Faith, Trust, and a Little Bit of Pixie Dust

Patience is hard.

Learning to trust in God's timing is hard.

Doing things you know you should be doing when you don't want to is hard.

Loving EVERYONE is hard.

Choosing when to act and when not to act is hard.

Choosing what to say and what not to say is hard.

Lots of things in life are hard. I honestly wouldn't change anything though. It's during the hard times that I have learned the most (about myself, people around me, and life in general) and grown the most. 

I came across a scripture while I was reading in Alma the other day, and it has become one of my favorite scriptures. 

"thou didst bear all these things with patience because the Lord was with thee"

--Alma 38:4--

God will give me the strength to keep going and to have patience. He will take me through life one day at a time.

Then I read verse 5:

"as much as ye shall put your trust in God even so much ye shall be delivered out of your trials"

It all comes down to trust and faith. Let me add another item to the list I created up there - 

Continuous faith and trust in God is hard. 

It's hard to keep putting faith and trust in Someone that we can't see. It's hard to keep having faith and patience when we can't see what's coming and what's going to happen.

That's the point though. Faith is "hope for things which are not seen, which are true" (Alma 32:21). It's not meant to be easy. It's meant to be trying, but oh so wonderful when we do. As Loki says in one of my favorite movies, "if it were easy, everyone would do it!"

And even though I can't see God, I can feel Him. I have hope and faith that everything is going to work out the way He has planned, because I know that He does have a plan for me. I may not have figured it out yet, but I know that there is one. 

I like to have things planned. I make lists, and then I make more lists, and then I make more lists. I like to know what's going to happen and I like to be in control. And when there's a problem, I come up with a solution (I have a really hard time not working to solve the problem. My attitude is very much along the lines of "oh, there's a problem? Okay, well how can we fix it? What about this? Or can we try this?"). I plan, and I think and then think some more (overthinking is something I am often extremely guilty of).

"Put your trust in God even so much." "Thou didst bear all...things with patience because the Lord was with thee."

Patience and trust. Two things that I'm working on, along with faith. I guess you could say that's my New Year's resolution for January. 

Hard times and challenges are inevitable. It's just a fact of life. But here's to faith, patience, and trust, and enjoying the journey.

 

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