I’m almost 99% sure I’m ADD. Can hardly focus on one thing for more than 5 minutes! The web feeds my ADD. I can be working on my computer, think of something else and immediately get distracted, have the urge to google something or get caught up reading some article or facebook… you know what I mean right?! The same thing applies to my life, and when I say my life I’m talking about the BIG picture. You know me and that gigantic ring of eternity. I get so caught up in me, what I’m doing, what I’m going to do next, what I want, what I don’t want, I wish this and that… all worldly things mind you. And what happens when I walk this path of me-ness I forget about the important things, I forget to appreciate the little things, I forget to take a step back and breathe for a moment and think, I forget to pray, I forget to be grateful, I forget to do my personal spiritual study, I forget to pay attention! Well tonight I came across this little video, and the shining star is Stephanie Nielson aka Nie Nie. If your life hasn’t been graced in the blog world by this amazing woman yet, you better get on board. Nothing screams more joy, faith and triumph over trials than her story. She is an inspiration, and she’s always good at pulling on my heart strings when it comes to motherhood. A while ago, she nearly died in a plane crash and now suffers with more than half of her body burned and scarred, she’s had surgery after surgery and still presses forward. My favorite quote from her on the video is about motherhood. At times I struggle with the demands of being a Mom, not that I don’t love and cherish being a Mom, but it’s easy to forget who you are and just get caught up in the routine of things. Anyways, here is my favorite quote from her, and I love it because it kicks me in the pants, it’s a reminder to me to not get distracted, but stay focussed on what motherhood is.
“I’m just grateful for the opportunity to be here on earth. The opportunity to be a mother… I view my roll now as more divine. Something more, not just a mother who wakes up and makes her kids food, it’s a mother who enriches and teaches about the gospel of Jesus Christ. But it’s a privilege, and I see it more as a privilege now I think.
To me beauty and motherhood are one. They are the same thing.”
Then she goes on and talks about how the trials of the plane crash
have transformed her view on life,
“I am grateful for this trial, it is a blessing…”
Elder Holland:
“When suffering we may in fact be nearer to God than we’ve ever been in our entire lives. Regarding our journey the Lord says,
“I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left. My Spirit shall be in your hearts and my angels round about you to bare you up.”
That is the everlasting declaration of God’s love and care for us.
Including perhaps especially in times of trouble.
I have no doubt that God loves all of this children. And what I think is so fascinating is that he didn’t say I will protect you from this or that, but he basically said I will be with you. As a mother I look at my boys, they will grow up and have to make their own choices, they will experience hard things, have their set of trials etc. I can’t protect them from harm, I can’t make sure they never feel pain, loneliness or grief, but I can tell them I will always be there for them and I will always love them. This experience of motherhood has increased my faith and knowledge that God indeed LOVES all, he is there with open arms at all times to welcome us. His plan wasn’t for us to come to earth and have a cake walk, but to experience life, trials, pain, happiness, joy… and we all know you can’t have one without the other.
He is there for us, ALWAYS.
Ok now that I’ve shared my thoughts on the video, you can watch it and gather up your own!
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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