Month: December 2019

What is one thing you can remove from your life that would improve it? James Clear Author of the New York Times bestselling book, Atomic Habits

We’ve got friends out there. They’ll come if they know there’s hope. — Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

 “The Force is not a power you have. It’s not about lifting rocks. It’s the energy between all things, a tension, a balance, that binds the universe together.” — (The Last Jedi)

“Naivete” – Be dumb enough to believe it is possible. — Ed Eyestone, Head Coach BYU Men’s National Champion Cross Country Team 2019 (Women’s 2019 Team finished 2nd)

21 days? 30 days? 66 days?

The honest answer is: forever. Because once you stop doing it, it is no longer a habit.

A habit is a lifestyle to be lived, not a finish line to be crossed. Make small, sustainable changes you can stick with. — James Clear

“You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.” Bhagavad Gita, chapter 2, verse 47​​

The Power of Waiting (Nauvoo Moment) May 2014 The power and blessing of waiting came clear to me for the first time in the Nauvoo Temple this week. The Temple is the House of the Lord. The temple is a place for the Lord to visit and rest here on earth. It is a place of revelation & reflection. Peace is felt and love abounds in the temple. Time is put in an eternal perspective. The Nauvoo Temple is located in an area where there is not a large concentration of church members. Sometimes an ordinance workers time is spent just waiting and watching for a temple patron to arrive. It came into my mind clearly this week that this waiting and watching is a sacred holy blessing. It represents in a small way Our Heavenly Father as he waits and watches for us to come to him. He waits patiently. He has high hopes and great expectations for each of us. His waiting is filled with faith, hope and love. In contrast my waiting on occasion is filled with doubt, despair & worry. What if no one comes? Will I get to go home early if no one comes? Why are so few people coming to the temple? What is wrong with everybody? Why are people so weak? These thoughts dampen the spirit and deprive me of the peace and perspective that lead to revelation and reassurance that the Lord desires to give me. Finally after nearly 9 years as an ordinance worker I am beginning to understand the power of waiting. The joy and happiness you feel when that patron or family comes through those temple doors is worth waiting for. Patiently waiting is a heavenly virtue. Revelations come easily in the temple if we know how to wait and watch for them. The temples are a symbol of the Lord’s love for us. Time & eternity intersect within those sacred walls. Waiting & watching in faith builds strength and helps prepare us to be ready when we are needed. Some of God’s blessings will never come to us unless we learn how to wait. The Lord is patiently and lovingly waiting for us – We can learn to do the same for each of his children & for ourselves as we wait patiently and faithfully on the Lord. One Scripture: Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Proverbs 8:34 One Quote: Many times we say we are waiting on the Lord, when as a matter of fact, the Lord is waiting on us. President Hartman Rector, Jr., Conference Report, April 1970

“There are always problems afoot that will demand our very best and then some.” — Spencer Fluhman, Ph.D.

“It’s not your fault you’re this way, but it’s your responsibility to work on it.” BYU Professors Gary M. Burlingame and Kara I. Cattani

“Speak to yourself in loving ways and talk about yourself with others as gently as you would speak about another person with your same challenges.” — Kara Cattani