13 And I will also be your alight in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the bpromised land; and ye shall cknow that it is by me that ye are led.
Elder Uchtdorf's Talk: "We Are Doing a Great Work and Can't Come Down"
This scripture felt like very good advice I need in my life right now. And I love the story Elder Uchtdorf bases this talk on. Karl found it for me yesterday when we were both having a really hard time getting excited about all the seemingly important time consumers taking up our lives right now. Poor guy has had to put up with a break down a week from this girl since school started again.
Do you ever find that you become so busy that you loose your mind? Like every little thing you write on your to do list is a life or death matter?
That's me this semester to a 'T'. This talk is given to the men of our church, but it's completely applicable to all of us.
It was a good wake up call for me to start recognizing what items on my to do list fall under the "burned out light bulb" category and to re-focus on not crashing and burning with the really important stuff like my sanity and health (spiritual and temporal).
I love being a part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints:)
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Tuesday
CRAZY! That pretty much sums up this semester for me. I feel like almost every minute has to be scheduled out to keep my head floating above water. Sink or swim. That's what I'm dealing with, but pretty much everyone is.
Even though this semester has me so stressed, I'm so grateful that I've been able to follow through on promptings I've had for this last year of my undergraduate (can I just say I love love love saying this is my last semester before I'm a college grad!).
I felt prompted to interview to be the director of a program called Storytellers and I got it. I haven't loved every aspect of the job, but I have learned so much about myself. I don't have a lot of confidence in myself as a leader or even as a people person, but I've gained so much experience in both those areas. I've made a ton of mistakes, but I've learned from them and hopefully I'll have more confidence in myself after this.
I know I am in the right major. I love speech therapy. I love that I get to practice speech therapy with a client this semester. Our first session was today and I almost wet my pants I was so nervous! I made a lot of mistakes to, but I enjoyed the session and again get to improve by learning from those mistakes.
This post should be entitled "Hello, my name is Tara and I screw up all of the time." But I know a very loving Heavenly Father has allowed me to have experiences that help me grow. I know that because of his son, Jesus Christ, I can be forgiven of my mistakes and continually improve.
So bring it on semester!
Even though this semester has me so stressed, I'm so grateful that I've been able to follow through on promptings I've had for this last year of my undergraduate (can I just say I love love love saying this is my last semester before I'm a college grad!).
I felt prompted to interview to be the director of a program called Storytellers and I got it. I haven't loved every aspect of the job, but I have learned so much about myself. I don't have a lot of confidence in myself as a leader or even as a people person, but I've gained so much experience in both those areas. I've made a ton of mistakes, but I've learned from them and hopefully I'll have more confidence in myself after this.
I know I am in the right major. I love speech therapy. I love that I get to practice speech therapy with a client this semester. Our first session was today and I almost wet my pants I was so nervous! I made a lot of mistakes to, but I enjoyed the session and again get to improve by learning from those mistakes.
This post should be entitled "Hello, my name is Tara and I screw up all of the time." But I know a very loving Heavenly Father has allowed me to have experiences that help me grow. I know that because of his son, Jesus Christ, I can be forgiven of my mistakes and continually improve.
So bring it on semester!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Best Song Ever
I love this song.
It's helped to remind me that I am a daughter of God with infinite and unchangeable worth in my Father's eyes.
(If you can't tell, this week that message has been hitting me again and again which has been wonderful for me)
There are a lot of things from Young Women that have stuck with me.
One thing is the Young Women theme. Sometimes I'll repeat it to myself when I need to be reminded that I am a Daughter of God and I have a mission, a purpose to fulfill while I'm here.
I hope you enjoy the song as much as I do:)
It's helped to remind me that I am a daughter of God with infinite and unchangeable worth in my Father's eyes.
(If you can't tell, this week that message has been hitting me again and again which has been wonderful for me)
There are a lot of things from Young Women that have stuck with me.
One thing is the Young Women theme. Sometimes I'll repeat it to myself when I need to be reminded that I am a Daughter of God and I have a mission, a purpose to fulfill while I'm here.
I hope you enjoy the song as much as I do:)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Institute
I have developed a love for institute. Today I am especially grateful for it. For the past I don't know how many weeks this semester, I've walked around with a depressed, semi upset look on my face and couldn't for the life of me figure out why people act happy to see me some days and other days steer clear. But today, I figured out why that was thanks to a fantastic lesson/beginning thought during institute.
The thought was this great quote that I can't for the life of me remember, anyways.... the gist of it was whatever you send out is exactly what you get back. It was an interesting thought, something we've all heard a million times from wise people who can't seem to get us to listen, but this time I was finally listening because the light bulb finally went off in my head and I realized that mean grumpy face I kept walking around with was just as good as a sign that says buzz off stamped on my forehead. Now for my next institute epiphany via the lesson which was about the Sermon on the Mount, specifically when the Savior talks about judging others.
Again, something we have heard a million times before, but this time I applied it in a slightly different way to myself than I had before.
Epiphany: I've been upset and grumpy the past couple of weeks because I keep comparing myself to everyone around me. Especially with the other girls in my Speech Pathology major. Every negative judgment I made about these girls usually had to do with the girl having something I admired and lacked. I'm so nervous about grad school and whether or not I should go for it or if I'm even qualified enough to have a fighting chance at getting in that I have hurt my own self esteem and my chances of having a lot of good friends in my program by being so upset that 'I'm not good enough' compared to these girls (pathetic, I know). I guess I still have time to fix/start good relationships with these girls, but I've already given a lot of people a bad impression of me that probably won't be easy to fix.
I feel like I used to have all the confidence in the world, but I have become so worried about what other people (especially professors) are thinking of me that I have become a socially awkward wreck!!!
Well, NOT ANY MORE!!!
(beating myself up every day is no bueno)
Institute today basically was a slap back into reality.
I should be the person I want to be.
Thank you agency for giving me the ability to think and act for myself.
Sorry for this probably boring rebuking of myself, but I feel like I have more drive to do something if I write it down.
New Goal: Be the person I want to be, develop skills and attributes I want to develop, and smile because life is pretty good.
I hope all of you are enjoying being the fantastically beautiful people you are.
(This picture really has no point, I just found it slightly comical)
The thought was this great quote that I can't for the life of me remember, anyways.... the gist of it was whatever you send out is exactly what you get back. It was an interesting thought, something we've all heard a million times from wise people who can't seem to get us to listen, but this time I was finally listening because the light bulb finally went off in my head and I realized that mean grumpy face I kept walking around with was just as good as a sign that says buzz off stamped on my forehead. Now for my next institute epiphany via the lesson which was about the Sermon on the Mount, specifically when the Savior talks about judging others.
Again, something we have heard a million times before, but this time I applied it in a slightly different way to myself than I had before.
Epiphany: I've been upset and grumpy the past couple of weeks because I keep comparing myself to everyone around me. Especially with the other girls in my Speech Pathology major. Every negative judgment I made about these girls usually had to do with the girl having something I admired and lacked. I'm so nervous about grad school and whether or not I should go for it or if I'm even qualified enough to have a fighting chance at getting in that I have hurt my own self esteem and my chances of having a lot of good friends in my program by being so upset that 'I'm not good enough' compared to these girls (pathetic, I know). I guess I still have time to fix/start good relationships with these girls, but I've already given a lot of people a bad impression of me that probably won't be easy to fix.
I feel like I used to have all the confidence in the world, but I have become so worried about what other people (especially professors) are thinking of me that I have become a socially awkward wreck!!!
Well, NOT ANY MORE!!!
(beating myself up every day is no bueno)
Institute today basically was a slap back into reality.
I should be the person I want to be.
Thank you agency for giving me the ability to think and act for myself.
Sorry for this probably boring rebuking of myself, but I feel like I have more drive to do something if I write it down.
New Goal: Be the person I want to be, develop skills and attributes I want to develop, and smile because life is pretty good.
I hope all of you are enjoying being the fantastically beautiful people you are.
(This picture really has no point, I just found it slightly comical)
Monday, September 20, 2010
.....
Sometimes it's hard to remember that I am a daughter of God.
I'm sure all of you have felt like that at some point.
Things like, how do I look, what do people think of me, I'm not pretty enough, or I'm not smart enough start to creep into our thoughts and make us wonder what we are worth.
This talk I found by President Faust helped to remind me of how wonderful it is to know I am a daughter of God.
When I remember that fact and trust in it, life becomes so much more meaningful.
Comparing myself to the people around me becomes less of a temptation.
I see more of the purpose I have in this life and am able to see that purpose so much more clearly.
I am so thankful for the gospel!
It would be so easy to forget how much we matter without really knowing who we are and who we can become.
My dad told my siblings a story yesterday of about an English prince. A group of men wanting to overthrow their current form of government captured this prince and tried to corrupt him by exposing him to every sinful, vulgar behavior. After weeks of not being able to bring this young man down, these men asked him why he had not fallen to this lifestyle that no one else they had exposed to it had been able to withstand.
The prince replied that he was born to be a king and that was not the behavior of a king.
My dad reminded us that we all have the potential to become kings and queens. We were born to become kings and queens. As a daughter of God, that is my destiny if I follow a righteous path.
All of us daughters of God must be worth a lot if our Heavenly Father has promised us that we can have all that he has by following him and living up to our divine potential.
It's good to remember who I am and where I am going.
I'm sure all of you have felt like that at some point.
Things like, how do I look, what do people think of me, I'm not pretty enough, or I'm not smart enough start to creep into our thoughts and make us wonder what we are worth.
This talk I found by President Faust helped to remind me of how wonderful it is to know I am a daughter of God.
When I remember that fact and trust in it, life becomes so much more meaningful.
Comparing myself to the people around me becomes less of a temptation.
I see more of the purpose I have in this life and am able to see that purpose so much more clearly.
I am so thankful for the gospel!
It would be so easy to forget how much we matter without really knowing who we are and who we can become.
My dad told my siblings a story yesterday of about an English prince. A group of men wanting to overthrow their current form of government captured this prince and tried to corrupt him by exposing him to every sinful, vulgar behavior. After weeks of not being able to bring this young man down, these men asked him why he had not fallen to this lifestyle that no one else they had exposed to it had been able to withstand.
The prince replied that he was born to be a king and that was not the behavior of a king.
My dad reminded us that we all have the potential to become kings and queens. We were born to become kings and queens. As a daughter of God, that is my destiny if I follow a righteous path.
All of us daughters of God must be worth a lot if our Heavenly Father has promised us that we can have all that he has by following him and living up to our divine potential.
It's good to remember who I am and where I am going.
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