Change

I've been thinking about this past year and I'm pretty much in the exact same position I was a year ago, even two years ago, maybe more. It seems like nothing has changed. I'm still the same person I've always been. I mean, I am freakin awesome but I do have some flaws. You'd have never guessed, would ya? While ringing in the new year I've contemplated the new year's resolutions I want to make. Getting in shape has always been on the top of the list but I've decided not to even put that on my list this year as much as that desperately needs to happen. All I want to do this year is be fit spiritually. I feel like if I do that everything else will just fall into place. That's what I hope anyway. After all these years of making resolutions to be better I don't think I've kept a single one. And why? It's because I don't change. I just go along with life expecting change to just happen. It's almost like I expect my circumstances to change me but I have to change me. I have to change myself. No one is going to do it for me. That's why I want to be spiritually fit this year. The only thing that can help me is the gospel, specifically the atonement. I need to take it and use it and create a new me. Still me but a better me. The enabling power of the atonement is what will help me become the person I need to be. It's not a bunch of friends, a rockin bod, a boyfriend, stylish clothes, or even the greatest vacation that will change me into a better person. In order to actually complete my new years resolution I have to change myself with the help of the atonement. Its a good thing I know the atonement works or this would be an impossible task. I'm so grateful for my testimony and for my knowledge I have of Christ. He is my Savior, my brother and my friend. This year I'm going to make the atonement my focus so I can actually accomplish my goal of becoming a better me. 2013, lets go.