Savor Every Moment

Well I can happily say that was started as an extremely stressful week has ended quite nicely. And I am so beyond thrilled that I have to just push through two more days of school and one day of work and then I am free! Monday was a rough day as I took into account all my schooling, work, dating, etc., and it was really weighing down on me. But with the help of my mom, my roommates, my friends, and most importantly my Heavenly Father, I made it through...maybe by the skin of my teeth, but it happened. And the week went by relatively quickly too, which is way nice!

As far as the weekly highlights go, I'll pick maybe three or four from these last two weeks and go with that. So here it goes:

1. I skipped class!
Whoo! Haha, but seriously it was extremely needed. After my stress fest on Monday I realized that I needed to catch up on my life. So I skipped my first two classes and just got work done. We also had clean checks so I took the time to work on my homework, clean and actually get ready. It was a great morning and I felt so much better afterward. I went to my last class and then headed to work. Sometimes you just need those kind of catch up days. I felt like a college dropout though. Hence the picture. Haha :)

2. Dating!
Ahh, so this has been interesting. There's a guy that asked me out a week ago and he's got me a little smitten. It's been fun getting back into the dating scene, and getting to know him. I can't and won't divulge any details at this point until things progress or don't, but here's to hoping he likes me too.

3. Temple sessions!
These last two weeks my roommate and I have been able to attend the temple on Saturday and it has been such a blessing! I love the temple and the feeling of being home when I am there. I love going and feeling like Heavenly Father and Christ are welcoming me home. Ahh, it's so hard to explain how big of a blessing it is in my life, but I always feel like I can take on the world when I leave. This week especially was just incredible and I was in the best mood the whole day because of it. If you're not regularly attending the temple, I encourage you to prioritize it.

I was reading a talk during the sacrament today called "Savor Every Moment of Life" and I can't remember who it's by at the moment, but there was a part that really struck me. I was thinking about how sometimes we get into ruts of thinking, "Oh, my life would be so much better if 'this' had happened/was happening/would happen..." or "Well if we were dating" or "if I was married...", and the list can go on and on, but as I was reading and pondering this talk, I realized that I had picked it because of it's title for a reason. Anyone who knows me knows that sometimes I have a hard time calming myself down or not thinking about every possible detail concerning something. This was brought to a minimal while I was on my mission for some reason, but it's slowly starting to creep on me again since I've been back and I hate it. The title "Savor Every Moment of Life" stood out to me because I realized that Heavenly Father was telling me just to relax, trust in Him, and learn to be happy and content in my circumstances, whatever they may be.

There's a quote from this article that I would specifically like to share (although I recommend reading the entire talk). To give a little background (if I remember right), there's a couple who are attending some kind of fireside and what not, and the Hollands are speaking. Elder Holland is speaking and the man that was narrating said, "[I laughed to myself] at their amusing counsel to not 'march to an arbitrary drummer who seems to be beating a frenzied cadence to the passing years' and to trust in the timing of the Lord. But tears came to my eyes as I heard, 'Life ought to be enjoyed at every stage of our experience and should not be hurried and wrenched and truncated and torn to fit an unnatural schedule which you have predetermined but which may not be the Lord's personal plan for you at all,' and 'Don't wait to live...We of all people ought to savor every moment.'" I thought that was absolutely beautiful and I am so grateful to have learned a powerful lesson from the Lord. That no matter where I am, what I am doing, or where I am going, if I trust in Him and seek to follow His guidance and counsel in my life than I can truly learn to savor every moment of my life, whatever it may be, instead of waiting for other things to happen for my life to be "better".