Thinking about angels.

I've had such a heavy heart since I read this family's story last night and my thoughts and prayers have been with them today. How impossibly hard and unfair and heart breaking this life can be! This story and blog has touched me so much, I feel like it's something I should share.

I'm thankful for the times in life when things are put into better perspective for me. I need this so much! I can feel it helping my soul grow. I'm thankful to know that Heavenly Father watches over us continually and has a great wide plan for each one of us. He knows us, loves us, and is with us every step of the way, if we let Him be. I'm thankful for the divine calling of motherhood and the overwhelmingly deep love that accompanies it. Never in my life could I have imagined loving anything (anyone) more deeply!

When I picture such a loss as the one that sweet mother is facing right now, or the journey she and her perfect baby have been on in the last few years, I'm overcome with such emotion. Even as cold and final as things can seem in this earth life, I'm thankful there is one true source of peace. One brother and Savior, one miraculous sacrifice and one sweet and eternal promise: it is not the end.

“With all the differences in our lives, we have at least one challenge in common. We all must deal with adversity. . . . It is in the nature of our being human that comfort gives way to distress, periods of good health come to an end, and misfortunes arrive. . . . The arrival of suffering or the loss of material security can bring fear and sometimes even anger. . . .

“The very opportunity for us to face adversity and affliction is part of the evidence of Heavenly Father and the Savior’s infinite love. God gave us the gift of living in mortality so that we could be prepared to receive the greatest of all the gifts of God, which is eternal life.” 

-Henry B Eyring.