Trying

So this year I have been using a new motto. I'm constantly reassuring myself, saying "it's ok because I'm trying". I've learned, and EVERYONE knows this, I AM FAR FROM PERFECT. And when you feel like everything's going wrong, or that you are constantly failing it is SO draining. I cannot believe how much easier, pleasant and successful my days are when I follow my motto.

Ex. A few Sundays ago I was trying to get my boys and myself to church early, but Kai spit up on both of us so we both needed a new set of church clothes. And then Niko was crying because he wanted to wear his mario jammies to church. We ended up being 15 min late, but it doesn't matter that people saw us walking in late because inside I knew how hard I tried. "You only fail once you stop trying".

I can't believe how big of a difference my motto has made in my life! It reminds me of the Michael Mclean song, but more specifically this line "Life can be hard, but we need not be so hard on ourselves. Now, why am I writing this post when I've been taking this outlook on life for awhile now? I started reading the lesson for church next Sunday out of the Lorenzo Snow Manual and got excited when I read the title "Becoming Perfect before the Lord: A Little Better Day by Day". I read the lesson and loved so many things in it! While my "try" motto refers to all aspects of life like "I tried to be on time, I tried to paint my bedroom without messing up, I tried to look nice today", this lesson focused on the spiritual trying in our lives, which is of course most important! Here are some wonderful things I picked out that I think can be applied to all aspects of our lives!

"Do not expect to become perfect all at once. If you do, you will be disappointed. Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today."

"diligence, patience, and divine aid"

"A person may be perfect in regard to some things and not others"

"There is an opportunity for you to become great-just as great as you wish to be. In starting out in life you may have set your hearts upon things very difficult to attain to, but possibly within your reach. In your first efforts to gratify your desires you may fail, and your continued efforts may not prove what may be termed success. But inasmuch as your efforts were honest efforts, and inasmuch as your desires were founded in righteousness, the experience you obtain while pursuing your hearts' desires must necessarily be profitable to you, and even your mistakes, if mistakes you make, will be turned to your advantage."