How Can Repentance Help Me Every Day?

How Can Repentance Help Me Every Day?

March Come Follow Me Young Women Lesson

Your young women will love this spirit filled youth curriculum.

One of my favorite quote on repentance is this one by President Boyd K. Packer:

“I readily confess that I would find no peace, neither happiness nor safety, in a world without repentance.  I do not know what I should do if there were no way for me to erase my mistakes.  The agony would be more than I could bear.”

One thing I always to try to really enforce when I teach about repentance is that it is an amazing thing to have! Through the years I noticed that whenever I taught about this topic, heads would go down and my students would stop making eye contact.  This topic would often bring on feelings of guilt and they would be uncomfortable – it was as though they viewed repentance as a bad thing because it meant they did something wrong.  So I would always try to teach (with much clarity) that in order to become a saint, you learn to love and embrace repentance.  Repentance is a beautiful thing!  That is what the Celestial Kingdom will be full of – people who understood and embraced repentance!  They will be ultimate realists – when they saw un-Christlike behavior, they changed it! This lesson can foster constant faith that brings daily repentance.

I wrote an article about this awhile back, you can find it HERE.

I think this is an important principle to teach at the beginning of the lesson, because then, the rest of the lesson can be viewed as great information and tools to help them become increasingly Christ-like every day.  Otherwise, they may view it as something they hope they don’t have to use, because they don’t have a full understanding of repentance.

If you are interested in the teaching package for this, you can find it HERE.

Or you can find a combo pack of the March lessons HERE.