Be Prayerful!!!

Let me ask you this, Have you ever felt that no one is around that really wants to listen?? Or maybe, You feel that the pain of things is about to break you... I have learned that we just have to surrender, and fall to our knees. My sister recently sent me an amazing plaque that says, "When Life Knocks you to your Knees, You're in the perfect position to Pray." This is true. I have been knocked to my knees many times, and the only way that I have been able to find the strength to get up is to pray for help... "Prayer is the Passport to Peace." Life is hard, and when we turn our hearts and mind to our Father in Heaven, He will give us the strength to overcome that trial that lies before us. I had been praying for some help in different areas, and I felt that God hadn't been hearing my prayers, then one day I was searching for something to blog on and I found this....

This was sent as an answer to that prayer.. I know that if our Heavenly Father could speak to us face to face during our trials, he would most definitely tell us something like this! :) He is always trying to make us into something better then what we are, and that is what I learned that day. What a blessing it was for me that day, and I hope that someone out there will find the same answer and peace this brought to me. I love prayer, and I know that, "When life gets to hard to stand, (We must) Kneel!" :)

Be Devout!!!

1. Come, thou Fount of every blessing, 
 tune my heart to sing thy grace; 
 streams of mercy, never ceasing, 
 call for songs of loudest praise. 
 Teach me some melodious sonnet, 
 sung by flaming tongues above. 
 Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it, 
 mount of thy redeeming love. 

2. Here I raise mine Ebenezer; 
 hither by thy help I'm come; 
 and I hope, by thy good pleasure, 
 safely to arrive at home. 
 Jesus sought me when a stranger, 
 wandering from the fold of God; 
 he, to rescue me from danger, 
 interposed his precious blood. 

3. O to grace how great a debtor 
 daily I'm constrained to be! 
 Let thy goodness, like a fetter, 
 bind my wandering heart to thee. 
 Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, 
 prone to leave the God I love; 
 here's my heart, O take and seal it, 
 seal it for thy courts above. 

My companion, Elder Horner, and I decided to sing

this musical piece today for a meeting that we

had with all the other missionaries. I was really 

paying attention to all of the lyrics and there was 

one line that really stood out to me.... Which one 

Speaks to you??? 

Well the one that hit home for me

is the line that reads, "Take my heart, O take and

seal it, seal it for thy courts above." I love these 

words! What greater gift can we give God then to give 

him our will, and heart. I know that if we can really 

apply this song to our lives we will one day live 

with him again. What an amazing day that will be. 

We all may have those days' that we feel that line,  

"Prone to wonder, Lord, I feel it, prone

to leave the God I love..." I know that I have felt this. 

And if you really focus on giving your whole heart to him

and ALWAYS remember him, you can overcome those

feelings. You are human, and so am I. I have found in my 

life that I can overcome all things in Christ! :) 

I am truly blessed to have this testimony!! 

Where will you go??

 As you take the untrodden road, you find you're simply not walking this trail alone, but that there are angels round about you. 

I have thought long and hard about this poem now for a few days. As I have reflected personally on my own life. I have seen where I have taken that road less traveled, and I have also seen times when I have taken the easy road and have just been mediocre.

Let's go over to the road less traveled for a minute. What does this road have to offer us besides- leaf covered potholes, muddy shoes, annoying bugs, and even at times a loss of direction. Why would one ever decide to take that road?? Well to start off I want to share these quotes- 

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

-Robert F. Kennedy

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

-Abraham Lincoln

Its those hard things that we really do need most in our lives. If we always had it easy how much growth could we really obtain?? That's the real question.. Where will the road "usually taken" take us?.... Well in reality it will just take us in a circle, and until we get sick of seeing the same results, we'll be trapped, and for some that's fine, but for others, they want to grow and become something more than just the usual/normal. If we want something memorable, unique, awesome, or even successful, then we must take that road less traveled, but remember- It's your choice where you end up in life.

   

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

To wrap this up I just want to say that this really applies to so many things, but one area that I personally want to relate it to is the Gospel. I have seen so many times in my life where I, myself, or others have taken that easy road and have fallen into the conforming ways of the world. On this road values such as modesty, good language, kindness, and obedience (etc.) tend to fall by the wayside. The goal of becoming more like our perfect example, Jesus Christ, becomes forgotten....  I can promise you this though- As you take the untrodden road to righteousness, you find you're simply not walking this trail alone, but that there are angels sent from our Heavenly Father round about you. I know that this is true, because I have felt them there in my life. :)

Let me say this, it's never easy to go the opposite way of the world (in any situation), but at some moments we have to do so...  I have been in that intersection many times, and for you that are there.. I pray for you. I hope that you will make the best choice possible and you will have the courage to do so!!  :) And that you will never lose your faith, whether you are smoothly staking your course, or in the woods lost and confused with bug-bites... know that God is always there to lead you where he wants you to be. :)