November is here! Time to Celebrate! I love this month. First, we
commemorate Armistice day and our Veterans, then we celebrate again
on Thanksgiving Day.
Personally my
body is grateful that it only has to undergo "Thanksgiving Day" once a year. My
spirit and soul on the other hand rejoices and thrives when I recognize and give
thanks many times every day of the year.
Recently I
saw a video called Clicking Can Change
Your Life" by Hilary Weeks
I love this
video!!! It is soooo true. We could also give it the title "Gratitude can Change
Your Life." A short synopsis of the video is that Sis Weeks decided that she
could get rid of her negative thoughts and negativity in her life when she
realized what they were. So she bought a mechanical counter clicker. She clicked
many times a day. One day she had already clicked 8 times while driving the kids
to school. She clicked while out on date night as she remembered and recited to
her husband the problems that she had been dealing with throughout the week.
After a week of this she realized that she was feeling depressed and down.
This was the
opposite of what she had planned. By giving attention to the negative, she
realized that she had not got rid of it, instead she had given power to it.
So she switched
and gave power to positive thoughts. It was so much more fun to chase away or
block negative thoughts by filling her mind with positive. One day she looked at
her counter and saw 1,262 clicks. She wondered if a family member had been
playing with it, but no-one had. Her outlook and spirit changed. She felt like
she could accomplish ANYTHING. She set goals that she would never have thought
of setting. That week while on the treadmill she ran further and longer than she
had in 20 years by filling her mind, spirit and soul with everything that was
positive.
She ends
with Philippians 4:8 where Paul tells us "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there
be any virtue, and if there be any praise,
think on these things.
I understand
Paul's message better and I am so glad Sis Weeks shared this story. I know some
people who are giving their family members clickers for
Christmas.
I often think
about Joseph B. Wirthlin's final talk in conference "Come What May and Love it."
What a wonderful man and what a wonderful message to leave us with. Even the
title alone has great counsel. I will end with a quote from his talk
"How can we
love days that are filled with sorrow? We can’t—at least not in the moment. I
don’t think my mother was suggesting that we suppress discouragement or deny the
reality of pain. I don’t think she was suggesting that we smother unpleasant
truths beneath a cloak of pretended happiness. But I do believe that the way we
react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be
in life.
If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness."
I am so grateful for all you sisters who love and uplift one another, and for the veterans who have rescued and preserved freedoms world wide and wish you all a very wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving Day.
Love,
Sister Best - 2nd Counselor in Centralia Stake RS
If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness."
I am so grateful for all you sisters who love and uplift one another, and for the veterans who have rescued and preserved freedoms world wide and wish you all a very wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving Day.
Love,
Sister Best - 2nd Counselor in Centralia Stake RS
