HONESTY IS IMPORTANT GUYS. It really really is. I have been realizing lately just how much I have to work on in so many ways... rather overwhelming. But integrity is just really important, not just honesty in your words but in your actions. I keep messing up, and I just want to reiterate that you can mess up and fix it. You can change and make a better choice next time, you don't have to be stuck. Thank, goodness.
Lying creates so much hurt, it creates distrust, and even if the immediate effects seem to be gone, those feelings can linger in the background for a very very long time, which is an unfortunate consequence of something most of us do.
Being an example is something I've done better at I think now that I'm here in OR. Oh yeah, my family moved. Long story :) But I really think I have - I don't know if it's the bigger support system or the new place and new people and new resolves kind of feelings I have, but I have been more aware of being LDS and more proud or confident in saying that I am. I still have to work on it of course, but I don't really have the situations anymore where I don't want to talk about my religion for fear of being judged. I think it's a comfort to know that if someone decides not to like me because I'm a Mormon, I have friends that will accept me for who I am. I've lost a lot of my fear of judgement for that reason and that's a step. But true integrity involves a little more, which is something I'm working on. If I'm going to have integrity completely in that regard, I need to stand for what I believe in not because I know that my friends will accept me, but because I know that God accepts me. I want to know that I'm doing what I'm doing because I know it's right always, and that even if everyone turned against me and my standards I would hold them high. I want to be like Captain Moroni and say that if every man were and ever was like unto him, the very powers of hell would be shaken. That, is powerful. And no, I'm not close to being there, but I have a desire, and I have taken small steps.
I love my savior and I hope that I can do a whole lot better than I have been, I'm definitely trying. I know that having integrity and being the kind of person God knows we can be is one of the highest and hardest but most important goals of this life. I'll always have something I could do better, but I can get there, we can all get there!
Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
Hang in there guys. <3
Lying creates so much hurt, it creates distrust, and even if the immediate effects seem to be gone, those feelings can linger in the background for a very very long time, which is an unfortunate consequence of something most of us do.
Being an example is something I've done better at I think now that I'm here in OR. Oh yeah, my family moved. Long story :) But I really think I have - I don't know if it's the bigger support system or the new place and new people and new resolves kind of feelings I have, but I have been more aware of being LDS and more proud or confident in saying that I am. I still have to work on it of course, but I don't really have the situations anymore where I don't want to talk about my religion for fear of being judged. I think it's a comfort to know that if someone decides not to like me because I'm a Mormon, I have friends that will accept me for who I am. I've lost a lot of my fear of judgement for that reason and that's a step. But true integrity involves a little more, which is something I'm working on. If I'm going to have integrity completely in that regard, I need to stand for what I believe in not because I know that my friends will accept me, but because I know that God accepts me. I want to know that I'm doing what I'm doing because I know it's right always, and that even if everyone turned against me and my standards I would hold them high. I want to be like Captain Moroni and say that if every man were and ever was like unto him, the very powers of hell would be shaken. That, is powerful. And no, I'm not close to being there, but I have a desire, and I have taken small steps.
I love my savior and I hope that I can do a whole lot better than I have been, I'm definitely trying. I know that having integrity and being the kind of person God knows we can be is one of the highest and hardest but most important goals of this life. I'll always have something I could do better, but I can get there, we can all get there!
Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
Hang in there guys. <3
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