My wife and I didn't do anything extraordinary - we didn't go to any "exotic" places. As a matter of fact, it might seem like a downright boring weekend to most who live for the weekend and try to cram get-aways, adventure, or whatever into the short weekend. Our weekend involved: going grocery shopping, going to the farmers market, canning some food items, going to church, singing in the Music and the Spoken Word broadcast. Yep, that's about it.

But it was all about TIME, as the LDS infomercial says. My wife and I did things together. We made time, and we enjoyed it. It was just a simple, good weekend for us. Knowing what the week holds for me at work with its hectic schedule, I'm pretty sure I will be "opening that bottle" many times to savor the nice, quiet time.

Our attitudes in general determine our happiness and how we can use those "bottled times" to help us and get us through life's hectic schedules. It has been said that going to church "recharges our spiritual batteries" for the coming week. A battery is designed to hold a certain amount of power for an indefinite time. But even a battery has a "leakage factor" where it will start to dissipate even with non-use. The factors for this dissipation can be accelerated by the climate that battery is stored in. 

So it is with our spiritual lives. Going to church, mutual, the temple, or other church activities is the recharge we so often need in our hectic lives. Our "spiritual batteries" can dissipate by everyday challenges, such as work, school, peers, and what we ingest into our brains, such as media and Internet. And we can get our spiritual batteries topped off daily by doing the simple things such as reading/studying our scriptures and prayer.

The bottle analogy, given at the beginning can be liked to a battery too. It holds those good things in and as we experience additional positive experiences, we can refill or top off our bottles. Thankfully, our capacity to store and keep good and spiritual things is not bound by the size of the bottle or the battery. Our batteries and bottles are ever-increasing as we gain more and more good everyday and spiritual experiences in our lives.