Watch what you eat!

So, who likes Skittles? Snickers? Hershey bars? M&M's?

Now who likes Nature Valley Bars? Healthy fruit and nut mixes? Or really any snack that isn't 90% sugar 10% artificial coloring!

 VS.

I am sure that we all know that sweets are very tasty, but not very healthy! Yet, Health bars and other healthy snacks are not as naturally yummy as the sweets. But, which one is better for you?

Imagine a little kids dream diet of candy candy candy in between meals for a couple weeks. Yummy huh? But what are you going to look like? Probably not your good looking, fit, slim self! You might put on a few pounds, gain some circumference around the waist, you know what I mean! Now imagine how much you would continue to crave candy. You need more of it, even though you know the harm it is doing to your body!

Now, replace that candy with some healthier options. Apples, health bars, Nuts, etc. You will probably have more energy throughout all the day. In a couples weeks, you will have lost some weight, gotten healthier and feel better.

Now after that week where you ate only candy, how tough is it to get into a healthier habit? Fruits and nuts and health foods will taste nasty! But if you look at them the other way around, going from healthy food to sugary sweets is way easier! Who doesn't appreciate a bite out of a Snickers bar as a prize for a job well done?
Living a worthy life ALWAYS yields good results, even if it is not the most fun at the time. We must be willing to sacrifice what we know is wrong to do what is right! Bad decisions will lead us to nothing good in the long run. When we are able to choose the better (healthier) choice consistently and not just once a week or here and there, but diligently follow the commandments and guidelines found in the scriptures, our lives will be blessed. Our spiritual strength will grow slowly but surely and we will become the people the Lord knows we can!
Remember Alma 41:10
"Wickedness never was happiness."

Syrup or Syrup?

So, how do you say it? Syrup (seer-up) or Syrup (sur-up)? Now, this is a cause that I am very opinionated about. When people ask for the sur-rup, I refuse to pass them the sweet sugary goodness! Why? Because to me they said it wrong! I refuse them the right to what they think they asked for because in my mind, my way is better! Not just better, but the only real way of saying syrup!

But the real question shouldn't be: "Why doesn't he just pass me the syrup?"

It should really be "Why does he care so much that he denies me the syrup because I don't say it like him?"

So, are my actions just in denying someone, who clearly believes contrary to my beliefs on this topic, the blessing of having syrup on their french toast (or whatever this breakfast may be)? Not at all!

We can all be guilty of holding back the syrup in one way or another in life because someone thinks, acts, looks, talks, or IS different in any way. What right does anyone have to withhold anything from someone just because the way they are is different to how you know it is!

Christ taught us to love one another countless times in the scriptures, and we need to show our love for our Brothers and Sisters, our fellow man, by passing the syrup, even though they say it wrong! In the end, you are both happily eating your breakfast together rather than arguing! Take the win-win every time!

Don't get wrapped up

Imagine holding onto one link of a 30 foot long chain. Each link will represent a thing we are asked not to do. Now that link you hold onto is the one of those things that you are choosing hold onto and keep for yourself. as you continue to hold onto this link and go around doing whatever it is you are doing, hopefully trying to do good, the rest of the chain will slowly start to wrap around you. Eventually, you will be so tangled up in this chain until we are wrapped in all 30 feet of it making it impossible to move!

Imagine, if you dropped that chain link in the very beginning instead of holding onto it for so long! You wouldnt be dealing with all of the other sins that tag a long with holding onto one seemingly harmless thing! So before you get wrapped up, drop what you have and FREE  YOURSELF!

You can CHOOSE to drop that chain! Sterling W. Sill once stated “Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. … God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong”

We have agency, we have the choice to be free or to give Satan power over us! Let us all remember to drop the chain before it consumes us and BE FREE!