The Scriptures Say...

Last week I was having frustrating feelings toward a few siblings in my family. Those feelings came up because I was going through stuff that related to them with my own kids. I had feelings of helplessness, burdened, frustrated, among others. Thoughts came to my mind about the scriptures. Nephi did not have to repent when he killed Laban, and Abraham did not have to repent when he lied and said Sarah was his sister. This lifted a burden since I was feeling bad for causing contention. I know in a few incidents I was led by the Holy Ghost to say and do things and they were not received well, but I know Heavenly Father wanted me to do them.

The other thing that made me feel better was when we were reading the scriptures and it said "the Lord saw that it was pleasant". I thought the use of the word pleasant was interesting and then I thought that simple words were used throughout the scriptures to describe us or the things we do that are good. Other words are "it was good". The grand words are used to describe God and that is how it should be, "miraculous", "wonderful", "great".
My feelings of helplessness died since the Lord requires me to be good and pleasant. I don't need to do all the "fantastic" worldly stuff to be happy (Disney World, designer clothes, etc). I felt better because I can work on making my life good and pleasant and I don't have to compete to be wonderful or great. That's the Lord's job.

The Power of Being Trained

While I was leading the music in Primary yesterday, we had so much fun that I lost track of time along with everyone else! I was called to be the music leader for primary a couple months before and had struggled feeling the spirit and helping the kids feel the power in music. Now, I had just been trained for my calling and watched the music leader video and I had tried to follow the steps it gave me. It was absolutely amazing! We all had fun and the spirit was definitely there.

Taking Turns

I had the stomach flu last week and my friend drove my boy and her boy to kindergarten for me. We take turns so now we were off track for driving the boys. The next day her water pipe broke in her house and I was able to drive the boys for her.
I wasn't quite better yet and I usually watched her younger boys so she could help at the school when she drives but I didn't need to, so that relieved me. My husband happened to be home that day, randomly, so he watched our youngest as I drove the boys in and I also went to the grocery store kid free! It was a nice break.