Sunday, November 18, 2012

Believe Anyway

Today's lessons in my ward were not "cohesive" in the sense that I had one major takeaway.

So, instead, I will just reflect on my thoughts from the day. The storm will pass. It will be scary, and hard, but we are prepared, we can keep going. Life doesn't always make sense, but we can believe anyway.


"Let me begin by reminding you that we so blithely say in the Church that life is a school, a testing ground. It is true, even though it is trite. What we don't accept are the implications of that true teaching—at least as fully as we should. One of the implications is that the tests that we face are real. They are not going to be things we can do with one hand tied behind our backs. They are real enough that if we meet them we shall know that we have felt them, because we will feel them deeply and keenly and pervasively."
Neal A. Maxwell (here's a link to the amazing address where this came from)

Elder Maxwell talks about how these things are very real, but they are very temporary. :) Keep believing, keep working, keep striving.

Sorry, this is short, but here are two pictures of the sun shining through the storm clouds. Life is hard, but we can prepare, we can learn, we can turn to each other, we can come unto Christ.



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