Somedays, You Want to Stay in Bed

 I believe that I often blame "adulting" for forcing me to make responsible choices. I'm coming to realize though that making responsible choices in the moment is me choosing not to postpone tasks and push them further forward to stress out future me. 

I'm dealing with that right now.

I feel like, by acknowledging that present me is dealing with what needs to be dealt with now, saving future me added pain, I feel better about "adulting". 

Life always feels better when we see we are making good choices, rather than being acted upon. 

This morning, I'm reading the section in Women of the Word entitled "Bible Literacy". I am grateful to have not only the Bible, not only the Book of Mormon and other restoration scriptures, but modern day prophets and apostles who can aid in knowing God's word. 

I love the quote: "The God of the Bible is too lovely to abandon for lesser pursuits". 

So I am using my agency today, and using the resources of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ to study agency in the scriptures today. I want to firm up the pleasure I take in using my agency for good, just as God did in the creation story. 

Agency: The ability and privilege God gives people to choose and to act for themselves.

• And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15
• Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all 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. 2 Nephi 2:27.
• I have all things that I need to choose one way or the other. When people do not have all that they need for survival, I wonder if God is more merciful in judging them, since their choices are not always as free as mine?