Possible

This week has been full of reminders. Reminders of what trials fill my life. Some trials are smaller and easier to deal with. Few are large and hard to ignore, and even harder to figure out how to best manage them. I don’t feel capable of handling my hardest trials most efficiently and beneficially. Hard trials are never comfortable and never easy. There could be many, many ways to deal with them. Which way is the right way?

In 2021 my husband and I decided that we’d spend that year taking a break from making a large decision that would impact our lives. For years we have been struggling with it, and we were tired. We wanted a chance to heal and catch our breath. By the end of the year, we knew a decision needed to be made. We made one and we are going to go along with our decision, just to see how far it will take us. But. How long will it take us? Are we supposed to keep going until we hit a dead end? If we do hit a dead end, do we accept that or do we blaze a new trail past the dead end? We don’t know. We just don’t know. It is hard to move down this road not knowing where it is taking us or what will happen along the way.

There are two things that I found comfort in this week. They are not new lessons to me, but refreshers. A good reminder. First, President Monson said, “I plead with you to turn to our Heavenly Father in faith. He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.” This is a good reminder to not ask Heavenly Father to just give me the answer and don’t ask Him this trial easy. Both of which I tend to do. I’m not sure how just yet, but I know that if I let go, and trust that Heavenly Father will guide me to where I’m needed to go, where I’m supposed to go then whatever lies ahead of me will be better than what I would have wished for. Everything is better when I trust in my Heavenly Father.

Second, I decorated a journal for my niece who was being baptized this week. On her journal, I put a stamp that had this scripture Luke 1:37, “For with God nothing shall be impossible.” It doesn’t say God will make things easy or take them away, but what He does do is He makes them possible. He makes them possible. Again, trials are not comfortable or easy. Usually, by the end of a trial, we are a different person. If we followed Christ, we are better in the end.

He won’t take my trials away from me. He won’t make them easy. But He will make them possible. He will guide me through my storms. I just need to focus on Christ and not the raging storm(s) around me.