His Will

Sometimes I sit and ponder on all that is going on in the world and the choices people make that perpetuate the wickedness, and my heart just aches. It is a literal pain inside me that comes because so many of us still don't get it. So many REFUSE to get it. So many REFUSE to see. We don't get the importance of what we do and say. We don't get the importance of our words and actions and their

effects on the world around us. Someone or something always pays the price, and that saddens me.
But . . .
When that sadness comes and the heartache sets in, I let it settle, then I let it go and remember there is always something I can be, and there is always some way God can use me to help in His glorious plan for us.
There is always some way God can use each of us, and He usually does WHEN we allow Him to, when we let go of our own will and align it with His. When we do this, there is nothing we cannot do, because He is there every step of the way to see it done - to make it so.

I pray that each of us can remember the importance of our place in this world, and then let our glorious Heavenly Father use us to magnify His will. In this way, we will truly come to fulfill the measure of our own creation.

Getting Along With Yourself

There really isn't anything else I can add to this quote. It is brilliant and sound counsel, because Satan thrives on self-hate. He does not want us to be happy at all, and if he can diminish our self-worth the tiniest bit, he will.
May we all come to see ourselves as God sees us, and then live accordingly.

God's Hospital

"If you feel too spiritually maimed to come to the feast, please realize that the Church is not a monastery for perfect people, though all of us ought to be striving on the road to godliness. No, at least one aspect of the Church is more like a hospital or an aid station,

provided for those who are ill and want to get well." ~Jeffrey R. Holland

Life can - and will - batter us emotionally, and we all need the healing that only Jesus Christ can bring. Meeting with fellow life-battered patients each week to partake of God's holy healing can do wonders for the soul, and place us on the road to recovery, provided that we follow the Lord's regimen and take the proper spiritual medications as recommended. That includes feasting on His words, then fully implementing them in our lives and enduring to the end in righteousness.
Then, when we are close to the finish line and find ourselves too worn or broken down to hobble another step, if we call on Him, the Lord will lift us and carry us the rest of the way.

He has always carried His people. And He always will.

Lifted Up

"Having descended beneath it all, Jesus Christ is perfectly positioned to lift us and give us the strength we need to endure our afflictions." ~Dallin H. Oaks

I can testify to the truthfulness of those words, for Christ found me in the gutter of misery years ago, lost, broken, and devoid of hope. I had been buried deep in the depths of despair, my body and soul stained, the light smothered in darkness. I was the most wretched of creatures, my face hidden, unable to bear the least bit of genuine goodness because I felt so unworthy of it.

But then the Savior found me. He was able to see the light others could not, and He reached down and lifted me from the dark pit and raised me to higher ground. Me, a soul so rebellious, proud, soiled, and broken. Jesus Christ, my Savior and Lord, was able to lift me because He had descended beneath all things, and He understood. He understood ME! And though I am still a sinner and not yet worthy to stand in His presence, I hope I someday I will be worthy enough, and I will never turn my back on the precious gift He gave me, and continues to give me.

I will praise My Father and my Savior all my days. I will tearfully thank Them each and every day for the wondrous gift that is my life. Oh, how blessed I am! How blessed I am to be living in such an

amazing time - such a great and terrible time! How blessed I am to have an amazing man by my side to walk through the triumphs and coming trials with me, and to know he loves the Lord as much as I do!
How grateful I am to have been brought to this point in my life that I know with every fiber of my being that my Lord and my God, as well as some of the hosts of heaven are with me, and that I am never alone!
Every new day brings sanctifying and purifying experiences. I will be grateful for them and never

wish them away, I will simply look to my Savior to help me through them. My heart is full.

The separation of the wheat and the tares has been a long process, as well as the harvesting. Now the harvesting is fast coming to a close. A change is coming. Can you feel it?
I can feel it! And I glory in it!