Just a random thing I do

Let me just start off by saying that college is hard.  

I MEAN HARD! 

Not so much with classes, but coming to the realization that this is my life. I will most likely be living on my own for a very long time.  No more parent's house. It's all me.  And it's beginning to become harder than originally thought.

So I have turned to an old habit of mine to help me out.

Ever since I was younger I loved to randomly read different scriptures for fun.  I would flip open my book to a random page and for some reason I always landed in the topical guide.  (I hated when that happened) But there would be this one time when I would open up and I would get some beautiful scripture that I needed to hear for my personal life.  

It was always so inspirational.  And it always reminded me that God was watching me and for some reason, he wanted me to go to this particular scripture.  Maybe he didn't plan that I would go to the specific scripture, but somehow he knew that I would open up and read the read the words that were inspired by him and I would feel better. 

Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight........ gosh, tonight was rough. Like sandpaper. Like that scratchy and irritating feeling.... That's how I felt tonight.  

I tried blasting my music and doing some stretches.  I tried learning the new choreo for Hip Hop club.  I tried eating, a lot.  Nothing was helping.  

So I practiced my little habit and just happened to come upon these little beauties.

"Now my brethren, we see that God is mindful of every people, whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his people, and his bowels of mercy are over all the earth." Alma 26:37

"By the power of the Spirit our eyes were opened and our understandings were enlightened, so as to see and understand the things of God" D&C 76:12

"And now my brethren, if our brethren seek to destroy us, behold, we will hide away our swords, yea, even we will bury them deep in the earth, that they may be kept bright, as a testimony that we have never used them, at the last day; and if our brethren destroy us, behold, we shall go to our God and shall be saved." Alma 24:16

These may seem like just random scriptures, but they are genuine reminders of who God is and who I am trying to be every day.  

My night is turning around. I found the trick to a sleepless and emotional night.  

The scriptures.

It works.

Believe me. :)