This year has seriously flown by, I feel like it should still be like March! Don't get me wrong, it's been a great year, so much great has happened. And I know in the months to come, even more greatness will come. Just in Chile this time, not the good 'ol Arizona. ;)
December is a good month...I like it. (and what's even better... Arizona isn't even cold at all yet! Not one bit!) Between all the cramming for finals, speed-writing papers, and "oops-I-forgot-it's-Christmas" shopping, I love it. I used to not be so fond about the decorations, Christmas music, and all that jazz.. but this year, I don't know what's come of me.. I love it all! Maybe it's because I realize I won't be home (here, in Arizona) next Christmas? Not sure. Maybe it's the fact that all the little kids get all antsy for Santa to come? Maybe. Or maybe it's the fact that this holiday represents the day the Savior came to this earth? Probably.
This past year I've learned so much more about the Savior through my own studies, and through my amazing institute teacher. I have come to realize more of what he went through. For ME. For you. For everyone. Everyone can partake of the greatest gift we are given.
C.S. Lewis has a great quote I'll share...sorry it's a little long... I even edited it and cut some out.
"It is a serious thing, to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship... All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. There are no 'ordinary' people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals whome we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner-- no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment"
Doesn't it make you want to treat everyone better? It makes me! Really, everyone has the potential to be a GOD. Why should we be any better than they? We aren't.
We all have our talents and strengths. We all have weaknesses. We all have a long way to go to reach perfection. But it's okay. That's why we are here on Earth today. That's why I am here on Earth today. I have my purpose. And I have come to the knowledge, that my purpose right now is to serve a mission. In Chile. In Spanish. For 18 months.
I've been preparing, and I am starting to love it already...and I'm not even there yet! :)
I really don't know the original purpose of this post... it kinda went everywhere. But I don't care! A blog is to share my thoughts, right? :) And these are them.
:)
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