Just wanted to share the link to my Mormon.org profile! :)
http://mormon.org/me/4NMD/
More to come later! :)
Sister Amanda Baum
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel
So these past few weeks I've been doing a lot of thinking (dangerous, I know...), and instead of answering questions that I have had...it's brought about more questions. It's strange how we don't realize we're in a funk until something comes to beat us over the head with a foghorn! Not sure why it takes that for me to wake up and get back to where I know I need to be. I am so thankful for everyone around me who are such examples to me...who seem to be so much stronger than I am. It's frustrating to see that there is still such a glaring chasm between where I am and where I want to be...Most of the time I have no idea how I'm going to cross it. Other times it seems so simple...but if it is so simple, why can't I just DO IT? GAH! Ok...enough of the pity party :P.
Yesterday there were some wonderful talks in church that really spoke to me...I'm glad I remembered to bring my little notebook to take notes. One of the talks was about the hymn 'Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel'...and this is a hymn that I had mixed feelings about before. But the speaker said something that kind of hit me like a ton of bricks...something I had never thought about before.
Yesterday there were some wonderful talks in church that really spoke to me...I'm glad I remembered to bring my little notebook to take notes. One of the talks was about the hymn 'Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel'...and this is a hymn that I had mixed feelings about before. But the speaker said something that kind of hit me like a ton of bricks...something I had never thought about before.
The Lord does not need us to move the wheel or to build anything for Him. Heavenly Father cares more for the shoulder than the wheel. The whole point of the wheel is to help fashion the shoulder into what it was meant to be.
How humbling is it to know that the wheel is only really meant to help us reach our Divine potential? It truly amazes me that Heavenly Father loves us so much that he gives us these little road markers along the way to help us get to where we need to go.
Hopefully I'll be able to post again soon with some more inspirational stuff :) Until then, remember that we are all here to learn to be the best version of ourselves that we can be, not to learn how to be someone else.
Sister Amanda Baum
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