The Relationship that Never Fails

After trolling the internet off and on the last 48 hours I've discovered a couple things, one there is a large dichotomy of those who love Valentine's Day and those who hate it. I don't think I've seen a passive post yet on it. I've seen couples who have gone all out on it with chocolates, flowers, special dinners and have shown the world. Then I've seen those that don't have a special someone, but wanting to fit in have done their own extravagant things with friends just so they have something to post. It's interesting how social media encourages us to go all out just so we feel we fit in.

When the truth is, sometimes we just feel lonely, even when we know we shouldn't. Sometimes we just feel insignificant, unknown and empty. This life isn't perfect and people aren't either. Our Savior Jesus Christ, the only man to live a perfect life and thus had a position from which to judge chooses not to judge us, He knows perfection, yet He also knows our pains from sin and from the sins or unthinking of others. Sometimes we are called upon to do more than we are able and sometimes we are called upon to do the impossible. When I was young I learned that if we do what is right we will have an easy life, this is a lie. When we do what is right we avoid certain consequences of disobeying the commandments, but we don't get a free pass at life. In fact we open ourselves up to attacks from the adversary who wants to take us from the path, we still face trials and we find that the challenges get harder as we go. Some will say this is unfair, it is, others will complain that they didn't sign up for this, they did, we all did, we just don't remember it. Part of this life is facing hardship for eternal life is a gift that comes at a price. Our Savior Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price for us so we could receive it, we pay a smaller, but still at times painful price now so that we can be refined enough to receive it. We are refined as our feet are put to the fire, we learn more of ourselves and are drawn closer to the Savior as we encounter hardship.

There are days of crying, there are days of frustration, there are days I just don't feel like I fit in and there are days of pain. Yet eternal life means an eternal relationship with our Father in Heaven, an eternity of learning and finding joy, some moments today are worth learning the lessons of divinity and building a relationship of hope and peace with our Father in Heaven, the ultimate relationship that never fails, never disappears and never falls short, that is a relationship worth fighting for.