**I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a Relief Society Conference in my Stake this morning. It. Was. Wonderful. The only bad part was I didn't have my diaper bag, so I didn't have tissues, or a burp cloth, or ANYTHING to wipe my wet and teary face with. LOL! I learned a few things about myself, as well as what I can do better to improve my attitude and circumstances, if you will. This "Mormon Message" was shared in the last class I could attend before slipping home to nurse Kortlen...and I felt like I couldn't hardly breathe both times I watched it...but I didn't want to bawl in the middle of all the women, so I just held it in. My heart wants to burst. With gratitude, with comfort, and with love.
I keep watching it over, and over, and over. Part of what keeps drawing me in is President Ucktdorf's passionate voice, part of it is the beautiful and intense music. But the most important and inspirational part to me is the meaningful message. Guess it's just something I need to hear today. Right now.
"President Dieter F. Uchtdorf invites us to rely on the Spirit and use our divinely inherited ability to create things of substance and beauty. "Enjoy.
Hopefully my renewed drive to eliminate unnecessary distractions (good-bye Facebook, netflix, questionable movies, computer time and television) will allow me to be closer to the Spirit and I'll be able to be available to listen more closely to guidance and direction.
Hopefully my children will appreciate the new attitude and tone in our home.
Hopefully communication between all individuals in our home will improve.
And hopefully, we'll find the peace and balance we've been taught to invite into and create in our home.
Today before my mom left, she helped me hang a picture of Christ prominently in our living room. We've never had a picture of Christ hanging where it's the first thing you see. Thanks, mom! (And thanks dad, for letting us climb on you on the couch to hang everything else.) My next 'to-do' is to finish and print a picture of a Temple for our living room, our bedroom, and our boys' room. I have big ideas...just need the weather to be nicer, and the paycheck to be bigger.
I also re-hung a document our church issued in 1995, called, "The Family: A Proclamation to the World". You can read the actual document, and about it, HERE. It means so much to me and my little family.
Big changes. Little changes. Changes, period. Change is good. And these changes are for the better. They're inspired, and maybe you'll find a little inspiration in them to improve your own life, if that's what it needs. It's what our family needs right now.
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5 comments:
YOU are an inspiration Deanna! FB can be too time consuming and when you get off you've wasted an hour of your life you'll never get back and you're not uplifted at all- in fact, it's usually the opposite. I judt deactivated my account too and I had to laugh outloud when they display people's pictures with the captin, "So and so will miss you". Well, those people who are my actual friends won't miss me because I'll see them or talk to them w/o a computer! I feel free
kay, so I have been "lurking" but I guess this puts an end to that:). I appreciate your comments today. I just had my first child, a baby girl just last month. It's crazy, but when I found out I was pregnant, I had the impression that Facebook needed to go. I deleted my account and have never regretted it since.
Anyway, recently I've been having a lot of the same thoughts you shared in this post. I know that the only way any of us can be the mothers we need to be is by the direction of the Spirit. So for me I will do whatever it takes to have the Spirit in my heart and in my home. I still have a lot of room for improvement, but I'm trying.
Thanks for posting...and reading this terribly long comment!
By the way, this is Katie Crofts... I grew up in Grace and I'm not a crazy stalker type person. Just thought you should know that.
Katie! YES! I know EXACTLY who you are. :) I always wanted to be amazing like you in HS. :)
Shoot me an email, kay?! rdpoulsen at gmail dot com. :) I can't access your blog/find an email for you!
Congrats on the new little one!!! Are you still here in I.F.??? You were in I.F., right? Teaching at RMMS? Maybe I have THAT part confused with someone else...but email me!!!
<3 Thanks for sharing, lady! I'm So glad you were able to attend this morning, it was VERY Spiritual and wonderful!
you reiterated a lot of thoughts i've had on my mind in the last few months and few from today, in particular. love you, deanna. you are such a joy and inspiration to me.
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