Do you have your boots buckled up tight enough?

I recall one particular day when I was on the mountain snowboarding. My legs were getting tired and I was fatigued. I started to crash and fall.  It seemed that no matter how hard I tried to stay up, I fell to the hard, icy snow. When I moved my feet in position to carve into the icy snow, the snowboard did not respond. Down I fell again. I remember laying down on the icy snow and thinking, "I'm not going to get to the bottom of the mountain." I was so sore, and I told myself, "I'm done!"

Life is that way sometimes. No matter how hard we try, we sometimes keep falling. When we fall, we hit the icy hard ground. It doesn't feel good. We hurt, we feel like we are done sometimes, and wonder if we can get to the bottom of the mountain.

On the mountain that day, I did get back up and I did eventually did get to the bottom of the mountain.  I reached down to unbuckle by boots from the bindings.  I noticed that the buckles were loose. Each time when I would move by feet to carve, they would move within the bindings. This caused by board not to respond. I thought, "How long have I been trying to snowboard like this? No wonder the board was not responding the way it was suppose to when I attempted to carve in the snow."

In life, are your boots buckled up tight enough? How are your prayers with your Heavenly Father? Are you even praying? Are you reading the word of God? How is your relationship with your Savior, Jesus Christ? Are you applying the atonement of Jesus Christ in your life? These are valuable tools you have to help your "snowboard" work in your life. Sometimes we focus on how hard and icy the ground is each time we fall, we wonder if we are ever going to make it, and we forget to look at the simple things that we have that will help us get to the bottom of the mountain.  The time is now to tighten up those bindings. It makes a big difference.