Blessings beyond Measure

So about a year ago I wrote a blog that asked a question, "what's the matter with being different?" I find myself asking that question once again. As human beings we like to make parameters of what we'd like to call normal, certain things that everybody should do so we think that they fit in and that they are on the right path, specifically with in the church. We sometimes fall prey to this idea that things have to happen a certain way in order to be the perfect LDS family. As a newly married madame I'm learning that all those nice ideas I had about marriage and family life were pretty much just that, nice ideas.

Now I'm not saying that we shouldn't strive for perfection and that we shouldn't have ideals in mind. What I am saying is that we shouldn't judge ourselves too harshly when those ideals don't get put into play. We are all on an individual journey to return to our Heavenly Father so why do we think each journey should look the same, news flash it shouldn't! Our purpose in this life is to learn how to create an atmosphere where the Spirit can be with us and guide us, past that, just about anything can happen. We are also here to know our Father in Heaven here on earth just as we once knew Him in our pre-earth life. We will mess up sometimes, we will become distracted, we will feel lonely, we will feel like we are sticking out like a sore thumb, we will need to learn to re-organize our priorities sometimes to things we did not expect, yet each of these things will ultimately take us closer to the being that created us and loves us more than eternity. He sees our potential and He sees our purpose, He will take us down roads we did not expect and some paths that feel so dark and uncertain, He may appear silent in those time we feel we need Him most, yet the power of faith is most evident when there is no sign of God anywhere yet still we choose to obey Him, it is those moments when the adversary is thwarted in his purpose. (C.S Lewis, Screwtape Letters) It is this faith that draws us to an eternal goal and blessings beyond measure.