My Mantra

So, as many people that live around me know....I was quite passionate about this election. It really had me stressed out with the amount of people so willing to go even further down the road to socialism. I was even more surprised to find out how many people don't even know what that word means...literally! It has also been completely horrifying that people have seem to forgotten the wise council given to us "by their fruits ye shall know them." Even more alarming still is this world of political correctness we find ourselves in that actually limits freedom of speech. Apparently anything that sounds negative towards a person of color is now a racist comment. huh????? Put all this together with a person that reads her Book of Mormon and has seen the cycle of wickedness and knows that the government will collapse in the last days has had me a bit concerned for what is to come. I found myself with a seriously crippling case of "no hope." This is a scary world we live in and it is only getting more scary by the second. Luckily for me a dose of hope arrived in the mail.....my November Ensign. I am only 8 talks in and it has already addressed my aching sole with literally every talk so far. I listened a bit when it was actually on TV, but not like it is hitting me know equipped with a highlighter and a hunger. I was deeply effected by Pres. Uchtdorf's talk on "The Infinite Power of Hope" and Elder Wirthlin's on "Come What May, and Love it". All of the talks I've read so far speak directly to the feelings of hopelessness and what is asked of each of us in these times. Does all of this reassurance mean that there isn't a battle of biblical proportions to win? Absolutely not. I feel even more full of the desire to be like Moroni " And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it--In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children-and he fastened it upon the end of a pole. And he fastened on his headplate, and his breastplate, and his shields, and girded on his armor about his loins; and he took the pole, which had on the end thereof his rent coat, (and he called it the title of liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren, so long as there should a band of Christians remain to possess the land"--found in Alma 46:12-13

So what is this Mantra that I speak of? It is simply this..."Too blessed, to stress!" I also love what Dave Ramsey says every time someone asks him how he is doing "better than I deserve." So, I am too blessed to stress about the outcome of where things are headed, but I also need to be shining up that armor at the same time "Wherefore, lift up your hears and rejoice, and gird up your loins, and take upon you my whole armor, that ye may be able to withstand the evil day, having done all, that ye may be able to stand. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, which I have sent mine angels to commit unto you;" D&C 27:15-16