I’ve borrowed this thought from LDS Family Gems. I guess
I related to it and hope that you do too.
"How do we,
amidst the challenges of our lives, gain the vision necessary to do those things
that will bring us closer to the Savior? Speaking of vision, the book of
Proverbs teaches this truth: 'Where there is no vision, the people perish'
(Proverbs 29:18). If we are to prosper rather than perish, we must gain a vision
of ourselves as the Savior sees us."
—Elder O.
Vincent Haleck, "Having
the Vision to Do", 2012
As I’ve
read Daughters of My Kingdom and listened to Sister Beck the past few
months, I’ve marveled at the amazing vision sisters of the early church
maintained even with confronted with constant adversity and trials. Growing
wheat and silk and funding women to go to medical school…that just astounds me.
We do good works like making quilts and hygiene kits but really, medical school
and silk worms?!
It’s
often hard to see ourselves as the Lord does, when bombarded with negative
images and role models around us in the world, but I think we can do it, don’t
you? I love our Relief Society statement as it starts, “We are BELOVED spirit
daughters of God and our lives have meaning, purpose, and
direction….”
WE can
start in our homes and families, striving to make our homes heavenly and
patterned after the temple. Making the temple our goal and working to get every
family member to the temple is a vision that will bring us closer to the
Savior.
Let us
never fail, or perish but capture the vision the Savior has of us and carry
on!
Love,
Chris
Jackson
