Overwhelmed/Temple/Gethsemane

Today I am overwhelmed.  Do you ever have those days?  It doesn't matter how well things are going or what you have accomplished you just feel like you can't do it all.  Today my house is clean which does not happen often in my life and frankly only happens because when my husband became bishop we decided it was time to have someone help me with the deep cleaning.  But you would think that that should be enough, but it is not.  I have been studying up on eating "clean," meaning no processed foods etc, but wow, is that work.  It is a great idea, I love it, but it is expensive and time consuming.  That gets me thinking about my family health.  The youngest 3 are doing great but the older 4 of us need to be better in exercise and food nutrition.  As I ponder on this I am reminded of laundry, birthday parties, class room parties, teaching on Sunday, diapers, groceries, budgeting the list never seems to end.

So I prayed, what else could I do and I was reminded that I have not been to the Temple in several weeks.  With track out, snow days, etc., my Spirit is weak.  It needs the strength of the Lord to help it.  Just as my body needs good food my Spirit needs nourishment


from my Heavenly Father.  When I am in the Temple I feel so much better.  The unnecessary stuff falls away and is forgotten and the important things remain and over time are accomplished.

I am going to the Temple on Friday.  I am really looking forward to it.  Someone in a class I attended recently said, "The Temple is where God comes down to talk to His children.  The world is too dark for Him to come to but the Temple is light."  I love that.  Here I am living in the dark where everything is hard to see, it is hard to see what the Lord really wants us to do, but as we attend the Temple things become clear and bright.




I am reading my lesson to teach on Sunday and am reading about the Atonement of Jesus Christ.  I am reminded of a song my children sang in primary:

Gethsemane 
by Jenny Phillips

Jesus climbed the hill
To the garden still
His steps were heavy and slow
Love and a prayer
Took Him there
To the place only He could go

Gethsemane
Jesus loves me
So He went willingly
To Gethsemane

He felt all that was sad, wicked or bad
All the pain we would ever know
While His friends were asleep
He fought to keep
His promise made long ago

Gethsemane
Jesus loves me
So He went willingly
To Gethsemane

The hardest thing That ever was done
The greatest pain that ever was known
The biggest battle that ever was won
This was done by Jesus.
The fight was won by Jesus.

Gethsemane
Jesus loves me
So he gave His gift to me
In Gethsemane

Gethsemane
Jesus loves me
So he gives His gift to me
From Gethsemane