The other day I sat and drove with my mother. We talked about anything and everything. Sometimes I bring up my little self, and she always talks of my personality at that age.
She then brought up some thoughts from when us girls were little. She shared with me her feelings towards getting shots as children.
She said the doctor would have her set us up on her lap, and the nurses would administer the shots. We would look up at her. We would cry and scream. She couldn’t help putting the words into our mouths, “Mommy, why would you do this to me? Why would you let them hurt me like this?”
She said as we got shots, as we had those feelings, she sat with us and cried. She wept with us.
Oh what a wonderful parallel can be drawn here. Because those shots were to protect us. Those shots were there to ensure our growth. To better us.
So now I imagine my Savior. I am in His arms. And I am struggling. I seem to be failing miserably. The pain. The heartache. I feel it all. But I don’t realize I’m in His arms. He is holding me tight. Protecting me. And as I question Him, as I question my Father in Heaven, “Why? Why would you do this to me? Why are you letting me struggle? Why are you giving me these trials.”
I don’t always see his tears. Jesus wept. Jesus is weeping. With us. As we have feelings of discontent, pain, and sorrow He is there at our side. And though we may not be aware- He is cradling us in his arms.
I can imagine Him saying, “Don’t you see my child, don’t you know I understand the pain that you are going through? Endure it. I will not leave your side, dear one. Don’t you know that this pain will strengthen your faith? Don’t you know that these trials are necessary for your growth? Don’t you know that because of the things in which you endure you will be able to make it Home safely back to me?”
This is truth. He weeps with us. He smiles with us. He understands us better than any being upon the face of this earth. He longs for us to realize- fully realize that our lives are in His Hands. That our Father in Heaven has a perfect plan for us. He longs for us to comprehend that all things work together for our good.
It’s an interesting thing. We are to be humble. We are to be as little children. Little children look to their parents with utmost faith. Little children trust and love their parents with all their hearts. And in return their parents love them. [mosiah 3:19]
My Heavenly Parents love me.
I am their daughter, I am a daughter of a King. I have great worth.
That’s the thing- Father wants us to realize our Individual Worth. Our Divine Nature. But in that we must not become prideful.
None of us can escape that identity given to us by God in Heaven above. We are beloved. We are His. We must realize this & appreciate this, and with that we can become oh so glorious. Oh so happy.
// sunday thoughts
"Too many go about their lives thinking they are of little worth when, in reality, they are elegant and eternal creatures of infinite value with potential beyond imagination...."
"Because He is merciful and loves His children, God has given again in these latter-days the truth about where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going."
"My dear young friends, this knowledge allows you to see your own reflection in the water. It assures you that you are not ordinary, rejected, or ugly. You are something divine — more beautiful and glorious than you can possibly imagine. This knowledge changes everything. It changes your present. It can change your future. And it can change the world."
"There will always be voices telling you that you are foolish to believe that you are swans, insisting you are but ugly ducklings and that you can't expect to become anything else.
But you know better. Because of the revealed word of a merciful God, you have seen your true reflection in the water and you have felt the eternal glory of that divine spirit within you. You are no ordinary beings, my beloved young friends all around the world. You are glorious and eternal."
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