I have been learning this week about sorrow. I have come to realize that each of us must pass through sorrow of many different kinds as well as anxiety and anger and many other unpleasant emotions while we live in this earth. It is part of our education here. We can plan on that being a part of our lives in one way or another. But when we have these difficult experiences we have a choice about how we are going to face them. We could face them on our own or we could face them leaning in the arm of Christ. I have come to know this week and through many other different kinds of challenges in my life that when we are near to our savior, when we are seeking him

In our lives, though we may weep and though we still feel deep pain, we also feel wrapped in his love and peace. It gives us strength to go on, to learn the lesson that the challenge offers us and to become more like him. Sorrow is inevitable, but despair isn’t. The more we feel the love of God the more our hope becomes unshakable- come what May. I encourage all of us to consider how we can invite and welcome that love and peace into our lives now so that we can be healed and comforted in the trials we are facing and be prepared for the ones around the corner. He is real, he loves you, and he wants to help if we let him ❤️