Feeling the Holy Ghost in My Life

I am finally starting to understand what it means to feel the Spirit of God in my life. It's a good feeling, but it's more than just a good feeling. It's something that envelopes you, and you feel like you're being directed, constantly, in a wonderful way. Whenever you're going in the right direction, you just feel so good. As soon as you start going in the wrong direction, you can feel it, and you know what you have to do. As soon as you turn in the right direction again, you know you've done the right thing.

The Spirit gives you ideas. It helps you create. It helps you to learn, constantly, new things that you didn't know before. Life is new every minute. It give you a sense of purpose. It gives you hope. It makes you feel like everything's okay. And it helps you understand people and see them in a new light. I love the feeling of the Holy Ghost in my life.

But it is a gift. It doesn't last long without nourishment. I have to take conscious steps in order to have this in my life. I have to humble myself and pray on my knees and ask for help, every day. I have to ask for the Spirit to be with me. I have to invite it, consciously. And I have to live the way I know I should live. If I am short with someone, I lose a measure of the Spirit. I can explain how I feel to someone and I don't lose it. But I have to be careful.

It feels so good, I don't ever want to lose it. These are just a few of the times when I feel the Spirit: When I read my scriptures and think and ponder about things. When I'm with friends and learning from them or with them. When I'm doing dishes or digging in my garden, and my thoughts wander over my life and what I'm doing here on earth. When I'm praying, especially for someone else. When I play a song I've composed. When I'm listening to someone tell about a truth they've discovered. When I'm listening to someone at the food pantry praying for other people. The Spirit brings me close to God, and it's lovely.

I've learned to start paying attention when I feel the Spirit. It nudges me to do small acts of service for others that I might not do otherwise. It tells me that these small things might have a big effect that day or somewhere down the road for that person. It tells me when to call someone. It tells me what another person is feeling. It teaches me to scatter goodness all around me, every day, every hour, every minute.

I wish everyone could feel it, because with it, you may be alone, but you're not lonely. Even though you may not always have an instant solution to a pressing problem, you feel like everything's going to work out okay. But you also do get instant solutions at times, just because you're in tune. You can sense why things are happening a certain way, and how certain situations affect people in ways that may ultimately help them. Even though somebody might treat you badly, you can see them as human beings working things out in their life, and you don't feel like it's all directed at you.

And even though everything might be crazy elsewhere, inside of you, you know that life is going just as God has planned it, and that everything will be all right. You know that even if you die, it's okay...God will take care of you. It makes you feel like you have a choice in how you act, and that you can act however you want because you're important. You know that you'll be directed in your decisions, and that that direction will always lead you to a good and comfortable place. I love the feelings that the Holy Ghost gives me. I hope, I pray that others can find this in their lives, too, because it is wonderful.