Sunday, October 9, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Every action has a Re-action. Whether immediate, or delayed, there are consequences for all we do. Is all that we can hope is that we did enough good things to offset all the bad? Or that our good consequences can outweigh our bad?
When it comes right down to it, life does not have to be fair, nor does it have to be just. Where can we find mercy & justice?
Search all we may. Do good every day. It secures no peace or wealth or health. Trials are part of life. To avoid them would be nice but, just like to pothole you dodge too late, there they are. You find yourself right in the middle of trials and consequences. You don't get to choose them, you only get to chose what you will do with them.
If you let them win, you loose. If you deny about them, they catch up to you. Analyze them. Humble yourself enough to learn all you can from them. Hit them head-on and use them as stepping stones. Don't let them be stumbling blocks.
Even through trials, the only guarantee for true happiness and peace is through our Savior. He understands. He knows what we are feeling. He knows the trials we face. He knows what we need, we just need to ask. If we will humbly reach for His out-stretched hand, that is where we will find Mercy, Justice, Love, Peace, True Happiness...
Have faith He will help you.
Humble yourself & ask for forgiveness.
Learn from your mistakes.
Do all that you can to serve.
When it comes right down to it, life does not have to be fair, nor does it have to be just. Where can we find mercy & justice?
Search all we may. Do good every day. It secures no peace or wealth or health. Trials are part of life. To avoid them would be nice but, just like to pothole you dodge too late, there they are. You find yourself right in the middle of trials and consequences. You don't get to choose them, you only get to chose what you will do with them.
If you let them win, you loose. If you deny about them, they catch up to you. Analyze them. Humble yourself enough to learn all you can from them. Hit them head-on and use them as stepping stones. Don't let them be stumbling blocks.
Even through trials, the only guarantee for true happiness and peace is through our Savior. He understands. He knows what we are feeling. He knows the trials we face. He knows what we need, we just need to ask. If we will humbly reach for His out-stretched hand, that is where we will find Mercy, Justice, Love, Peace, True Happiness...
Have faith He will help you.
Humble yourself & ask for forgiveness.
Learn from your mistakes.
Do all that you can to serve.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
My Newest Passion
Hand Painted, Free-hand Stippled Grow Chart for a Charity Auction. What would you put for the starting Bid? Hope it brings plenty of money for the YW/YM camp funds tomorrow. It took 4 hours, lots of paint & really relieved a lot of stress from my life! Hope they like it as much as I enjoyed creating it!
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
DAILY REMINDERS
Always remember:
You're grown up now
Life is not always fair
Get over it
Don't share your dirty laundry
Decide to go beyond where you are
Don't whine
Adjust
Do what needs to be done
No one's perfect
Develope an attitude of gratitude
! ! !
~ John Waturbury, LPC
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Wall Cloths - My new Passion
This is one of my Christmas projects this last year. These 'wall cloths' are my new favorite passion. I'm excited to do more.
Right now I'm teaching some kids downtown to do them with their o
wn pictures. They drew their designs, transfered them onto the fabric. I just finished machine quilting them. They will paint them in the week or so. I'm so excited to see how they turn out and to see how they like what they've made.
To Create is to make something that didn't exist before.
Everyone has the opportunity to create. We all do it in different ways but we are all by nature 'creative'. Express your creativity & encourage others to share in the creation process.
Right now I'm teaching some kids downtown to do them with their o
wn pictures. They drew their designs, transfered them onto the fabric. I just finished machine quilting them. They will paint them in the week or so. I'm so excited to see how they turn out and to see how they like what they've made.To Create is to make something that didn't exist before.
Everyone has the opportunity to create. We all do it in different ways but we are all by nature 'creative'. Express your creativity & encourage others to share in the creation process.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
The Price of Agency
Agency isn't free. In fact, nothing in life is free. If you spend too much, you've done just that; spent more than you had. You will be short somewhere else. You can't spend too much, then do something nice for someone and have it repay the money you over spent. In all areas of life you need to live within your means and be accountable for what you've done.
We've been given this life. This one beautiful, complicated, overwhelming, wonderful life. If we don't do with it what we should, we are accountable for that. It was not given to us to spend frivolously. There are lives to be touched, children to be taught, lessons to be learned. Would we want to squander it only to find out later that it was too late to do what was needed?
Far too often the reality of our actions hits us right in the face. Opportunities missed. Doors closed due to time passed. So many things that are left undone because of our human-ness, selfishness, blindness, laziness, etc. . .
After all that we can do, the only thing that is available is repentance through the atonement of Jesus Christ. We can't make up all the debts we incure. Our agency was given us as a God-given right. Agency is how we prove ourselves. How we show who we are through our actions. Agency isn't free, it has a price. Through our agency we make choices. The good ones are a benefit to all. The bad ones need to be paid for. Some we can make right through our work. Others could never be paid by ourselves. We must repent, but we alone, can't repay. We must rely on the Saviour and His Atonement to make things right.
We pay for our Agency through our good deeds and our repentance and devotion to the Lord's will. Then after all we can do, the Saviour pays the rest of our debts, as only He is able.
We've been given this life. This one beautiful, complicated, overwhelming, wonderful life. If we don't do with it what we should, we are accountable for that. It was not given to us to spend frivolously. There are lives to be touched, children to be taught, lessons to be learned. Would we want to squander it only to find out later that it was too late to do what was needed?
Far too often the reality of our actions hits us right in the face. Opportunities missed. Doors closed due to time passed. So many things that are left undone because of our human-ness, selfishness, blindness, laziness, etc. . .
After all that we can do, the only thing that is available is repentance through the atonement of Jesus Christ. We can't make up all the debts we incure. Our agency was given us as a God-given right. Agency is how we prove ourselves. How we show who we are through our actions. Agency isn't free, it has a price. Through our agency we make choices. The good ones are a benefit to all. The bad ones need to be paid for. Some we can make right through our work. Others could never be paid by ourselves. We must repent, but we alone, can't repay. We must rely on the Saviour and His Atonement to make things right.
We pay for our Agency through our good deeds and our repentance and devotion to the Lord's will. Then after all we can do, the Saviour pays the rest of our debts, as only He is able.
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