"ON THE ROAD TO PERFECTION"

    For my calling or service I give to my church( the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints). I teach relief society a class for all women so we as sister's in the church can get together weekly and build each other up. I teach out of our church's manual from previous prophets teachings.

    The lesson this week was about keeping the commandments of the lord.This may sound odd but I related this a lot to motherhood in several ways.
  First let start with the discussion about keeping the commandments. In the bible Matthew 5:48 it says" be ye therefore perfect, even as your father which is in heaven is perfect." In the manual in response to this scripture Joseph Fielding Smith said

"  I believe the Lord meant just what He said, that we should be perfect, as our Father in heaven is perfect. That will not come all at once, but line upon line and precept upon precept, example upon example, and even then not as long as we live in this mortal life, for we will have to go even beyond the grave before we reach that perfection and shall be like God.

But here we lay the foundation. Here is where we are taught these simple truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in this probationary state, to prepare us for that perfection. It is my duty, it is yours, to be better today than I was yesterday, and for you to be better today than you were yesterday, and better tomorrow than you were today. Why? Because we are on that road, if we are keeping the commandments of the Lord, we are on that road to perfection, and that can only come through obedience and the desire in our hearts to overcome the world. …

… If we have a failing, if we have a weakness, there is where we should concentrate, with a desire to overcome, until we master and conquer. If a man feels that it is hard for him to pay his tithing, then that is the thing he should do, until he learns to pay his tithing. If it is the Word of Wisdom, that is what he should do, until he learns to love that commandment."

  So if we feel we are failing or if we have weakness then we just start by trying one thing at at a time.  Try is all we are asked to do and "perfect" one commandment at a time.  I love the commandment tithing because even though it can be difficult to give one tenth of our earnings to the lord its something we can be 100% in if we do it. The lord I know also blesses us when we are following his commandments.

 So as this relates to motherhood in my eyes is we as mothers feel like we are failing and we think i need to do this and this and this. It can get quite overwhelming but I think we can do like the lord wants to see us do in regards to Keeping the Commandments.  All you got to do as a mother is Try.... or if there is something you want to do to change work on one thing at a time.  I also know with prayer the lord can help us on this journey in raising our children. We are not meant to be perfect we are "on the road to perfection"........