What do your SPIRITUAL EYEGLASSES allow you to see?

There's a tool for some silly faces on a photo editing app that I used😄 Sister Connie L. Blakemore gave a talk back in 1998 "Our Spiritual Eyeglasses: What You See Is What You Get" where she put on several pair of glasses demonstrating how with each one she had a different perception of things... "The concept of the belief window = The beliefs that we have are the lenses of reality for each of us & are through which you see the world. What you believe determines your focus and in turn your actions. You are seeing things as you believe they are—not so much as things really are. Our challenge is to “finally see as God sees,”....
"...The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7
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I have a body

I have a body & though it is not in the  health that I would like it to be I loved the hope & inspiration to NOT GIVE UP that I received from listening to this today...

"The human body is a magnificent gift and a significant responsibility. It is our Master’s finest creation. Our bodies are sacred temples, worthy of special care and respect. Sacrifice is required to keep our temples in good condition. Do not give up. A fit body is a righteous desire. If we will turn to the Lord and call upon Him, He will help us, but He will not circumvent our agency. With the right attitude and the Lord at our side, we can learn to live a healthy lifestyle, which will enable us to more fully participate in life and enjoy its blessings."

The Human Body: A Gift and a Responsibility - Larry Tucker May 2013

BYU Speeches

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Memorial Day Weekend

Love you Grandpa Rey🌷

"God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be—

This is how He shares His love, for the fam’ly is of God."

The Family Is of God - Words and music by Matthew Neeley

D&C 89:16 "Good for the use of man"...

Even though I'm not a huge fan of beets, I know how good they are for us & I've become a bit obsessed with their beautiful color, especially when they're juiced! I love President Ezra Taft Benson's talk -Do Not Despair 1974
"The condition of the physical body can affect the spirit. That’s why the Lord gave us the Word of Wisdom...the more food we eat in its natural state and the less it is refined without additives, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies in certain elements in the body can promote mental depression."

Being diagnosed with clinical depression 15 years ago, I can certainly attest to the affects & power that food can have over me. I'm learning more & more about this concept of eating foods in a more natural state. I continue to battle addictive behaviors especially with food so I am truly grateful we can turn to the scriptures & heed the counsel of prophets for the help & support we so desperately need & desire.

Raise our voices to him forever...

"I believe Nephi's experience provides a model, a pattern we can apply when we are discouraged or feel affliction or grief.  

If the enemy has us encompassed and we want to rejoice but cannot, we can

...

1. express delight in the things of the Lord and continually ponder our blessings,

2. recount how he has helped us in the past,

3. ask ourselves if we really want to linger in sorrow or despair,

4. direct and command our will and thoughts toward the Lord,

5. ask the Lord to clear the way before us, protect us, and deliver us from our enemies,

6. commit to him that we will trust him and raise our voices to him forever."

My Soul Delighteth in the Things of the Lord -  Stephen Jones April 2004 BYU Speeches

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THE WORDS WE SPEAK...

I love this pencil drawing "A Time to Laugh" by Jean Keaton. I just placed it on a HAPPY YELLOW background:) Listening to a talk by Sister Rosemary Wixom this morning put several things into perspective for me as a parent. Take a moment to listen...
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/04/the-words-we-speak?lang=eng

"One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child. Everyone within the sound of my voice has the power to increase a child’s confidence in himself or herself and to increase a child’s faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ through the words they speak."
Rosemary M. Wixom "The Words We Speak"
Artwork www.jeankeatonart.com

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I do not take the scriptures lightly, but it is my belief that our Father in Heaven has a great sense of humor! He would have us be meek, submissive, full of love as well as FULL OF LIFE... like a child:) Mosiah 3:19... "putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."
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