It seems I have to learn the same lessons over and over again. As I took a break today due to my cracked, bleeding heels – a problem I have in Winter, I was kicking myself because once again, I failed to be consistent in putting lotion on my feet every night. My life would be so much easier if I would just take a little bit of time every day to do the things I need to prevent problems. It is a much bigger pain to have so much trouble walking around than to just take a few minutes to apply lotion. But every Winter, I just want to use it once and be done with it. I only follow this routine until it’s bearable and then I’m complaining about the pain in no time.
As I thought about this, I realized it applies to so many things. How many problems would I avoid if I took a little time every day to pray, read the scriptures, and set aside just a couple hours a month to go to the temple? I bet I would ease a lot of my trials if I did these things, but I continue to resist any routines in my life. Any time I think about doing anything every single day, I start to feel a little overwhelmed.
So I need to think about how much easier my life would be to just keep doing those things until they become habits that I can’t stand to do without. There was a time it was that way for me. I couldn’t go to sleep without having a prayer and reading my scriptures, but motherhood kind of threw that out of whack. I long to get to that frame of mind again and I know my days went better when it was a habit.
Consistency in my parenting would also do me a world of good. If I invested just a little more time dealing with certain behavioral issues with my kids, it would help them in many ways and ultimately myself too. I’m thinking about the talk President Hinckley gave years ago about how much easier it is to straighten a tree while it’s young and still bendable. A lot of our trials we endure are because we made them that way from our failure to consistently do a few simple things.
I hope the lesson will finally stick with me. I really don’t need my life to be any harder than it has to be. The most rewarding things in life don’t happen overnight. My children learned to read through consistency – we read to them every single day. It took over ten years of practice for me to be able to pick up sheet music and play it on sight. So I know I have the ability to be consistent in some things. I just need to do it in other areas.
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