WE CAN EACH BE A HOLY WOMAN....

I believe that if we really are going to do what we came here to do, and that the Lord is counting on us to do... that we need to seek in every way we can to be more holy, to invite more holiness into our lives so that we really can... as the forces around us are increasing in intensity, have an equal and opposite reaction to those forces.
Whatever it took in the past years to have a strong marriage, great family, and a great life, would not be sufficient now.

What was enough last year won't be enough for this year, not as the forces around us are increasing in intensity. If individuals could look at who they were in the premortal life and see the commitments and covenants they have made and who they stood by...meaning the Savior...all of their problems would fall away.

If you could gaze five minutes into your pre-mortal DVD, you would know more about yourself, more about your problems than if you took a lifetime to study it.There is great importance in being holy and inviting the Holy Ghost into one's life.

Recently Wendy Nelson e-mailed six women...ages 25-65 and asked them to try an experiment to do with holiness. She asked them if for three days, they would be willing to, just once a day, purposefully choose one activity a day and try to be more holy while doing it or to do it as a holy woman.
For example, you might try welcoming your husband home, or making dinner, or reading to a child, or exercising, or eating one meal, or talking with a friend, or shopping, or praying, or doing laundry as a holy woman would do it.
How would a holy woman do it? See what difference a desire to be holy can make.

One woman wrote about her experience with the most troublesome task she usually had during the day...brushing her 4 year old's teeth. She said that she pictured the Savior in the room with her and felt an immense difference.
Suddenly, I felt more patience. I didn't bark orders. I felt I had more influence over the situation. I could step back and almost see, well, how a holy woman would handle this situation.

Many women expressed that, after the experiment, that being holy was not such an unreachable goal.
They noticed how the desire to be holy affected their lives and wanted to continue to improve being more holy in their everyday lives.
Maybe we ought to try this experiment as well...if we desire to do this, to have this...we must recognize that the desire to remove anything anything and everything unholy from our lives, hearts and homes is absolutely a part of wanting to increase the holiness.

There is a great need to be holy in these times of turmoil.
It is time to pray for the Lord to help us to be holy.
The Lord is counting on his daughters...
we are the crowning glory of all his creations.

The hand that rocks the cradle truly does rule the world.
May we all desire to be a holy woman for our sakes and for the sakes of our families.

Expressing all my love and respect to each of you...I find there are so many good women out there in this world...being good women...even holy women.
I know that you are so loved by your Heavenly Father and he is proud of you for all that you do. And I know God and Jesus Christ are there for each of us, as we strive to be holy women.