I've been feeling good this week. There was an amazing talk given by a new member of our ward about prayer. I had such strong feelings in my mind and heart about the truthfulness of the things he was saying.
The things i remember,
1. we have to be willing to ask.
2. we have to be reading the scriptures to hear
3. we have to be willing to act.
4. we must be willing to ponder.
Something I heard a long time ago was, "We speak to the Lord through prayer, he speaks to us through the scriptures."
This is one that i've always had a hard time with reading the scriptures regularly. always. it makes me mad. I'm really good at the pondering part. I can think about how to solve problems i might be facing all day long. i feel like i have a prayer in my heart all day. i pray in my mind a lot during the day. I need to get better at kneeling, though. it's not the same to lay down and pray.
But, there are a lot of things i've been helped with lately. things i KNOW didn't come from me but from the Lord. I couldn't have done any of these things without my Heavenly Father.
1. laundry - much better, not perfect. but much better.
2. trying to keep the house clean. i've finding more energy, not always, but like tonight, i HAD to get some stuff put away. i'm not ok with piles anymore. at least NOT as ok.
Need to work on.
1. food. labeling, calculating, quantifiying and really knowing my budget and what we eat.
2. scriptures with my kids. ugh! scriptures with my kids!! i REALLY don't want to fail grandma's challenge. Not getting a lot of support from Doug on this. but we are able to talk more about this stuff without arguing. we had a good honest talk about FHE yesterday that resulted in a really good family night last night.
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