Uplifting talk....makes you stop and think...count your blessing!

So, today has been a really great day for me. Yesterday, in sacrement meeting I young mom gave a talk regaurding charity. She did a great job and it really made me stop and think. I feel like lately, like the best couple of years I have just been focusing on me, me, me, me.... I have been so totally consumed with feeling fulfilled and wanting to use the education that I worked so hard to get. I understand and I am thankful beyond measure that my Heavenly Father gave me the talent to teach and to reach the youth. I am so grateful that he helped me to find my nitch and to help me make a career out of it. There is not a doubt in my mind that he helped me get that degree, he helped me so that my life path allowed me to do that. It must have been something he really wanted me to accomplish and that would be essential to my life. However, I know that he did not want that to me the do all, end all to my exsitence. He blessed me with this beautiful child, and for this moment in time that is where my focus needs to be. That talk yesterday, helped me to relize this. To realize that charity and service comes in so many forms. It is not just bringing dinner to a friend, or helping a new family move into the ward. It is being a selflish mom to your children, it is calling your mom and letting her vent to you, and it is being understand of your husband and his challlenges and busy schedule. It is being supportive of his schooling and not making him feel gulity! I really need to work on being charityable to my little family. I realize that I have been beyond selfish while in lawschool. Focusing on when I get to teach, on getting a job that I like, on what I won't to do. It needs to stop I really need to make this a goal and work my hardest on it.