I sit here and think about what I am grateful for. A flood of blessings and examples flows into my mind but one that remains constant would be and has always been the love that God has given me, though undeserved.
As a child and teenager I would cry because I could not understand why people around me who deserved all the goodness this world could offer were the ones who suffered much. They were the ones who the Lord felt needed to be tried. I asked Why them? It wasn't the "Why do bad things happen to good people" question. In fact, it was the complete opposite. I couldn't understand why God felt the need to protect me from these bad things when I wasn't a perfect person. I was a spoilt brat. I wasn't always a loyal friend. I let my parents down time and time again. I never reached my potential or even tried that hard. I was ungrateful. I can come up with many more thoughts that would run through my mind. I doubted my value because as they say, only the truly valiant saints are the ones who are tried the most. For instance, Job, Stephen, Abinadi etc etc etc. But I wasn't tried at all. At least in my mind they were not as devastating as others have gone through. At one point I even thought that Heavenly Father didn't think me valiant or strong enough. I was saddened at the snippets of doubt that made me think Heavenly Father thought me weak; that I couldn't handle trials and tribulations…
BUT I have always held to the knowledge that even though I am nothing in the grand scheme of things that I am everything to Heavenly Father. And although I couldn't understand why things were the way that they were, I was grateful nonetheless for His Love. Although I did not deserve the blessings He felt the need to give me, I was thankful anyway.
BUT I have always held to the knowledge that even though I am nothing in the grand scheme of things that I am everything to Heavenly Father. And although I couldn't understand why things were the way that they were, I was grateful nonetheless for His Love. Although I did not deserve the blessings He felt the need to give me, I was thankful anyway.
All that I am and all that I hope to be is as a result of the Love that God has for me.
Overall, I am grateful for a Loving Heavenly Father.
"He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our resume but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked. What this means is that regardless of our current state, there is hope for us." - Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf.
2 comments:
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing so that I could feel the spirit today! :)
You have a way of pulling out the spirit in the dullest of days. Another great one i'll be quoting one day.
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