In prayer, journaling, blogging, and scripture study.
I've been doing okay with prayer... but I can definitely do better.
At EFY a speaker mentioned that kneeling at your bedside for prayer helps you focus more on the spiritual nature of your prayer. I never really thought of it that way. I've always just been too tired/lazy and have always just prayed in bed. But I'm going to try my hardest to actually get out of bed and kneel for my prayers.
Ever since I started blogging, my journal has suffered. I've thought "Why journal when blogging is so much easier?" Well... it is best to keep more than one record. That's why. Plus, I can't guarantee that blogger/the internet/my blog won't randomly someday crash and everything won't be lost. Chances aren't likely, but keeping a journal as well is always good just to be safe.
Blogging... lately I've just not been blogging as much. It's not that I don't have time. It's just that I haven't been motivated! But that needs to change. I was thinking just yesterday about how I need to try harder to blog, and then today in sacrament meeting the speaker was talking about being a missionary through the internet and technology. And I thought "That's for me. To blog more. I just know it."
I really try to read my scriptures, but I just don't like to. I think it's boring. But I want to want to read. Does that make sense? I have the desire to want to read and study my scriptures. And that is enough. But I need to try harder, even when I don't want to. Yesterday I made a scripture reading log. My goal is to read at least 15 minutes a week. That may seem extremely easy for some (even most) people... but for me it is a challenge to pick up my scriptures even once a week for personal scripture study. So I'm hoping that this small goal will be enough to make scripture study a habit and cause me to begin to enjoy it more.
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I know that as long as I have
the desire to do these things
and try my hardest to do them,
the Lord will help with the rest.
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