Motivation

"I am a beloved spirit daughter of God, and my life has meaning, purpose, and direction."

My good friend wrote this on my bathroom mirror a couple of weeks ago to lift me up and motivate me right now. Life has been an interesting struggle this year, and especially these past five or six months, but I have been able to get through it all mainly because of the love and support of this one friend. Several Months ago she suggested that I buy dry erase markers to write inspirational and motivational quotes on my mirror, as she has done for a long time. I did and she ended up writing something one evening that made me smile. Over the months there have been occasional messages of hope, and sometimes messages that just would make me laugh. I have loved it.

This particular message hit me very deeply, and almost gave way to tears. It is actually taken from the first sentence of the Relief Society Declaration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, slightly modified to be more personal of course. It is a beautiful message and I wish the women of the church were reminded of this more often. After I saw it in my bathroom my friend and I talked about it for a few minutes and we both wished we recited it more often. We then reminisced about our days, long ago, in Young Women's (a program for girls ages 12-18 in the LDS church), where we recited the Young Women's Theme every week. I miss that. I miss the power and unity that was felt when everyone said those words out loud together each Sunday. I believe a similar thing could happen with the older women of the church if we did this. 

All I know is I have felt spiritually frustrated lately, and reading this sentence to myself every time I am in my bathroom has helped to lift me up and remind me of who I am, even if it is hard for me to believe or accept sometimes. 

I am a daughter of God.

My life has meaning.

My life has a purpose

and it has a direction . . . 

My quest at this point in my life is to figure out what all of these are for me. It is a challenging time, the "decade of decision," as Elder Robert Hales has said, and boy do some of these decisions weigh heavily on my mind, heart and soul. What I must not forget is God is with me through all of this and that through His love, manifested through the love of others, such as my dear friend who wrote the quote on my mirror, I can do all things.