Being Mom

"Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom! Mooooom! MOOOOOOOM!"
These words were ringing through my house this morning. My little 18 month old followed me around the house as I was cleaning and making lunch, showing me what he found, but mostly just yelling my name. He is just learning how to talk, and "Mom" is on the top of his list, along with "Papa".
How often do we get "stuck" on something? Stuck in a mood, stuck in life, stuck in a decision we made, and we feel like we can't get out of it? How can we combat this "stuckness", and find our way out? Find our way to wherever we need to go?
I found this quote by Vern P. Stanfill



Over these past few weeks I have found that there is so much light in the world. There have been so many hard things that so many close to me are going through, that they feel they can't get out of. They're stuck, and see no way out.
Christ is our way out. Christ is our light, our confidant. He is there for us always. Feeling stuck is a hard thing to overcome, but when we overcome it with the Savior, we can know and feel His love for us. Pray to Him, search the scriptures for Him, love your neighbor for Him. Everything we do should be for Him.
This past week, while preparing for my primary lesson, I was reading in Mark 11. I loved the verses 22-24. It talks about the fig tree that was cursed withered away and gone. Peter reminded Christ about this fig tree, and Christ responded beautifully. He said to "Have Faith in God." Not only that but "whosever shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith...Whatsoever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."
When we have faith, and when we pray through our hard times, for specific things, or just for help, We can know and are PROMISED that if we believe them, we will have them. When we pray to get "unstuck", and believe that Christ will help us, then He will. It may take time, and hard work on our part, but He will never leave you, as long as you ask for His help.
I think of it in relation to my 4 boys. When they ask me for breakfast, or to help them get buckled into their carseat because they can't do it by themselves, or to help them get their shoes on because they are still learning, do I leave them? Do I keep them "stuck" in that place, always asking for help? Or do I teach them how to buckle on their own, how to find their shoes, and maybe how to throw a piece of toast in the toaster? (Because let's be real, toast is a favorite over here, and we have it almost every day.). Eventually, they will learn, they will master that skill, and they will find something else that they will need help with, and I will be there guiding and helping them.
So when I am running around the house, with my 18 month old following me, yelling my name at the top of his lungs for no apparent reason, I smile, I hug him, I kiss him, and I know that I can get through whatever is going to be coming at me next.