Though I am religious, I try not to be in everybody’s face about it all the time. Today, on Easter Sunday, I feel the need to share my testimony of Christ. If you have no interest in my thoughts, feel free to skip this post. Our regular posts on travel, family, and adventure (including the process of selling our house) will continue shortly.

I am not the same person I used to be. At times in my life, I have found parts of my life that I didn’t like. Very heavily in my teenage years, but even now as I learn and grow, I find myself desiring a change. Not a change of others, but a change in myself. My actions, thoughts, and desires are not always aligned with my wishes, goals, and desires for myself. As I identify the changes I would like to make, I try to follow Christ’s example and apply to myself his prompting to “go, and sin no more.” I have drawn upon Christ and His Atonement to make those changes. Through the power of the Atonement, I have left those pieces of my past self… in the past.

Christ isn’t concerned about the person we were yesterday, but about the person we are today, and the person we can become. He suffered for our sins, and died for us, to provide a pathway for us to become all we can become. Through His power, we can change, and we can be a different person tomorrow if that is what we desire.

Though in most ways I’m the same person I was as a teenager, I’m very different in some of the most important. As our life adventure unfolds in new and unexpected ways, I’m grateful for the guidance of Jesus Christ in both word and Spirit.

The video I’ve included below has been making the rounds on social media, and I love it. I even stole (borrowed?) the title for this post. Because of Christ, I am a better Son, a better Father, Husband, and Friend. If I have improved so much in the last 15 years Because of Christ, I hope I can allow him to help me as much in the next 15.