Finding Hope: My Story

Do you ever feel broken?  Like there is something that is so obviously wrong with you that it drives others away? That is how I've been feeling lately.  I'm not sure how to fix my own broken-ness.  How to make myself feel whole again.   And yet, I don't need to.  We've been blessed to have a Savior who not only knows us, He knows what we need.  He knows our deepest, darkest, loneliest moments.  He knows how to bind our wounds, how to heal our broken hearts and how to help us be whole again.   So WHAT if I feel stagnant.  If I feel broken and cannot understand why.  I have a Savior.  I have someone in my life who understands me perfectly and loves me unconditionally.  And if I can cling to that, I can make it through.   This week I've been trying to write a talk for church on Sunday.  I'm still struggling to know which direction to take this talk, to know what the Lord would have me say to not only soot...

I've realized lately just how difficult it is to leave something behind.  I'm not just talking about forgetting to grab something before you go to work or forgetting a swimsuit when you go on vacation. I'm talking about the gut wrenching decisions that force you to leave something behind.  The kind of life changes that make you wonder what your path through life should really be like and if it needs to be this HARD . I hate leaving.  I like being comfortable and staying where I'm at.  But I guess my Heavenly Father knows that and likes to stretch me and make me grow in ways I didn't know were possible. I'm no longer in Divine Comedy at BYU.  I never thought it would be so hard to leave behind something that caused so much stress and lack of sleep.  But Divine Comedy also brought along some of the best friends I've had the opportunity to have, some of the greatest spiritual experiences and some of the most fun times of my life so far. I'm going to...