Wake Up, And Do Something More

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WAKE UP, AND DO SOMETHING MORE

I have found myself lately feeling very inadequate, I have always wanted to be the ideal wife and mother. You know the kind, the ones that seem like they are capable of doing anything. The canner, baker, seamstress, influential speaker, the crafty one, best dressed, perfect body, and the list goes on and on. I feel like the more I strive to be better and being this ideal person the more I fail.

I'm not sure where I have got this idea in my head that I need to be perfect in everything it is exhausting and so when I cant do something as well as someone else I feel like a failure. Now I do know nobody is perfect, and that we all have strengths and weaknesses but it its hard. 

I was recently looking on my newsfeed on Facebook and read one of my amazing friends post. which read,  "have I done any good in the world today, have I helped anyone in need?"  This was just what I needed to see! I have been getting this message over and over lately it hit me very strong this morning, I have been so worried about what how others perceive me that I lost sight of what is really important. The focus of heavenly father and my family in my life. I think this happens a lot  in a world of today where everything that we get from the media is that we are not good enough, we need to have the perfect body, perfect clothes, We need to have all the riches of the world to be happy. 

 I recently have moved to Missouri from Utah it has been quite the change, some good some bad but overall a good experience so far. One thing I have realized here is we don't know what is truly going on with a person we haven't walked in there shoes people can seem fine on the outside when they are hurting inside. I met one person that I have talked to a couple of times she seemed happy like nothing  would be bothering her then one sunday in sunday school, we were talking about how we need to help others in need and sometimes its hard if you are the one in need to tell others. she preceded to tell us that she had 12 dollars to her name that needed to last until the end of the month and this was only the middle of the month. She said she always makes it by, sometimes its hard but she knows the the lord will answer her prayers if  she does everything she can on her end.  I go back to this wonderful song that my friend quoted from,

Have I Done Any Good In The World Today? Song Lyrics

Have I Done Any Good?
Have I done any good in the world today?
Have I helped anyone in need?
Have I cheered up the sad and made someone feel glad?
If not, I have failed indeed.
Has anyone’s burden been lighter today because I was willing to share?
Have the sick and the weary been helped on their way?
When they needed my help was I there?
[Chorus]
Then wake up and do something more
Than dream of your mansion above.
Doing good is a pleasure, a joy beyond measure,
A blessing of duty and love.
There are chances for work around just now,
Opportunities right in our way.
Do not let them pass by, saying, “Sometime I’ll try,”
But go and do something today.
‘Tis noble of man to work and to give;
Love’s labor has merit alone.
Only he who does something helps others to live.
To God each good work will be known.

I think that if we could all live by these lyrics how our world would be so much different.  I truly believe that if I am constantly serving my family and others I wont feel so inadequate. Now I know I may never be the best seamstress, most fit, the ideal wife and mother but I know in the words of my mother, "If you cant be good, Be better." I know that If I work to be better and help others by waking up, and doing something more every day the things that seem important to me now wont seem so important later