I remember a talk I heard by President Gordon B Hinkley several years back. He was talking about his mission and how difficult a time he was having during his first few months out on his mission. He wrote home expressing his frustration with his circumstances expressing concern that he was simply wasting time and resources in a fruitless endeavor. His father responded in short: "Gordon, forget yourself and go to work." President Hinkley certainly took these words to heart, and truly dedicated his life to the service of the Lord as well as his fellow men.
This is good council to follow I think, for all of us. Keeping physically and mentally active is good. Time and good works help to heal a lot. These thoughts were mulling in my brain while I was working on a service project this past weekend. I have not had much opportunity for physical exertion since moving and working outdoors and pulling weeds and such was amazing.
I guess where I'm trying to go with this thought is that eventually one does begin to get accustomed to insane drivers and traffic, even if you still silently freak out every time a car whips past you or stops mere inches from your back bumper at the light. Broken hearts can begin to heal--however slowly-- even if one day you are fine and the next you are in tears again. And eventually things get more familiar, you only get lost twice a week instead of daily. You can slowly accept that you will not understand everything that is, even if you still wish you had a crystal ball instead.
Ok, so I'm kind of adjusting to the fact that nearly everything in my life has been turned upside down in the past couple of weeks. I'm not saying that I am entirely happy with how things are.... but I'm oh so slowly learning to accept that I cannot control most of what is going on and that's just the way it is. I may not like feeling like I have so little control over my life at present, but that is the way it is for the time being and short of quitting my job and becoming a bum on the streets, there is very little I can do that will make my life better at present and the best thing I can do is to accept it.
A quote on a talk by Elder John B Dickenson comes to mind: "I had only one arm. I could do very little about that. But my attitude about it, and life in general, was up to me."
Well, I'm living in a city I don't love, being single which I don't love, but there is very little I can do about either of those circumstances. So I guess it's time I got an attitude change. We shall see how it goes.
This is good council to follow I think, for all of us. Keeping physically and mentally active is good. Time and good works help to heal a lot. These thoughts were mulling in my brain while I was working on a service project this past weekend. I have not had much opportunity for physical exertion since moving and working outdoors and pulling weeds and such was amazing.
I guess where I'm trying to go with this thought is that eventually one does begin to get accustomed to insane drivers and traffic, even if you still silently freak out every time a car whips past you or stops mere inches from your back bumper at the light. Broken hearts can begin to heal--however slowly-- even if one day you are fine and the next you are in tears again. And eventually things get more familiar, you only get lost twice a week instead of daily. You can slowly accept that you will not understand everything that is, even if you still wish you had a crystal ball instead.
Ok, so I'm kind of adjusting to the fact that nearly everything in my life has been turned upside down in the past couple of weeks. I'm not saying that I am entirely happy with how things are.... but I'm oh so slowly learning to accept that I cannot control most of what is going on and that's just the way it is. I may not like feeling like I have so little control over my life at present, but that is the way it is for the time being and short of quitting my job and becoming a bum on the streets, there is very little I can do that will make my life better at present and the best thing I can do is to accept it.
A quote on a talk by Elder John B Dickenson comes to mind: "I had only one arm. I could do very little about that. But my attitude about it, and life in general, was up to me."
Well, I'm living in a city I don't love, being single which I don't love, but there is very little I can do about either of those circumstances. So I guess it's time I got an attitude change. We shall see how it goes.
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