Aug 31, 2015
9:58:06pm
9:58:06pm
God Speed - Notice how many of us support you.
Mistertilly, thanks for the devotion to a great team and a great program. Hopefully you will be able to ease the incredible challenges you face. I hope this doesn't sound "preachy" but I just wanted to share two statements that have helped me incredibly when I have faced discouragement, depression, and at times an overwhelming despair.
Elder James E. Talmage wrote: "Our Heavenly Father has a full knowledge of the nature and disposition of each of His children, a knowledge gained by long observation and experience in the past eternity of our primeval childhood; a knowledge compared with which that gained by earthly parents through mortal experience with their children is infinitesimally small. By reason of that surpassing knowledge, God reads the future of child and children, of men individually and of men collectively as communities and nations; He knows what each will do under given conditions, and sees the end from the beginning. His foreknowledge is based on intelligence and reason. He foresees the future as a state which naturally and surely will be; not as one which must be because He has arbitrarily willed that it shall be."—From the author’s Great Apostasy, pp. 19, 20. [Jesus the Christ, p. 29]
And this quote from Elder Neal A. Maxwell: "When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to fail or to be wicked. When we have been weighed and found wanting, let us remember that we were measured before and we were found equal to our tasks; and, therefore, let us continue, but with a more determined discipleship. When we feel overwhelmed, let us recall the assurance that God will not overprogram us; he will not press upon us more than we can bear (D&C 50:40)."
May you find the peace you seek, and may the Lord bless you with comfort, guidance, and an assurance that there are many Cougar fans who will have you in their prayers.
God bless you. Mick Smith - I Bleed BYU Blue
Elder James E. Talmage wrote: "Our Heavenly Father has a full knowledge of the nature and disposition of each of His children, a knowledge gained by long observation and experience in the past eternity of our primeval childhood; a knowledge compared with which that gained by earthly parents through mortal experience with their children is infinitesimally small. By reason of that surpassing knowledge, God reads the future of child and children, of men individually and of men collectively as communities and nations; He knows what each will do under given conditions, and sees the end from the beginning. His foreknowledge is based on intelligence and reason. He foresees the future as a state which naturally and surely will be; not as one which must be because He has arbitrarily willed that it shall be."—From the author’s Great Apostasy, pp. 19, 20. [Jesus the Christ, p. 29]
And this quote from Elder Neal A. Maxwell: "When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to fail or to be wicked. When we have been weighed and found wanting, let us remember that we were measured before and we were found equal to our tasks; and, therefore, let us continue, but with a more determined discipleship. When we feel overwhelmed, let us recall the assurance that God will not overprogram us; he will not press upon us more than we can bear (D&C 50:40)."
May you find the peace you seek, and may the Lord bless you with comfort, guidance, and an assurance that there are many Cougar fans who will have you in their prayers.
God bless you. Mick Smith - I Bleed BYU Blue
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