Words to live by.

It's so much easier said than done, especially when life gets in the way and looking down and back is the instinct. It's so easy to get caught up in the bad days (weeks, months?) and forget that we have control over the future, what's ahead of us. Believe me, I know all about it. I've had my serious moments of self-pity. But I don't mean to say we should ignore the bad and just look forward, because I think it's important to assess the why and how of our arrival there in the first place. Isn't there something to be learned by it all? Patience or love or any other number of good characteristics, right? And wouldn't just ignoring the problem and putting on a fake smile completely ruin the opportunity to learn something as important as those? Or how about learning to trust in our Heavenly Father and Savior a little more? Take me for example. I've gone through my days of serious doubt, but I'm learning to take time to look up and ask Him for some help, and I'm learning to really trust Him again. He knows us, he knows what's going on in our lives, and I have no doubt that He will take care of us and our troubles. The beautiful thing about this life is that we can't do it alone, and that we don't have to. I guess that's something else I've learned recently. When it's too much for us to bear, He takes it. And somehow, little by little, we find ourselves surviving. That's the atonement.