and also other covenants all along the path. 

I don’t fully know how to explain it, but I think when we bind ourselves to Him through our covenants, it’s like he purchases the right to have that control over our life path. And all it’s little details.

AGENCY IS STILL A THING 

However, if we can trust Him enough to let Him, he will make sure everything goes perfectly for us. That ofc doesn’t mean that everything is going to be easy or fun. But we can trust that the trials that come into our life are the perfect learning opportunities for us AND that they WILL be something that we can overcome with His help. We don’t have to fight so hard to have control over every aspect of our lives bc there is a divine being who does. And he loves us dearly, and has the wisdom to truly know what is best for us. 

He has you in the palms of His hands. 

Anyways that was just a very long winded way of saying that everything is going t be ok:) He’s got you! 

I felt very peaceful the rest of my temple trip and was able to trust that everything would be ok, even if not everything went the way I wanted it to. 

Jesus loves you infinitely because he has felt everything you struggle with. He is filled with mercy for you. (Mosiah 15:9, Alma 7:12)

You are in His hands! Trust that! 

(Isaiah 42:16)💛❤️ - Sister Johnson