Monday, February 8, 2010

Decisions, decisions, decisions

I am twenty years old and finishing up my general education requirements at DSC this semester. I'll be graduating with my Associates of Science in May. Up until this point, I've known where I'm going to be and what school I'm going to go to and so forth. It's been easy for me to make decisions based on this. Right now, is a different story though. I've been stressing out about what I'm going to do after I graduate in May! There are so many options out there to choose from right now and it's been really hard for me to know what the RIGHT one is for me at this time in my life. I think the hardest part about knowing what to do is the fact that it's a choice between two or three really good things; it would be different, say, if it were a choice to make between a good thing and a bad thing. I've been praying about it to receive some guidance from the Lord to help me know what it is that's the BEST thing for me. The hardest thing though, is that I don't know if I'm receiving my answer or not.
In Relief Society yesterday we had a lesson based on Elder Richard G. Scott's talk 'To Acquire Spiritual Guidance' & isn't this exactly the help I need? Yes, I think so. Last week at the fireside at the institute we had a wonderful speaker who also talked about spiritual guidance. Heavenly Father works in mysterious ways and it's to strengthen us as individuals. He's not going to give me my answer so easily, he wants me to learn how to distinguish the spirit for myself and then to follow the promptings. These are a few of the many things that stuck out to me during the lesson: "I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that would immediately allow you to master the ability to be guided by the voice of the Spirit. Our Father expects you to learn how to obtain that divine help by exercising faith in Him and His Holy Son, Jesus Christ. Were you to receive inspired guidance just for the asking you would become weak and ever more dependent on Them. They know that essential personal growth will come as you struggle to learn how to be led by the Spirit."
These are steps that were mentioned that can better help us receive personal revelation:
1. Impression
2. Write impressions down
3. Ponder
4. Make Changes
5. Study it out
6. Pray!
7. Thank Heavenly Father
8. Ask if there is more..

So, as of right now I'm going to be improving my ability to be led by the Spirit in all aspects of my life. I have definitely found, especially in these past few months, that it is not an easy thing. Thanks to the wonderful resources that we have (wonderful leaders of the Church, Church magazines, firesides, etc.) we are able to learn how to acquire these skills to help us become better people!

2 comments:

Katelyn said...

so happy your blogging! i look so forward to lots and lots of posts about you and your life! you are beautiful! ♥ ya!

Jamie said...

I'm excited about it too and I love your blog. It's way cute :]

I love you!