Seeking A Better Me

I was in church Sunday wondering what more I could do to better my family life, my personal life, and my spiritual life. Now, I'm trying to do everything I know that is right. I go to all church meetings, pay my tithing, fast offering, I read and pray with my beautiful lovely wife every day, and have personal prayers morning and night. Sitting there in church as the Sacrament went around I prayed to my Heavenly Father asking for guidance "What can I do to be a better Husband and Father". As I prayed and asked these things, I received my answer right then. Now it is very very rare that I will get an answer to things I pray for at the moment I pray for them. I'm not like my wife who gets everything she prays for but the guidance I received was that I have a daily personal scripture study. I had been counting my scripture reading with my wife every morning but that's just not good enough. I haven't been getting much out of it as it is early in the morning and it's not really a study.

I know some people say and have even said to me "well, when is it ever good enough! Haven't I sacrificed enough!?" The scriptures encourage us to be humble and become as a little child... willing to submit to ALL things. As I thought about this I realized that all things mean a lot more than I had understood before. I understood it as really just the first part of it as being humble and being good. That statement never had anything for me to do other than that. I have made a new resolve in my life to read my scriptures personally every day and get closer to my Heavenly Father. By changing my own life, I have noticed that the more I do, the more I study, and the more I put God FIRST I have had everything that I ever wanted work out for me. The Lord tells us to do ALL we can; then, the windows of Heaven will be opened and blessings will flow.

I haven't created this blog to shout out to everyone who reads to think what a great guy I am or what great changes I have made. I created this blog to first get my thoughts down. The second reason is to possibly help or inspire someone creating the understanding that there is hope. That someone may realize the reality of how much Heavenly Father loves them. That EVERYTHING in ones life will change dramatically if they make those seemingly hard sacrifices. No one is perfect but that's why we have the Savior. I'm currently studying the Atonement and our Savior per request of Elder Nelson in a stake conference. I have put this request off for years(for no reason other than being lazy) but the promise he made still holds true. As this knowledge is lighting up the darkness in my life I can see a small part, a wonderful small part of what the future holds, as Tomorrow Always Comes.