Thoughful Sunday

I know it's Monday I meant to do this yesterday but by the time we got home last night I was to tired. I was thinking every Sunday I would write a little bit about what I learned at church that day maybe not so much for those of you reading it but for me, to help me remember what I learned.

A man came to Satan to buy a tool. On a table there were lot's of nice shiny tools and there was one really used tool. The man asked Satan what that was. Satan replied "My greatest tool of all... Despair"

A few weeks ago in church we had a lesson on Hope and Despair. I have thought a lot about this since because I see so many people losing hope. I have been thinking about how much a get discouraged sometimes. What would I do if I didn't have Hope in our Savior Jesus Christ it would be so easy to just give up and say I can do whatever I want.

These are my thoughts of despair lately. My house is to small. We don't make enough money. I have faults!! I want to do want I want to do. Whoever said that being a mom was all fun and games? It's harder than any job I have ever had and I have had difficult jobs but at the same time it can bring great joy when I focus on what I should be doing, which is not always the case.

It is so easy to give into despair especially when things don't go the way we want them to. Like when a love one dies, failing healthy and especially now with finances, lose of jobs and so on. Satan can drag us down, He starts a little at time. Maybe with the idea of thinking that we deserve our own time so we start hanging out with friends instead of family (nothing wrong hanging out with friends as long as our family comes first)and then maybe skipping church here and there and then having the desire to have more and need more money, one little drink, one little smoke, and so on. It's gradual but a fast steep down hill.

And the whole way down the hill we think that we are happier than before. Then we hit the bottom of the hill and realize that we are not as happy as before that we want to get back to the top. That is when realize we really were happier before but that hill is a steep climb back up. Satan thinks I got you there is no way you can get back up it's to hard and He tells us that over and over so that every time we start He makes us so discouraged and so we stay were we are, full of despair.

But then we remember that we are not alone and we know it will be hard but that there is someone who has born our burdens already for us. We know it will be hard to get back up, impossible by ourselves but then we realize through repentance that there is someone that can help carry us and it's not as steep as we thought in the first place.

I pray that we all remember when our lives get hard that we still can be happy and have hope.