My December Tender Mercies ☃️

My sweetest joys that come from seriously asking WHAT LACK I YET? 😭

Ah!! It’s been such a wild holiday season, and I missed being here. School starts next week (on Monday) again and I am excited to say that for this term, my course is called General Psychology. Lord knows I need it, lol. I’ll try and share what I learn! 🤪

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I felt like Barbie in Park City!! Yes, that is me eating snow with grace. :D

In my last post, I asked God to stop my anxiety for gatherings and general events, but I realized that was me crying in desperation to stop normal flows of life, lol.

So I asked for the gift of finding joy and rest in gatherings (and general busyness!) And it worked!! I tend to get overwhelmed easily (more than others) and when that happens, I lose focus on Jesus fast (even in seemingly righteous decisions I make). And I don’t want to lose Jesus in the process, because He is the whole point!! It’s just hard to turn the incredibly-anxious-switch off a lot of the times…

But guess what?!

I can confidently tell you that our Father in Heaven has the power to give us very specific gifts through our intentional faith and complete reliance on Him. And because I prayed for a very specific gift, God gave me a lot of opportunities to exercise the gift I wanted.

And these humbling opportunities were my tender mercies :’)

The Gift of Planning

Planning takes a lot of work. It takes ideas and successfully collaborating with people. It takes kindness, willingness, and a lot of love. I imagine that our Father in Heaven did (hello, Plan of Happiness)¹ and still does a lot of planning for each of us.

My husband’s birthday is two days after Christmas, so you can imagine the gears turning in my head especially with my whole family visiting for the holiday season. My amazing sister

Jelah Dawn~

is mainly the one hosting Christmas activities, which means I’m one of her helping elves. I would never recommend taking a math course in the holiday season for the very reason that I magically transformed to a panicking headless chicken. I also had to plan for our primary activity on December too! 🫠

Well, I felt like I couldn’t do a lot of it, and there were many questions I felt like I couldn’t answer when it came to planning. I almost wanted to slap myself because I asked God to give me this very specific gift and I didn’t even want to do the work it took because of how anxious I felt with so many tasks. But the Lord helped me understand that I needed to make a choice, engage with others who are involved, accept that the situation would be good enough (and remember that I am enough), and He will provide the rest. And He did!

To Give and Serve with Loved Ones

I miss my family a lot and I don’t see them often. So, during this season I felt like presents didn’t matter so much to me anymore. I wanted to spend time with my parents, sisters, and everyone else that I love. I wanted to give more. My husband felt the same way.

Hallmark vibes forever with my soul sisters <333

Because of the opportunity I had to help in multiple gatherings the best way I could (through more focus on Him and less anxious-performing), I felt that God helped me focus on the company surrounding me—and He filled the air with a lot of love and cry-laughing. ♥️

Blessings of Priesthood Power, Gratitude, & Creating Goals Together

A good friend on social media expressed the idea of getting priesthood blessings in the beginning of the year, and their family does this as a tradition. And I was like, I want to do that too!!

After Christmas-ish, before my Papa left for California very early in the morning, I asked Him very last minute to give me and my husband a priesthood blessing for the new year. Through my Papa’s blessing, my husband and I were able to create inspired goals for the new year—one of them would be reading the scriptures together before bed (we did that when we were dating but we fell out of the habit, and we’re so glad we’re back at it again!!)

I made a goal to start my personal prayers again, and express more gratitude to God and let me tell you… gratitude prayers are one of the easiest and grandest ways to feel God in your life instantly.

My husband and I chose our words of the year, and mine is CREATE. :’)

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Ask and seek. Do and hope.

I want you to know that our Father in Heaven wants us to enjoy the work He gives us. He wants us to find Jesus in every detail because He is the only way we can find lasting peace and rest from our anxieties. He gave us the gift to choose. He gave you the safe space to ask questions that trouble you, and the safe space to ask for more spiritual gifts.

I invite you to ask God what He has in store for you this beautiful year. I’lll be doing the same thing too!! My prayer is that you and I can have the courage to pay attention to what the Lord is offering on our gathering tables, and say “it is well with my soul.”

10 In the midst of this war of words and tumult of opinions, I often said to myself: What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong together? If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know it?²

7 ¶ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.³

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Do you or your family have traditions during the holiday season that blessed your life? How was your Christmas? What traditions or goals are you wanting to start this new year?!

Tell me and let’s get excited together, haha. See you in the comments!!

And a happy new year to you!! 🥹♥️

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1. The Plan of Salvation

2. Joseph Smith—History 1: 10

3. KJV Matthew 7: 7-8