Week 5


This week I feel that I gained the most valuable advice so far.  Asking myself the questions now, that individuals over sixty think are the most important, do I make a difference, am I a good person and who do I love/who loves me, made me feel like I now have a good foundation in determining my life moving forward.

When asking myself do I make a difference, I break it out into three areas, at home, at work, and in my community.  This makes it so that I can narrow down where I can work harder.  Do I make a difference in my family’s life?  Do I uplift, encourage, love unconditionally, work hard, invite the Spirit in, set best example possible?  At work, do I truly listen, work hard, positively contribute, encourage and help those I work with?  In my community, do I put all that I can and should into my callings, do I step up when there is a need, do I take time to talk, listen, say hi to neighbors, to get involved when there is a problem in my neighborhood?

This week President Faust's reminder to never give up, to preserver resounded with me.  The reminder to get back up when knocked down is something I know, but reading it this week strengthened me. In A Hero’s Journey hearing that through faith and courage I can find my calling fits with what I know.  I felt like I was saying amen in my mind as I watched.  The one thing that stood out and made me stop and self-evaluate was the statement about “becoming”, it is all about me, but not really about me.  Life isn’t about me being seen as important, or that others recognize me for how incredible I may think am.  I have been given talents, from God.  I am who I am because of Him.  So the being about me is that I have been given talents.  The part about, but not really about me, is that I am to use those talents to bless and help others, to move his work forward.  Humility.

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