Perspective!
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This photo was taken from my deck this very morning. We are so LUCKY because our family lives above the fog a lot of the time out here in Southern Oregon.
Yet, nearly all my friends and fellow ward members here see the weather outside their windows as grey and overcast instead of this glorious scene. They're down in the fog.
This scripture fell across my eyes this morning:
"And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions." (Mosiah 24:14)
The gospel gifts us with a very different view of tribulations and difficulties. And perspective is everything! The Lord will make us equal to what we face ~ if we ask ~ so it looks and feels different than despair and hopelessness.
It can look more like the scene above.
Life is much more manageable when we can see above and beyond the current challenge, when our perspective is broader and is infused with the brightness of hope.
Brightness of hope. One of the most treasured gifts of the Spirit. If it has escaped you and you're down where most of the townsfolk are in this picture (i.e. negative thinking patterns) ~ I invite you to start looking for and noticing rays of hope. It takes effort at first, but if you ask in prayer to see them, you will.
Writing them down REALLY helps too.
And don't forget to pray to become equal to what you face, because those prayers are always answered. The ones which are not answered are where we ask the Lord to zap people or make them disappear. (I would know.) Or make trials disappear. Once in a great, great while disappearing trials are a miraculous gift we do get. But most of the time the Lord would rather we traverse the challenge successfully.
The Lord designed life to be a series of obstacles which are conquered and overcome, not escaped (as much as we would love that).
So take on this view, like the one above - one of strength and hope:
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (Revelation 3:20-21)
Many blessings to you...always.
This photo was taken from my deck this very morning. We are so LUCKY because our family lives above the fog a lot of the time out here in Southern Oregon.
Yet, nearly all my friends and fellow ward members here see the weather outside their windows as grey and overcast instead of this glorious scene. They're down in the fog.
This scripture fell across my eyes this morning:
"And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions." (Mosiah 24:14)
The gospel gifts us with a very different view of tribulations and difficulties. And perspective is everything! The Lord will make us equal to what we face ~ if we ask ~ so it looks and feels different than despair and hopelessness.
It can look more like the scene above.
Life is much more manageable when we can see above and beyond the current challenge, when our perspective is broader and is infused with the brightness of hope.
Brightness of hope. One of the most treasured gifts of the Spirit. If it has escaped you and you're down where most of the townsfolk are in this picture (i.e. negative thinking patterns) ~ I invite you to start looking for and noticing rays of hope. It takes effort at first, but if you ask in prayer to see them, you will.
Writing them down REALLY helps too.
And don't forget to pray to become equal to what you face, because those prayers are always answered. The ones which are not answered are where we ask the Lord to zap people or make them disappear. (I would know.) Or make trials disappear. Once in a great, great while disappearing trials are a miraculous gift we do get. But most of the time the Lord would rather we traverse the challenge successfully.
The Lord designed life to be a series of obstacles which are conquered and overcome, not escaped (as much as we would love that).
So take on this view, like the one above - one of strength and hope:
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (Revelation 3:20-21)
Many blessings to you...always.
