I was recently driving a large U-Haul moving truck and stopped in Beaver, Utah for gas. After filling up, I started driving and remembered that my right-side mirror needed to be adjusted. So, I stopped the truck there in the gas station parking lot. As I got out of the truck and started around to the other side, I realized that where I had parked was blocking several cars, and that if the drivers came out of the convenience store they wouldn’t be able to get out. I knew I wasn’t where I was supposed to be, but I rationalized that it would only take a minute to adjust the mirror. So, I continued in my inconsiderate course of action around the front of the truck to the passenger’s side, and began to adjust the mirror. As I did so, my back was to the parked cars, and one of them backed up and pinned me to the side of the truck. I screamed as my left shin had been smashed between the car bumper and the metal step on the passenger’s side of the truck. The driver heard me, and quickly pulled back into the parking space. I was blessed that nothing was broken and everything is healing well.
Within a few days of that accident, I was reading D&C 45: 32, which says “But my disciples shall stand in holy places, and shall not be moved…” As I adjusted the mirror on that U-Haul, I was not standing where I was supposed to be, and as such I lost some measure of protection from the Lord.
I know that as I read the scriptures and apply them in my life, as I listen to and obey the words of the prophets, as I avoid unwanted media influences, and as I attend the temple and keep the covenants which I have made therein, I “stand in holy places”. I know that this will keep me closer to Christ, help me to be more like Him, help me to avoid dangerous situations, and help me to receive many more of the blessings which he wants to give me and my family. When I chose to not stand in these holy places, or when I allow myself to stand in unholy places I forfeit that protection and those blessing which I need, and I may find myself pinned in painful situations.
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Faith, Life Lessons, Self Improvement
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