Is this true? I suppose that I believe that about certain dreams...but are there really storms that we cannot weather? I feel like sometimes I am in the midst of one of those storms...waiting to be tossed into the whale...or perhaps I'm already there. And then I remember these words from Elder Maxwell:
"Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised."
And so I have to cling to the belief that all storms can be weathered, though perhaps not in this life...
"Adversity and heartbreak happen to good people; such is the fruit of a fallen world." Bruce D Porter
How exactly to we get through that heartbreak? I've been taught that the atonement can pull me through...but how exactly does the atonement work for heartbreak and sadness? How do I take my frustrations, my hurt, my pain, my feelings of failure caused by my shortcomings...how do I take those and give them to the Savior, while still trying to deal with the events and situations that cause them? Obviously I can apply this to liking girls, but it goes so far beyond that. I mean, the liking girls thing doesn't seem to be going away any time soon...but it would be nice to have somewhere to send all my frustration and sorrow that is a result of it...to be able to wrap it up in a nice little package and just hand it over to the Savior. I need to let it go...because there is always going to be more, "
such is the fruit of a fallen world" and I don't want to be hanging onto all this baggage from the past. It's much to heavy and cumbersome to be carrying around all the time.
So if anyone out there has an answer for me as to how you actually take those feelings and turn them over to the Savior, I'd really love to hear it.
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