" If it stops you from getting closer to God, then it needs to go. - Unknown
I often find myself reflecting on my day to ask the following questions: How am I doing today and how have I became closer to my Heavenly Father?
Yesterday, I was picked up from school and I asked my mom if we could stop and get a smoothie from a place down the road. She said yes, and we placed our order. As we pulled to the window to pay, I looked over and seen a employee from a local fast food restaurant across the way smoking in the back of the building. I thought... "hmm" and then looked a little harder at the situation. I then seen two high school kids having a conversation with this lady. As I scanned the two students, I realized they both had lit cigarettes in between their fingers. I immediately pointed it out to my mom and sat there in complete disgust wondering what had happened to the world around me. I was completely shaken up.
I got home and said a prayer that this feeling of aversion would go away and be replaced with a feeling of peace and happiness. As I lifted my eyes and went back to doing my homework, I felt so much gratitude for all that I have been taught about wrong and right and the consequences of both. I knew my prayer had been answered.
I remember listening to my seminary teacher a while back telling us how one sin can easily turn in to a series of sin. That one cigarette those kids decide to smoke will most likely turn into one more, two more, three more and eventually it will take over their lives. I know that we can make things right in the beginning if we humble ourselves and ask for help from the savior. I know that we can turn sin into success if we realize right from wrong in the beginning. Sin can flip our lives around. Sin makes us unhappy, depressed, uncomfortable around the ones we love but the biggest problem is, it makes us guilty to the point where we don't even feel happy with ourselves. Fortunately for us, the savior is here to help us, save us, to take us in and perfect us so we can achieve our divine potential. Jesus Christ is here to turn us around and steer us in the right direction.
I'm not perfect, as a matter of fact, I make mistakes every day just like everybody else but the point is.... We can be better, we can be stronger, smarter, and happier if we let Christ shape us into the person we are meant to be. God knows where we are headed and the savior is where we go for help to get there.
We need to continually ask ourselves how we are doing and how we can become closer to our heavenly father?
How are you doing today?
- Macady <3
Yesterday, I was picked up from school and I asked my mom if we could stop and get a smoothie from a place down the road. She said yes, and we placed our order. As we pulled to the window to pay, I looked over and seen a employee from a local fast food restaurant across the way smoking in the back of the building. I thought... "hmm" and then looked a little harder at the situation. I then seen two high school kids having a conversation with this lady. As I scanned the two students, I realized they both had lit cigarettes in between their fingers. I immediately pointed it out to my mom and sat there in complete disgust wondering what had happened to the world around me. I was completely shaken up.
I got home and said a prayer that this feeling of aversion would go away and be replaced with a feeling of peace and happiness. As I lifted my eyes and went back to doing my homework, I felt so much gratitude for all that I have been taught about wrong and right and the consequences of both. I knew my prayer had been answered.
I remember listening to my seminary teacher a while back telling us how one sin can easily turn in to a series of sin. That one cigarette those kids decide to smoke will most likely turn into one more, two more, three more and eventually it will take over their lives. I know that we can make things right in the beginning if we humble ourselves and ask for help from the savior. I know that we can turn sin into success if we realize right from wrong in the beginning. Sin can flip our lives around. Sin makes us unhappy, depressed, uncomfortable around the ones we love but the biggest problem is, it makes us guilty to the point where we don't even feel happy with ourselves. Fortunately for us, the savior is here to help us, save us, to take us in and perfect us so we can achieve our divine potential. Jesus Christ is here to turn us around and steer us in the right direction.
I'm not perfect, as a matter of fact, I make mistakes every day just like everybody else but the point is.... We can be better, we can be stronger, smarter, and happier if we let Christ shape us into the person we are meant to be. God knows where we are headed and the savior is where we go for help to get there.
We need to continually ask ourselves how we are doing and how we can become closer to our heavenly father?
How are you doing today?
- Macady <3