Massage and Spiritual Therapy in One

After hearing so many great things about Jane Clayson Johnson's book "I am a Mother", I decided to read it to give myself a little spiritual boost. There is a quote from C. S. Lewis that I especially feel I can relate to.

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that he is building quite a different house than the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace" (Mere Christianity, 205).

Not in anyway do I think that I am a palace, but I definitely feel that for the past year, Heavenly Father has been changing things and it has hurt A LOT to grow and be knocked down over and OVER and OVER again until I get over my plans not working and follow His plans. Hopefully, now we, Will and I, are finally in line with His plans and then maybe our trials will be eased a little bit. It stinks that it took a year to figure out what we were supposed to learn from this trial, but I hope we have finally moved past this learning experience.

So about the title, I have been going to this AMAZING massage therapist, named David. He is Hawaiian and he has made my back feel so much better, which is great in itself because my back has been killing me with working so much. But, not only does he pop my spine back into alignment, he is very in tune to the Spirit himself and every time I get a massage, I leave crying because of the personal reflection that takes place. David studied in a Seminary and was going to be in the ministry of the Catholic Religion, but he did not feel that the religion was correct and did not agree with all of it, so he decided to leave and find out what Heavenly Father wanted him to do. Now, I know he does not have the Spirit the same way you and I, my fellow LDS members, have it, but he is very in tune to the Spirit that he can have accompany him. He asks me questions or will tell me something that I KNOW Heavenly Father wanted me to think about or hear and it softens my heart and helps bring me closer to Heavenly Father and makes me want to improve my relationship with Jesus, as I have been having a hard time with the Church and my testimony lately. I am so grateful to David for the amazing massages I get that make my spine straight again, if only for a week or two and also for the spiritual therapy he provides me as a vessel for Heavenly Father to communicate with me and soften my heart.