Today at church we learned about a change of heart.  How it is necessary to learn and grow and become a righteous child of God. 

What helps us have a change of heart? Is it a desire in our hearts? The love of those around us? simply our time in life? or that we have hit rock bottom and we finally see we want a difference?

Regarding hitting rock bottom, I read a quote not to long ago, "Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn." We won't always have the best day, or the time of our lives.  If we hit rock bottom, we can learn and remember that Christ is our rock. 

Helaman 5:12 " And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."

When we face those mighty winds, they could push us so far down that we remember Christ and we desire to change our hearts.  With a changed heart we are more loyal disciples of Christ, and we strengthen our testimonies in Jesus Christ. 

Another quote is hung on my wall, "Darling, a beautiful thing is never perfect." While there may be many things in our lives which we wish to complain about, but if we turn our hearts towards Christ, we can face everything.  We won't fall into past temptations.  We will remember that He died for us, and that the Atonement is real in our lives.  Christ is living, and He wants us to truly follow Him.  We must change our hearts though.  We must have a pure heart and a contrite spirit.  We must be humbled enough to realize that we have to change.  It is hard, it will be painful, but with prayer we can do it.

It's a long road ahead without Him.