The ART of Sacrifice

This makes me think of pregnancy...being pregnant is sure a sacrifice as well as the delivery. But once that baby is here, who cares!  It's difficult sometimes to see how the sacrifices we make each day will become something truly great, but that's where we can put our faith and trust in the Lord. And remember that He already suffered for us and the pains and afflictions we are faced with right now. So go give them to Him and reap the rewards!

Hold on

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to put our full faith and trust in Him....I promise once you do, you will never regret the outcome! After all, who knows us better if not our creator.

Grateful

This is one of my favorite quotes! So many times I browse through a magazine (home decor, of coarse) and I'm lusting after the beauty and elegance that those pictures invite and of coarse I want it.  But these are just things, they aren't where happiness lies, they don't last, and they aren't real.  Once I get my head out of that magazine and I start looking around my house, I tend to come up with new things I want to do or change to make it look like the pictures. This exercise overwhelms me and exhausts me to the point of not knowing anymore what I really want or enjoy.

Whenever I reach this stage, I find myself sitting and taking a step back at what I have now.  I look around me at our little, somewhat older home and I see the changes we've made, to make it our own. It doesn't look like the magazine, because it has a touch of 'us' in it.  It's a home where our family can come together and be ourselves and welcome others to.  Then I start to think about my family and how I got so lucky to be where I am today. I have a husband who loves me and treats me accordingly. I have such wonderful children who try to what's right, and who make each other laugh.  We have books filled with pictures and memories of our first years together and how memorable they were. We also have hard days that we try to support each other and lift each other. We have the gospel and the love of or Heavenly Father and Savior.  We read from the scriptures and talk about the lessons learned from those stories.  Our little life is far from perfect, but it's ours! And with that we don't need anything else.

" For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." ~Luke 12:34

share the load

Needed this reminder this past week! As a multi-tasking woman, I tend to go a little over board and overwhelm myself with everything that still needs get to done around me, and feeling like I'm the only one who can get it done(the way I want it to get done).  I've learned to ask for help from my kids and husband and even though it doesn't come out they way I think it should or would if I did it, I'm relieved that it was one less thing I had to do!

no matter what

Don't you give up