After having a migraine today and feeling rather crappy, I found myself editing my playlist for this blogger and got stuck on the song: Be OK by Ingrid Michaelson. I am feeling like that today. I have been wallowing in pitty, rather immature of myself and felt that I should go to read nienie, which always gives me a boost. I watched her video on "I'm a Mormon" on the side bar and in it heard a talk given by J.R. Holland about Liberty Jail and started reflecting on my life and how Stephen and I've been waiting to have children and at the point of losing it, I heard in her video clip: "We are not alone in our little prisons here. When suffering, we may in fact be nearer to God than we've ever been in our entire lives. That knowledge can turn every such situation into a would-be temple. Regarding our earthly journey, the Lord has promised, “I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up” (D&C 84:88). That is an everlasting declaration of God’s love and care for us, including—and perhaps especially—in times of trouble." He also made the correlation between Liberty Jail being a temple, I personally would have never thought of it like that. But it made sense, that our hardest times can bring us closer to our Heavenly Father even though were are not in the holiest of places. Whatever religion, whatever our location, or age, we all go through things that we cannot control and sometimes life's feels like we got dealt the wrong hand, we can always find something that is good. I just gotta keep thinking about that.
Until then, may we all get through it!
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