Keep on keeping on!

The last couple of weeks....well, they have been challenging. My baby girl is growing up and headed to swim in the sea of sharks without a life vest or a spear. Ok, not really. But she did leave me to work away from home all summer. It's like she thinks she's an adult now or something. Add to that the fact that my FAVORITE fish died. I'm an emotional wreck. Well, more a hot mess than wreck but you get my drift. It's been a crappy week. Part of the problem with a craptastic week is that in my case it can leave the windows wide open for the adversary to start crawling in. I hope I'm not alone in that sometimes I lose sight of the things I should be doing to defend myself from that dementor. I'm grateful for the atonement and the opportunity to start again, to do better than before and to focus my thoughts and actions on the Savior. I consider it my way of slamming that window down on the adversary's fingers! I keep a 4x6 card on my wall over my computer. It's something I typed up based on a YouTube video I love. Tonight was a night I pulled that video up. I needed it. I needed to hear it and see it. I NEED to remember it. Check it out in the next post! As for tonight, when I looked at that 4x6 card, trying to turn my focus, reprogramming my thinking I took in the words at the bottom. I've used them here before and I will use them here again. Note to self: I AM ENOUGH. Friends, I couldn't say it any better than Elder Jeffery R. Holland when he said, "Keep loving. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep believing. Keep growing. Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow, and forever," "Only the adversary, the enemy of us all, would try to convince us that the ideals outlined in general conference are depressing and unrealistic, that people don’t really improve, that no one really progresses. And why does Lucifer give that speech? Because he knows he can’t improve, he can’t progress, that worlds without end he will never have a bright tomorrow. He is a miserable man bound by eternal limitations, and he wants you to be miserable too. Well, don’t fall for that. With the gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the strength of heaven to help us, we can improve, and the great thing about the gospel is we get credit for trying, even if we don’t always succeed." As I pick up and dust off I do so with renewed resolve. I am awesome. My worth surpasses all earthly things.....and so does YOURS!