Hoorah For Woman!

As I have been with Fran and SandraLee, 2 of my sister in laws who live on the east coast, the last week I have been observing some things. I have been percolating them in my mind and heart. And then SandraLee and I had a talk today about our lives and what they look like. They each are doing such wonderful things in their homes and in their lives. Fran is nursing and blessing so many and working with her children as Eric is gone so much of the time. Their family is so strong on education and being involved in their talents. She also teaches the Laurels and I imagine they love her intensely.
SandraLee gets up every morning at 5 to teach seminary and is doing such a magnificent job at that and touching lives. She has her children involved in music, swimming and other things. Her home is organized to the tiniest detail and she, too, is carrying such a heavy load as she parents with Chris gone so much. She is homeschooling Rebekah and they are both, she and Fran, in the process of getting their master's degrees.

I have been looking at all that and it has caused me to wonder about my role as a woman in the kingdom. So today SandraLee and I were talking about being eccentric. Now to me that is not a bad word. It is kind of a fun word. I said I thought that she was eccentric in being organized and that I was eccentric in being fluid or easily changeable.


Two very different gifts as I look at it but both hopefully suited to our very different calls as women in our Heavenly Fathers Kingdom. Then she said something very interesting "You have to have goals and in order for me to accomplish my goals, I have to be organized".

This was kind of in reference to my seemingly carefree existence right now as I am traveling with 10 of my girls and don't really know what my schedule is from day to day. I then said in essence and of course, say it hopefully more clearly now as I have had time to formulate what I am feeling, that for me I have so many goals that I dream of and set but, in order to get those goals my goal today is to have the courage to not have to be somewhere, do something, look like the world says a woman should look in her everyday life and to listen with everything I have to the next direction, place I should go, life I should touch and do it cheerfully.
Also to have the courage to put my own desires aside to bless the lives that I have stewardship over. (What I said to her really was that my goal was to be able to do today what Heavenly Father wants me to do no matter what it looks like but this is what I was trying to say)

I guess what I am trying to say now, is that we are all women who are on the Lord's side and we are doing and trying so hard to be in the world and not of the world. We are trying to create our little piece of heaven through obedience and sacrifice and yet we are all so different. I rejoice in those differences, I honor them and say "Hoorah for the Sisters in Zion", my sisters, my mother and my daughters, and all those out there who are doing the same thing. Facing everyday with courage born of knowing that we are in Heavenly Father's hand and love it!