O be wise, what can I say more?

These 8 words have so much meaning to me.   Here is Jacob and he has taught all that he knows and that he has been inspired to share, and as a final plea he says, in verse 12 of Jacob 6,  "O be wise; what can I say more?"

I love to do vinyl lettering and above my front door as you are leaving the house, it says "Have Courage & Be Kind."

O be wise....that would be another good one to vinyl somewhere.  This is advice I could give a family or friend that doesn't want religion to be a part of their life.  This is good advice to think about before I speak, to say to children as they go to hang out, to share with someone choosing hard things etc.

It is just good!  It is good because it leaves agency in tact.   As much as I as a parent want my children to make good choices and avoid heartache, it is part of this "temporal experience" to not always be wise. 

I know often times I repeat the same "weakness" and think to myself, "Oh Natalie, when are you going to learn?'  but, guess what....eventually those weaknesses will become strengths.  And no matter the choices I or those around me are making, there is a constant.  We all have loving Heavenly Parents and a Savior that are creating paths and opportunities for us to grow and succeed. 

I heard someone once share that we are spirit beings having a temporal experience.  And this experience is all about learning to be wise, but we are not perfect.  And so that wisdom also comes with forgiving ourselves and loving ourselves as we are, weaknesses and all. 

Can't you just imagine our Heavenly Parents sending us here to earth to gain a body and they had already taught us all we needed to know and then them saying,   "O be wise; what can I say more?.....but, know that we have a plan and we will send a Savior to help you on those days that you aren't as wise."

That is how loving our Heavenly Parents are.  They never will distance themselves from us, it is us that distance ourselves from them by our choices. 

But every day is a new opportunity to follow our Savior and choose to be wise. It is an incredible gift we have because we are loved.  No matter where we are on the covenant path, there is always a plan to assist us to get back to Them.  I know it!  I love it!