Comments on: When life isn’t ideal

By: Eat My Scabs

Eat My Scabs — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:29:51 +0000

Life isn’t perfect and it’s often very difficult. I heard something recently that really stuck with me. All of God’s creations obey. All follow his commands, the wind, the animal the rocks and stars. All but one. Us. He gave us agency. We can choose to obey or not obey. Whether life isn’t perfect from no ones fault or because of others actions or our own. We have the power to choose our happiness.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

By: mormonwomen

mormonwomen — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:48:52 +0000

Thanks Tam! 😉

By: Tami

Tami — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:25:05 +0000

So very eloquently said, my dear dear sister!!!

By: mormonwomen

mormonwomen — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:05:19 +0000

Kaylie, we were commenting at the same time. I appreciate your thoughts, and agree wholeheartedly.
~Michelle

By: mormonwomen

mormonwomen — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:57:43 +0000

h, you are welcome.

Jar, thank you so much for sharing your experiences here. I’m sorry your road has been hard and that you haven’t felt the support you would have wanted. Your strength shines through your words, though. Thank you again.

By: Kaylie

Kaylie — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:56:30 +0000

I think you raise an important point in the last paragraph. We don’t always talk about our private struggles, yet we all go through them. If we’re going through something, there’s a good chance someone else has been through the same thing. If we can be “an instrument in His hands” to help someone else, we can ease both other person’s burdens as well as our own. Knowing this gives me hope when things are tough.

By: Jar

Jar — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:05:17 +0000

I appreciate your post today, for many reasons. I have never fit the “Mormon Mold.” I married later than all my friends, and even married a non-member. I had difficulty having children. I felt the stares for eleven years while seven miscarriages and many tears filled my life. I did have a son, and eleven years later, a daughter. My husband did join the church only to later go inactive after several issues with unrepented transgressions got the better of him. I sit alone every week–but I am there. Not because I want the attention or fellowship of a ward family, though that would an amazing benefit–I go to worship. It has taken years to get to this place. I hurt and felt unloved for years (and not just from one ward either). It seemed to me a cultural barrier I could not break through. It’s odd, I come from a big family and have family lines that trace into prominence. I was born in the church, filled an honorable mission. Yet, for some reason I was an anomoly. Twenty-five plus years later, I have accepted my mission gracefully. I know it’s wrong to have our members feel like I have, but it is a trial some of us bear. In order that the acidity of mortality does not cankor me, I choose to enjoy the solitude of my LDS life as a peaceful gift. Maybe some, like me, might find that idea blesses them.

By: h

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:15:01 +0000

Thank you.