Lots More Flowers

Last Sunday our stake patriarch advised us to keep a current temple recommend and to carry it with us always. His rests next to his driver’s license. Once, as he was pulling out his ID before boarding a flight, it fell out. He was about to explain the small card to the woman checking his boarding pass. “I know what that is,” she said. “I used to have one, many years ago.” He suggested that she call her bishop and tell him she wanted to earn a new one. “I used to be a bishop,” he said, “I’d have taken a call like that any time of the day or night.” He doubted she’d actually follow through. Years of regret and recrimination can make a step like that so hard. But he ran into her at the airport again, eighteen months later. “I called my bishop that very night!” she exclaimed. And she showed him her current temple recommend.