This past weekend I replaced my garage door opener (3 hour project), spent 4 hours helping a sister in another ward make posters for her event, ran 12 miles in preparation for my upcoming marathon, took Gavin to his first football practice (and bribed him to stay until the end), invited the three sisters I visit teach to attend the RS broadcast with me (attended it by myself), invited and went with an inactive sister to sacrament meeting (2 hours before attending my own ward), went to ward council and volunteered to personally do something that our over-worked Elders Quorum president didn't want to do, sat through a combined Priesthood/RS lesson talking about how we are not doing enough to strengthen this generation of kids, came home, talked to Tif about personal progress, read for 20 minutes to Gavin, made dinner and cookies for dessert, and still didn't feel like I had done "ENOUGH". Don't miss understand. I am not describing this to get a pat on the back, or to have you compare yourself to me or me to you. It is an honest question with which I struggle. I know that most of you are doing nearly all you can do too. So how do we know when we are succeeding in our goal to be a celestial person?
When the bishop was talking during the combined lesson I thought to myself; how will I know when I have done enough? I know Shawn would say to me "He is not talking to you directly Jennifer. He is trying to encourage people do do a little more. To strive to be better." Yet all I can hear are the Bishop's words "We are not doing enough." I am pretty sure he didn't add in "Well, everyone but Jennifer isn't doing enough."
With the marathon I know when I have done enough. I have friends that cross the finish line and collapse giving it literally all the physical strength they have. I have finished several times thinking that I probably could have pushed a little harder or gone a little faster. However, even if I think I could have gone faster, I know when I cross that line that what I did was sufficient to earn me a medal. The task is done, the course complete.
My question is simple. How, in life, do I know when have I done enough? We all know that all I can do is still not sufficient to get to the Celestial kingdom. Christ will have to step in and make up the difference. So how do I know when I can feel satisfied with what I could do? Is there a line I have to cross? A percentage to achieve? How do I know when I am succeeding?
With the marathon I know when I have done enough. I have friends that cross the finish line and collapse giving it literally all the physical strength they have. I have finished several times thinking that I probably could have pushed a little harder or gone a little faster. However, even if I think I could have gone faster, I know when I cross that line that what I did was sufficient to earn me a medal. The task is done, the course complete.
My question is simple. How, in life, do I know when have I done enough? We all know that all I can do is still not sufficient to get to the Celestial kingdom. Christ will have to step in and make up the difference. So how do I know when I can feel satisfied with what I could do? Is there a line I have to cross? A percentage to achieve? How do I know when I am succeeding?
1 comment:
You have a valid question. i think the answer is that when you are striving to be better and to do what is right, not just resting on what you have done, you are doing enough.
Sheri
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