Signal

 

We have a path of about 100 yards where our cell service is interrupted.  

Unfortunately it’s from the edge of our neighborhood to our garage.

So if I get into the car and place a call, it will drop it a good chunk of the time before I hit the neighborhood edge and rejoin proper service.  

You would think that after enough dropped calls, I would learn when and where to make successful phone calls, but sometimes when I am rushing or just not paying attention I end up doing it again.  

Elder James E Faust compared this same phenomenon to our spiritual reception.

“So it is with divine communication.  Perhaps something in our lives prevents us from hearing the message because we are “past feeling”.  We often put ourselves in spiritual dead spots- places and situations that block out divine messages.  Some of the dead spots include anger, pornography, transgression, selfishness, and other situations that offend the Spirit.”

Just like it would be wise for me to pay better attention to when and where to make phone calls, it would also be wise to pay attention to when and where we find those spiritual drop zones. 

We probably can’t avoid them all, but we can learn to be intentional about avoiding them in the future.

And there is no better line of communication to have open than the one to Heaven.