The yucky pukey feeling was all over with yesterday, but the coughing!! I can’t stop coughing.

I also can’t turn my brain off. I am restless to make art and found some new inspiring blogs (here and here). I think over this Christmas break I will be doing some drawing (and spinning of course) and overhaul my site.

I’ve also been working on my talk for our Home, Family and Personal Enrichment meeting tonight. As a Presidency it is our Christmas gift to the sisters–a night titled “Fill the Well Within.” There will be musical numbers and talk about how in order to truly serve and give, we must first be filled. Not in the pop culture sense that we should go get a pedicure or something, but that our spiritual wells can run dry if we don’t do what’s neccessary to replenish them.

I based my talk on 2 Nephi 2:25-27

25 Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.

26 And the Messiah cometh in the fulness of time, that he may redeem the children of men from the fall. And because that they are redeemed from the fall they have become free forever, knowing good from evil; to act for themselves and not to be acted upon, save it be by the punishment of the law at the great and last day, according to the commandments which God hath given.

27 Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and call things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself.

We are the creators of our lives. We can choose either to act, or to be acted upon. By choosing to act, we fill our wells and create joy in our lives.

Here’s a list of choices we can make to fill our wells:

and most importantly

If everyday we could think about what we are doing and feeling and thinking and ask, “Am I acting, or being acted upon?” If we could focus on being the creators of joy–which is the full measure of our creation–then our wells would be full. We could gain a more proper perspective of what really matters and simply love.