Hello Everyone. This is a quote that I found from the wonderful (and my neighbor back home) Chelsea E. Sheridan! I was reading this quote and looking at other quotes and had some thoughts:
Life isn't easy. I think inside we would like it to be easy. Is there a place somewhere inside of us where we have a desire to do hard things? Maybe? Maybe there isn't. I think that some people have a desire to do hard things. Or we do sometimes. Anyway, other times we have to learn in this life the value of hard things! A lot of us do, if not all of us.
After reading this quote (in the picture), I am grateful for the hard things that I have gotten in this life. I don't know if I have said that before. In my mind I have and definitely before my mission, sometimes? Maybe? Recently, for me, the hard things have been impossible. And so, I haven't really said that recently. Also, with this quote I think I understand more of God's plan. I - (or) ME - (or, spanish) "YO" believe that God gives us what we can handle and only what we can handle. That can vary greatly. That can vary very greatly...vary. :) lol. punny.
But, with this quote (in the picture) I, personally, came to an understanding that God will only give us what we can handle. God needs to turn us into what he needs. And, that has to happen by trial. (yeah.....) The greater or harder the trial, naturally, the more we dislike it and the more we feel everything negative that can or could be directed towards it. But, we shouldn't think this way.
First of all, we should be preparing for these things (trials), and if we aren't, we are in trouble. We, not only may not be ready for the trial....(you won't be) but, our goal or desire of reaching our ultimate goal (hopefully everyone's is to return to/with God), may not come to pass. At least, not as fast as it could or could have or would have. Yup. Totally.
So, prepare for trials and hard times and prepare for life!! This is a good and happy place!! (Don't just prepare for your next trial! That's no fun and it is no fun for the people around you!!!) Don't get down all the time by life. Who wants us to do that? (HINT: the Plan of Salvation..... One of two possible answers.......)
And so, I am grateful for the mighty trials I have gotten and I am grateful for the preparation and progress and things that I have done in this life to prepare me and help me reach and achieve my ultimate goal. To prepare me for life. (and those trials) We should not live in fear. Don't!
But, with this quote, look at the bright side, the bigger the trial, the more we have the opportunity to be refined and make progress and be that much closer to reaching our goal and helping others! And we have that much less time to focus on ourselves and problems!!! That's what I find as the advantage. The more we suffer, (kind of), the more we come closer to God.
If we are focused so much on ourselves/what we want/our trials/how bad life is (extensively or too long)/and other things, we will miss huge things. Trials are here to help us. Why can't we understand this!!! I'm understanding more, so I am working on it and understanding it, but here are some of my thoughts.
Sorry this is so long. This should be a blog.....now it is. Tada! This would've been a picture and a looong caption on facebook, but now it is a blog post! Enjoy!
and here is another quote to go along with this:
"We learn more from examination of defeats than celebration of victories."
