What is in my Heart!

I have set a silly little goal for myself this year to make people and relationships more important this year. What that means is instead of obsessing dinner, chores and how to get all the physical things done and keep them done. I am trying to focus a little more on the people in my life and what they need or what they feel. In an effort to do this I have let the spirit guide me in the who, what, when and how. It has been a real learning experience for me to see how much we all need someone to identify with us or just someone to listen to our heart aches. I have also realized just how great my family and friends are and how blessed I am to have all of them in my life. As always I have received more support, love and insight from everyone then I could ever give back. I have also had times that I know without a doubt that the Lord wanted me to call and talk a specific friend at a specific time. Maybe just to lend a listening ear or to give encouragement when they were having a rough time. I have learned so much from the faith of others in just the last two weeks. I have seen the spirit at work in my life and in the lives of others as they deal with some very difficult life changing events. I really appreciate that these people have felt like they could share part of their struggles and heart breaks with me. I pray that is some small way I helped or lent some kind of comfort to them. I hope that as I continue to strive to accomplish my goal I will be more perceptive to the spirit an in so doing I will be able to know what and how to cultivate loving and lasting relationships with those around me. After all our personal relationships with our family and friends are what we get to take with us into eternity , not the clean house, the dinners or all the nice things. (Yes family dinners help to cultivate lasting relationships but they don't have to be fancy.) I have felt for a while now that Satan has been hard at work trying to destroy these relationships in all of our lives. He knows that if we have no one to turn to in our hour of need to support and strengthen us. We will not be as spiritually strong and will more easily yield to temptation. So I pray that I might be able to sure up and strengthen my relationships with those around me so that Satan has less room to temp and destroy lives. President Monson said " Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved." That is the theme I based my goal on. Well that is what is in my heart today.