Doing better tomorrow.. a quote by.. ME!
I just wrote this really long-winded comment on someone's blog (Click here to read the post I was responding to: Daring Young Mom - if you haven't discovered her, you should!) I decided to stick it here as well. Here ya go. :)
“Doing better tomorrow” does not mean that every day has to be better than the last to be considered progress. Mortality is not meant to be like that. We rise and we fall and we pick ourselves back up again, and take just another step forward, and start all over again. But we learn as we go. We learn from the times we fell, and learn what it took to rise to our best selves. And even when we fall again, we never fall back to the same place we once were. We take our knowledge and our experience with us. And we get to choose what we do with that knowledge and experience. It is obvious that you choose to let it refine you, shape and mold you into who you most want to be. What our loving Heavenly Father knows you can be. A few words that sum up what I am trying to say, I know you will recognize from your role as teacher to the young women in your church. Choice and Accountability. Divine Nature. Faith. Good Works. Knowlegde. Integrity. Virtue.
7 values that focus us on what matters, so we don’t have to look to how the world judges us. You are not failing. You are learning, trying, riding the ups and downs of life. Sometimes the roller coaster is a blast. Sometimes it makes you puke. Sometimes it is both at the same time.
To take a line from one of my favorite songs by the LDS musical group called Afterglow, song entitled “Just believe Him”, “Take heart, and fear no more, His promises are sure.”
“Doing better tomorrow” does not mean that every day has to be better than the last to be considered progress. Mortality is not meant to be like that. We rise and we fall and we pick ourselves back up again, and take just another step forward, and start all over again. But we learn as we go. We learn from the times we fell, and learn what it took to rise to our best selves. And even when we fall again, we never fall back to the same place we once were. We take our knowledge and our experience with us. And we get to choose what we do with that knowledge and experience. It is obvious that you choose to let it refine you, shape and mold you into who you most want to be. What our loving Heavenly Father knows you can be. A few words that sum up what I am trying to say, I know you will recognize from your role as teacher to the young women in your church. Choice and Accountability. Divine Nature. Faith. Good Works. Knowlegde. Integrity. Virtue.
7 values that focus us on what matters, so we don’t have to look to how the world judges us. You are not failing. You are learning, trying, riding the ups and downs of life. Sometimes the roller coaster is a blast. Sometimes it makes you puke. Sometimes it is both at the same time.
To take a line from one of my favorite songs by the LDS musical group called Afterglow, song entitled “Just believe Him”, “Take heart, and fear no more, His promises are sure.”