https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/09/the-sacrament-and-willing-sanctification/ Who We Are, What We Believe, How We Live -- Glimpses into Latter-day Saint Life Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:00:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/09/the-sacrament-and-willing-sanctification/comment-page-1/#comment-38427 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:00:20 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=8044#comment-38427 Tom, that very thing (The rescinding) happened to me once with a calling I didn’t think I could possibly do, though I said I would, I cried all night. The next day the counselor called back and said he didn’t feel right, and if it was alright with me, he had a different calling for me. Like you, it was one I adored.

]]> https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/01/09/the-sacrament-and-willing-sanctification/comment-page-1/#comment-38419 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:38:31 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=8044#comment-38419 Hey Marsha, I can TOTALLY relate on the music calling thing! I spent many years as Primary pianist, ward organist, Priesthood pianist, and choir director. It’s as if I had nothing else to offer to the kingdom. I fine with the philosophy of how it isn’t where you serve but how you serve. Wherever the Lord wants me, that’s fine. But still, at some level, we all seek variety and balance. A decade or so ago we were put into a new ward which was created by the division of two other wards, and we were interviewed by a counselor in the new bishopric for a little “get-to-know-you” session. Every position in the ward needed to be staffed immediately, so they had a lot of work on their plate. I took advantage of the interview to let the counselor know that I did, in fact, play piano and organ, but that I had spent nearly all of my adult life in music callings and would appreciate something different. Soon thereafter the other counselor in the bishopric sat my wife and I down to formally extend callings. Turning to me, he invited me to accept a calling as ward music chairperson. My heart sank. And he noticed. And brilliantly he didn’t just follow-up with a request to give him a yes or no, but rather took the time to ask why I had the countenance of one who was being asked to leave behind Nauvoo after having already been forced out of Kirtland. I made it clear that I was raised to accept any calling, and that I would do my best if that’s what they wanted me to do. To my great surprise and relief, he rescinded the calling on the spot and told me that he would confer with the bishopric before asking for my response. When he got back to me, I was called to something totally different which immediately gladdened my heart, and I was so grateful for a discerning bishopric member!

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