In those moments when we feel like everything HURTS and everything just IS NOT WORKING, take a second and revel in the idea that you are being changed. That the next decision you make could be allowing you to BECOME.
"The gospel challenges us to be “converted,” which requires us to do and to become. If any of us relies solely upon our knowledge and testimony of the gospel, we are in the same position as the blessed but still unfinished Apostles whom Jesus challenged to be “converted.”" Dallin H. Oaks
Read the quote by Alice Walker again.
and again.
FEEL what she is saying.
Have you ever thought about what it takes for a seed to PUSH against the Earth and gravity itself to begin to BECOME what it was destined to BE?
To be truly converted, and become, we will experience HEARTACHE and SORROW and PAIN, but isn't that why we have a Savior, who atoned for all our mistakes and has felt EVERYTHING we have? He is the one who knows EXACTLY what we are going through and can say to us, "You can do it! I know it hurts and I know you are struggling, but you are so close! Don't you dare give up. I am here with you every step of the way."
Hold out a little longer.
Keep pushing against the Earth.
You WILL BECOME all that you were designed to be.
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