Monday, June 27, 2016

Daily Bread

I love bread. I love bread.



I love actual bread, I miss real not GF bread (it's been over 4 years living GF!! woot woot) but more importantly, I am craving daily spiritual bread.

For those who have not yet subscribed the lds.org daily meassages I urge you to do so!! These little emails are the happiest ones that I receive each day. It's a short little quote from a talk and then a link. I always end up going down the rabbit hole and reading the talk and a few of the related ones at the bottom. The words are so often exactly what  I need to hear! It's a wonderful tender mercy that the Lord has given us technology and people's whose jobs it is to bring brightness into our lives.

As I was preparing my RS lesson this past week I was reminded of some really happy good quotes and talks, some of which were brought to my remembrance because of the daily messages. I need that daily uplift so badly! Satan has been working overtime on me for whatever reason and I am not going to keep taking that same beating. Elder Holland said:

Only the adversary, the enemy of us all, would try to convince us that the ideals outlined in general conference are depressing and unrealistic, that people don’t really improve, that no one really progresses. And why does Lucifer give that speech? Because he knows he can’t improve, he can’t progress, that worlds without end he will never have a bright tomorrow. He is a miserable man bound by eternal limitations, and he wants you to be miserable too.

No more letting Old Scratch make me miserable! I am grateful and acutely aware of my limitations and need for Christ's all encompassing atonement. That grace is literal saving grace and my daily bread. I know it and I love that I have been given that gift! His grace is sufficient to daily feed me and make me whole, happy and successful.

The grace of Christ is sufficient—sufficient to cover our debt, sufficient to transform us, and sufficient to help us as long as that transformation process takes. The Book of Mormon teaches us to rely solely on “the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah” (2 Nephi 2:8). As we do, we do not discover—as some Christians believe—that Christ requires nothing of us. Rather, we discover the reason He requires so much and the strength to do all He asks (see Philippians 4:13). Grace is not the absence of God’s high expectations. Grace is the presence of God’s power (see Luke 1:37). (Brad Wilcox)

God's grace, beautiful creations and love are all around me. I am grateful and well loved.


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