"True #miracles come from #God. Asking for His help with your life's trials and obstacles will open a way for you to overcome them. Life's journey may take you down a different road than what you had originally intended, but God will always be there for you.
"How have you felt God's power in your life?" (https://www.facebook.com/Mormon , posted July 16, 2013)
Different roads. I've seen that in my life very clearly. Going on a mission was not in my plans. Being 22 (almost 23) and single was not in my plans. Having the experiences I've had was not in my plans. Since I was a teenager, I felt like I would be one of those girls who got married young, would have to wait until I was older to go on a mission, and life would be picture perfect as a homemaker teaching oboe privately from my home. Well, it hasn't happened yet (though I still have plenty of time for all that to happen). So far I've traveled a very different road: the Lord sent me on a mission. I remember questioning Him so much when I received that revelation, but He was firm. So, not knowing what the future would be, I went. After the most intense growing experience of my life, I'm back. It'll be 4 months come Sunday since I stepped onto that plane, with my stomach in my throat and tears in my eyes. I didn't want to come home. I had no idea what roads I would take in the next few months and years, paths that would shape the rest of my life. I was scared, but I stepped off that plane, walked through the airport, and stepped through the door into the rest of my life.
Though my mission was probably the hardest time of my life, these past 4 months haven't been easy either. I had to overcome a broken heart from leaving my mission, and from which I'm still recovering. I'm trying to piece my life together, figure out what I'm supposed to be doing, what roads will make me the happiest. I've had wonderful times with family and friends and the ups and downs of romance, but now I need to figure out what I really want to be. I have just been going through the motions of life, trying to move forward, but I know I haven't been fully a part of it with my heart. This time right now in my life is the crux where I'm going to define who I will be for the rest of eternity...
How do I find out who I will be? Revelation. But even that only gives very small glimpses, crumbs of hope, yet I know the Lord will give me enough to guide me, little by little. In this last April General Conference, Pres. Monson said: "A knowledge of truth and the answers to our greatest questions come to us as we are obedient to the commandments of God." That is my recipe, my treasure map, my coordinates: obedience. The Spirit will be my step by step GPS guide.
Patience. It will come. After seeing the great blessings my Lord gave me by turning me onto the road of a mission, which I wasn't intending to travel at this time in my life, I can look forward knowing He'll do it again. No, so far things haven't turned out as I was thinking they would, but I know that the road my Heavenly Father is putting me on will be much better than the one I had chosen for myself. The blessings will be greater than I had previously anticipated. I just have to be patient and travel the roads as they come. I know my Heavenly Father will lead me down the best paths to eternal life and eternal joy. I trust Him. I know His way will be so much more rewarding and wonderful than I can imagine, even though the way may get hard.
I'm so grateful I chose God's road two years ago, and I pray that as He continues to guide me I will have the courage to follow His paths. One day I will find the right guy to spend eternity with. Day by day I will learn the lessons that will shape me into someone more like Him. The Lord has and will continue to give me the tools to aid me in my journey to become Christlike as I'm obedient. Though right now I wish they would pass quickly, I can see myself in my old age looking back on these years and being grateful for the experiences I had in the timing they came.
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