The Fight for Repentance

(Free thy self) Release your burdens…

Repentance is not a bad word; it is not a word that holds you down, and it’s not a word that brings self-pity, anger, sadness, heaviness, and pain to the soul. It is not a word that hides your actions and makes you feel used or guilty. It is not a word that makes you feel that you were or are a bad person. It is not a word that gives you great anxiety, depression, uncertainty, loneliness, and fear. It’s not a word you should run away from.

Repentance IS a word that gives you strength, gives you freedom, and lets you breathe. The word repentance doesn’t hold you back or make you feel as if you are stuck.

Repentance is a word that moves you forward. Repentance is a word we should all love because it’s a gift from our Father above. It’s a gift of love; it’s a gift of physical and spiritual correction when we’re off the path of our divine nature. It was a gift given to help us, not to hinder us. He KNEW what we all were up against during our learning process of spirit and body here on earth.

Repentance is not a word that pulls us away from our Heavenly Father and from our brother Jesus Christ. It is not a word that stains us but gives us Power—the power to move those thoughts and feelings of anxiety, guilt, bondage, fear, anger, and loneliness away from our heavy hearts and minds.

Repentance is a word that doesn’t make you feel stuck, feeling there is no way out of your situation. Repentance is a word for “Healing”.

The choices that are made sometimes are not working for you. You took a wrong turn off your pre-Destin path. The path you chose to take before you were born on this earth.

You were there In our heavenly home. We who are born on this earth were all there and we all chose to love cherish and help one another. Help to lift one another instead of making judgments toward each other and turning our backs because someone made a mistake. (A wrong turn so to say. ) There is a difference between judgment and understanding of a soul's sorrows. ( a soul is the connection of your body and spirit)

Sometimes because of our insecurities, we make choices to have a different road trip than the one we had planned for ourselves before this earth life.

On these road trips, there are a lot of distractions and experiences that look fun to have, like bright lights, loud laughter, and different food for our appetites, that seem to quench our thirst.

Some signs say come and join us and have some fun! It looks enticing and maybe you are tired of the Mundane boring drive of life we seem to tell ourselves we are in.

This is the way the other 1/3 of our brothers and sisters can bring us down to their level of misery and unhappiness because of their Jealousies, and Despair of where they are and you are not. They did not choose to follow Jesus' plan. Thus far You made the better choice.

But when the enticement gets too strong and the heavy emotional stresses seem to tie you down and throw at you emptiness and loneliness it becomes easier, so to say, to align yourself with people that have made different choices. Taken different paths, and different road trips. Not the best choices.

Because their very own heavy Emotional burdens that they too bear, and carry within them, give them a feeling of unworthiness. It can pull them to and fro one way rather than another if they don’t stay connected through their lifeline. Which is through prayer, united with our Heavenly Father Who knows our hearts, minds, and spirits. He not only gave us free agency to choose for ourselves the path we walk, but he gave us, the worth of the soul.

The worth that God has given each one of us is non-negotiable it is who you are as his spirit child. It is your divine nature. This God-given worth moves us forward when we make mistakes, Which in turn helps us to find wisdom, which helps us to become wiser in the choices we make. The negative, self-worth talk you tell yourself is not the Worth God gave you, and still gives you.

Through repentance, we can see our choices from a different perspective, and that is the very moment that we learn and grow closer to our Divine nature.

Earth life is Satan‘s domain, we knew he would be here, but I think we felt we would be stronger in our passion for our God-given right, to bring to pass the experiences, we would have to share one with another and to show our love to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, and their gift to us of the plan of salvation for all. The eternal plan that we as individuals felt was right.

We looked forward to having and making our own choices for our divine path, for our learning, our own experiences, and the gaining of knowledge of things on earth. We had passion, we had good strong beliefs, we had the conviction that we could do it and wanted to do it, and so we are here.

We are here right now still learning step-by-step making mistakes along the way.

There are experiences put in our paths that will pull us away from the path we had paved for ourselves before we were born on earth. The things we are here to do and accomplish.

Some of these distractions look bright and fun, they look like new friends that are doing something interesting and different, and that calls to you. They are people who don’t give you good advice, sometimes they lie and cheat and will try to persuade you so they can pull you down to their level of experience. They, like all of us from time to time, feel guilt and despair because we are making choices that are not our eternal truths for ourselves. They have forgotten who they are, or have never been taught that they are children of God.

When we walk that path of despair, it is harder to remember, how to find our way back to who we truly are.

Repentance is a beacon of light. It is a spotlight of Truth, Forgiveness, Love, and Compassion. It helps you with never-ending green arrows showing you the way back to the road you must travel. It will renew you and give you Purpose, Peace, Joy, and Happiness.

Satan and his minions are the ones that pull you down, the ones that are going to lead you on a path that you know in your heart is not the path for you. They are the ones who are going to tell you lies, that repentance is a dirty word that you will never get past the insecurities and anxieties that you hold inside you because of something you did willingly or unwillingly.

We all have choices in this life. Choices are sometimes not easy and sometimes they are dependent upon the direction you choose to go. Depending upon your understanding of the gift of repentance. Depending upon if you can use it as a road sign, as a help, as a way station, or as a place to stop and ponder.

We are here to learn to redirect our thoughts and feelings. We are here to learn to pray for guidance and safety along the paths that we walk alone or together.

Pray boldly, and ask for understanding of your life lessons, knowing that moving forward in your life requires effort.

Hold on to the Iron Rod in Lehi’s dream. His dream was guidance from our loving Heavenly Father, Not only for Lehi’s family but for all of us to read and learn about the Plan of salvation, the directions that we should align ourselves with so that if we stray we are not completely disconnected from our Father above.

The large and spacious building in Lehi‘s dream is all around us, it is in the world. If you choose to enter Into the despondency and despair of that great and spacious building, it can bring fear, loneliness, uncertainty, influence, and lack of trust in yourself and God.

But because of the plan of salvation and your free agency to make choices in your life, you can also choose to walk out of the large and spacious building of darkness into the light and find Love, Joy, and mercy for yourself.

We must never forget that walking side-by-side in all things for our good is our loving brother Jesus Christ who has already borne our sins and understands us on a very personal level. He is always there to help, so we can find our way back home.

Jesus‘s sacrifice, satisfied the demands of justice, allowing God to mercifully forgive us through repentance…

Alma 12:34

Therefore, whosoever repenteth and

hardeneth not his heart, he shall have Clam and

“Mercy” through mine Only Begotten Son, unto a remission of his sins;

and these shall enter into my rest…

After repentance don’t look back, because your life is ahead of you…

It is your choice, it has always been your choice.

Love yourself and let your light so shine…

Debra Rudd

I am a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

*footnote;

Life can be like a massive freeway system, you have a plan of a destination of where you want to go or end up as you enter the freeway entrance. There are a lot of exits, roundabouts, and distractions while you are on your way. If you don’t pay attention, you will miss the exits you need, to get to the destination you want to find. It can get very confusing and disruptive to your plan.

Let’s say before you left on your trip you asked Siri to help. She knows where all roads lead and can get you where you want to go even though you still have to drive through the freeway chaos to get yourself there.

Your Heavenly Father is likened to Siri He knows the way and if you trust in him and keep him in your heart he will guide you through your life. He will help get you on and off the freeways of your life and arrive at your destination… He always has your back… but you won’t hear him if you don’t listen for his Direction…