Growing up

Everyone always tells you that it is important to explore your options while yo uare growing up but no one ever tells you when to stop and specialize. That is that no one ever told me when to make that switch. Not saying that I haven't learned thing that I can do for work but as I grow closer to graduation I wonder about what I will really do as I view my self as having many skills but not a lot of specialization. Oh well, looks like it is time to start looking for an employeer.

Looking out for each other

After the Priesthood Session of General Conference, I came away with a feeling that we must all take care to look after each other. With these feeling came also others regarding ways that I need to and can change to do just this. I thought of the people in my ward that the Lord has given me the responsibility to look after. I could not picture them because I do not know who they are, which only deepened the feeling of need to improve.

I pondered much more fully on my brother who I love and know now how to interact with, encourage, or assist. He has made some decisions that are not good for him. Some spiritual in nature which breaks my heart but to focus on those only makes it harder to interact with him. I must ignore them so that he can know that I love him: a thing I am still working on making more obvious. I fear most, currently, for those choices that he has made that can be very adverse to him physically or mentally.

I have always had a hard time interacting with my sister and this brother, not because of their choices but more that are opinions and personalities have been so different as to render our relationships difficult. Since my sister got married and started having kids, our relationship has become easier; however, I do not have these experiences to increase the similarities between my brother and myself. I find that life can be very helpful in creating similarities in people but our lives are so very difference that it can be difficult at times.

I do not know what I will do, but do something I must: love my brother without fail. Now the hardest part is making it obvious to him just how much I care for him. Lets all take a moment and come up with ways in which we can look after each other and then put them in action. I hope that I can.