She read family scriptures every morning, and so she did not really absorb much, but she did gain a strong testimony of the plan of salvation's dependency on families and their constant devotion to doing thing together.
character is the yard stick used to measure our progression.
Trial or struggles use our character as a crutch, they don't build it.
Decided to do things.
Freedom to choose comes with the responsibility to choose.
Think of the Cheshire cat and how it advised Alice when she stood at a crossroad. That applies to is all when making a decision. "It doesn't matter which way you go if you don't want to get anywhere in particular."
The road is less traveled because it is hard.
look up quote by king Benjamin, "consider the blessed state of those who do righteousness." and note how to receive such blessings we must choose righteous things.
SS
e-mail is like a prayer.
Do not pray for trials. (consider this)
communication I harder when we already know better... Like Mom who explained that teens seem to know everything whereas mother knows nothing.
**Later, I talked to the woman and she told me that once she played a game with her kids and said they were so right and smart and sort of reverse psychologied them and explained that they were so right and they ought to teach her cause she didn't know anything. She also told me that on time she told someone they must've missed the memo about her knowing it all. the response was that it was shredded.**
To become an adult we must become responsible. There is a sot of "paradigm shift" where we realize that things are not revolving around us, and if we do not place others first they might die.
Others do not like it when we only approach them with a need. God is the same way.
Prayer is a great blessing. ?
about 80% of trials are self-inflicted.
read Bible Dictionary entry on prayer.
Prayer is a form of work.
We do not pray to others so do not worry about how what we ask might appear
We need a mediator because no unclean thing can be endured by Heavenly Father.
RS
"You can Do It Now"
If we fall down and think that we cannot get up we are right. but we can always get up. "If there is a will there is a way."
toughness is a delusion confusing us regarding strength.
We all tend to be vulnerable at night time largely due to exhaustion which helps make us susceptible to delusions or false hopes or other tools of the devil to make our worth seem less.
Story of a boy flubbing up on Sacrament prayer...
we learned a lot from the exercise of listing worldly sorrows vs, Godly sorrows. The world leaves us feeling like we are not good enough, whereas Godly sorrow is constructive.
No one likes to fail or be seen as lesser.
**I just noticed that the times I have had a thing to say, but do not how the teacher has seemed lost, but really I wonder how comments simply could not be accounted for and at times buttons are pushed sending us way off topic, and that is why I do not speak up. I would rather learn what has been prepared than share what I was thinking.**
"Destiny is not determined by the number of times we fell, but the number of times we got back up". So, must look at our failures as an opportunity to get back up and be happy for the chance to show our character (that seems worldly still but better).
Parenting moments can be good or not. In terms of correction, if we seek to do it rightwe need to be humble and rely on God.
**story time! One day I took the kids to the park. It was snowy, and for some reason Gavin took off his shoes! My first reaction was to get angry and demand that he put them back on. But, he just kept screaming so loudly. I was first afraid of being perceived as the cause of this and wanted to shut him up. Instead, and it was so hard, I picked him up and cradled him in my arms. I told him everything would be alright, My balance is terrible, and he is not a small baby. I saw blood on the snow were his feet had been. but could not worry about that right yet. I needed to figure out how to get home. I managed to cary his scooter and put him in my basket of the tricycle and get him and the others home where I was able to nurse him and be sure that he knew that I loved him. It was a moment that taught me a lot more about parenting and ho the best thing to do might not seem, right because it is not the way the world would do it, but when all things are remembered. I will think of that more fondly than any other things I may have taught because though I say it all of the time. He could actually KNOW that even if I wanted to lecture him for his stupidity and explain that his pain was all self-inflicted I did not. I taught a better thing. I taught by example what love is.**
**One time, I had been called to be the Primary Pianist shortly after my brain infection. before it, I had been a piano major in college, which is to say that I was very good, by the world's standards. But, I struggled now just to play, and the program was the worst. I did not mind playing for nonjudgemental children. It was torture for me. I tried to get out of it because I felt like the kids had practiced so hard and I was messing everything up. And I felt like such a failure, and told myself things like, "No one else would do any better anyway." That feeing was worldly sorrow.
Later, a woman thanked me. It had fit with her lesson in FHE about how we always accept a call regardless if we feel up to the task. Her kids said "Yeah. Like Sister Brawner. She cannot play the piano but she tries." I felt so much better. My failure had a purpose, and though it was not to show everyone how wonderful I was, It reinforced a lesson for those kids and maybe more but I never heard about it.
So, I decided to do something that someone asked today though I feel unable, really it is up to the Lord and he can use me better and in ways that are so much better than anything I ever learned in college anyway. Plus, I believe that we ought to share our talents, it is how they grow. besides. I do actually know that what we do or say and what others hear is not always the same thing. Like teaching the gospel. a guy in class was asked "How many people did you convert on your mission." his answer was supposed to be none because it is the spirit that converts.**
Not the best use of our time is determined by what our goal is, What do we need eternally vs. what we want right now.
Moses took a few minutes to understand what was being said when Satan called him the "son of man". Then he grew in strength knowing that he was a "son of God".
No comments:
Post a Comment