Stupor of Thought

That is what I felt I had all weekend. I wanted to write something, and nothing would come to me. In fact, I had one moment I thought I had written something semi-wrong and controversial and I worried about it and worried about it. I searched through my website to see if I had written what I thought I had written, but I must not have because I couldn’t find it. I guess it just wasn’t a good weekend to be writing anything.

Adoption

I laid my hands upon his head and gave him the Holy Ghost, then proceeded to pronounce a priesthood blessing upon him. As I did so, I was filled with the most glorious and overwhelming feeling. It washed over me like a tidal wave. I had made a choice 7 years earlier to be his father and I did it as a choice, as an act of faith that I was doing the right thing. I did it without being acted upon. Now, all of a sudden, like a flood this feeling washed over me and the Holy Ghost testified that he was my child and he was supposed to be a part of our family. This was so unexpected.