The closer we get to God, the more we focus on His glory rather than our own progress. Any radiance from us is truly reflected light.
I've recently read, and am re-reading, a book I picked up in Utah while at Women's Conference called "The Healer's Art." It was one of my 'treasure finds'. We had already shopped Seagull Book a couple days before, but on Friday we decided to go in the Seagull Book in Spanish Fork while we had a little time before our dinner reservations. I was wandering up and down the isles just looking. Sometimes I feel like I am guided or prompted to do something and I had a sense that I was going to find something and as I looked down at a bottom shelf I saw the book, because it had a red tag $4.99 sticker on it. I was thrilled with the price, but the title was all I needed to know that I would love this book. It's co-authored by Lloyd D. Newell, who is the author of my 'treasure find' from last year, a book called "Let Him Ask of God" that I have treasured and read each day of all last year and have started over again...it has a page of thoughts for each day about Joseph Smith. I have treasured this authors words only to recently find out he is the voice of "Music and the Spoken Word!" I had no idea.
Today I read from his book on page 49-50 some tender mercies from the Lord to calm the battle raging in my soul:
"When we have courage to believe and the strength to endure, pain and grief can give way to wisdom, spiritual maturity, and a greater capacity to love. Heartache and suffering can bestow quiet confidence in divine purposes and a greater appreciation for life...The process of spiritual growth can be long and hard - yet it can also be joyful....we [can] have hope in the future and power in the present....No matter how tired we may be and how weary our efforts become, God is watching over us. He is our loving Father, our Master Caretaker....We must not lose hope. Hope is the anchor to [our souls]....President Ezra Taft Benson said, 'Satan would have us cast away that anchor. In this way he can bring discouragement and surrender. But we must not lose hope. The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. Though we may see that we have far to go on the road to perfection, we must not give up hope." (A Mighty Change of Heart, Ensign Oct. 1989 pg 5)
Truly we bask in His reflected light.....
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ALWAYS REMEMBER that YOU matter to HIM!
Elder Orson Whitney
Hope on, trust on, til you see the salvation of God.
C. S. Lewis
God knows our situations; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do great and good and worthwhile things. Believe in the nature within you, the divine nature, that you are in very deed a son or daughter of the living God. There is something of divinity within you, something that stands high and tall and noble. Get above the dirt and the filth of the earth and walk on a higher plane with your heads up, believing in yourselves and in your capacity to act for good in the world and make a difference.
Spencer W. Kimball
"The primary reason the Lord sent you here is to make yourself happy and help other people make themselves happy."
Joseph B. Wirthlin
We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for He sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.
Elder Jeffery R. Holland
"It goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking, including negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak--or at least think--critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everything. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hope or happiness. Before long, we and everyone around us are miserable."
David O. McKay
No principle of life was more constantly emphasized by the Great Teacher (Jesus Christ) than the necessity of right thinking.
Boyd K. Packer
"If you are helpless, He is not. If you are lost, He is not. If you don't know what to do next, He knows. It would take a miracle, you say? Well, if it takes a miracle, why not?"
Joseph Smith
Our Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive.
Gordon B. Hinckley
“I believe in myself. I do not mean this in an egotistic way. But I believe in my capacity and in your capacity to do good, to make some contribution to the society of which we are a part, to grow and develop, and to do things that we may now think impossible. … I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small. But it will count for the greater good” (New Era, Sept. 1996, 8)
Spencer W. Kimball
Man alone, of all creatures of the earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.
Heber C. Kimball
"I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my God is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured when I have His Spirit. That is one reason why I know; and another is—the Lord said, through Joseph Smith, ‘I delight in a glad heart and a cheerful countenance' [D&C 59:15]. That arises from the perfection of His attributes; He is a jovial, lively person . . ."
Joseph B. Wirthlin
"Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying." -En 11/87 p.8
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Philippians 1:3
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