What did you write in the margins?

For a year Mike has been telling me about his fabulous Institute teacher, Bro. Hunter, so I decided to attend Mike's class with him on Tuesday nights. We have been studying the parables of Jesus. Am I loving it? Is he an amazing teacher? Yes! It's not because Bro.Hunter is showy or loud or entertaining--it's because he lets the Holy Ghost teach us--and that is a rare quality in a teacher. He talks very quietly, so quietly that sometimes I strain to hear him. And he uses the prophets to teach us, he uses truth to teach, he uses the Holy Ghost to witness to us. Bro. Hunter speaks Greek and Hebrew which helps us to unlock words and meanings in the parables. He gives us piles of handouts every week which allows me to study for the entire week the one parable that we have talked about. He encourages us to listen for the whisperings and impressions of the Holy Ghost that come into our hearts and minds. He tells us to write our impressions in the margins or on whatever we can find because they can be fleeting as our mind moves on. At the end of the first class that I attended, he asked us to share what the Spirit had taught us. He asked, "What did you write in your margins?" Oh, the things that I had felt, that I had written, that were flooding into me, how strongly I felt the influence of the Holy Ghost. Every person that shared a feeling or thought had been taught something different that night.

That phrase has been running through my mind, over and over again, what will be written in my margins of my life? What marvelous teachings have been written on my heart? Holy thoughts, sacred impressions, that can come only from a loving and kind Heavenly Father who cares for His children in an unfathomable, compassionate way. Thank you Mike, for taking me to Institue with you! I am filled with gratitude for the teachings of that most precious, and often unrecognized member of the Godhead, the Holy Ghost.