Lyssa's inspirational thoughts for the day!

I got to thinking the last couple of days that yes my Heavenly Father loves me so much, and He has a plan for me, but! He wants me to make decisions, use my agency, trust Him, and not be idle. He wants me to make the most of what I have been given and make the most of my life. In Isaiah 40:31, it says “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint.”  The word wait, in Hebrew means to hope for or anticipate. It doesn’t mean, wait around and do nothing. I have been guilty of waiting around and doing nothing. Waiting for the Lord to bless me with what I desire most. I put things off that I would like to do. I put off making decisions because I thought my life would go a different direction. Anyone ever think that once you’ve graduated or get married or whatever the case is that your life will begin? Then you’ll be happy? As I was driving home from Provo ye

Serving others brings joy ♥️ I had a really neat experience today. I was walking home from school and I saw a pathway that I always wanted to go down. As I got closer to it, I realized it was just a driveway and I couldn’t go down there. So I started on my regular route going home. I came upon this old white house. It looked worn and ragged and I honestly hadn’t given it much thought when I would pass it daily.  In the driveway was an elderly woman getting out of a car with some of her brown paper bag groceries. She was putting them on the lawn as I was walking up to her. (Now, side note, I had written some things down earlier that I wanted to do today, one of them was serve someone.) As I saw her putting these groceries on the lawn, I wondered how she was going to carry them all to her house by herself. The person dropping her off couldn’t walk, and later she thanked me for helping, since she could not. I went up to her and had to ask a couple times because she couldn’t h