The Women in Our Lives

Ah sisters, this poor blog has been so neglected. And if you have been faithful in checking in for the past three months, only to find the same message available, I apologise! At least it was a good one! Thank you Michelle.

The theme for August to help us find safety in personal righteousness, is concerning the Temple. Inviting the spirit into our homes so that they have a reverence about them akin to the Temple. Preparing ourselves so that we can be worthy to enter one of the holiest places on earth. Even simply displaying a picture of the Temple will increase both the spirit of the Temple in our homes and the desire to attend the Temple in our heart. We can explore these ideas a little bit further this month, and if you have any ideas that have worked for you, please share them in the comments below.

Meanwhile, I just wanted to share the latest Mormon Message from You Tube by President Hinckley which really touched me when I heard it today. It is taken from a talk he gave a few years ago about the women in our lives. It touched me then and it touches me now. I love the confidence our leaders have in us. I know it is a genuine belief in our abilities, our talents and our divine nature, and not a sneaky way to motivate us into being better (although I always do feel that way after I have heard something like this! Clever!).

I know that we are loved, that we are believed in, that we can do anything we put our minds and our hearts to (including making the Temple more of a priority in our very busy lives). And I know that President Hinckely truly was a Prophet of God.

(warning: watching this really made me miss him. I feel so blessed to have had the influence in my life of one who truly was close to our Heavenly Father).