Swamp witch or Princess?

What is your identity?

What is your worth?

How do you decided what it is?

What happens when you feel like you have lost your identity, or that you are worthless?

These are interesting questions to think about, because we all know what the "Sunday school" answers are......  I know that I have questioned who I am before and I have at times been very discouraged with what I felt was my identity and my worth.  It is hard to remember who we are all the time, especially when we have Satan and his minions yelling at us that we are nothing.

I read a book several years ago that changed the way I saw the temptations of Satan.  In the book Satan and his minions are on the crest of a hill where they are waiting for morning to come with anticipation.  On this particular day, along with all of the other days, they try to come in and in all ways try to discourage, depress, isolate etc.  As they are waiting to have the humans wake up, Satan tells them to be the very first thought that they have in the morning...... These could include, and have for me at times been "Good morning swamp witch....... Why are you even up this morning?....... You have no friends- Go back to bed!...... You are so fat....... the list could go on and on.  Why doesn't he ever tell me I am a beautiful princess- a daughter of God?  Sometimes it is hard to hear what our Heavenly Father thinks of us, when these devils are silently yelling at me.  Another thing that hit me was the fact that some of the followers of Lucifer are women- there are probably a lot of them.  I don't know why this was such an epiphany to me...... Maybe I thought all devils were men ;)   But of coarse there would be women- and who knows better how to be mean to women; than women?  Isn't it true- sometimes women can be ruthless, and extremely hurtful..... I am sure that "those" women know exactly how to hurt us as women!  They can be really good at making us feel worthless.  Now that I understand where this is coming from, I can say to myself- this is not true, this is not what my Father thinks of me.  I am not good at doing this all the time.  I hope I can get better at hearing the voice of my Father telling me that I am doing good, to just try and do my best- be happy, enjoy life, and have fun... and remember that He loves me.... I am a princess.

I love the quote given by Sheri Dew; "None us us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us."  We are amazing women with so much to offer to this world!  The Lord needs us to be strong and to stand with Him.  He needs us to understand who we are and what we are capable of.  In studying forordination for a lesson I needed to teach I was excited to again to be reminded of our premortal life.  We are his daughters!  There are specific things that we were sent here to do; none of which was to gain worth.  We could go through and name several men and women who were forordained to come to this earth to do something great...... But so were you!  "Mary and Eve and countless other glorious women as well as countless magnificent men were not assigned to this dispensation.  We were.  It is humbling and a little scary.  But do you think God would have left the last days to chance by sending men and women He couldn't depend on?  There is no chance He would ever be that cavalier or careless." (Sheri Dew)  He knows what we are capable of- do you?

Just as Esther in her day, we were saved for such a time as this!!!

This is our day!  Let's remember that when we hear or think unkind thoughts about ourselves; things that make us want to stay in and not make a difference, and make us feel worthless.... Let's remember who we are, and what we are capable of! I hope that we as sisters can pull together, and remind each other of our true identity and of our individual worth.  Let's remind each other!! Let's do something extraordinary!!!! Try and make a difference today.