Trials

A friends from our old ward that I served in Young Womens with has been diagnosed with Cancer for the 3rd time. This time it has moved to her liver and is causing liver failure. She has stopped chemo and is now just doing hospice care.

This has been weighing heavily on my mind today, I am not good in these situations. I dont know if I hug the person and say I am so sorry, or if they would rather pretend to be happy and healthy and laugh and joke with one other. I never know what to do, so majority of the time I am just silent. I do hope that she knows(and Im sure she does, because she is very very loved) that she is an amazing person. She is strong and faithful and kind. She has so many people including myself that love and admire her. Her children are very very smart and kinds because of the time and effort she puts in to helping them grow and learn but most of all because of her example.

This and a few things going on at Kurts work has made me really think about trials. In my patriarchal blessing it says that I will have trials in this life but they are not to punish me but to see how I will react to them.

We are put on this earth to learn and to grow and we do this through trials, through life experiences. Although we may not understand the reason for the trail in that very moment, we can have faith that our Heavenly Father has a plan for each one of us. He knows our situations. He knows our happiness and our sadness, our anger and frustration. My friend and her family are going through something very very hard. But He knows their family and the things they will need to make it through. She is a very very strong spirit and He knows that, and apparently needs her for something on the other side. The trials we are facing, are small compared to their family. But I know that Heavenly Father still has a plan for us, and is aware of our needs.

 "Their mourning was turned into joy, and their lamentations into the praise and thanksgiving unto the Lord Jesus Christ, their Redeemer." (3 Nephi 10:10)

Give thanks to God in your trials.