Happy February! Can you believe January is gone and we are emerging closer to spring. I love this time of year, admittedly, January is not my favorite month, with the exception of Jan 3, which is our anniversary. Other than that, it is a dreary, cold, back to the grind, holidays are over, kind of month. So I look with anticipation to February. I laughed last night as I was looking around and realized, my wreath is still hanging over the fireplace, their is a christmas tree (artificial) still standing watch outside the front door and our front door is still cloaked with greenery from this past Christmas season, which leads to me to believe that I am not focusing and prioritizing my life and with that, I am becoming further behind in all things.
Hence,I declare, the MONTH OF LOVE. This month I am going to try to do one act of Love each day, whether big or small, whether for self or others and I will try to blog them weekly (I would say daily, but I know myself better than that)
Wouldn't it be nice to increase our level of love in the following areas
1. Love of the Savior. What things will you do this month to increase your love of the savior? Will you read about his life, will you pray more fervently? Will you increase your charity for others? Think about it and come up with 7 things you will do. One for each day of the first week of the month
2. Love of Self. I thought about having Love for others here, but I think you need to build a foundation. Love of the Savior and Love of Self...not love of being selfish, but to connect with who you are, to nurture yourself and fill your cup so you can effectively love others-- do this for the next 7 days
3. Celebrate Valentines Day with the next step, Love of those in your immediate family. Show an increase of love for your spouse and your children. Or your significant other. What daily acts of service and support can you give them. Do this for the next 7 days.
4. Love for others, or charity--the true love of Christ. Now you are ending the month and have re established your relationship with the Savior, have begun to fill your own cup and are nurturing those around you, You can now give that out to others, Go ahead, Pay it Forward. See what happens. I believe this is where we come full circle. As we become charitable, we learn greater love of the Savior, greater love of self and greater love of those near us.
I am excited to take this adventure. If youre up to it, join me!
2 comments:
Wow, what a good idea. In YW yesterday, we talked about finding joy in being daughters of God, and J.O.Y. stands for Jesus first, Others second, and lastly, Yourself. And if we live this way, we will have joy. You should have been the one teaching the lesson. Thanks for the inspiration.
I'm in, You are awesome! This is a really good idea, and it will hlep me not focus on how blahish winterish February is (even though it is closer to spring than January).
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