Scripture update

Today marks the 3rd straight week of reading each night from the scriptures with the kids. We have done pretty good. Yes we have missed 2 nights, but we have made up for it by reading more the next night. All in all we have done great. Prayer with the family has been happening every night. It is also nice to be able to kneel as a family and give thanks to the Lord.

Our next goal is to add Family home evening into our schedule. We should be doing this every Monday, but we have not been doing it. So soon we will be adding it. We have one more week of Scriptures and prayer before we will add more to our plate. It is hard to make certain things happen on a daily basis.

We have taken it slow and it is starting to get easier to do it. So our next week will consist of Scriptures/prayers every night, AND family home evening once a week :)


Hope you are all doing well....all who don't actually read this blog, which is why I wonder if I should tell more people that it is here......although I don't think I am ready for a lot of people to read it yet. :)

Difference of Religion

I wonder sometimes why religion differences have to make us say things that will hurt others from another religion. I am not saying that I am guilty of doing this, but if I am, I hope that those I have offended will forgive me. The reason I bring this up is this.

I have a dear friend who has been working with someone to bring out the best her she can be. She has been getting foot zoning and counseling with this person to help her with her life. She has been able to get off many of the medications she has been on by doing this. It is really changing the way her life is.

She mentioned this on facebook the other day, and I happened to ask about what it was that she was doing. She told me about it and I am so excited that she is able to do this for herself. There was a comment later from someone that I am related to who said that she was going to go to hell for letting someone who practices witchcraft into her life. I don't know about that.

I understand that each religion is different, I understand that there are many things that people disagree with, but to come straight out and tell someone you don't know, that you are going to hell for letting people in their lives, not knowing anything about them or their religion seems a bit much.

I am a Mormon. I am very proud of that. I do not think that having a foot zoning done, by anyone, even if they practice witchcraft, is going to send me to hell. I have my beliefs, I have commandments that I follow. I do not agree with every religion in the world. But I know that I can be friends with people from other religions. I can do things with them, and for heavens sake, I am not going to go to hell because my friend is a different religion.

I like having friends from other religions. It proves that no matter our religion we can still be friends. I can still go to them and talk when I have problems, I can still ask them their opinion, I can still hold on to my beliefs. I can discover other religions and what they believe in, it does not mean I will become that religion, but it is neat to learn of them.

Anyway sometimes I just don't get it. I am getting off my soapbox now. Have a good day.

I'm Healing

Today I was able to watch my friends baby. She is a wonderful friend and I am glad she trusts me to watch her kids. Anyway, not the point, the point is that as I was holding him, I didn't think about the fact that I could not have any more kids, I truly enjoyed the time with the baby. I only thought of it when my neighbor asked me if I ever felt sad and heartbroken when I have to let the baby go back to his mom, and for the first time since I lost my baby, I can say No.

I don't. I don't feel sad anymore, I don't feel angry. Sure I miss my baby. I do. I have moments when I really would LOVE to hold MY baby, but I know that one day I will be able to do that. For now, I need to be here.

What is my purpose here? Well one day maybe I will find out. Right now, it is to take care of my three precious angels. To make sure they learn and grow. To love my husband and spend my life with him. How lucky am I that I have that opportunity?! I truly am! I was given a second chance at life and I am learning to live it with faith and to move on.

I hope I am doing a good job. Hey, you might even say I am Walking on Water right now!

Scripture sense

We decided to read as a family from the scriptures. This week we have done really good. As we were reading today I asked the kids what they learned. They remembered a few things, but when they couldn't remember any more, we decided to take it to the next level and teach them how to find the answers in the scriptures. It was a good experience and now the kids have figured out that if they look in the scriptures they can find the answers.

I was older when I realized the power the scriptures had for me. I didn't know how to search the scriptures until I was older. I was taught but had never been able to understand how searching the scriptures could help me to find answers to my life questions. I am lucky to have the opportunity to teach my children the importance of finding answers there. It is a beautiful way to find the answers to many issues that we all have in life.

I am very blessed to have the knowledge to teach my children. I hope that by teaching them now, they will have the sense to keep learning and finding out more about the scriptures.

Staying Positive

Sometimes I wake up and want to stay in bed instead of going anywhere. Okay okay so it happens more often than not. However I end up getting out of bed and going about my day. I do have to say if I didn't have to work that it would be really easy for me to stay in bed and just sleep my days away. I am really struggling to stay positive in life.

Today as I was sitting in the school office talking to some people, I had mentioned that I have a blog called Mission to be happy Here. After I mentioned it and told someone what it was about, that person turned to me and said, well it must have worked because you are always really happy.

I thought, well that is true on the outside, but I really need to work on being happy on the inside as well. I have decided to work on a mission to be happy both inside and out. I will be updating my Mission to be happy blog again as I work on it. I am sure as my regular life starts doing better that my spiritual side will start doing better as well.

I hope that things will start getting easier. I have a few ideas of how to stay positive and I will share them as I go. Anyway I am outta here! Have a great night!

Blessings

Today I found the perfect saying for me. I think that it helps me to make it through each day. I know that if I have the strength to carry on and keep faith, that one day I will be able to receive the blessings that heavenly father has for me.

Prayer

I have been reading another blog that I have really liked lately called, Single Dad laughing. The blogger is amazing. He is able to express things in ways I wish I could. Maybe someday I will be able to write as well as he does. I was reading the other day about The many roads of Hell.
I felt justified for the way I felt as I traveled through the many roads of Hell. We all experience our own Hells and sometimes they are deep and dark and you think you are the only one who knows how it feels to go through it.

The wonderful thing about this is that we are not the only ones who know what it feels like to go through these hells. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, has been there before us. He has suffered through every possible Hell. He is there for us when we feel like no one here on this earth can possibly know what we are going through. All we have to do is pray. Get on our knees and tell him that we feel alone. Prayer is an amazing tool that we can all use to become closer to our Savior. He knows us and knows how to help us, all we have to do is ask.

So I challenge you to pray more and become closer to your Savior. Prayer has really helped me and I hope that it can help you too.

We are NOT alone.

Issuing myself a challenge!

Well I am well on my way to the second step on water.....tonight as I begin my new journey, I wish to challenge myself to read the scriptures every day for a month. ( I have to have small goals...I don't do well with the yearly ones) I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, therefore I will be reading the Book of Mormon. I have also been reading the Old testament and I am doing really well. I am currently in the book of Judges. I have learned a lot of really neat things from the Old Testament.

My challenge comes because I have slacked off in reading lately and I feel that it may be one of the reasons I was swimming.

I hope that you will join in the challenge with me, no matter your faith. I am not here to judge anyone or to tell you which religion is right. I believe what I believe and I don't expect everyone to believe the same thing. I want this blog to be for EVERYONE. So please, join with me in reading the scriptures every day. Whatever scriptures you have in your religion, lets just read. :)

Introduction

Yep. This is me in a nutshell. I often find myself on the right path and choosing the right way to go, when all of a sudden I find myself swimming in the water. I can literally be a couple feet away from my goals and SPLASH I am in the water, pleading for the Savior to rescue me.

So how can I fix this problem? I blog about it! I have no idea what this blog will become. I don't really care, it is mostly a place for me to just let it all out and maybe along the way, figure out how to spend more time walking on water, instead of swimming.

I hope you will join me in my journey, I don't know how many people will ever find this blog, I hope that someday my experiences will be helpful to someone.

Here goes Nothing....My first step ON to the water. Here is hoping I stay up!