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ldsmomofthree wrote:I am in conflict about attending my husbands immediate family reunion this summer because I am concerned about the geo/political events that are happening around the world.

Last summer after our family vacation to my side of the families reunion, my husband and I "vowed" to each other no more trips or vacations until we had a full years food storage and more savings in the bank.

About a month later his Mom announced that she rented a huge cabin in Yosemite for a gathering of all siblings for the summer. I immediately had a pit in my stomach last fall that by summer I surely did not want to be traveling 2500 miles away from home. As the days get closer to leave I still have a hesitation about going.

My husband does not really follow to much of the day to day happenings in the world and relies on me to inform him. If I insisted on staying home, he would consent to not going. I am concerned that events could turn on a dime and we could be stranded miles and miles from home.

I turned to this forum for advice because I think the people on here see the world as I see it. I have made this a matter of prayer and still have that pit in my stomach.

Your thoughts would be appriciated so much!

First, we must never, in any age or circumstance, let fear and the father of fear (Satan himself) divert us from our faith and faithful living. There have always been questions about the future. Every young person or every young couple in every era has had to walk by faith into what has always been some uncertainty—starting with Adam and Eve in those first tremulous steps out of the Garden of Eden. But that is all right. This is the plan. It will be okay. Just be faithful. God is in charge. He knows your name and He knows your need.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ—that is the first principle of the gospel. We must go forward, as it says in K. Newell Dayley’s hymn commemorating our pioneers of the past, “with faith in ev’ry footstep.”1 But like those pioneers, you do have to keep taking them—one step and then another and then the next. That is how tasks are accomplished, that is how goals are achieved, and that is how frontiers are conquered. In more divine language, that is how worlds are created and it is how your world will be created.

God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future—to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.

God is anxiously waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as He always has. But He can’t if you don’t pray, and He can’t if you don’t dream. In short, He can’t if you don’t believe.

Drawing upon my vast background of children’s bedtime stories, I say you can pick your poultry. You can either be like Chicken Little and run about shouting “The sky is falling; the sky is falling” or you can be like the Little Red Hen and forge ahead with the productive tasks of living, regardless of who does or doesn’t help you or who does or doesn’t believe just the way you believe.
http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.p ... 6&x=71&y=7
http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=1371

I have made this a matter of prayer and still have that pit in my stomach.

ChelC wrote:

I have made this a matter of prayer and still have that pit in my stomach.

I think this is your answer. If you feel that pit in answer to your prayers - and not because of your own possibly misplaced anxieties, then I'd make your apologies right away.

Usually the Spirit answers me in exactly the way you describe...
pit = no
peace = yes

will wrote:Why don't you take it to the Lord?

ldsmomofthree wrote:I am in conflict about attending my husbands immediate family reunion this summer because I am concerned about the geo/political events that are happening around the world.

Last summer after our family vacation to my side of the families reunion, my husband and I "vowed" to each other no more trips or vacations until we had a full years food storage and more savings in the bank.

About a month later his Mom announced that she rented a huge cabin in Yosemite for a gathering of all siblings for the summer. I immediately had a pit in my stomach last fall that by summer I surely did not want to be traveling 2500 miles away from home. As the days get closer to leave I still have a hesitation about going.

My husband does not really follow to much of the day to day happenings in the world and relies on me to inform him. If I insisted on staying home, he would consent to not going. I am concerned that events could turn on a dime and we could be stranded miles and miles from home.

I turned to this forum for advice because I think the people on here see the world as I see it. I have made this a matter of prayer and still have that pit in my stomach.

Your thoughts would be appriciated so much!