Sunday Thoughts

Today in our combined meeting a sister got up and talked about how we need to learn to be a faithful and gradual people. She said a lot of the times we think or say or put on our to do list that today we need to get our year supply of food storage, or that we need ot read the book of mormon. Then after we put that on our list it becomes so overwhelming that we keep putting it off and putting it off. She related it to her running. She said she would start and be ready and fired up but then she would run full force for a block and be so tired that she would stop go home and then not go out again. But she tried again and instead of starting full force, she gave herself a goal to run for 5 minutes straight and each day she would bump that time up more and more until she realized that she really loved running. She said that we need to do the same in our spiritual lives. Instead of beating ourselves up for not reading or having our year supply. she said we need to start slow. Maybe start reading a verse a day or maybe just look in our pantrys and see what we already have that we can say is our year supply. She said instead of trying to take on the whole elephant at once (hence the picture ;p) we need to just take on bit by bit until we complete our goal or until we find it becomes easy. If we seek the Lords help as we do this and continue faithfully she said we will see miracles. they may not be huge "bam" and "zap" type miracles they may just be small. But as long as we keep the Lord in our efforts and be faithful to him and his commandments than he will help us and we will see miralces in our lives.

"I the Lord am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise."
D&C 82:10