What do you want? Really, what do you want for you in your life? Have you really sat down to think about it? Not the stuff others think is best for you, but your desires.
Our desires can be very strong movers in our lives. They point us in the direction of what we do and what motivates us to move.
Lately, I have been thinking about what I want for my future family, the kind of example I will be for them, future responsibilities in the church and how my choices now will affect me later.
With some shame in me, I admit I have never really thought about those things. But now I look at my life and wonder how a decision will affect me later on. Who do I want to become? Who do I want my children to look up to? Am I being the person now that they will need me to be when I am their mother?
Often, we do not think about how who we are now will affect what kind of blessings we can have later on. It is amazing to think that everything is intertwined, and one decision will affect moany others.
Personally, I want to be the mother children feel they can talk to; that I never make them feel less than they are because of a small mistake. Together with my husband, I want my children to feel the love of Christ through me and be able to see His light because of who I am. I want us to teach our children the importance of obedience with exactness and to say, even as Nephi, "I must obey. Amen."
While on this earth, these children will be in our charge and it will be our responsibility to raise them with a knowledge that God exists and to be able to feel His endless love. What an amazing thought!
This, I believe, is why it is so important to find someone who will be your helpmeet, your equal. If we begin our marriage equally yoked, the burdens will be lighter and we will be much more successful in completing the commandments of God with exactness.
One righteous desire leads to make more.
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