Hope

I worry TOO much about things, especially things that I cannot change or things that cannot be fixed. I need to relax more and worry less, but sometimes I cannot help but worry. I worry alot regarding the happiness and welfare of my children. I worry about my hard working husband and my very supportive family. I think it is just my nature to be preoccupied with worry. I wonder if there is medicine to cure this worry, at least medicine that doesn't require a trip to a doctor or psychiatrist. That might get me into more trouble or maybe force me to relax if I am committed to a mental institution far away in the mountains. I need to worry less and hope more.

This day, week or month is not a fun loving chapter in the life of Jennifer Thomas. It also seems to be a very long chapter as well. You know the kind, the chapters of a book that have so many pages and so many words that you struggle getting through them because they are LONG and dreary. So, I am trying to focus on the good things and how much I have been blessed with. Trials are supposed to make us stronger, refine us and teach us patience. Here's to patience and HOPE. Hope is what carries us through the long chapters of life.

"The principle of hope extends into the eternities, but it also can sustain us through the everyday challenges of life. 'Happy is he,' said the Psalmist, 'that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God' (Psalm 146:5). With hope, we can find joy in life. We can 'have patience, and bear with . . . afflictions, with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest from all your afflictions' (Alma 34:41). We can 'press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life' (2 Nephi 31:20)."

Patience, refinement, strength and hope. May tomorrow be a shorter, more fun loving chapter in the life of Jennifer Thomas.

Have a great day!