Reading my previous post makes me want to cry in realizing the Lord comforting and strengthening me last night to bear my pain. Truly the Lord helps me with a power beyond my own. Surely, he is love. Sometimes, most of the time, I don’t understand but in his loving kindness he blesses me. In […]
My sacrum was aching so bad last night that I couldn’t even think. I took four ibuprophen at 930pm and again at 130am. It hurt really bad because usually I don’t take medicine. I thought of this scripture: But it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord, saying: O Lord, according to my […]
Some people say things like, “My mom told me…” or “My dad said…” and they give others credit for what they’ve done. They might have said it but you’re the one who implemented it into your life. Don’t give others credit for your work. Instead say, “I learned” or “I’ve known for years” or “This […]
We have different beliefs but in talking about Jesus why waste time trying to prove if my Jesus or your Jesus are the same person? The real question is do we both believe in what Jesus taught? (Love God; Love your neighbor; Be kind; Repent; Turn to Jesus, follow him and rest from your troubles; […]
After waking from my nap the question of, “Will you face you trials with fear or with faith?” crossed my mind. My mind’s eye saw my body and it occurred to me that I know what it’s like to have extreme swelling; what having the worst monthly “lady time” of my life is like; how […]
“When sore trials come upon you” focus on Jesus Christ. Rely on your faith to see you through your troubles–that Christ will comfort you. Be strong; fear not and know that it’ll work out. Reaching Up Who was this “man of sorrows, … acquainted with grief”? “Who is this King of glory,” this Lord […]
This thought crossed my mind today and I share it with the hope that it will bring someone peace: Turn to Jesus Christ and find solace from your pain. Let his atonement heal you and bring you peace. Maybe you have this hard trial because you are one of the holiest people of all and […]
Amid the many rocks in this world I dare being who I am and am not ashamed. I may look rough and undesirable on the outside but on the inside I’m pure, transparent and beautiful. Why be one of the millions that are alike when I’m one of a kind? It’s not even worth acknowledging […]
Why do I take myself on a ride everyday? To sit somewhere else besides my recliner. Believe me, if I could do something else, I would! But driving is the only thing I can do that doesn’t exhaust me (until after a while,) and so I do it! NOTE: I don’t feel sorry for myself […]
I love this quote by President Ezra Taft Benson: The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of the people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by […]
Why is it noble to strive for an impossible dream but not noble to reach that dream? Is success just a hope …a wish …but not a reality? Is it easier to be jealous of someone else’s success rather than to do what it takes to be successful myself? What do my beliefs say about […]
Like I said before, “Haters are gonna hate.” That’s what they do: They laugh, point fingers and say rude things; They mock what they don’t agree with; They make fun of what they don’t understand. It takes having thick skin and dull hearing to not be swayed by the jeers of haters, which is difficult […]
“Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future.” Fly Like an Eagle: Steve Miller Band Today the future is on my mind as I think about how life is just more of the same. Somehow reality hits me of how the world just continues one day after the other as life reveals what has […]
In 2008, before getting MS, my son did a school report on stress and I remember thinking that I didn’t have any. (Wrong!) I was involved in many things and responsible for some, but I and my friends just figured, “Do what needs to be done. No whining. Just put your head down and keep […]
I love knowing that at one moment I may be laughing, and joking, and having fun and then in the next moment my countenance turns to reverence and I am focused, and quiet, and still having fun but there’s a time and place for all behaviors and I know when to lower my voice, and […]
What I can do as of today is: Take myself on a ride. Attend church, remotely. Write in my journal. Study something. Read. Ponder. Pray. Recognize beauty. Be grateful. Realize “It is what it is” and focus on things within my power to control. Forgive and let things go. Decide being happy, optimistic, seeing the […]
For me, 2007 was a year of great learning: November 11, 2007 I have been praying every morning and centering myself spiritually. As I am kneeling, before I begin to pray, I think about Heavenly Father and how he feels about me. I reflect and this helps me to center and realize reality. Then I […]
I know in whom I trust. My God is my support. He has and does lead me through afflictions. Many times he fills me with his love, even unto tears. He knows the feelings of my heart. He enlightens my mind with many thoughts. As I ponder, study or pray he surrounds me with His […]
“Haters are gonna hate” is true because hate is a mindset just like kindness, compassion and love. Just because haters are loud doesn’t mean there’s more of them than good people it just means that they’re loud. Ignore haters and do what feels right in the heart! Many people don’t like the scriptures because they […]
Overcoming the world: Progression not perfection. I can only progress and be “Perfect in Christ” in an imperfect world.
I love the advice to build my life on a solid foundation. Things in the world constantly shift but my life doesn’t shift when I remember what makes me solid and immovable.
In Nephi’s mighty vision of seeing what his father saw Nephi said, “As I sat pondering in my heart I was caught away in the spirit of the Lord” … “The spirit said Look! And I looked…” I love the holiness of this account that as Nephi pondered he saw things in his mind’s eye. […]
I don’t have fearful, small-minded thinking but know that all things are possible to those who believe in their dreams. I have faith and trust in good outcomes. My goal is being my best self and believing that great actions bring great rewards. I’m willing to do what it takes to have what I want. […]
I love this miraculous biblical account of faith: And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and […]
Climb every mountain, Search high and low, Follow every byway, Every path you know. Climb every mountain, Ford every stream, Follow every rainbow, ‘Til you find your dream. A dream that will need All the love you can give, Every day of your life For as long as you live. Climb every mountain, Ford every […]