I woke up early today thinking about the wonderful weekend of listening to messages from leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It led me to prayer of thanksgiving for being a member of such a wonderful organization. As I opened up my bible I began reading in the book of Isaiah and came across the following scripture which I felt impressed to share.

Isaiah Chapter 58 Verse 13-14: “If thou turn away… from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways not finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shat thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth…”

I just love this scripture and as I was studying, I remembered my “unplugged” blog of which I have forgot about for quite some time. As I opened up my laptop and started reading past posts, I was reminded that it was this act of keeping the Sabbath Day holy that inspired this blog in the first place. As I have stated on my hope page:

I have a life Challenge… That Challenge is to Turn off all technology distractions for a set period of time each and every day.   During this time, interact and converse with those that I love and care about.

Also,  something I keep thinking about… We are given 7 days a week…   Two of these days are an opportunity for us to replace worldly media; entertainment; and music with wholesome activities and recreation.

My mission… to keep negative entertainment and media away from myself and those that I love, keeping myself and others around me as righteous as we can by choosing media wisely.

One of those that ‘I love and care about’ is my Father in Heaven and His son and my Savior, Jesus Christ. I know that I am not perfect, yet I know that through them I may be perfected. May I and may you remember to ‘unplug’ and find time to interact and converse with God and Christ. The past two days have been my opportunity to replace worldly media and entertainment with the wholesome activity of listening and pondering the teachings of His divine gospel and my hopes are that I may remember the things that I forget from time to time and focus my thoughts and prayers on communioning with Him.

May God Bless you in all that you do, and may you, as I have found, feel of His presence and love. For He Lives and Loves us all!