Every woman who feels she can't do it all should read this talk...

Sister Patricia Holland gave an excellent talk that I love.

It's called "One Thing Needful": Becoming Woman of Greater Faith in Christ.

I recommend you Read it HERE!

Here's a few quotes from it...

"If I were Satan and wanted to destroy a society, I think I would stage a full-blown blitz on women. I would keep them so distraught and distracted that they would never find the calming strength and serenity for which their sex has always been known.

“The Feminists did not look … far [enough] ahead; they laid down no rules of conduct. For them it was enough to demand the privileges. … And [so] woman today is still searching. We are aware of our hunger and needs, but still ignorant of what will satisfy them. With our garnered free time, we are more apt to drain our creative springs than to refill them. With our pitchers [in hand] we attempt … to water a field, [instead of] a garden. We throw ourselves indiscriminately into the committees and causes. Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distractions. Instead of stilling the center, the axis of the wheel, we add more centrifugal activities to our lives—which tend to throw us [yet more] off balance.

“Mechanically we have gained, in the last generation, but spiritually we have … lost.” 

"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.."

Elder Christofferson gave a talk in conference a while ago where he told the story of the currant bush being cut down. It really sunk in my heart and made me think about what the Lord may be making of me. I have a really hard time getting "cut down" and given trials, or having my bad habits brought up, or those moments when I realize I'm not doing what I should. Having the humility to let that correction make you better is a powerful experience. There is no feeling quite like humility. It is purifying and hopeful and powerful. But it deserves to be because it is so difficult to achieve. But I add my testimony that it is worth the battle- and it's a constant daily battle to put your pride aside and trust in Heavenly Father's plans. If it is true that He loves us as an infinite, perfect eternal father, then what would we have against trusting Him?

"If we sincerely desire and strive to measure up to the high expectations of our Heavenly Father, He will ensure that we receive all the help we need, whether it be comforting, strengthening, or chastening. If we are open to it, needed correction will come in many forms and from many sources. It may come in the course of our prayers as God speaks to our mind and heart through the Holy Ghost (see D&C 8:2). It may come in the form of prayers that are answered no or differently than we had expected. Chastening may come as we study the scriptures and are reminded of deficiencies, disobedience, or simply matters neglected."

We have the capacity to face the challenge.

 “When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to fail or to be wicked. When we have been weighed and found wanting, let us remember that we were measured before and we were found equal to our tasks; and, therefore, let us continue, but with a more determined discipleship. When we feel overwhelmed, let us recall the assurance that God will not overprogram us; he will not press upon us more than we can bear."

-Elder Maxwell

Stillness helps heal better than trying to just rush through.

"Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distractions. Instead of stilling the center, the axis of the wheel, we add more centrifugal activities to our lives—which tend to throw us [yet more] off balance.  "-Sis. Holland

Christ is Mighty to Save

" Is there a way to safety? Is there an escape from threatened destruction? The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you to look to the lighthouse of the Lord. I have said it before; I will say it again: there is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what the lighthouse of the Lord can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, “This way to safety. This way to home.” It sends forth signals of light easily seen and never failing. If followed, those signals will guide you back to your heavenly home." (May 2012 Ensign, Believe, Obey, and Endure, Thomas S. Monson)

Peace Comes From Christ

Christ gives a true peace- different from the false sense of security that worldly things may claim to bring. 

Christ is the comforter, and His peace lasts. 

26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 

27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

28 Ye have heard how I said unto (New Testament, John, Chapter 14)

Patience- Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Patience
Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Nov. 1979

"...There is also a dimension of patience which links it to a special reverence for life. Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance. Put another way, too much anxious opening of the oven door and the cake falls instead of rising. So it is with us. If we are always selfishly taking our temperature to see if we are happy, we will not be.
When we are impatient, we are neither reverential nor reflective because we are too self-centered. Whereas faith and patience are companions, so are selfishness and impatience...
...Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. Either way we are questioning the reality of God's omniscience as if, as some seem to believe, God were on some sort of postdoctoral fellowship and were not quite in charge of everything..."

Read it here on the BYU Speeches website