Why???

Well, to be frank 2008 was tough, difficult, trying, not as planed, horrible, awful, horrific . . . Ok it my not have been as bad as those adjectives make it sound and i am 100% sure that other people have gone through a great great deal more than me, but it was definitely not what I hoped for or expected. Often at the beginning of the year we tend to look back and reflect about the past year and then make resolutions for the next. Let it be known that I am definitely not one to do that but this year I had promised a friend that I would give the first lesson of the new year for the Elders quorum. That first lesson is often about the new year and the resolutions we are making etc. I, not wanting to really head down that path decided to give my lesson on inspiration. Oddly this topic made me look back at some of the choices I made, as well as some of the experiences I had over the past year. Much like i expected it was quite depressing! I thought to myself that inspiration should be well . . . Inspiring. Inspiring, enlightening, uplifting, moving, were all the adjectives I should using in this lesson and really they were all feelings I should be having while I prepared. In pondering I realized that inspiration was all around me but that life, relationships, and the like had beaten me down such that I just wasn't noticing it. With that said i decided that a little reflection now and then was not such a bad thing, but also that I needed to look a bit more for those small moments of inspiration that are all around but sometimes we don't notice them because either they just seem to common or because we are just a bit oblivious. Anyways, that's why!!!

I hope that as I write this I may be able to put some of my thoughts down with great emphasis on those things that inspire me, and perhaps ( I really don't expect that to many will read this) someone else might find a little bit of inspiration in the things I write.