Increasing Your Light

This Sunday, our lesson was taught by our wonderful president Lauren. It was a beautiful lesson about increasing your light.

She opened with the question, "What do you think of?" These were some of the answers:
Sunshine               Inspiration          Christ
Knowledge          Clarity
Happiness            Hope
Peace                  The Temple

Lauren's lesson was filled with beautiful quotes from President Uchtdorf! Unfortunately, I can't write very fast, so I just gleaned the parts I liked the best haha. The first little sun drop I gleaned was this gem, "God promotes the hope of His light." What an amazing promise! He's not going to leave us in the dark.

We were then asked what decreases light:
Stress
Priorities out of order
Comparing ourselves to others
Shame
Anxiety
negativity about others or ourselves

We then talked about what brings light into our lives:
Charity for others
Faith in God (even when things get hard)
Clean house
Being around others
Finding hobbies
Reading old journals
Surrounding ourselves with good media

Lauren brought up a wonderful point that maybe His light isn't an on or off switch, but maybe it's more like a lighthouse. The closer we get to it, the brighter the light gets.

A big part of this lesson was the promise that as WE draw nearer to GOD, HE will draw nearer to US. I LOVE THAT! We need to learn to use the Atonement so that we can continually draw nearer to our Heavenly Father and our Savior.

I'm so grateful to be part of this Relief Society and know each of you ladies! Love y'all. Let's all try to increase our light this week!