Taking A Time Out

HIGHER

Time Out for Women in Spokane, WA 2013.

I didn't try to capture every thought from every talk that I loved, but I did write down some of my favorite ideas.

President Monson has DAILY journals beginning in 1963 about what he has done for others, and what others have done for him. He has captured the vision of the REASON we are here and recorded it.

These girls are all incredible and SO MUCH FUN!!

Staying up until 3 am has never been so easy:) 

Start modeling Impossible Beauty. Show your girls that you believe you are beautiful. Your children will not only believe you, but believe that they are beautiful, despite what the world teaches us about impossible standards of beauty. Start young. You ARE beautiful.

I have wanted to go to the Portland Temple since we moved to Oregon. Have I mentioned Ben works every. single. day? (twenty times? what?) Well, I jumped at the chance to go heading out to Pullman. I love seeing it right off the freeway.

FAN THE FLAME of your belief. 

Chelsea didn't make it to Time out for women, but I was so happy I got to hang out with her and Marilou before we went. 

God sees the bigger picture of what we can become and the kind of person we should become. Trust Him.

 I do better listening if I can mindlessly occupy my hands.

I drew this, because I'm clearly an artist, for my kids. 

We can't go two ways at the same time. 

Try making a six in the air with your hand. Now make a clockwise circle with your foot. Do them at the same time. 

If you're looking down you can't look up.

The lowest points in our life may prove to be the times we are closest to God.

Doing what you can is better than doing nothing. Even if it is not very good, it's better than nothing.

“Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growing, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.” 

The MUNDANE can be MIRACULOUS. Neal A. Maxwell has so many good things to say about that in All These Things Shall Give You Experience. 

DO MY DAILY ROUTINES REFLECT WHAT I CLAIM TO VALUE?

If the answer if yes...life will have greater peace and clarity.