To Conclude My Retreat

To end a great weekend, I sat in church this morning and the speakers solidified what I had just been through the last two days. It put things into perspective for me and made me re-adjust my patterns and priorities and my time that I use with my spiritual life and my family.

We are easily distracted in our world and I need to think about what is most important in my life and strive to make better choices in regards to what I feel is most important.

Are we in patterns that will lay up treasures in heaven?

Our time is a responsibility and there is a time for EVERYTHING. I enjoyed the fact that Pres. Perkins who is a member of my church said that he uses lists! I love it! He even has a list about his wife and her favorite See's Candies chocolates. Brilliant idea by the way. He came up with an analogy for the word "RECAPS" which is, Read, Exercise, Chores, Appreciation, Prayer and Service. I thought this was brilliant and I want to incorporate into my Mind Organization that I have already started.

He then went into Priorities and asked this question,

"What is the greatest good of the moment?"

Am I using all my moments of time for the greatest good? My priorities are most visible as we use our time. I can name quite a few things to limit to open up more time to have good moments, especially in my children's lives.

As I go into each day preparing my list I need to do it prayerfully. What sets the course of my day? Morning prayer and my reading of the scriptures. That's it!

Time is a gift from God and its easier to use our time wisely if we are doing it on his timetable to have those good moments.

A church hymn "Have I done any Good" is a perfect example of this and the question resonates within me after what I have experienced this whole weekend. I couldn't be more excited and ready to tackle my lists, my priorities and my time!

That evening I had the privilege of going to a devotional at the San Diego Temple for the Receptionists that work there each month. I only go once a month for 6 hours and I love it. I was again filled by the thoughts and messages that were shared there and told that my service there would be accepted and that's what I needed to hear to fill my love language bucket.

I listened to Julie Beck's interview with her and her daughters and she mentioned about priorities and she said if your priorities are in control you will have power otherwise it won't be there.

I am a pretty optimistic person and I know that if I include God into my life all will be made well and I can conquer anything I put my mind too. It was proven to me this weekend and just feel so honored and blessed to be where I am in my stage of life.