Many of you are unaware I have a new church calling (JL you can stop reading now if you would like), I am the Enrichment Counselor in the Relief Society. I know...I am not very enriching...but I am excited anyway. Last night we did our first visits as a presidency. Haylee had the thought and I LOVED it...so I thought I would share. I would love to hear your thoughts about this quote, so please leave a comment.
"Our Father in Heaven needs us as we are, as we are growing to become. He has intentionally made us different from one another so that even with our imperfections we can fulfill His purposes. My greatest misery comes when I feel I have to fit what others are doing, or what I think others expect of me. I am most happy when I am comfortable being me and trying to do what my Father in Heaven and I expect me to be. For many years I tried to measure the oft times quiet, reflective, thoughtful Pat Holland against the robust, bubbly, talkative, and energetic Jeff Holland and others with like qualities. I have learned through several fatiguing failures that you can't have joy in being bubbly if you are not a bubbly person...I have given up seeing myself as a flawed person because my energy level is lower than Jeff's, and I don't talk as much as he does. Nor as fast.
Giving this up has freed me to embrace an rejoice in my own manner and personality in the measure of my creation...Somewhere, somehow the Lord blipped the message onto my screen that my personality was created to fit precisely the mission and talents He gave me...The moment I indulge in imitation of my neighbor, I feel fractured and fatigued and find myself forever swimming upstream. When we frustrate God's plan for us, we deprive this world and God's kingdom of our unique contributions, and a serious schism settles in our soul. God never gave us any task beyod our ability to accomplish it. We just have to be willing to do it our own way. We will always have enough resources for being who we are and what we become." (Patricia Holland, LDS Women's Treasury: Insights and Inspiration for Today's Woman P. 104)
Sometimes I feel like I need to be more like person A because they do such and such, and that I am less of a person or not awesome because I can't do "blah" like this person. I need to remember that I have been given many talents and need to work on developing myself and not worry about trying to be a carbon copy of someone else.
April 21-23rd 2017
9 years ago
11 comments:
wow- I got a little teary eyed reading this- I really needed to read this quote tonight- I always almost always feel like I am not measuring up...especially as a mom and especially in Chay's family- His sisters accomplish so much and somedays I don't even get out of my pajamas-
thanks D'nell-
That was awesome. Thanks for much for sharing it! I will definately fill myself up with it and share it with others.
Pure gold!!! Thank yo so much for sharing this quote...I have a lot to say about this quote and I don't think there is enough room on your comments for me to write it all...oh how I wish we could go for chinese good today for lunch and talk about it!!!! There are many times in my life that I have felt like a square peg trying to squeeze into a round hole and Sis. Holland is so right...I never found true happiness until I was accepted that I was a square and that was okay...people will still like me anyways because of it...my Heavenly Father loves me because of it! Thank you DNell, you made my day!
That is a wonderful thought. I think it is something great for everyone to remember, sometimes I feel like everyone is trying to be 'cookie cutter' people and not themselves. Thanks for sharing that.
Awesome quote! Funny that I was just talking to someone this morning about trying to be "super" mom, wife, etc. Congrats on the calling too. We can share ideas! I've been doing it for 7 years now and go numb in the head at times for ideas.
Tonya
soo good to find you in the blogging world! You look great by the way. thank you for sharing that thought. i am excited to keep in touch with you. oh and i was browsing through old posts you made and those enchiladas are sounding so good, i am planning on using that recipe soon!
I love this quote...The Lord definitely has his own timetable and purpose for all of us.
I think that this quote should be posted on every womens mirror so she could read it every day until it was ingrained in her heart. Thanks D'Nell!
you're right. i should have listened to you and stopped reading. ~ jl
That is an awesome quote! Chris doesn't usually blog, but I had to get him to check this post out!!
And thanks for the new nickname link. You're hilarious! I laughed out loud! I think I might have to change the name of our blog to that. Except maybe to "how NOT to raise a boy! :)
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