Life these days can pretty much be summed up by calling it a roller coaster ride. Sometimes I feel I am like the daisy that I used to pick in my moms yard and play the game, "he loves me, he loves me not." Thats kind of how I feel right now.
As I travel through these days of my life, I sometimes feel like I am putting slowly, getting up that hill to get to the top. I get to the top and can see for miles and everything is so clear to me, then get ready, hold your breath because it's time to take a serious nose dive. You never know how long that drop is going to be so you hold your breath just hoping to get to the bottom before you have to let your breath go because you are not sure you are able to take another one. Finally you make it to the bottom of the hill and are in the valley. You can breathe again, but are not able to enjoy the scenery for too long when you are on to that next mountain.
As I have often said, my father taught us all our lives that you can't have faith and fear at the same time. You can't have faith that something is going to work out, and also have fear that it isn't. To me that's alot like that rollercoaster ride. You can't have faith that Heavenly father is going to see you to the top of that mountain without seeing you all the way through. Having fear after you get to the top and know that you have a long ride back to the bottom just doesn't work.
Last night while reading scriptures I found 1 Nephi 7:12. Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten that the Lord is able to do all things according to his will, for the children of men, if it so be that they exercise faith in him? Wherefore, let us be faithful to him.
I know that pretty much sums it up. We can't have both faith and fear, yet it is so easy to let that fear creep back into our lives when we are ready to take that almighty plunge downward and feel that sometimes that journey may be more than we can bare.
So today I am focusing on having more faith. Faith in the rollercoaster, faith in the journey, and faith in myself.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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