The atonement can be an amazing thing, for me it has helped me to set my life back on the course it needed to be. I am so grateful to my Savior for what he has done for me. One thing that has become very clear to me lately is the Holy Ghost in my life. For so long I had kept him out and had been living without his presence. I didn’t realize how empty I was until now. It is wonderful to have the Spirit with me to help inspire and guide me. And I have noticed that as long as I am willing to listen to his promptings he will guide me in the right direction. This has become ever more clear to me as time has passed.

Because we had both grown lax and because we were not keeping our standards to where they should have been, my husband and I allowed certain things to come inside our house. Certain movies, (R rated movies) movies that the Spirit would not be around. Certain TV shows that used foul language and crude behavior in an effort to be funny (like South Park). These things had an effect on us, our language changed and our behavior changed. We grew desensitized to crude and offensive things. Since deciding to change myself and bringing the Spirit back into my life I have found my sensitivity to those things returning. I am once again shocked to hear foul language, and offensive behavior and offensive television has begun again to bother me.

I thought about asking my husband to remove those items and shows from the house, but that is much like trying to force my ideal on him. So instead I have asked him to watch them when I am not around or after I have gone to bed. He has to let the Spirit guide him to what he feels is right just as I have to do the same thing.

Recently he made a comment, “I am coming to realize that there is no in between with you, I can either have the bad you or the good you, there is no grey area.” And it is true, I can not truly focus on repentance and on trying my hardest to return to God if I allow things in my life that drive the Spirit away. Keeping the Spirit strong in my life is what helps me resist temptation and any urge that may come along to return to old bad habits.

Tags: Atonement Holy Ghost Spirit Repentance Righteousness

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