I loved this thought from this month's Visiting Teaching Message and absolutely know it's true. We all know we need to have balance in our lives, so why is it so easy to neglect the spiritual side of things? I have found that by focusing on my own spiritual nourishment I am happier in my daily life, feel lighter and more at peace, feel hopeful, am kinder to others and am able to handle the problems that come my way.
**Thoughts**
Comment Window Tidbit: Our Primary Program today was a great success, but I feel physically spent after crawling around behind the scenes making sure everyone knew what they were doing. Sweating at church is never pretty for me.
12 comments:
Congrats on your successful program! I'm glad it went well.
I agree with your comments--spiritual feeding is so rewarding. Funny how it's easy to overeat at the table and undereat at the scriptures. If only it were switched!
Amen!
Congratulations on a successful Primary Program!
It was AWESOME!!!! Thank you so much for all your work!!!
Great thoughts for Sunday Jill. We had fast and testimony meeting yesterday, since next week is General Conference. It seemed like many who bore their testimonies had similar thoughts to yours. I need to make this a bigger priority! Thank you for that, reminder!
Our program is not until the last Sunday of October and it will be my first without Kate in 8 years!
We talk a lot in the church about how we chose to come to earth to get a body and what a blessing that is but we forget that it is also a huge challenge and I struggle so often with "putting off the natural man" to focus on those things that are most important. My mortal self wants to be lazy and have things come easy and not suffer discomfort or pain which is so crazy when the rewards for doing the things Elder Wirthlin shared are so great- we really are recharged when we follow his advice! But that natural man is strong- dang it!
Dear Missy Jill....This was a great thing to read. I know we have been talking about this for a while now, so thank you for letting me read it too! I often wonder why it is that we feel so inadequate at times, and it is true we are not balanced most of the time and it hurts us. I hope to be engaged in a worthy cause soon.
This was great Jill. It is just what I needed to hear/read. I have been thinking lately that I need to worry about my spiritual side first and then the Lord will help me in all aspects of my life and with helping my kids spiritual side. If I am doing what I should then it will be easier to help my kids.
You're absolutely right...we do need to find a balance. If I do more thing that help me spiritually, I feel better and more at peace.
Thank you for sharing:-)
I read this quote in the Ensign yesterday and loved it and then saw it again here . . . funny. I really like the thought of spiritual nourishment, the reminder that we really do need to do the basics CONSTANTLY. It makes such a big difference, but it's so easy to slack.
Congrats on your program! I was in a primary presidency once and thought it was SUCH a hard calling!
I can always tell when I'm out of balance spiritually- I'm grumpy and short with my kids.
Loved NJP's comment about how we tend to overeat physcially and undereat spiritually!
HOoray for the primary program-
I love your message cards- so beautiful & a SERIOUSLY great reminder that we all need- heaven knows I do!
I love the quote. Sadly, this is an area I need frequent reminders of - thank heavens conference is on its way. Our primary program is November 8th. I lead the music and they make me stand on a box so all the kids can see me up on the stand. My elevated backside is not how I want my ward viewing me - c'est la vie.
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