{"id":29516,"date":"2025-03-06T12:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=29516"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:22:12","slug":"on-my-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/on-my-way\/","title":{"rendered":"On his way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, I noticed the palms placed in the celestial room of my nearest temple. I saw them as a symbol associated with the shout of Hosanna from the Psalms and Jesus&#8217; triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Hosanna is used in hope and praise and means, <strong><em>&#8220;Please save us!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not too long ago, the palms in the celestial room of my temple were replaced with fig trees. Every detail of the temple can be a symbol of Christ, and these are just my reflections on the pretty plants in the room, and I don&#8217;t suggest any hidden intent in the change of greenery! The fig tree can serve as a reminder that the Savior will come again in the last days, or in other words, he answers our plea, <strong><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m coming!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While we await a glorious Second Coming of the Savior when all will see him, I know when I pray for help, he is already moving to my aid. He gently reminds me that he&#8217;s coming. He&#8217;s already taken care of everything, but he is on his way to comfort me while I wait for resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brothers and sisters, now is the time for you and for me to prepare for the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2024\/10\/57nelson?lang=eng#note9\"><\/a>&nbsp;Now is the time for us to make our discipleship our highest priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-President Russell M. Nelson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I noticed the palms placed in the celestial room of my nearest temple. I saw them as a symbol associated with the shout of Hosanna from the Psalms and Jesus&#8217; triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Hosanna is used in hope and praise and means, &#8220;Please save us!&#8221; Not too long ago, the palms in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/on-my-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On his way<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,36,38,41,47,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hope","category-jesus-christ","category-new-testament","category-old-testament","category-promptings-of-the-spirit","category-temple-and-family-history-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29516"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29547,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29516\/revisions\/29547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}