Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

HOPE

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. 

This month I chose HOPE for my theme. I am normally known as a positive person. In fact it drives my children crazy. They would come to me with their frustrations and I would start to point out all the positives. They did not like that. 

March is a month of HOPE. We see the seasons change, the blossoms begin to appear, Spring is on the doorstep. We feel it in the air. 

I know when I get in a dark place, I fight to get out. I can't breathe there. HOPE is what gets me out of bed in the morning, helps me take that first step each day. It is what allows me to close my eyes at night. HOPE is what makes each trial bearable. 

HOPE leads to faith, which leads to humility. We will receive the Holy Ghost (the comforter)  who will fill us with HOPE and that will lead to charity the pure love of Christ. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. 

When I find myself loosing hope, Despair takes its place. For me despair

has no place in my life.

2 Nephi 31:20

Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life. 

HOPE shineth brightly before us.....it is what guides my path each day. 

Today

Today in Church and at  home the message were clear.

First a BYU devotional on TV on the chaos in the homes how to avoid it, how to realize where the Chaos is coming from. Then a Sunday School message on the Chaos and Oppression that the deceiver is spreading over the world, and our simple choice to have Faith in the power of God, his plan and his love for us... with a special focus on Isaiah 53 wherein it describes the plan and the Savior's atoning sacrifice, followed by a lesson in Relief Society on Repentance.

How grateful I am that I felt in tune with the spirit today and listened to the messages being taught,  because the minute I got home I was once again bombarded with the doubts, the bitterness, and the whisperings of negativity that seem to pervade my thoughts these days.

And so I look to the scriptures and my faith in the Savior to give me direction and strength as I continue to try to put my life in order, and bring the spirit in to my home.

Matt. 14: 31

And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

 

D&C 6: 36

Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.