Spiritual Health

Day 2  Sunday, Oct 18th

Exercise:  a 45 min walk this morning.  Love my walking buddy!

Breakfast was leftover oatmeal with strawberries and peanut butter toast
Dinner was chilli and cornbread.
Sorry, I was bad at taking pictures today.  This will also be a short entry because I have to fight for computer time with 5 other people.

    Today I wanted to address my spiritual health.  We quickly rushed into church at 1pm, and was stopped at the door by a bishopric member.  He put his arm around me and asked "Are you happy in Hawaii?"  Wow.  He caught me off guard.  I had just been arguing with Nathan in the car about our lack of time to accomplish our to-do list this week.  "I'd like to be"  I replied, "but I need some of the stress in my life to go away."
    There's that word again...Stress.  I thought, if I wait to be happy until my life is stress free, then I may never experience it.  So I need to choose to be happy right now, despite my circumstances.  I need to surround myself with good, uplifting people and things.  I need to smile more.  I need to count my blessings more.
   During the sacrament meeting, a 25 year old gave a talk about that exact message.  She said this quote by Mother Theresa, which I absolutely love:  "Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love."

   Sometimes I  feel that the small things I do at home, and for those around me are really quite meaningless on the worlds scale of value.  But I just need to keep in mind the eternal perspective.  Remind myself that it is these small things done with great love that change people, change the world.  And most importantly, change me into my best self.
It's time:  for me to commit to reading my scriptures daily again.  To commit to more frequent personal prayer (on my knees, not laying down in bed half asleep).  I know that when I do these things, I will have enabling power and strength to conquer my cravings and temptations.  Many of which I had today!  But I said no!

Happy Day 2