213 One Fallen Calendar at a Time (blog post)

I hope that by putting “blog post” in the title, it clarifies that this is a different episode than the one with the exact same title a couple weeks ago. It is, however, the same story and message. I just wrote a cute little blog post and wanted to keep the pattern going of reading it on my podcast.

It’s short and sweet, but it has a very important message: God loves you and is aware of the little details of your life!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Dude, Hello one, welcome back to my podcast today.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's going to be a very short, sweet and simple episode.
I'm just going to read this blog post that I
either posted last night or this morning, depending on whether
or not I remember to post it after I finished
recording this. So is that last minute. Maybe I did, however,

(00:39):
write this blog post back when I recorded that other episode.
So this is the blog post version. And you've already
heard this story if you listen to that episode. But
this is the blog post version as stated. Okay, so
this is titled one fallen Calendar at a time. I
wonder if God sent any to wake me up. Maybe

(01:01):
with that charge, he gave the angel the ability to
affect the environment around them. I wonder if the angel
pondered on how best to wake me up to help
me out, to prepare me for a very important weekend. Hmm,
would a metaphorical snooze button be beneficial? Maybe extra thoughtful? Yeah,
that would be nice. It's possible an angel wasn't involved
at all, but I like to think so it's more

(01:23):
fun that way now. Whether an angel was involved or not,
I believe that Heavenly Father had a hand in waking
me up. Else. Why on Friday, August twenty ninth did
my calendar fall off the wall? Of all the days,
of all of the mornings, of all of the possible times.
Did it fall on the very morning I needed to

(01:44):
wake up before my alarm. You see, my alarm was
set for seven forty am. But at six point fifty two,
one side of my calendar detached itself from the wall
and made quite the ruckus. It woke me up, and
I asked Alexa what time it was going? Full well
that the other side would not be able to maintain
the weight of the calendar and the whole thing would

(02:05):
fall shortly. I rolled over and closed my eyes again.
Eight minutes later, at seven o'clock sharp, the entire calendar
came crashing down. Half startled, I woke up again. All
I could do was laugh and giggle. Okay, okay, I'm up.
I got the message. Climbing out of bed, I studied
my scriptures, got dressed, brushed my teeth, drank a protein shake,

(02:28):
packed the rest of my food, and loaded my car.
Why I say conference, here I come. I had just
enough time to finish everything before my friend showed up,
ready to head up north. We wanted to make it
with plenty of time to park, check in, and find
a good seat for sister tomorrow Runya's talk that morning.
Had I gotten up at the time my alarm was set,
I would have been in big trouble. But God knew.

(02:52):
He knew this was important to me. He knew how
badly I needed to get to the YSA conference on time,
so he woke me up. He is so good. One
fallen calendar at a time. I know God loves you too.
I know you have heavenly parents that are anxious to
hold you close and bring you home. I know that

(03:12):
if you look for their hand in your life, you'll
find it everywhere, in big ways, in small ways, in
the little details. When you see their hand in your life,
it will be clear that they care about you and
want you to succeed, to come unto Christ, to become
more like them, to make it home. I've seen their
hand in my life in big ways, in small ways,

(03:35):
in the little details, they show me that they care
about me, are aware of me, and love me. One
fallen calendar at a time. I am just going to
keep it short and sweet for tonight, but I wanted
to update you and let you all know that I'm
doing so much better. I've finally picked a topic for
my paper this semester. There's this big paper and I

(03:58):
was really stressed because I could not pick a topic.
But I finally have picked a topic, drawn out my
conceptual model, and things are looking good, so feeling great. Really,
I'm feeling really grateful and good about that. And suddenly
everything feels less gloomy than it did, and I'm really grateful.
I went to the temple tonight. It was really nice.

(04:19):
I guess as I'm recording this Tuesday, so the day before,
but I went to the temple. It was really nice,
and yeah, everything's gonna be okay. And sometimes you just
need a pep talk. I had my cousin and my
grandma both tell me that they believed in me and
that I could do this, and I was like, yeah,
I can. So I'm doing okay. I hope you're doing okay,

(04:41):
and I hope you are looking for God's hand in
your life, because it's everywhere. I promise Heavenly Father and
Heavenly Mother are aware of you, love you, and are
watching out for you. And I know that if you
look for it, you'll find it. So that is my
invitation to you. Thank you so much for listening. Don't
forget to embrace perfection, find meaning, satisfaction and joy from

(05:02):
the journey. I'm Kyra and this is imperfectly broken. The
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