1. Everyone has a secret life.
I know that this may seem like DUH but no, I just realized that many times people just are not who we initially think that they are. Everyone has this awesome mask. The difference between individuals is how well we can wear one. The most important aspect of this new fact I just discovered is: Never be jealous of anyone ever, or covet there life. Even the best person on this earth has skeletons in his/her closet. I have learned that as a friend, roommate, girlfriend, coworker, peer, or just fellow human being I need to be more christ like. I 'm trying to step it up a notch. I've learned a great deal about quite a few new people in my life. The information is an overload in my system and right now what I need to do is process it. Figure out how to apply what I have learned into make these people and myself better. What I do know from this experience without a shadow of a doubt is that the atonement is real. It's there and it's power is absolute and nothing short of a miracle. It is incredible and it's all based on a simple principle that we have all been taught from the very beginning of our lives. LOVE.
2. My Heavenly Father answers my prayers.
Once again something so simple yet has been such a powerful source of strength for me this week. I have prayed and fasted over the past few weeks. Heavenly Father he loves each of us, and I am so happy to feel this in my heart. I can't imagine my life without the spirit. Without knowing that I am God's child. That he knows me by name. I think it is amazing how the smallest everyday occurance can answer a prayer. How one word, one phone call, one gesture, one scripture, one person can change an entire life. Can shift an eternity from negative to positive. My eternity has been shifted :)
3. Forgiveness, Forgetting, Frustrations, Future. . .
I've come to understand that forgiving oneself is harder than it appears on black and white. I have come to understand forgiving others is so difficult for me that sometimes I feel that I can not do it. Without forgiveness however, I can not forget. I want to forget and yet I can not. It haunts me. I am more frustrated with my past than I ever in my whole life have felt .EVER. I can only say that I am trying to face the future one day at a time. Trying to let things go. Trying to be forgiving. Trying to use the power of the atonement that my brother so boldly gave me. Trying not to destroy the most amazing thing in my life.
4. Communication
Sometimes I need to stop being an idiot and just be like : Look! I am upset comfort me! Because when we play this silly mind/emotion game with one another both people get hurt. Both people have a lot of pressure on them. Both people end up confused. It's easier to just communicate. This way things work. This way things can progress.
4. Music
Music is a powerful way of communication. For me it too has always been an exceptional way for the spirit to be impressed upon me. However, this can also work in opposite effect. Since music affects my soul so immensely harmful, inappropriate music can take the spirit away from me efficiently. New Years Resolution #6 : Do not listen to inappropriate, degrading, disgusting, or down right awful music (IE Cut down the amount of rap especially Eminem in my life.) this proves to be a testing factor every day as I love that music. Not so much for the lyrics but for the beat. For the way it releases my anger. I am choosing to be edified though. I am choosing the spirit.
5. I love him
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