Changes

I have decided to make a change. I can't think of a time when things suddenly weren't how they were before, but I have realized that lately I am impatient and grumpy a lot of the time, and I don't like it one bit. I have decided that to change this, I will spend less time reading make believe stories, and more time reading my scriptures, less time listening to the radio, and more time in reflection, less time sleeping in (on my days off!) and more time serving those around me. I am a firm believer that we are to be in the world, but not of it, and I have found that collectively, as PEOPLE we are so quick toto blame our lack of GOODNESS on a lack of time due to our busy schedules,(little do we know, the wordly things with which we make ourselves so busy will inevitably be of no worth at all to us!) but I know that this is excuse is insufficient. Every person, EVERY person (a bold statement I know, but something that I truly believe!!) has time to read their scriptures daily. EVERY person has time to be kind, and gentle, and good.

Frances de Sales said, "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, (and) nothing is so gentle as real stregth." I completely agree. When I think of the moments in my life that have had the greatest impact, the memories that have stayed with me throughout all of my life, took place in moments of gentle calmness. I hope that as strive to be a better myself, I will be able to grow closer to my Heavenly Father, and become a stronger deciple of Christ.