Lessons

I learned something in testimony meeting yesterday that I wanted to remember.

Someone told this as part of their testimony. In a church meeting on tithing a boy said"...but it's so hard." and the leader said with inspiration..."that's because you're not doing it."

How true is that! It's hard to get my Visit Teaching done, my callings done, my fill-in-the-blank done because I'm not doing it. IF I just decided that Visit Teaching was something I always accomplished, I'm sure I would have the time and energy to accomplish it.

Also in RS we were talking about worry, and how much our lives are governed by it, and it made me think of something Bonnie said to me once. She had been reading a book which mentioned a man from a small city in South America, and he said about North Americans and our culture - "They live in the past and the future, they are never living in the present."

How true is that too! We spend so much time holding grudges, baggage, and bad history, grief and guilt from the past, and waste time with worrying and dreaming about the future, it makes me realize he's absolutely right! I'm going to live in the present this week, that's going to be a real shift, It's going to take a lot of effort, but I know I'm going to like how it feels!