This weekend at my church we had Stake Conference (which is basically multiple church buildings from different specific areas coming to worship together.) I learned a lot of things, but I think I learned the most from our Stake President, President Holland.
God appreciates everything we do for Him, every sacrifice or offering that we make to Him, it will be important no matter how small the effort may be. When we make decisions and choices we need to do them with the Lord's help. We need to counsel with Him through prayer, pondering and studying of the scriptures. This will help us not only include Him in our decision making so that we know we're doing the things that He would have us do, but it will also strengthen our relationship with Him and make it so we have of better understanding of the direction our life should go in that will bring us the maximum happiness.
Something President Holland mentioned was that we also need to make our efforts in everything we do, with ourselves, with the Lord and with others (when appropriate) transparent. These are some of the ways that we can be transparent: being honest (not brutally honest though), truthful, admitting our faults and short comings - not hiding them and also owning up to them and correcting them and trying to improve. After looking the definition of the word up it talked a lot about being able to have light pass through, being recognized, being open or see through. And I think how we can do this is by being our true selves. Following our passions as well as doing those things so that we can have the light that Christ brings into our lives shining through us. By doing this it will also help us to become more gracious, kind and generous in our lives.
I know those things definitely are not easy. And they're not meant to be. Another thing President Holland said was that we can be blessed by doing hard things and one of those blessings we can receive is growing our character and who we are. If we all tried to improve being transparent in our lives even in one way it will improve our life. I know that in order to best be able to improve is by turning to Lord and ask Him for help, but by doing so we need to be ready and willing to do whatever He asks of us. God knows us better than we know ourselves, so turning to Him, trusting in Him and following the promptings that he gives unto us will be the best way to help us to become more transparent in our lives and strive to become the best version of ourselves.
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