Friday, March 1, 2013

Watching another God-sized dream

A few years ago I started visiting this blog called The RedHeaded Hostess. She had really great ideas for studying the scriptures, which is what got me there to begin with. She had a lot of great posts about teaching gospel principles from a latter-day Saint perspective, and shared teaching ideas she had used with her teenagers when she taught seminary classes in Utah.  After reading her posts about making your own scripture study journal, I decided to start my own. 

It was a big step for me really, learning how to study the scriptures in a way I would remember, be able to write down my favorite scriptures and thoughts and have something to look back on when I picked up a subject after having set it aside for a while.  To some people it may seem obvious, but it changed the way I studied.

Over the last year, I've seen something really great happen for her.  She got a new blog/website design.  She started making and selling her own scripture journals.  The are many of them!  Study by Topics, Study by Chapters, Study the Names of Christ and more.  Recently she opened up a download shop, where they have pictures, posters, and activities for sale.

This is a God-sized dream that inspires me.  I don't think she ever expected so much when she started a blog.  But she had a gift for study and teaching and started sharing.  And we are all so blessed.

Lately, I feel so overwhelmed.  There are so many things crowding around my head, and I don't even know what I have to share with others.  I'm trying to keep up my prayers and asking God to help me clear my mind.  It's such a jumble and I just want have the courage to be where he wants me, when he tells me.  I think of the Redheaded Hostess, and I think, I just need to do a little thing that he prompts me, whether it helps a few or hundreds or just me or my family.  I'm walking through a fog.  I really don't know.  I'm just trying to let Him guide me and maybe He really will make more out of my life then I ever dreamed.