A Forgotten Blessing

The semester is almost over! I am so excited! I can't believe it's almost done, and that I've been here in Provo for just about a year! It has had it's ups and downs but the ups have outweighed the downs. I have met some wonderful people, and have made great friends.

I just had my final for my anatomy lab today, and as I got ready to take my final I was overwhelmed with such a great appreciation for the human body. PDBIO 220 has strengthened my testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ more than any other experience or class I have had since being at BYU. My perspective of others and of myself has greatly changed. It is incredible that our bodies work the way they do...that they have been made to work so well. Man has tried to recreate body parts, but we have yet to create a heart, or knee replacement that can match the human body. Our heart beats all day, our neurons last our entire life, our phrenic nerve keeps us breathing, and our liver can regrow itself back after being cut in half! And what is more amazing is that this all develops from a sperm and an egg...which is tiny! And these two things come together and form a zygote...well I won't get into the specific...but these tiny things come together and then form a thinking, functioning human being! Look at your hand...move your fingers -it is amazing that you can move those fingers! I don't believe that there is more profound evidence that we were created by a loving heavenly father who created us with knowledge beyond what we can ever attain in this life.

This class has changed my life. I had a dream that I was dating a boy who I later dumped because he didn't have big enough veins. This dream is entirely outrageous....but too a point it is true...I now notice how big veins are...and when I look at people I often wonder and think about their bone structure, and how big their muscles are under their skin.

Our bodies are such a blessing, often a forgotten blessing. I think when we chose to come here to earth- we realized just how precious and intricate these bodies would be. We couldn't wait to feel and taste, and to experience all those experiences we would not otherwise be able to experience without them. When we had the choice of coming here we knew it was going to be hard, and we knew we would have hard times, and times when we thought we couldn't make it...but we also knew that having these bodies would make it all worth it.