Highlight Reels

"The reason we struggle with insecurities is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel." 

- Steve Furtick

A Child's Self-Esteem

"Parents need to fill their child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the world can't poke enough holes to drain it dry." 

~Alvin Price 

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Born to Stand Out

Why fit in when you were born to stand out!

~Dr Seuss

I think this quote is a great reminder a reminder that who we are is enough, and to be proud of ourselves, our quirks and the things that make us unique should be CELEBRATED:)

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Our Childrens Inner Voice

"The way we speak to our children becomes their inner voice" 

~Peggy O'Mara

Beautiful Like Me

"I'm not beautiful like you, I'm beautiful like me"

Self-degradation

"Self-degradation is not a form of modesty; it will only serve to weaken your spirit. Stop it."

I Am...

I am strong {because I know my weaknesses} 

I am beautiful {because I am aware of my flaws} 

I am fearless {because I’ve learnt to recognize illusion from reality} 

I am wise {because I learn from my mistakes} 

I am a lover {because I have felt hate} and... 

I can laugh {because I have known sadness}

Your Past

‎"Don’t let your past dictate who you are, but let it be a part of who you will become."

They Will Never, Ever, Be You

"Someone will always be prettier, someone will always be smarter, someone will always be younger, someone will always be richer, but they will never, ever be you."

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Simplifying

“We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.” 

~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

You are a Soul

"You don't have a soul.

You are a Soul.

You have a body."

C. S. Lewis

Simplify

“We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.” 

 ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Strong Identity

 

"Create meaningful family bonds that give your children an identity stronger than what they can find with their peer group or at school or anyplace else. This can be done through family traditions for birthdays, for holidays, for dinnertime, and for Sundays."
('What Matters Most Is What Lasts Longest', M. Russell Ballard)

God Made The Sunrise For A Reason

‎"Be gentle and patient with yourself. God made the sunrise for a reason; it is a new day, a new beginning."

Who Am I to Judge Another?

This is from last nights General Relief Society Meeting:


"My dear sisters, each of you is unique. You are different from each other in many ways. There are those of you who are married. Some of you stay at home with your children, while others of you work outside your homes. Some of you are empty-nesters. There are those of you who are married but do not have children. There are those who are divorced, those who are widowed. Many of you are single women. Some of you have college degrees; some of you do not. There are those who can afford the latest fashions and those who are lucky to have one appropriate Sunday outfit. Such differences are almost endless. Do these differences tempt us to judge one another?

Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who worked among the poor in India most of her life, spoke this profound truth: “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” The Savior has admonished, “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.” I ask:Can we love one another, as the Savior has commanded, if we judge each other? And I answer—with Mother Teresa—“No; we cannot.”

—President Thomas S. Monson

Feeling Worthy

‎"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him." 

Abraham Lincoln

Our Deepest Fear

Here is the full quote from yesterdays post:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Nelson Mandela

Who Are You Not To Be?

"We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be, You are a child of God, you playing small does not serve the world." 

Nelson Mandela

NieNie - My New Life

Many of you have probably heard of LDS church member Stephenie Nielson, or follow her blog (The NieNie Dialogues), here is a video of her inspirational story, please view:

Satan's Scheme

Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels, he said, "We can't keep the Christians from going to church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience in Christ. Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.

So let them go to their churches; let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain that relationship with Jesus Christ.

This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?" shouted his angels.

"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered. Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow.

Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon, their home will offer no escape from the pressures of work!"

Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive. To keep the TV, VCR, CD's and their PC's going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."

"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards.

Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and false hopes.

Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines so the husbands will believe that external beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. That will fragment those families quickly!"

"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted and unprepared for the coming week.

Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead. Keep them busy, busy, busy!

And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotions." Go ahead, let them be involved in soul winning; but crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus.

Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause. It will work! It will work!"

It was quite a convention. The evil angels went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get more busy and more rushed, going here and there.

I guess the question is: Has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge! Does "busy" mean:

B-eing

U-nder

S-atan's

Y-oke?