Ever had that moment when you are doing what you have prayerfully determined is right for you and your family and then someone calls you on it?
And you are left shaken to the bone for a moment and wondering if the choice you have made is truly the best, or if someone else might just know more about what is right for your family than you do?
I have always swam upstream. I have prayerfully made each decision regarding our family with much thought, discussion, and option weighing with my husband, and even when the decisions prove to be so right, and someone judges, it throws me for a loop. Why? I am sure the Lord gets so tired of me reasking for confirmation of the answer I already know is right because some HUMAN questions my answer from a loving HEAVENLY FATHER.
I think the reason that I ask and re-ask is that I truly want to do what is best for all my kiddos. I realize that I swim upstream most of the time. I don't let society(or doctors) tell me that they know more about my children than I know. I like simple. I don't follow the norms, I realize that, but I honestly, prayerfully, whole-heartedly seek that which is the best, and if I know another way to be best, I can't just follow the pack.
After an episode like this, it get over it real quick, I am really good at getting over it because I KNOW that I KNOW what is best, it just frustrates me that I care at all.
I only write this because I wonder why we care so much about how others view us? I know I am not alone in this....or maybe I am. How do you keep from letting what others think get to you?
4 comments:
You are up pretty early and already posting this? You have a kind heart and it matters to you because you would never want to be unkind or thoughtless. Heavenly Father knows who you are and so does Satan and he want us to doubt ourselves and others. Read your "FORGET ME NOT BOOK". And enjoy your day. You have more people supporting you than not. Love you....
I agree with LaVon!!! 100% and then some. It took me a lot of years to realize that the only person we need approval of is our Father in Heaven. Hopefully, it won't take you as long as it did me to know that. People are allowed to think what they want and we just have to let it just roll right off our back like water off the ducks! Your dad always told me I had to get elephant hide so that the "comments" like darts, just fall away and don't even bother us.
I Love you and know you are definitely doing what you know to be right and what others have to say, really can't replace the confirmation from your Heavenly Father.
I struggle with what others think and say about me but you do what is best for your family and Heavenly Father will always confirm to you his answer. I am sometimes hard of hearing but am humbled everytime. President Hinckley said "do your best" that's all that is asked. I know that others are put in our path to help lead and guide us, such as doctors, neighbors, friends, ward members, but they are not always right either. But I have found that the best advice is always given from those that love us the most and want whats best for us. You are an amazing Mom, wife, sister and daughter of Heavenly Father. With our new business that we started we have been judged by others and then others have supported us, those who didn't or won't support us I still love but feel sad that they couldn't support us trying to make a difference for our family. I love you, you are a beautiful example of love, compassion and service to me! Love you!
Some of my most hurtful "helpful advice" has come from some of the people I trusted most! So yes, when Heavenly Father gives you the peace that you're doing the right thing, ignore everyone else! Harsh, but true. Keep up the great work.
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