A More Excellent Way

Name: Erin Christina Elliott Rel. 122 Section: 25 Word Count: 777 Date: April 1, 2009
1) What is the reference of the insight?
Ether 12:11
2) What principle or doctrine is taught?
A More Excellent Way
3) What message for improvement is taught?
Follow your heart, follow what you feel is right, God has prepared the way for us, and we need to follow in faith, we need to choose to follow him. We need to choose a more excellent way, something different then the dark world we are living in now.
4) How can I apply this principle, doctrine, or message in my life?
Like most of the time I read and I come across a line that reminds me of a song I know. I was actually sitting in the temple when I read this verse and the song “A More Excellent Way” came into my head. It really relates to me. Everything that I have been going though and even more the fact I was in the temple reading and this coming in to my head. This was on the second time I was in the temple since I hadn’t gone in a long time. I never went to EFY but a friend put some songs on to a CD, and that one of them, and I love the songs! They have really helped me so much. I want to share the lyrics with you, because they share my thoughts, and my feelings, and I am choosing today a more excellent way.

Wandering and unsure of my position
Drifting to an end that I can't see
Drowning in a sea of indecision
As the tides of fate wash over me
Desperate to land on solid ground
A place where purpose and peace are found
I feel lost, confused, don’t know really who I am or where I am going. Sometimes I feel like I am drowning in this world. I look around and try to go on, but I don’t know where I am going to. I am hoping, I am desperate to find the place where I know I am supposed to be, just hoping I can find it, that somehow I will be there, and have that feeling of peace.

Firm on this foundation sure and steady
Now my destination is so clear
Filled with new direction I am ready
To walk this road without regret and fear
True to my Savior I will stand
Willing to give Him all I am
I stand tall and strong, I won’t falter from what I know ever again. I know why I am here, I know where I am going, and I know what I am doing! In my faith and my putting off the world it has brought me back to remembrance. I am part of a great plan, and I am going to do my part. The world can’t hurt me. I am not afraid of what is in store, my Heavenly Father is with me at all times and through the power of the atonement if I do happen to mess up there is no need to fear or regret anything. I am going to stand strong against the world and be counted among the church. I am willing to give my savoir all I am, I am living his plan for me, and I am living to spread his gospel and will always stand for him!

A more excellent way
I'm leaving the ways
Of the world behind me
A more excellent way
I'm searching for truth
And letting it guide me
I'm choosing today
A more excellent way
I am choosing a better way of life! To long have I been walking in the darkness of the world. I have been living a double life it feels like, going to church but then doing whatever it is I feel like and getting lost in the ways of the world. I am searching for the truth, the little things that I have lost. I will follow in faith; I will let the Lord guide me. I am choosing to live my life in a more excellent way, not tomorrow, but today, and I won’t fall!

I know that Christ gave his life for me so that Gods plan can keep going that I can have the chance to be here. To be tested and go through many trials and find my way through it all, and to always remember his teachings and to do the things I know I am supposed to do. I am always searching for more truths, and I am strong and firm in what I know, I will always follow in faith, and live my life in a more excellent way!!



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