perseverance ✨

Thoughts 5/7/2017 

Some days as a mom are HARD. Some days are a test to the very core. Some days I'm not always happy, some days I feel like I'm stuck in a dark cloud. I let myself feel fear instead of faith. Fear of bad things happening, fear of failure, fear of my kids making bad decisions, fear of what the future may hold. Days where I just don't feel myself. Where the depression is so real.

I've been thinking lately a lot about perseverance, and consistency, and trying again, and hope✨ and that everyone has there own struggles, their own tests and trials. Some are obvious to others and some are not. No one is exempt from going through hard things in life, since we were sent to earth to be tested.  

Heavenly Father knows our trials, he knows our thoughts, he hears our prayers even when answers we hope for may seem delayed. We all will experience the refiners fire somehow.

How will we persevere? How will we endure? Maybe we can decide now. We can decide that no matter what, no matter how hard things may get or seem, that we are going to keep going, we are going to keep trying, until we make it back into the sunlight, and have faith that it won't be like this forever, that the sunlight will come. That we are loved, that there is purpose in our trials, and that we have important work to do! 

How do we keep going? We keep getting up and reading our scriptures with our kids, we pray for our family, neighbors, friends, enemies. We keep attending the temple, we keep being kind, we forgive, We keep a gratitude journal, we keep following our dreams, and set goals, we practice self care,  and work with our strengths and forgive ourselves for our weaknesses, always, always, always, keep trying no matter what setbacks may come. Maybe you can't go as hard or fast as you've always done, but you can be patient with yourself and keep going. 

Have faith, persevere.  

No matter how dark some days may seem...The sunlight will come.☀️