I love this song:
At Girls Camp our Stake Camp Leader and her daughter sang this song. I fell in love with it and have listened to it over and over again! The more I listen to it the more I feel like it applies to me and my everyday life. I love the first line "Too many people are just sliding be and missing the meaning of life" HOW TRUE is this. I have told myself OVER AND OVER again that I need to relax a little. Life is too short to worry about the little things in life. Since I had kids I have tried to keep my house in a tidy order ALL of the time. Do you know how hard this is?? If you have kids I think it is possible... for a couple of minutes. I don't have time to clean all day or run around being the referee of the house. My kids will grown up too soon and I will soon wish they were little again!! If all I do is worry about me, I feel like I am missing the meaning of life!!! I want my family and my Savior to be the center of my life.
Another thing I have thought about is my own personal righteousness. I have asked myself many times if I feel like I am doing ALL I can do to please my Heavenly Father. I wonder if I have sufficient faith to make it through the rest of my life. I sometimes find excuses to not be the BEST me I can be. I have heard it said that if "we do not have time to read our scriptures and say our prayers everyday we are way more busy than God ever intended us to be." I am NOT busy and I still find that there are days when I haven't taken the time to converse with my Heavenly Father. Why give us that opportunity to grow closer to him and give our burdens to him??? I still forget or not take the time to search the scriptures. I know they can teach us so much.
I want to "follow him fearlessly all of my days" this is the end goal, this is the reason we are here and the REAL meaning in life. I don't want to be someone who lives the gospel "halfway"!! I want to be an example to my kids and know I did EVERYTHING I could do to teach them the ways of Christ!
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Very beautiful . . . grab me a kleenex please . . . so true, we have such little time here on earth to accomplish all the great things that have been asked of us - life IS too short to worry about all the small things that seem to clutter up our world and stop that progression.
You are such a wise daughter, just trying her best to raise a righteous family . . . and doing a brilliant job! I sure do love you, you make me very proud :0)
Love you,
Mom
That's a beautiful song, Thanks for sharing :) Don't even worry about all the messes your kids make, I know it can be so frustrating at times, we've all been there, but in the END IT'S WORTH EVERY SECOND! And I'm sure your house is always clean and tidy! :) You such a wonderful example.
That was a wonderful post! How are you doing, it feels like forever since I have even said hi. I can't believe how big Caleb looks too, crazy! Ok your scrap pages are so cute I love them. Will you tell me some of the sites you go to or do you just create all of them? Any way you would sell me some of your pages? I am so behind and I am trying to find a way to catch up, but I usually create a lot of my own pages and I don't have time any more. boo :(
So I'm a complete dork and when I saw the thumbnail picture on my blog, I thought, "when did Ben and Jessica dress up like Pioneers. She never told me that she was doing that..." ha ha...on that note, beautiful post. All we can do is our best, Christ will make up the rest. Although it is hard sometimes to do our best or to know what our best is. You are doing great, love ya!
JESS!!
So remember that one time when I had a fireside in Blackfoot that you couldn't come to because you were sick or something?? Well, this song-Valient Faith is one of Jenny Phillips' songs and she performs it at every fireside we do this year. She changes the firesides every year. Anyway, I LOVE this song too! I hope you get to see her perform it sometime. I love you my dear! I hope you're doing well. And congrats on that BABY!!! I'm super excited for you! You're amazing! :)
Love, Hairy Melon aka MaryEllen :)
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