Spring!

What a beautiful time of year! Spring is finally here! After a long cold winter the flowers and animals are starting to come out again. The trees are budding and the grass grows greener and greener. We are approaching Easter and we are again reminded of our Savior Jesus Christ's Atonement and Resurrection. Through his sacrifice for us we are able to have eternal life and live with our families and our Heavenly Father again.

May we each remember the love that our Heavenly Father has for us individually. May we each try every day to be a little better, try a little harder to be more Christ like, and love one another more deeply and willingly. Let us make this time of life our own personal spring, to use the atonement to become clean again. We read in D&C 18:10-13

10 Remember the ^aworth of ^bsouls is great in the sight of God;

 11 For, behold, the Lord your ^aRedeemer suffered ^bdeath in the flesh; wherefore he ^csuffered the ^dpain of all men, that all men might repent and ^ecome unto him.

 12 And he hath ^arisen again from the dead, that he might bring all men unto him, on conditions of ^brepentance.

 13 And how great is his ^ajoy in the ^bsoul that ^crepenteth!

After Christ was resurrected he visited the Nephites, He asked them to bring all their little children to him that they would sit in front of him, then he knelt and prayed to our Heavenly Father. This is a good time to make sure that we are remembering that we are all praying together in our families daily; morning and night. If we do this we will feel more in tune with the Holy Ghost and more unified as a family. The love in our homes will grow and we will be able to become more like our Savior Jesus Christ.

 

Fear

Today while I was talking to a dear friend she told me that she tries not to make decisions out of fear. It was just a casual comment in a conversation we were having but it really struck home to me. I have many time in my life made choices out of fear, mostly fear that I would make the wrong choice and something bad would happen to me or someone I love. I strongly dislike feeling like this, it traps me causing me to think on the dark side of things instead of on the bright side or the Christ like way of thinking.
The one fear I do like to always have in the forefront of my mind is Godly fear. Why? because I want to please him, I want to become more like him, I want to be obedient to him because I love him....ultimately that's why I fear him because I love him. I don't want to disappoint him. I have always loved this scripture and it has brought me a lot of peace over the years.

D&C 6:36
Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.

Plainly put. If I always have him in my thoughts I will DOUBT NOT AND FEAR NOT. What a beautiful calming way to live.