Turn it around....

This morning , has not started out so great! I am a person of routine and structure that has been thrown off track this morning. This is not out of the ordinary atleast once a week the kids wake up earlier then planned and my morning routine goes out the window. I need to learn to deal with it and not let if affect my attiude. Besides that my husband is mad at me and we are both not treating eachother like we should. I feel defeated today, then when I get like this I let the devil creep in more then he should. I hear his voice of personel doubt,worthlessness, I start to doubt the Lords plan for me and feel discouraged about the thinkgs that have yet to take place in my life. I am to quick to anger, have no patients and yell at my kids way to much. I need my Heavenly Fathers help to day to get over the funk, prayer has never failed me I will look to it again today. However, on a lighter note yesterday was a good day, Amanda and I took the kids to the Manti Pool. They loved it, we loved it, and enjoyed a day in the sun. It was lots of fun a must do again!

Today in my spirtual study I read a conference talk given by Julie Beck entitled An Outpouring of Blessings. The part I will like to share today, remember is when she is talking about how she has been so blessed materially in her life. And in her travels as she sees the poor conditions others are living in she wonders why she can have so much and others can have nothing. Why the Lord allows life to be like that. She says, " Then one day I sat in a temple next to a sister who lives in a humble house. I spent two hours at her side. I looked often into her beautiful eyes and saw the love of the Lord in them. As we finished our work in the temple, I had a powerful realization. In all of the eternal blessings, in all of our most important privileges and opportunities, we were equals. I had been baptized unto repentance, and so had she. I had spirtual gifts, ans so did she. I had the opportunity to repent, and so did she. I had received the Holy Ghost and so had she. I had received temple ordinances, and so had she. If both of us had left this world together at that moment, we would have arrived equal before the Lord in our blessings and opportunities." Isn't that such a beautiful thing about this gospel? That no matter what our station in this life it does not effect our station in the next. The Lord has given us all the same opportunites and loves us all equally.

I AM GRATEFUL FOR... Even on a day like today with a rough start I still have so much to be thankful for. I am thankful for cartoons that got me throught this morning and made it a little easier. I am grateful for a beautiful, warm summer day that we can go outside and get all his energy out. I am thankful for the spirit of the Lord and that it can, if we allow it to soften our hearts and turn a bad morning into a good day.

PICTURE OF THE DAY:

I picked this picture of Kevin and Porter because they are the two people I have wronged the most this morning and its a reminder that I need to turn it around.