Sometimes

Sometimes life doesn't turn out how we expect it to be. Sometimes classes are more overwhelming than we expect, sometimes callings come that we didn't see coming, sometimes marriage is not what tons of Disney movies have portrayed (which we all know, but somehow that still catches us by surprise, and really with movies like Parent Trap and Cinderella what is the stereotype they portray anyway?...but I digress) and sometimes the one frozen Asian dish you just really want isn't on sale or not even at the grocery story you're shopping at. Sometimes we feel lonely in Relief Society and other times unknown just when we really feel isolated and just need someone to pay attention. And sometimes the choir director says they don't need another soprano, just when your heart is longing to sing.

These moments come to all of us at one time or another, tis part of this thing called life. We wouldn't grow, nor learn empathy, or compassion or the value of peace if moments of storminess never entered our clear skies. Heavenly Father understood that greater happiness comes as does perspective when life doesn't necessarily go our way. Sometimes we don't think we have a right to tears when other people are dealing with what seems like bigger things, whether it be a death in the family, cancer or unemployment. We seem to think we need to fit into specific criteria in order to have emotions, this is definitely not the case, sometimes things just hurt. Tears can cleanse a heart and prepare it to learn. Sometimes tears grant us perspective we can't see when we feel so overwhelmed by so many compounded things. I think that Heavenly Father as a perfect being cries with us, even when tomorrow will be all right again, he knows that in this moment it hurts. Never fear to take tears to the Lord or think that your situation isn't good enough to invite Him into it, because He knows what this life can be like and He loves us through it all.