The nature of over-analyzing and Isaiah

There is a quote by Neal A. Maxwell that says, "Moments are the molecules that make up Eternity." He is basically saying that the quotidian actions of our lives matter. This is a key principle of the family sciences. While the big moments of our lives, like graduation, getting a car, getting married, etc. matters in their significance, if you think about it, each of those events might last a day, or perhaps a weekend in festivities. It is the daily mundane tasks in preparation that make the difference. One part of my over-analyzing tendencies want to talk about how I use this phrase to go overboard on decision making, anywhere from being a little girl, spending an hour or more picking out the right Barbie doll (deciding whether I wanted the one that looked like me, or if I wanted one that would give us a more culturally-diverse collection of Barbies) to picking my path, pace, and step home from classes now. I wanted to post about this:

Another part of those tendencies wanted to write and make the rest of this instead, so I did.

I wonder why there are so many big events in the scriptures, and not the little day-to-day decisions shown that everyone had to go through. Then, I think again. Yes, the bigger events are definitely in there, but perhaps the scriptures have a lot more to do with daily decisions than at first thought. I've been reading the part of 2 Nephi that quotes scriptures from Isaiah lately. Here's the basic premise (stay with me): Israel (meaning all the tribes besides Judah and Benjamin) has decided to make an alliance with Syria, and provoke Judah to come to battle with them. The king of Judah, in fear, wants to make an alliance with a much bigger ally, Assyria, for protection. Isaiah comes to warn Judah that this is not a good idea. Isaiah proceeds to tell what will (and, eventually, does) happen to Judah if the king does not listen to Isaiah's prophesies from the Lord.

For the visually oriented, here's an animation I made to help (warning, the clip is set to auto-repeat):
There is too much. To sum up...

Judah, in the end, decides not to listen to Isaiah, and ultimately, the Lord. We see that the consequences were dire, but in the moment, the king was just like you and I. Sure, we say now, "If a prophet told me what to do, I would definitely do it!" Think about it though, do we always have the courage to leave a bad movie that will destroy us a little spiritually? In a large part, we all have our social constraint weaknesses. The king of Judah had 120,000 troops die in one day in the war against Israel and Syria (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syro-Ephraimite_War and Chronicles II.) Do you think he didn't have social pressure to join with the biggest empire known to man at the time for protection? Yeah, that was the wrong decision. The king of Judah went with logic over faith. He ended up having Judah go into centuries of captivity and letting idols come into the land. It was bad. I would love to be at a spiritual state where I could just let complete trust in the Lord work, but I don't know if I'm there yet, either.

I was looking through my phone pictures tonight, and I had taken one of a quote by N. Eldon Tanner. It says, "We must learn that sacrifice is a vital part of our eternal discipline." I think one of the biggest things we can sacrifice for the Lord to become better disciples is our insecurity and fear. It could be our insecurity that the Lord knows something better for our time, or that we will have friends in our faith, or we will find romantic relationships in which we don't have to sacrifice our deepest desires to marry someone ready to make eternally-binding covenants. I've got a long way to go, but the Lord even promises Judah that "his hand is stretched out still," meaning he's there for them, even if they have to live with the consequences of their actions.