OK ... this is a re post .... I have been ask several times lately about my EC (Eternal Companion) I have none ... in this dispensation anyway, he was born in another .... dispensation. This post will explain ...
I speak of him often and many people have inquired ... "just who is Ben?" Well, my friends, I will tell you about Ben;
His name is Benjamin, He is my eternal companion, He was a stripling warrior …He died while building a pyramid in Zarahemla … He fell off! (That had to hurt!) I can’t wait to ask him why they built pyramids … Oh,and he is one of Helaman’s sons, not just one of the army, but one of his boys, the youngest I think… (his oldest brother Nephi, took his father’s place as the chief judge after he died and then there is his brother Lehi … you don’t hear anything about Benjamin in the scriptures … I think it was because He died so young (the pyramid thing) and it wasn’t a flashy death … you know, he wasn’t defending truth and righteousness … he was just clumsy!)
President and sister Helaman were devastated when Ben lost his footing and ended up a statistic of who’s who in paramid death’s (which, by the way, in that dispensation was one of the leading causes of death next to battling with laminites!)
Anyway, sister Helaman was looking forward to the whole grandma thing and then her son is gone … what can you say. When She was given a blessing to comfort her, she was told that the daughter of a King was being prepared for the last days (that would be me!)and would eventually end up with Ben, she was told that she should keep and eternal perspective … well if my mother in law kept an eternal perspective … I certainly can! So, I wait for Ben … or Benjamin, son of Helaman…In these latter days would that make him Benjamin Helamanson??? What a mouthful …. I guess that’s why I call him Ben. Nice, short, and to the point! If his father was here … would he be asked to speak at the next conference??? Would people want his autograph? Just wondering …
Anyway … I have often posed the question, why weren’t we born in the same dispensation? I don’t know? Other than the fact that I hate camping and that was a way of life with them. Or, maybe it was to bring the best of both worlds together for our own posterity! Who knows …it’ll all be figured out eventually ... until then, I wait for Ben :0)
( Poor Helaman .. somewhere in paradise he is shaking his head in total disbelief at my over active imagination!)
4 comments:
We, like Helaman have often shook our heads about your imagination. Then we remember this is the Jana we love, and life goes on.
Ben sounds hot!
I can't wait to meet Ben....I feel like I know him so well already. It sounds like he's totally going to be worth waiting for! He's waiting too, remember....for you. It must be hard on his end also. Hang in there. It will all work out.... :)
I actually was telling my husband about this not to long ago. You're so cute.
~ Liz Evans
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