Years ago, Peggy Worthen, wife of newly installed BYU president Kevin Worthen, spoke to the gathered student body. In her talk she referenced highway 6, a Utah road that leads from Provo to the eastern side of the state, including the famous Arches National Park in Moab. In 1983 this road was blocked as a massive rockslide covered the road and blocked the river causing massive flooding. A new road had to be constructed. Although the temporary inconvenience was major, the newly build road was much wide, much safer, and ultimately a much better path through the mountains. Maybe it's because over the past years of living in the East we have come to appreciate the non-linear, swerving roads that spread like spiderwebs here and contrast sharply with the linear roads of the west, but I loved Sister Worthen's observation that "life is somewhat like Highway 6. Even though life in general is beautiful and scenic, the road we travel will not always be an uneventful, direct course, even when we know where we are going. We have to learn to be flexible and to deal with the unexpected."
In our study this week we look at the unexpected and hope to find a bit flexibility in our relationship with the Lord.
Show Notes:
Peggy Worthen, "An Unexpected Path," BYU Devotional 2014.
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Music: by Steve Oxen
3 Nephi 8-11 - "they heard a voice"
3 Nephi 1-7 - "Lift up your head and be of good cheer"
Helaman 13-16 - "got upon the wall"
Helaman 7-12 - "remember him"
Helaman 1-6 - "serious difficulty"
Alma 53-63 - "two thousand sons"
Alma 43-52 - "preparations for war"
Alma 39-42 - "my son, go thy way"
Alma 36-38 - "O Jesus, thou Son of God"
Alma 32-35 - "no place to worship"
Alma 30-31 - "I have all things as a testimony"
Alma 23-29 - "I ought to be content"
Alma 17-22 - "an instrument in the hand of God"
Alma 8-16 - "How long shall we suffer"
Alma 5-7 - "can you imagine"
Mosiah 29-Alma 4 - "that he might reclaim them"
Mosiah 25-28 - "I have repented...and been redeemed"
Bonus: Mosiah 18 with Maria Eckersley
Mosiah 18-24 - "none could deliver them but the Lord their God"
Mosiah 11-17 - "here is the man"
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