Thursday, April 5, 2012
STOP IT!!!!!!
Yes, of course.
How is it done?
Through the love of God.
The more we allow the love of God to govern our minds and emotions—the more we allow our love for our Heavenly Father to swell within our hearts—the easier it is to love others with the pure love of Christ. As we open our hearts to the glowing dawn of the love of God, the darkness and cold of animosity and envy will eventually fade.
It’s that simple. We simply have to stop judging others and replace judgmental thoughts and feelings with a heart full of love for God and His children. God is our Father. We are His children. We are all brothers and sisters. I don’t know exactly how to articulate this point of not judging others with sufficient eloquence, passion, and persuasion to make it stick.
“Don’t judge me because I sin differently than you.”
We must recognize that we are all imperfect—that we are beggars before God. Haven’t we all, at one time or another, meekly approached the mercy seat and pleaded for grace? Haven’t we wished with all the energy of our souls for mercy—to be forgiven for the mistakes we have made and the sins we have committed?
Because we all depend on the mercy of God, how can we deny to others any measure of the grace we so desperately desire for ourselves? Should we not forgive as we wish to be forgiven?
Forgiving ourselves and others is not easy. In fact, for most of us it requires a major change in our attitude and way of thinking—even a change of heart. But there is good news. This “mighty change” of heart is exactly what the gospel of Jesus Christ is designed to bring into our lives
Dieter F Uchtdorf
We are all in the race in life together and we should be helpping each other with love in our hearts and doing everything that we can do to make life easier for those around us.
I know that this is true and if we apply it into our lives we will fill the love of God in our lives more abundantly and we will be mopre happy!
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Bad Words and Dirty Jokes!
How do I get bad words and dirty jokes out of my head after I hear them at school?
It is hard to filter our minds from all the bad in the world. I agree. We CANNOT completely control everything that we hear and see no matter how hard we try, we are living in a world where there is bad all around but we can have self discipline with the Lord's help.Our minds are very powerful and our thoughts control our desires and our desires influences our words and our words influence our actions and they influences our habits and eventually all those things become our character. When we start with the little things we can slowly change and become who it is that we want to be!
“Have you noticed that, without any real intent on your part and almost in the midst of any performance, a shady little thought may creep in from the wings and endeavor to attract your attention? . . . If you permit them to go on, all other thoughts, of any virtue, will leave the stage. You will be left, because you consented to it, to the influence of unworthy thoughts” (That All May Be Edified, [1982], 38).
“What do you do at a time like this, when the stage of your mind is commandeered by these imps of unclean thinking? . . . Let me suggest that you choose from among the sacred music of the Church one favorite hymn. I have reason for suggesting that it be a Latter-day Saint hymn, one with lyrics that are uplifting and the music reverent. Select one that, when it is properly rendered, makes you feel something akin to inspiration.
“Now, go over it in your mind very thoughtfully a few times. Memorize the words and the music. . . . Anytime you find that these shady actors have slipped in from the sideline of your thinking onto the stage of your mind, think through this hymn. . . . It will change the whole mood on the stage of your mind. Because it is clean and uplifting and reverent, the baser thoughts will leave” (That All May Be Edified, 38–39).
Ler us fill our minds with the pure and good things of the world and then we can let the Lord change us into who we need to be!
It is hard to filter our minds from all the bad in the world. I agree. We CANNOT completely control everything that we hear and see no matter how hard we try, we are living in a world where there is bad all around but we can have self discipline with the Lord's help.Our minds are very powerful and our thoughts control our desires and our desires influences our words and our words influence our actions and they influences our habits and eventually all those things become our character. When we start with the little things we can slowly change and become who it is that we want to be!
“The mind is like a stage,” said President Boyd K. Packer. “Except when we are asleep, the curtain is always up. . . . Always there is some act playing on the stage of the mind.
“Have you noticed that, without any real intent on your part and almost in the midst of any performance, a shady little thought may creep in from the wings and endeavor to attract your attention? . . . If you permit them to go on, all other thoughts, of any virtue, will leave the stage. You will be left, because you consented to it, to the influence of unworthy thoughts” (That All May Be Edified, [1982], 38).
“What do you do at a time like this, when the stage of your mind is commandeered by these imps of unclean thinking? . . . Let me suggest that you choose from among the sacred music of the Church one favorite hymn. I have reason for suggesting that it be a Latter-day Saint hymn, one with lyrics that are uplifting and the music reverent. Select one that, when it is properly rendered, makes you feel something akin to inspiration.
“Now, go over it in your mind very thoughtfully a few times. Memorize the words and the music. . . . Anytime you find that these shady actors have slipped in from the sideline of your thinking onto the stage of your mind, think through this hymn. . . . It will change the whole mood on the stage of your mind. Because it is clean and uplifting and reverent, the baser thoughts will leave” (That All May Be Edified, 38–39).
Ler us fill our minds with the pure and good things of the world and then we can let the Lord change us into who we need to be!
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