Be In Less of a Hurry

As a homeschooling mom I have 20 hours of things to fit into 16 hours of my day.  Things get left undone. I can't help it.  I'm sure many mom's out there can relate to this problem, whether you're homeschooling or not.  As I started out this year I was cleaning off my desk.  I was about to throw an old Ensign away but I paused and opened it up.  It opened to an article by John C. Thomas entitled "Don't Be in a Hurry".  I thought the title was appropriately funny as I hurried to get things ready for the school year.  Here are a few quotes from the article:

"When we put God first," President Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994) promised, "all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives."  This is one reason President Spencer W. Kimball (1895-1985) could say that "we will move faster if we hurry less."  Undistracted by other gods, we trust the lord to help us allocate our time and talent to their bery best uses each day.  As a result, we do more good and we make real progress.

Nephi put it this way:  "Ye must pray always, and not faitn;...ye must not perform anything unto the lord save n the fist place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Chirst, that he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy sou."  (2 Nephi 32:9)

Neal A. Maxwell likened thoughtful "intervals between [our] tasks" to " the green belts of grass, trees, and water that ...interrupt the asphalt," and he said that when we "plan some time for contemplation and revewal." we will feel drawn to our work instead of driven to it.

As speaker in church recently said, "it's not a sprint, it's a marathon" when referring to this life.

The most important thing in my day is having the spirit to guide me.  Having so many "important" things to do each day, I have to choose which ones to do, and which ones to leave out.  I can try and do this on my own and I will not succeed.  I can prepare myself and try to do the Lord's will and I will succeed.