A Nice Little Midweek Thought: A New Perspective on Perfection

Last weekend was General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  It's like the Super Bowl of the Latter-Day Saint world, only we get it twice a year with 10 hours of broadcasted talks.  It's a chance to renew my spirit, and I always look forward to conference with great anticipation.  Though, funny enough, a year ago I missed conference because my Mom and I were at Disneyland.  (Yeah, I need to pull those talks up on the app and have a listen).  Heh, but all during conference this year I was like, "a year ago to the day I was at Disneyland..." and then I'd sigh and drown in withdrawals. -_-;; ... :P

I have a lot of thoughts over conference, but they're more of a personal sacred nature.  More a feeling of all the ways I need to improve.  But there were many talks that filled my spirit with hope and peace as well.  The Women's session Saturday night was extremely powerful.

Memes start floating around social media during conference each year, and it's always fun to collect them and save them to my phone for later readings and inspiration.  So I'm ending this post with a quote, which I don't really know if it's from conference this year as the print version of the talks aren't available, only the videos are up on www.churchofjesuschrist.org.  

"The commandment to be like Him is not intended to make you feel guilty, unworthy or unloved.  Our entire mortal experience is about progression, trying, failing, and succeeding." ~ Scott D. Whiting

Ha! I take it back.  It is up on the website, from the Saturday morning session: Elder Scott D. Whiting "Becoming Like Him".  Along with this theme, Book of Mormon Central did an incredible lesson on Becoming Perfect.  Puts things in wonderful perspective.

The Power Of Our Weaknesses

"Those who do not see their own weakness do not progress.  Your awareness of your weakness is a blessing--because it helps you remain humble, and keeps you returning to the Savior."

~ Henry B. Eyring, LDS Women's Conference,

March 25, 2017

Shamefully I didn't watch Women's Conference live.  I always forget.

The only time I have seen it live was over a decade ago when I got to attend in person, and sadly what I remember most from that experience was the hour it took to find the car in the parking garage.  Pretty funny memory, actually.  But I always forget to watch live, even though I'm always eager to watch all four main sessions of General Conference live, which follows the week after, (aka. this coming weekend).

The above quote by President Henry B. Eyring was immediately passed around on Facebook after the session, reminding me I missed it, and is still showing up on my feed.  Last Sunday I was able to hop online and watch his full talk.

Thank goodness for technology.

This quote touched me, because this is something I struggle with: My overwhelming awareness of my weaknesses, and never feeling like I'm measuring up or good enough.  Sometimes I get trapped by my weaknesses, more often than not it seems, but these weaknesses do push me forward and has always led me to prayer, begging for strength and courage.  Our weaknesses are a blessing.  They help us stay grateful.

Sometimes I think it's a blessing that we're not aware of all of our weaknesses.  That would be overwhelming!!  If we pray to God and ask him to show us our weakness we are shown just enough to change for the good, if we're brave enough.

So the next time I'm hard on myself for my weaknesses, which is pretty much all the time, instead of being hard on myself--which is one of my many weaknesses--I'm going to go pray to our Lord and Savior for strength.

(Ah, heh, though be careful when you pray for patience.  And be careful in telling God you can't handle anymore.  My Grandma made that mistake once.  Many overwhelming, awful things were happening to her, and she told God in prayer that she couldn't handle anymore, she was pushed to her limit, and in that moment a giant tree branch broke and fell on the roof causing a lot of damage, and proving to my Grandmother she could indeed handle more.)