OK so I finally did it, I've jumped in and started a blog. Most say about time, but I was nervous about having nothing to say or rather saying something and well it just being plain boring. But well this is my blog so I can write what I want, boring or not, right?
Well so where to begin... First I guess, you might wonder what the title of this blog is all about. As you might already know or guessed, I'm Kina. I don't want anyone to think that by this I don't know who I am. It's quite the opposite actually, I know exactly who I am.
I had an experience when I was in high school where I was far far from home with a group of people from school and from some other schools around the country. When I say far far away I mean Europe. The people I was with decided that they wanted to stay up all night doing stuff in the hotel, I don't know what that stuff was because frankly I didn't want to, so I retired to bed. In the middle of the night my roommates felt it necessary to come in wake me up and question my faith and help me find myself. Among the lengthy lecture one girl straightforward told me that I just need to live life so I can truly find myself and know who I am. They then left. I don't believe I said a single word, one for shock and two I was half asleep. I laid in bed crying and then turned to reading my scriptures. When then of course all kinds of things flooded to my mind that I should have refuted back with. Why does all the good stuff always come later? I wanted so bad to have stood up and recited the Young Women's Theme.
"We are daughters of our Heavenly Father, who loves us, and we love Him. We will "stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places" (Mosiah 18:9) as we strive to live the Young Women values, which are:Faith, Divine Nature ,Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice and Accountability, Good Works, Integrity, and *Virtue*. We believe as we come to accept and act upon these values, we will be prepared to strengthen home and family, make and keep sacred covenants, receive the ordinances of the temple, and enjoy the blessings of exaltation."
I know who I am, I knew it then and my heart ached for those girls to truly know who they are. I am a daughter of God who has been sent here with a divine nature. That divine nature gives me the ability and responsibility of becoming like my Savior, Jesus Christ, one who truly is those above stated values. Each one of us has been born at this time to become our divine nature, by all means I'm not yet there, hence I am working on becoming Kina, the ultimate, God desired Kina.
