Pondered them in her Heart

We live in a world that promotes openly sharing just about anything and everything about your life with everyone. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter definitely help to make that possible. While there is something to be said about being open and always being yourself, I think that often things are taken way too far, and we need to be careful that sacred things are not always shared. While this is (hopefully) obvious for things like the temple, I think there are times when Heavenly Father wants us to keep some personal experiences to ourselves too. We need to go by the spirit to know when to share things and when not to, instead of automatically posting everything.

One of my favorite scriptures is Luke 2:19

             But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

This it is short and simple I believe that there is a great lesson to be learned from this or it wouldn't have been written in the scriptures :)
Do we take the time to not only be grateful for our special experiences and tenders mercies, but to also ponder on them? And what does it mean to truly ponder? Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin said that "Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one’s understanding. Also, the Spirit of the Lord may rest upon the ponderer as described by President Smith" (1). Most often when I think about pondering I think of it in the terms of just "thinking about something." But Elder Wirthlin refers to it as "the  opening of the spiritual eyes of one’s understanding." I can't think of a time of the world when spiritual eyes need to be opened to understanding more then our time. Neither is there a more needed time for us to have "the Spirit of the Lord... rest upon [us]" as now.

I know that Heavenly Father wants us to have many personal spiritual experiences, even daily personal spiritual experiences. I also know that there are times to share them with others to help and uplift. The "trick" is knowing when to and when not to, and for that we need to spirit :)

(1) Wirthlin, Joseph B. Pondering Strengthens the Spiritual Life. April 1982. lds.org.