Trials have been the theme of this Christmas holiday and my gratitude for them. What I have realized this month is that trials add oil to our lamps by doing a number of powerful thinks for us. Yes, it test and tries us and God has said " I will have a tried people" and so I am grateful to be number as his people but what I want to write about today is the blessing in trial on a specific level in the oil production. Trials engage the law of sacrifice and all the blessing that are pertaining to that law and covenant. We are a covenant keeping people! I am a covenant keeping women. How do I know that unless I see how they work in my life. literally? I have had many health problem in my life. I born with many health issues that have been my sacred teacher and refiner in this mortal life. I love my mortal body more than I can express in words. It has served me in ways that no other human being or experience on this side of the veil could have. I am so grateful for it and I just pray that I can communicate that to my flesh by the way that I hold it sacred as we travel this journey in mortality together. This body of mine is the very flesh that will become like my Mother in Heavens and I gave all I had..all my eons of memories of who I really am and my relationships with each of you to get it. I have walked through many trials because of this gift and today I see yet another level to that I want to share with my brothers and sisters this morning. To start this discussion I would ask you to go to a blog of a friend John Pontius an LDS Author who passed away this month from brain cancer. His friends and co-authors are still posting on this site and the Dec 2012 post from Spencer on trials is what I would as each of you to read before we move on to my insights on the subject. The reason why I am not just adding his comments to my blog is because there is 3 part to the message and part 3 has yet to be added. The blog address is www.unblogmysoul.com