The Good Life: Arise from the dust!!

It's amazing the things you can learn from yourself - things I had forgotten that I had once learned. I was reading my journal from a few months ago and it felt like I was learning this for the first time. It was a thought I had while reading in the Book of Mormon in Moroni 10:31, particularly the part of the verse that says, "And awake and arise from the dust."

Here is what I wrote (and re-learned today!) "I think the dust is the world, the daily tasks that I prioritize too often, the getting it done rather than enjoying the process with my kids. Awake and arise! Get out of the dust! It's an interesting mental picture to go from laying down in the dust (having it cover your whole body) to arising and standing up (having dust only touching the bottom of your feet). There are still tasks and jobs that I need to do but my focus on these tasks compared to my focus on my kids should be like dust on my feet as opposed to dust covering my whole body."

The most important thing to me is Paul and our kids yet I fill my day with things that aren't focused on them. Yes it's good to clean the house but I can do that here and there rather than pushing through it all and not taking time to sit at the learning table with Kathryn or play on the ground with Nathan. If I keep thinking, "Let me get this one thing done and then I'll play," I will run out of time to play. It struck me when I was at the temple that my kids are getting older and I don't want to realize how precious they are only when they are gone. Today I can start. Today I can realize it. Today I can sit and play. I don't need to multi-task. I don't need to always be doing something. I want to learn to sit, to enjoy them.