Spiritual Media

Today is the first day of the 182nd Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. My heart is full of love and my eyes keep filling with tears.
General Conference brought the spirit and then the program this evening (Two Brothers - hope everyone saw it or buys it!) brought incredible emotion to me thinking about family and the gospel and missionary work and...tons of things that I hold as high priorities. It has been an amazing day! It is so hard to put into words. Easy to pour out into kleenex though! :)

Anyway, I am sure I will pick a favorite moment from conference and be able to post a clip of it from YouTube in the next couple weeks...For now, I just want to share a Christian song that expresses how I am feeling right now. It isn't an LDS song, but it definitely still has a powerful message...Brandon heath's song Give Me Your Eyes:

"Perfect People" = Oxymoron

The media stresses a physical perfection (wedding industry, beauty industry, physical fitness industry, etc.) and I think people are drawn to the idea of perfection since that is innately what we came to mortality to work on. Perfection is an attractive idea. I just wish more of us could focus most of the time on the spiritual perfection which is most precious and much harder to accomplish. It is a more wholesome and attainable goal. 

 

There's relatively little use in learning how to do makeup perfectly so that I have flawless skin or the best makeup art to accentuate my eyes. I don't suspect there will be makeup kits in heaven. And I don't mean to say that makeup is completely bad - in moderation it is great for making oneself feel lovelier and more confident. We just need to watch out for spending too much time on such things or giving it more time, money, and importance in our lives than it deserves.

KEEP FOCUSED ON REAL PERFECTION - 

The most important perfection will not be achieved in this life. All we can do is keep getting closer to Christlike perfection.