What would you throw off?

The leadership conference is now on lds.org if you're interested in reading it...
On a note about the post on Judging...all of you had such insightful, wonderful comments. I loved reading them so much. Thank you thank you for that. It helped me realize again how much we are all trying to do our best. If you haven't had a chance to read all of the comments, I highly suggest it, they are so good!  Along those lines, this was also from that same meeting, this quote is by Elder Oaks. Read it sloooowly.

"In all that we have discussed, I think it is fundamental for us to avoid taking the world’s models as our guides for parenting and marriage and all of those things that have eternal importance. I’m mindful of the counsel recorded in 2 Corinthians, chapter 6. Paul was speaking to those who had the gospel, and he said, “[Don’t be] unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14). He’s telling us that we cannot afford to stand side by side, yoked with the world, when we are trying to make fundamental eternal decisions."

How true!  So many of you said this very thing.  We can not care what anyone thinks of us, sometimes this may even be our friends and hardest of all...family, we can only do what we know is right for our own family.  And then if we feel judged, chose not to be offended.

This was another part that I feel was meant for me to hear. This is Elder Holland near the very end of their discussion.  

"I’ve often thought, and I’ve said to my own children, that those parents who kept going past Chimney Rock and past Martin’s Cove (and sometimes didn’t get farther than that) and those little graves that are dotted all across the historic landscape of this Church—they didn’t do that for a program, they didn’t do it for a social, they did it because the faith of the gospel of Jesus Christ was in their soul, it was in the marrow of their bones. That’s the only way those mothers could bury that baby in a breadbox and move on and say, “The promised land is out there somewhere. We’re going to make it to the valley.”

Well, that’s because of covenants and doctrine and faith and revelation and spirit. If we can keep that in our families and in the Church, maybe a lot of other things start to take care of themselves. Maybe a lot of other things sort of fall off the wagon. I’m told those handcarts could only take so much. They had to choose what they took. And maybe the 21st century will drive us to decide, “What can we put on this handcart?” It’s the substance of our soul; it’s the stuff right down in the marrow of our bones. We’ll have blessed family and Church if we can cling to the revelations."

And so I ask myself...what do I need to throw off my handcart?  What do I need to do to make it lighter so that my family isn't pushing so much crap over this giant mountain of life.  I can't help but wonder what I am putting first in my small handcart- and I don't think he's speaking of material things.  All in all it made me re-examine my life and think about what I am doing with my TIME to best help my beautiful family get through this life knowing that I did my very best. 

It would be just a few simple things....the trick is remembering.

What would you leave, (or at least leave most of) out of your handcart?