...by consistently being what we want to become each day. Elder Richard G. Scott.
I spent a weekend in Novemeber in Phoenix with my daughters and their friends. It was a delightful day and a half. The theme of the Women's conference we attended was... Becoming. Who am I becoming?
DISCLAIMER: I did not get every word or even every idea that was presented. So I will give you what I did get and hope that triggers some ideas, thoughts, or changes for you.
On Friday evening Laurel Christiansen, Brad Wilcox and Macy Robison spoke. (Macy Robison sang too, but we will skip that.)
DISCLAIMER: I did not get every word or even every idea that was presented. So I will give you what I did get and hope that triggers some ideas, thoughts, or changes for you.
On Friday evening Laurel Christiansen, Brad Wilcox and Macy Robison spoke. (Macy Robison sang too, but we will skip that.)
The counsel given on Friday evening was to consider what we would like to change, improve or develop, and to discover our possibilities. It is a process of discovery. "To Him that Believeth"
Laurel Christiansen said that often things we do to "protect our faith" weakens our faith. (Oh so true. We must learn to not let fear make our decisions for us.)
She told us of an optimist experiment that she took on for herself. She said that she discovered that things will work as we want them. She quoted Elder Christopherson who said that "God is a God of high expectations." and she quoted Moroni 7:20 and 25. (Go ahead and read it.) Hmmmm... she told about how her life has not worked out as she planned. And, she has felt that she has been faithful and prayed (doing all the right things) and still she did not have what she wanted. She had a plan as a young woman. Her plan A has not come to fruition and she feels like plan B, C, D, E......... She is now working on plan K. It has been frustrating and seemingly not fair.
She decided that she needed to focus on : Pray with faith
Think with faith
Live with faith.
She also realized that she had developed some inaccuracies about her life. (Don't we all!!!)
She then quoted Matthew 7:7-9 in the New Testament, and told us that she got a blessing. In that blessing she was told "Your Father in Heaven wants to give you bread when you ask for bread."
MY NOTE: I have found that we need to learn to pray specifically and straightforwardly. Think through your worries, woes, trials, issues, passions, concerns, desires. Go to the Lord with as much information, thoughts and ideas you can muster about any of them. He will give you bread when you ask for bread.
3 Nephi 18:20
D&C 9:7-8
Laurel also said that "when you know that what you are praying for is right, it is easy to pray with faith." (So true. Once you realize that what you are trying to do is right and you pray for that, about that, the world will fall into place.)
Eleanor Roosevelt said, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” You Learn by Living
Laurel Christiansen said that often things we do to "protect our faith" weakens our faith. (Oh so true. We must learn to not let fear make our decisions for us.)
She told us of an optimist experiment that she took on for herself. She said that she discovered that things will work as we want them. She quoted Elder Christopherson who said that "God is a God of high expectations." and she quoted Moroni 7:20 and 25. (Go ahead and read it.) Hmmmm... she told about how her life has not worked out as she planned. And, she has felt that she has been faithful and prayed (doing all the right things) and still she did not have what she wanted. She had a plan as a young woman. Her plan A has not come to fruition and she feels like plan B, C, D, E......... She is now working on plan K. It has been frustrating and seemingly not fair.
She decided that she needed to focus on : Pray with faith
Think with faith
Live with faith.
She also realized that she had developed some inaccuracies about her life. (Don't we all!!!)
She then quoted Matthew 7:7-9 in the New Testament, and told us that she got a blessing. In that blessing she was told "Your Father in Heaven wants to give you bread when you ask for bread."
MY NOTE: I have found that we need to learn to pray specifically and straightforwardly. Think through your worries, woes, trials, issues, passions, concerns, desires. Go to the Lord with as much information, thoughts and ideas you can muster about any of them. He will give you bread when you ask for bread.
3 Nephi 18:20
D&C 9:7-8
Laurel also said that "when you know that what you are praying for is right, it is easy to pray with faith." (So true. Once you realize that what you are trying to do is right and you pray for that, about that, the world will fall into place.)
Eleanor Roosevelt said, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” You Learn by Living
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes (Check out this site for a BUNCH of great Eleanor Roosevelt quotes) “Do one thing everyday that scares you.” (HA Great Counsel!)
Enough for tonight. I will continue this at a later date... soon.
