Everyone has trials, challenges and faces crap on a daily basis. It’s looking for the positive in the hard times, the rainbow in the cloud, or making the best of a bad situation that helps us to try harder. Why not turn the problem into a good thing by using the energy invested to benefit your life. It could be a gift to ones self.
A year ago as I read the account of President Spencer W. Kimball’s reasons for reading the Bible, I decided to take the challenge in my fifty-fifth year and read the Old and New Testaments. I began, with advice that if one chapter was read per day, it could be completed within a year. Forty five days into the reading and with the calculations I made it would take three years to complete the goal. Therefore, I increased to three pages per day. Every morning upon waking at 3, 4 or 5 a.m. (this was my chronic problem), I would pull out the scriptures, read the allotted pages then go back to sleep (my blessing). With June 1st as my end date, the last few months I read five pages per day. I am happy to announce the mission is completed. What did I learn? Many great things about the creation, obedience, love, trust, Christ, commandments, promises and blessings were the most important to name a few. Mostly, I want to set goals to achieve more great things.
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