My husband shared this quote with me and I wanted to share it with
you!
"Our Heavenly Father wants us to live a Savior-centered life. He wants our sense of the Savior as a real person to fill our consciousness. He wants us to take seriously that promise about the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.
And this, in turn, means that heavenly father doesn’t want to hear only “nice” prayers. He wants to hear real prayers, honest prayers. How many times are our evening prayers just one more chore? Scoop up the evening paper and put it away, jot “celery salt” on the shopping list, collect that dirty sock for the hamper, brush your teeth, and drop to your knees. We all know how to say prayers. We know the polite formula of “we thank thee for the gospel, we ask thee to bless the missionaries …”
But who are we trying to kid? Jesus has just seen the stove or the spaghetti boiled over, and it was pretty obvious that wasn’t the only thing that had ever boiled over on that stove. He heard what you muttered when you picked up that one sock, just as you’ve been doing for the past eight years. He caught that worry about the dentist bill that flashed across your mind when you were putting toothpaste on your brush. He doesn’t want polite platitudes. He wants you! All of you! He wants to be the center of your total life – the worried you, the mad you, and the sad you as well as the inspired, happy, obedient, loving you."
Chieko N. Okazaki
"Our Heavenly Father wants us to live a Savior-centered life. He wants our sense of the Savior as a real person to fill our consciousness. He wants us to take seriously that promise about the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.
And this, in turn, means that heavenly father doesn’t want to hear only “nice” prayers. He wants to hear real prayers, honest prayers. How many times are our evening prayers just one more chore? Scoop up the evening paper and put it away, jot “celery salt” on the shopping list, collect that dirty sock for the hamper, brush your teeth, and drop to your knees. We all know how to say prayers. We know the polite formula of “we thank thee for the gospel, we ask thee to bless the missionaries …”
But who are we trying to kid? Jesus has just seen the stove or the spaghetti boiled over, and it was pretty obvious that wasn’t the only thing that had ever boiled over on that stove. He heard what you muttered when you picked up that one sock, just as you’ve been doing for the past eight years. He caught that worry about the dentist bill that flashed across your mind when you were putting toothpaste on your brush. He doesn’t want polite platitudes. He wants you! All of you! He wants to be the center of your total life – the worried you, the mad you, and the sad you as well as the inspired, happy, obedient, loving you."
Chieko N. Okazaki
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