NASTY LITTLE THINGS

I HATE RUBIX CUBES!

For the main reason that they make me feel like the baby in the picture to the right. I don't get them. My brain feels like it's going to ooz out of me when I even think of rubix cu...nope I can't even write it that's how sick they make me. BUT I had a companion that LOVED them and she could pick any cube up and have it done in 10 minutes.

Apparently if you can finish one it's a sign of intelligence and I would marvel how she could do it, then she finally told me the long awaited secret...She read the Directions. Hmmm. Whatever. I don't need to read the directions. Besides if I do then I will be cheating. And I am no cheater!

Why do I think this way? The directions are there for a reason. To help. But it's my choice to use them. But the prideful me says 'No way, Jose!'.

Raise your hand if you read the directions...

All of them?

That's what I thought.

I don't read all of them either, and then I think, hmmm where is this bolt suppose to go, then it all comes crashing down. Now this is the point where I apply it to life.

READ THE DIRECTIONS

'What directions could there be,' you ask? Simple, the Book of Mormon. It really is that easy. But because of the easiness we don't do it? What?!

It's like the Israelites that needed to only LOOK at the staff and they would be healed, but because it was so simple...they perished! (Tsk, Tsk.)

'There MUST be a harder way,' you say! No. But you will have to sacrifice some of your precious, but useless t.v. time but 'the pain of sacrifice lasts only one moment. It is the fear of the pain of sacrifce that makes you hesitate to do it.' F. Enzio Busche

The scriptures are hear to be our directions. So why do most of us not read them...all the way? I bet you a million rubix cubes that if you do read them that God will not call you a cheater at life. You will not have any missing bolts. And you won't perish! Don't be scared at how easy it is. Love the easiness of it. There are too many other things in this life that are difficult, reading your 'Directions manual' doesn't have to be. I promise that if you do, what ever you are trying to build in this life will be a masterpiece.

The Tortoise and the Hare

Does slow and steady really win the race? Does it seem at times that you are battling an up hill climb with people passing you on every side? SO DO I!

I get so frustrated when I stumble over tiny pebbles and the guy next to me is clearing his boulder in one leap. I think to myself, 'why are they so different then me? Why must I struggle when they can hurry over them and then sit in the shade and wait for the next one to come?' Like the Tortoise I feel as if I am carrying a load on my back that doesn't allow me to move as quick. Some times I just want to give up!

HOWEVER...through my deepest, darkest, steepest climb; when my brow is covered with endless sweat and my knees are scraped and dirty, I choose to look up and there is always a light. This light is different at different spots in the journey. The light for me can be the knowledge and wisdom that I find in the scriptures, or knowing that someone else has climbed this mountain before me and is waiting on the other side.

When I finally make it over my mountain and look back I will see this person that I was allowed to become because of the things that I struggled through. I will have muscles! Spiritual muscles that cannot be taken away. I will see those hares sitting in the shade and realize that they didn't leap over their boulders, they went around them. And they will have endless things to go around unless they look up, and take one step at a time. Because that is how we make it back to our Heavenly Father. That makes the 'slow and steady' part all worth while.