Mar. 4th, 2017
Happy March, everybody! This week is living up to the old
adage quite nicely – March definitely came in like a lion, because midterms and
projects abounded this week. However, I had a really sweet experience this week
that begs to be shared – especially as I’ve tried to implement it in my life so
far.
For a long time, I’ve had dreams of becoming an illustrator,
and at the beginning of April, my last chance to try and major in it will come:
a portfolio will be due and my fate will be decided there. I really want this
to happen, and Heavenly Father has been really good at helping pathways open up
and lead to endless possibilities. Now all that has to happen is hard work. And
while I may have some strong points when it comes to making this artwork
happen, there are many things that are my weakness and make me really nervous
that I’m going to blow the opportunities I’ve been given. So, in order to see
what my chances may be, I set up an appointment with the head of illustration
at BYU. A bit terrifying to think about going, but wonderfully enlightening and
refreshing as I left J.
We talked for a long time, and as I displayed my pieces,
there was a common theme to what I needed to work on – making compositionally
sound pieces. I had no clue how I was going to go about making that a reality,
I got some tips, pointers, and examples shown to me of how I could work on it. Then,
in addition to this knowledge, he told me to apply Ether 12:27 in the temporal
sense – we all have weaknesses, but they are there to humble us and push us to
become something even greater – that by the time I graduate that could be my
greatest strength, as long as I let Heavenly Father come with me in my natural
gifts!
I learned two things from that experience: one, that the
scriptures can really be applied in any situation we may be facing in life, and
two, the gospel can be applied to anything in our lives. We know that the
scriptures help us with spiritual problems, but it wasn’t until I started to
pray for help and strength in creativity and inspiration that clear pathways
were opened up for what I could do: I was acting as an effective instrument
with what I had already been given. Secondly, if the gospel is everything our
lives should be centered on, why not try and put all aspects of our lives into
it? I challenge you all to try and pray and find what you can do to make your
life more focused on receiving strength in weakness! So far, it’s working out
for me pretty well J
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