This summer I went to Washington DC for the Fourth of July. I had the pleasure of driving there with my friend Chantal. Due to travel time and staying arrangements I found myself spending the first night there with Chantal's sister and her sister's Russian friend. In the morning I got up and got ready and, although I was going a different direction than everyone else, I thought I would wait to leave at the same time that they left.
I showered and packed and decided to go to the living room and read my scriptures while I waited. Perhaps it was a little less than thoughtful of me to choose to read there, as this had been the sleeping area for the Russian.
She had just finished her own shower and came out in just a towel when she discovered me reading in "her room". I was a slightly shocked and little embarrassed at the sight of seeing her in a towel, much like Larry in "The Hairbrush Song," but didn't really seem to bother her. In fact when she saw me reading she told me to read out loud.
Of course I read... and I just kept reading, I didn't dare look up because as I read she was changing her clothes. Yes right there in front of me. I am pretty sure she was completely naked at one point, but I kept my nose buried in Alma. I read a lot of versus out loud. I just kept going because I was so uncomfortable at the whole thing.
Alma 5:27
"Have you walked, keeping yourselves blameless before God? Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble? That your garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins?
So at this point I am thinking sufficiently humble?...learning that now. Garments?...she is dressing right in front of me! Cleansed?...well, she just got out of the shower.
I kept reading ...verse 28
"Behold, are ye stripped of pride?"
Stripped?
Ok, so I know there is a lot of significance in Alma 5, it is one of my favorite chapters, but that morning the phrase stripped of pride took on a whole new meaning and of the many versus I read that day for some reason it stood out above all the rest.
