This chick is breaking through

Have Understanding.......


Understanding our purpose here isn't always easy-  Understanding the WHY's?????
I am trying to gain a greater understanding because I get that when I have understanding .... I just might be able to cope better with trials.

 Because I am human- I do sometimes get discouraged when I can't make out my own way, ... where the path I am traveling on..... I can only see a step or two ahead.  Oh, how I wish that sometimes the entire path was lit before me and I knew exactly what was ahead.  If that were the reality, I wouldn't learn to live by faith.  Lessons on faith can be very hard- but it is the hard times that make us stronger - right?

I am reminded of the example of a baby chick..... Neal A. Maxwell said this
" Is not our struggling amid suffering and chastening in a way like the efforts of the baby chicken still in the egg?  It must painfully and patiently make its own way out of the shell.  To help the chick by breaking the egg for it could be to kill it.  Unless is struggles itself to break outside its initial constraints, it may not have the strength to survive thereafter."

He continues to say "Afflictions can soften us and sweeten us, and can be a chastening influence.  We often think of chastening as something being done to punish us, such as by a mortal tutor who is angry and peevish with us.  Divine chastening, however, is a form of learning as it is administered at the hands of a loving Father. "

Understanding that what we are called to go through will make us better and stronger in the end. Understanding that we are not alone, and that we at some premortal time, knew and understood what we would be asked to do- and knowing that we won't have more than we can handle- we can find strength to continue breaking through our individual shells.  Looking through our spiritual eyes can also be helpful in keeping perspective.   Elder Maxwell said "If we think only in the usual ways, we will not understand the unusual experiences through which we must sometimes pass.  But if we can trust God and know that He is there and that He loves us, then we can cope well and endure well".

What are some things you do keep going?

What helps you during difficult times?

Let's keep going..... can you imagine what we will be like when we break free from our shells?!!

NEVER GIVE UP...... KEEP MOVING FORWARD!