I've had a bit of anxiety this afternoon. It's hard to explain. More legal crap. And I get frustrated. I pray and pray for things to happen. I think that my prayers are for a righteous cause and I don't understand why things aren't happening the way I'd like. These thoughts plagued me as I was sitting at my computer, unable to concentrate and trying not to just cry. I opened an email with this quote. It was just the comfort I had been silently praying for. I am so thankful for a Heavenly Father that guides me and comforts my troubled heart!
"It is so hard when sincere prayer about something we desire very much is not answered the way we want. It is especially difficult when the Lord answers no to that which is worthy and would give us great joy and happiness. Whether it be overcoming illness or loneliness, recovery of a wayward child, coping with a handicap, or seeking continuing life for a dear one who is slipping away, it seems so reasonable and so consistent with our happiness to have a favorable answer. It is hard to understand why our exercise of deep and sincere faith from an obedient life does not bring the desired result. No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws of God will always have those challenges. The other reason for adversity is to accomplish the Lord's own purposes in our life that we may receive the refinement that comes from testing. It is vitally important for each of us to identify from which of these two sources come our trials and challenges, for the corrective action is very different."
Richard G. Scott
I Do Now
5 days ago
