DAY #2- SEEKING AFTER THE GOOD

 There is a definition of patience that I really love.  It is found in Preach My Gospel.  "Patience is the capacity to endure delay, trouble, opposition, or suffering without becoming angry, frustrated, or anxious. It is the ability to do God's will and accept His timing." 

I seem to always have a mental list of things to get done.  At the end of each day I am sure I add two or more tasks to this never ending list.  The list is prioritized according to when I want to get these tasks done, or even listed easiest to hardest.  However, it seems that the harder tasks are always the most important.  

For those of you who don't know me super well, I will tell you that I am probably the biggest procrastinator you will ever meet.  Probably not the best attribute to have, but somehow I deal.  Being a procrastinator means you put off the important/ more difficult tasks until later, and do the more simple tasks like... "take a nap." Procrastination fosters frustration in oneself.  Simply because we are the ones causing the most stress in our own lives.  

The lesson that I seem to be learning today is to patient with myself in the process of desired change.  I need to remember that becoming patient with myself and others is not just going to happen over night.  In fact it is not going to happen at all without moments where my patience is tried.  

I don't know about you, but whenever I set a goal to change something about myself, doubt and fear always seem to creep in.  "You are never going to accomplish this... so why are you even trying?" "Your effort is futile." Those thoughts are coming from no good place.  They also happen to be false.  I know this because God says something completely opposite.  Doctrine and Covenants 6: 34-36- "Therefore, fear not, little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail.  Behold, i do not condemn you; go your ways, and sin no more; perform with soberness the work which i have commanded you.  Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not."