Open Your Hearts - Coloring Page #25

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Hello there! This weekend is a special one for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- over the next two days, our prophet, apostles, and other leaders speak to the world, bringing messages of faith and direction from our Heavenly Father. It's always incredibly uplifting - some of the greatest moments of personal revelation I've had have come from the messages of General Conference. You can check it out at lds.org!

In honor of the weekend, this week's coloring page comes from Mosiah 2, in which a prophet called all his people together to give them his final counsel. He began his message by calling them to "open your ears that ye may hear and your hearts that ye may understand." That's what I'm praying for for myself as I soak in the messages of the next two days. And I'm not going to lie - for myself I'd have to add "open your eyes that ye may not fall asleep..." because sometimes that happens, too. :)

Enjoy this free coloring page, and the others here on the blog - they're a great way to keep your hands busy while you can listen to conference! :) To print this page, just right click on the image below and save to your computer, then print normally. Make sure you check "fit to page" so the edges don't get cut off. Feel free to share, and have a wonderful week!

Great shall be the peace of thy children -- Coloring Page #24

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Happy Sunday, friends! This week's coloring page is in the style of an embroidery sampler, and it comes from Isaiah 54, and I think it's one that we all recognize and take comfort from as we try to teach our kids and raise them up to have faith in the Lord. Because this is really the end goal, isn't it? We want our children to have peace in their lives and in their hearts, and having a relationship with our Savior and our Heavenly Father is the way that peace can last whatever life throws at them.

To print this page, just right click on the image below and save to your computer, then print normally. Make sure you check "fit to page" so the edges don't get cut off. Feel free to share, and have a wonderful week!

Proverbs 31 - Coloring Page #23

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I can 100% guarantee that if you are a mom, you have felt the strain of trying to balance all the things. If you are a mom and also trying to to figure out how to work a business or career in with it, the difficulty just multiplies. We second guess ourselves - are we giving enough to our family? Are we giving them the short end of the stick by trying to take care of them AND work? If we didn't, would we get so stifled and burned out that we wouldn't be a very good mom anyway? Not to mention the fact that many of our families depend on our income to make ends meet. Sometimes it feels like whatever we choose won't actually be good enough one way or the other.

And of course I don't have the answers because I'm right there in the thick of it myself, but I wanted to share an amazing scripture - Proverbs 31 - with you for this week's coloring page. My new friend Marcella of @ilovewoolies shared this with me and it pretty much blew my mind. It's the chapter of Proverbs that talks about a virtuous woman's worth being above rubies, and later on about her children rise up and call her blessed. I've heard those a million times, but I never noticed the whole chapter is about this virtuous woman WORKING, making things with her hands to sell, feeding and clothing her family, reaching her hands out to the poor, employing other women as well. You really need to read the whole chapter - it may give you a new perspective on your career efforts. Because after all that description, her children rise up and call her blessed. Of course our families deserve our very best, but we have so much capacity to work and to create and to grow - maybe we need to give ourselves a little more space to do that without heaping so much guilt on ourselves.

To enjoy this free coloring page, just right click on the image below to save to your computer, than print as normal. Make sure you select "fit to page" when you go to print so the edges don't get cut off. Feel free to share, and have a wonderful week!

Be ye kind to one another - coloring page #22

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This week's coloring page scripture has become an oft-repeated mantra for me. I recently found this passage from Ephesians 4:31-32 that hit me right right in the heart: "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you." Now, not that *I* would ever let anger and frustration get the better of me, especially with the people I love the most, but... These words remind me so powerfully that those negative reactions accomplish nothing and need to be 'put away.' We need to turn instead to kindness and forgiveness and love.

To download this free coloring page (or the printable full color version this week, if you'd like), just right click on the image below to save to your computer, then print as usual. Have a really great week, friends!