Stunning Moments

On Sunday I attended a baby blessing. It was no ordinary blessing, it was my ex-boyfriends twin boys' blessing. Yes, my relationship ended amicable. So Corby and I went. For some reason I was so nervous, maybe it was because I hadn't seen Lou in person for almost six years. I didn't even know he'd joined the church, let alone been sealed in the temple. You see, at the time Lou and I were together he wanted nothing to do with my religion. In fact the reason we broke up was so that I could find the right man to take me to the temple.
He asked me in October if I thought he was a hypocrite for saying what he had and then when he met ShaLee he did what he said he was never going to do. I told him there was no reason to think he was, that I was very happy that he had found peace within himself.

Anyway, as Corby and I sat waiting for the meeting to start I fidgeted more and more, until I saw him. In a suit and tie! I'd never seen him in a suit and tie, when I dated him, he had long hair and a tongue ring. He looked very handsome. The most wonderful part of the meeting was when Lou blessed his son Cole and his father-in-law blessed his son Caleb.
I didn't think I'd get as emotional as I did as he pronounced this blessing. I was very glad Corby had gone and gotten me some tissues from the pulpit before the meeting started. I quietly sobbed as I heard him say, "By the power of the Melchizedek Priesthood which we hold we take this infant into our arms and give him a name and a blessing..." I marvelled at the words that were working through him for this precious boy.
Thoughts of longing fell in as I watched him with his babies, and just for a moment I wondered what it could have been if he and I were where he sat then. Then they were replaced by the thougth of Corby and I with our child.

Blessings are the greatest thing about the priesthood in my opinion. I am so very glad that I have a husband who holds that priesthood.