Why Use A Fly Swatter

Some people go through life with the attitude why use a fly swatter when you have a hatchet or a sledge hammer? They seem never to learn that they can do more good by treating others well than by trying to bully them into being what they want them to be, believe, or do.

 If what you have to say is good, you will not have to sell it, it will sell itself. If what you have to say is bad, not even the sledge hammer can make it look good, although some may be convinced just to save themselves the headache.

Don't Be Distracted By The Unimportant

Last Friday I was taking pictures at the pine wood derby. I thought that I had chosen the prime location sitting right at the end of the track. As the races began I started taking pictures. I got a few pictures in and I looked at what I had taken. They were out of focus and frankly quite uninteresting. I changed my position slightly and took some more pictures but it seemed the same results. I just didn't feel it.

 It wasn't until after the derby that I realized I was taking the wrong pictures. I should have been taking pictures of the boys. I began to imagine what the boys faces must have looked like as their cars came down the track. Oh, what pictures I could have taken.



It was then that I realized that when we focus on the wrong things life may seem out of focus and uninteresting.

When we make the unimportant the focus of our attention we tend to ignore the people who are important.

Feeling Strong May Be A Weakness

Sometimes when you feel the strongest is when you are the most vulnerable. Sometimes it is not the overwhelming temptations that are the hardest to resist. It is the temptation that comes when we are feeling good about our progress. 

We must enter a permanent state of humility before we can expect to be saved from our own humiliation. We must learn that our greatest strength comes as a gift from our Heavenly Father by obedience to his laws.

We Have The Power To Submit

Sometimes temptation seems like it would consume us and is greater than we think we can control, but it isn't. We have far more power than we realize. While our thoughts may run wild with temptation and it may seem our mind and body are completely out of control. Reality is this....We have the power to submit to the will of God, and in the will of God no temptation has power over us.

Be Your Best Self

Sometimes we try so hard to be someone that we are not in order to please others. When in reality we please no one and deny everyone the real us. Most often it is the real us that people are pleased to know anyways. Be Yourself... Be your best self.

Sometimes Things Get Broken Beyond Repair

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. And all the kings men and all the kings horses couldn't put Humpty together again....Sometimes the decisions we make leave others broken beyond repair. Of all the slow spiritual deaths you can suffer, addictions have to be the saddest. Avoid them as if your life depended on it.

Change My Heart First

If you force me to change my actions without changing my heart you have not changed anything. That is why jails are filled with repeat offenders.

If you change my heart my actions will follow, that is how Zion is built.