It is amazing how fast time flies! It has been over four months since I have left home for my mission. It feels like I just left yesterday. I feel like I have a while before I return back home to Utah but I know that it will go by quick. The next thing I know, BAM!!!!! My mission is over and I go home. It is crazy to think this because some days I feel like they drag on for so long. I feel like I am stuck riding a snail to the finish line. Who then decides to take a nap!!! Finally he wakes up but now he starts going to the wrong direction! Then he decides to talk to his snail buddies off on the sidelines. Oh and by the way, if you thought snails moved slow you should hear them talk! While he is having fun I am stuck on top of his shell not being able to go anywhere! I have no control. I don't think I will ever make it to the end! Finally we get moving and we make it to the finish line. Tired and upset that nothing went my way I go home and go to bed. I wake up to realize the snail race was just a dream but a good lesson learned. I cannot control time or the things that go on around me but I can control how they affect me. I choose what kind of attitude I will have. As I was upset and angry I lost sight of the good things around me. I became ungrateful and unappreciative of the blessings in which I already had. Although things did not go my way, I need to take advantage of the good things in life. I need not to look at the bad but to be grateful. Be grateful as we have been commanded by the prophets of the scriptures and modern days. Be grateful for what I have so I may not miss what is to come. When tomorrow comes, today will be as a dream.
Check out this great talk on Gratitude by President Thomas S. Monson
http://lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/the-divine-gift-of-gratitude?lang=eng
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