Desire

OK, this is a little longer blog but I hope it is worth your while.

Let's talk all about DESIRE: More specifically the desires of our hearts.

Yes, go to a talk from Dallin H. Oaks, "The Desires of Our Hearts", Ensign, June 1986, for more.

OK, you can organize this however you want:

Sometimes what we want is not what is good for us.

Sometimes what we need is not what we ask for.

"I got nothing that I asked for, but got everything I hoped for."

Read Alma 29: 1-3 with an emphasis on verse 3.

There is this story of a wise man: A boy asked him how he could accomplish anything. The man took the boy to a stream and held him under water until he almost drowned. The boy jumped out of the water screaming: “AIR! AIR! AIR!”

The wise man said: “Ah yes....When you want to succeed as much as you wanted AIR, just then you will have the desire to succeed.”

Example: King Lamoni's father: Alma 22:18

Sometimes we have inappropriate desires we must evaluate and diminish, then eliminate.

Something that we must do is pray for the right feelings. If we do this and succeed we will have righteous desires and then righteous actions.

Alma 32: Plant that seed...let it grown, let it become a tree which continues to grow and then takes root and then brings forth fruit.

Yes, I think we all can work on having better desires....but more importantly letting our actions align with our desires...and vice versa.

GO AHEAD DO IT:

CHANGE, ACHIEVE, BECOME.

LOVE YOU ALL

Sister Okada