Today's Favorite Verse: Joel 1:14-15

Today's Favorite Verse: Joel 1:14-15

"Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come."

This made me reflect back on the last solemn assembly I attended. It was in the early days of the pandemic, in April 2020 on Palm Sunday. General Conference was all online. In the Saturday session we learned that a solemn assembly would be held in the Sunday morning sessions. It was held to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith's First Vision of the Father and the Son. In the darkest days of the pandemic participating in the solemn assembly and the Hosanna Shout brought a feeling of light into our home that has stayed there.

I don't know when the last solemn assembly will be called before the Lord's Second Coming. What I do know is that a prophet of God will lead us and we will have an added strength given us for those days.

Day 3036

Today's Favorite Verse: Numbers 29:35

Today's Favorite Verse: Numbers 29:35

"On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:"

I don't observe the feasts and make blood sacrifices but I have participated in several solemn assembly. The last was in the April 2018 General Conference when President Russell M. Nelson was sustained as prophet, seer and revelator and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I found it and watched it again. What a spiritually moving occasion that was. I then went back and watched the solemn assembly for both President Thomas S. Monson and President Gordon B. Hinckley. As I have participated in them I always think about how the Lord's house is a house of order.

Day 2305

Today's Favorite Verse: Joel 1:14-15

Today's Favorite Verse: Joel 1:14-15
"Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord.
Atlas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come."

My heart is so sad for so many terrible and sad things I have read and saw the last few days. I need to fast for all the grief and sorrow I see others going through. I want to go to the temple, and pray for them. But, my time table is not my own, because I am dependent on others helping me right now. Two weeks of not being able to go to the temple makes the news happening around me even harder to bare.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Hamilton, New Zealand Temple

Day 1452