ameliorate: verb, to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory;improve.
I have been thinking a lot about my word for the year. I have had it on my mind for a couple of months and thought I knew what I wanted it to be this year. I have also been thinking about goals and setting some new ones. But today as I was cleaning and putting Christmas away I really did not want to make new goals or resolutions.
President Brigham Young said that the Lord “gives a little to his humble followers today, and if they improve upon it, tomorrow he will give them a little more, and the next day a little more. He does not add to that which they do not improve upon” (Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe [1941], 90)I just love that quote! My thoughts of the past couple of months of my new word have gone right out the window. I will save that one for another time. What I want to do this year is IMPROVE or AMELIORATE! I want the Lord to add to what I have. How can I ask for more when I have not done what I have been asked to do in the first place? Interesting how my prayer of late has been "to please show me how to follow Him better" and this word comes into my life today- ameliorate. I find this quote today. I understand more today. I think in my study today I IMPROVED a little more by keeping His thoughts in my thoughts.
So this year no list of new goals, no New Year's resolutions that go by the wayside in a few weeks anyway, no new added things to my list that is already so long that there is no way I could ever get anything new done. I am going to IMPROVE on what I already have, IMPROVE on what I already know, IMPROVE on my studies, prayers, church worship, temple attendance, and being a good friend, wife and mother!
If you have not guessed by now my word for the year -IMPROVE (ameliorate)
2 comments:
That's awesome! Very encouraging!
sweet! I think that sound perfect. That is exactly how I have been feeling, I won't copy your very cool word, but I will follow your example.
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