The Doer of our Deeds

I have really enjoyed reading this tlak by M. Catherint Thomas. There were alot of thoughts and scriptures that hit home to me in my life right now. I thought that I would share the quotes that stood out to me and why.
"Christ says" I am the true light that is in you, and that you are in me; otherwide ye could not abound" (D&C 88:50). Chrsit is the life and the light of every person (John 1:4, 9). King Benjamin teaches similarly that God perserves us from day to day, lending is breath, that all we have and are come frimm him" (see Mosiah 4:21)." I love this because it reminds me that I need to strengthen that faith in my Heavenly Father and trust in him to help me with things and not try to do then by myself. We are not here to struggle and find things difficult. With the lords help all things are possible.
"His sin of ignorance or choise produce bitterness to suffer-- but usually he doesn't know what the real sourse of his unhappiness is. He thinks it has something to so with the pwoplw around him, or he things ir has to do with his circumatances. But Elder Neal A. Maxwell observes: "The heaviest load we feel is often from the weight of our unkept promises and our unresolved sins which press down relentlessly upon us." But the pursuit of selff-seteem with not solve the problems of the slef that is in conflict because sin. It will not even solve the problems of those who suffer from others sins against them." I love how it basically says that if we have low-self-esteem it is because we are living a sinful life that we need to repent. Feeling dirty or unclean can leave us feeling like that, because as we are sinning the sprit can't be with us. So therefore we feel alone and helpless.
"We will never be happy naymore just by being ourrselves or living our own lives. We will not be satisfied until we have surrrendered our lives into the arms of the loving Christ, and intol He has become the doer of all our deeds and he has become the speaker of all our words. MOrmon describes Church members who, waxing "stronger and stonger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of christ ," are filled with joy and consolation." Can I say Amen! That is so true, everythings about it. As we wax stronger in our humility and firmer and firmer in the faith of christ we will have joy and life, we will not feel a lone or abandoned.
"I would that ye should remember, and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God, and your own nothingness, and his goodness and long-suffering towards you...... If ye do this yw shall always rejoice, and be filled with the love of god, and always retain a remission of your sins. ( Mosiah 4: 11-12) What does the lord mean by the nothingness od man? We recoil at nothingness because we try so hard to overcome our feelings of unimportance. Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my god, for in his strength I can do all things. (Alma 26:11-12)" These are some of my favorite quotes. I loved them so much on the mission. We are absolutely nothing with out our Heavenly Father. We wouldn't be here. We wouldn't have the great lives without him. we cannot boast about our self's, we cannot be like poor pitty me when we are not doing the things that our Heanevnly fahter would want or lives in harmony with his teaching. We need to be grateful for the things that he gives to us.
" One who practices faith in the Lord Jesus Chrsit will find relief from the stresses and anxieties of the pursuit of self-esteem." When we have faith in our heavenly father nothing matters in the world the earht could be coming down on us but we just need to take it to him in prayer and he will help us.