We Believe!

Its a new year! Can you believe it? We are now in the years that Back to the Future was talking about... yeah we still don't have hover boards, but I see them coming real soon ;)

Anyways, a lot has changed from the last time I posted. For one, Drew and I have had a baby, and she is the most adorable little thing ever! Drew has also graduated from college. And we are currently in the process of buying our first home! Yes, a lot is going to change, but it is all very exciting for us.

I have decided to change the style of my posts. I will still be giving updates on our lives, yes, but I felt the need to make them a little bit more of a spiritual/ things that I have felt useful with being a first time mom. Hopefully you will like the change!

The first one that I would like to write about was a talk that we heard in sacrament meeting this past Sunday. The sister gave an amazing talk and had a story about Charles Blondin. He is know for being the first person to ever walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. It goes like this:

Blondin's greatest fame came on September 14, 1860, when he became the first person to cross a tightrope stretched 11,00 feet (over a quarter of a mile) across the mighty Niagara Falls. People from both Canada and America came from miles away to see this great feat.
He walked across, 160 feet above the falls, several times... each time with a different daring feat- once in a sack, on stilts, on a bicycle, in the dark, and blindfolded. One time he even carried a stove and cooked an omelet in the middle of the rope!
 A large crowd gathered and the buzz of excitement ran along both sides of the river bank. The crowd "Oohed and Aahed:" as Blondin carefully walked across - one dangersous step after another - pushing a wheelbarrow holding a sack of potatoes.
Then at one point, he asked for the participation of a volunteer. Upon reaching the other side, the crowd's applause was louder than the roar of the falls!
Blondin suddenly stopped and addressed his audience: "Do you believe I can carry a person across in this wheelbarrow?"
The crowd enthusiastically yelled, "Yes! You are the greatest tightrope walker in the wrold. We believe!"
"Okay," said Blondin, "Who wants to get into the wheelbarrow."
As far as the Blondin story goes, no one did at the time!
This unique story illustrates a real life picture of what faith actually is. The crowd watched these daring feats. They said they believed. But... their actions proved they truly did not believe.
Similarly, it is one thing for us to say we believe in God. However, it's true faith when we believe God and put our faith and trust in His Son, Jesus Christ.

This story made me think, "do we believe" truly? Or are we like the spectators that get caught up in the moment of saying we believe, but then when we are asked to demonstrate that belief we sit back and decided that it is to hard or to scary for us to continue.

 Do you believe??