Opportunities

What do you do when an opportunity comes up that you weren't expecting and you're not sure if you want to take it or not?  There is always the possibility of something better coming up if you take the opportunity.  Or you could turn down the opportunity and nothing better could come up.  Or you could take the opportunity and nothing better could come up.  Or you could turn down the opportunity and something better could turn up.  But at this point you just don't know.  It's times like these that make you wish that you could see the future in a crystal ball.  Not even all of it, just enough of a glimpse to help you to know what you should do. 

I think I've got a lot of praying, fasting, thinking, and deciding to do.

It's gonna be a long week.

To Do List:

•  Take Test
• Go to class
• Sing to the elderly
• Speak in Shakespearean/Jane Austen English
• Go to the library
• Get on facebook, like a million times
• Work on a little homework
• Blog
• Eat chocolate
• Day Dream
• Read text books
• Finish assignments
• Write a lesson plan
• Go to the gym
• Go visiting teaching
• Clean
• Go to Relief Society Activity
• Accentuate the Positive
• Count Blessings
• Pray
• Smile

"Let’s be honest; it’s rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia—even during times of stress and fatigue. Because they unnecessarily complicate their lives, they often feel increased frustration, diminished joy, and too little sense of meaning in their lives." - President Dieter F. Uchtdorf (to read the rest of the article go here.

Complicated Random Ramblings

Sometimes I wonder why life has to be so complicated. But I guess I know why.  Sometimes I just wish that I got a straight answer from my prayers.  That's not usually how it works for me, but it would be nice if that was how it worked.  Somethings that I am doing in my life feel so right, but at the same time I have no idea where it's going to lead me or how it's all going to work out.  I guess that's where faith comes into play.  I know where I want to go, I just don't quite know how to get there. I'm a "big picture" person not a "detail" person.  My roommates and I have been studying about Lot's wife and how the real problem for her was that she wanted to stay in the past.  And I think to a degree that's true for all of us.  It comes down to having the faith to believe that Heavenly Father has better things planned for me in the future, even though the past and the present is pretty good.