Urban Poly Princess

This is the real title of that talk by Jeffrey R. Holland that I looove!!! I found it online for something else and now I wish I had it before when I was trying to resist what I knew I had to do. All it takes is for me to read this talk to feel petty and silly. It may be difficult for me but really it's NOT THAT TOUGH!!!

Funny, different passages stood out to me before-Here's one that hit home to me NOW:

"But education, or public service, or social responsibility, or professional accomplishment of ANY kind is vain if we cannot, in those crucial moments of pivotal personal history, submit ourselves to God even when all our hopes and fears may tempt us otherwise. We must be willing to place all that we have--not just our posessions (they may be the easiest things of all to give up), but also our ambition and pride and stubborness and vanity--we must place it all on the altar' of God, kneel there in silent submission, and willingly walk away."

I can completely relate to how our possessions are the easiest to give up. Following the spirit does not affect my ambition although it completely works against my pride, stubborness and vanity

I still love this quote from C. S. Lewis and The Screwtape Letters
The work of devils and darkness is never more certain to be defeated than when men and women, not finding it easy or pleasant but still determined to do the Father's will, look out upon their lives from which it may seem every trace of God has vanished, and asking why they have been so forsaken, still bow their heads and obey. Actually Pres. Holland paraphrased this so it's not a direct quote.

Pres. Holland in the beginning talks about the visit of the Savior to the American Continent. He reminds us of how mass destruction  has just occurred. He reminds us of how this is the Savior who is about to speak-the focus of every church gathering, fireside-EVERYTHING-right in the VERY beginning of what he says to them he includes how he has SUFFERED THE WILL OF THE FATHER. I love reading this because when following the spirit feels like I am SUFFERING-it helps to think I'm not the only person who ever felt that. It is so comforting to know the Savior felt that way too. I know my challenges barely scratch the service of what he went through BUT it still makes me feel better to read that.