Be Prepared

Since I plan on writing on my blog every day, I don't really have a certain theme in mind. I just want to reflect back upon the day and feelings that I may have felt. Today, I title my topic, "be prepared." An incident occurred today in which I didn't have a diaper for Emma (I know this may sound a little trivial, but hear me out) and I had to leave for an hour, then come back to get her. I had a small prompting in the back of my mind that Emma may need a diaper and wipes, but since I was just driving up the street, I dismissed it and thought, "if there's a real emergency, I will be called and I can be there in 1 minute." Well, she did end up having a messy diaper and a diaper was found for her, but there were no wipes. When I picked her up 45 minutes later, she was crying and had a raw bottom. I felt so bad and put her in the bathtub at home, thinking that would relieve the redness. However, she kept crying and crying and I kept thinking, "if I had only left a diaper and wipes!" Because of my unpreparedness, my daughter was in pain. Although this is a minute incident and Emma was ok after a few hours, I thought, "maybe this is a warning sign for the future when something bigger comes up and I'm not 1 minute away." I need to be prepared to the best of my ability and ALWAYS listen to any promptings, no matter how small. This small experience reminds of a bigger experience in which we need to be prepared to meet our Savior. Because we know not when He will come. What if He comes in 5 days? Will we be prepared to look Him in the eye and tell Him that we've done everything we could to live with Him in the celestial kingdom? I wouldn't be prepared, so I hope that He doesn't come in 5 days, but I need to have this mindset because there will come a day when He does come in 5 days.