Whenever you think about someone heading off to a far away place and not knowing if you will ever see them again is a completely different situation to put yourself in for various reasons. I am most confident that this difficulty that I have had lots of time to reflect back on and immediately start realizing that this someone we love so much is serving in a place of the Savior. He went about his entire life serving those around him and instead of complaining on what easily could have been a very difficult task but saw it as an opportunity to change other people's lives. I would never have thought in the time that I've had to think on this particular case not having seen that way before somebody like me starts making all of these faults on the things they would be doing to make others happy. What extraordinary blessings they will have come into their lives as they are going about serving like the Savior did while he lived on this earth & instead of making themselves feel bad, it is not at all what I'd originally anticipated this to be.
If you read through my last post on all of those emotionally upset feelings I had, it was certainly one of those experiences that I'm seriously hoping to never face again in my lifetime. I know it was not the easiest or happiest entry to read on this blog of mine but unless I decided to not share what was in my heart at that moment, my life would have been completely different right now.
You Raise Me Up
When I am down and oh my soul, so weary
When troubles come, and my heart burdened be
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up to walk on stormy seas
I am strong when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up to more than I can be
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up to walk on stormy seas
I am strong when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up to more than I can be
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You rasie me up to walk on stormy seas
I am strong when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up to more than I can be
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up to walk on stormy seas
I am strong when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up to more than I can be
You raise me up to more than I can be.
During the course of while I was struggling through this tribulation and focusing on the Savior in a way that I cannot even begin to describe into words. He has raised me and each of us up during what we thought was the end of something we'd rather not have to experience again at some point in time. I would not even be the person I've become in this world if I did not have my Savior, Jesus Christ to give me that extra boost of confidence to see the good in what is around me. I know in these beautiful lyrics to the popular well known song, "You Raise Me Up" has definitely been such an escape for me to just continue relying on the one who has already gone through everything that we would ever not think of ourselves facing in our lives. He has significantly blessed my life in ways that I probably don't necessarily deserve for whatever reasons I could have thought of but it never fails to make me understand why it is that I am here on this earth to fufill that mission.
In this beautiful portrait of Christ reaching down for this little girls hand to lift her out of the water, I cannot even begin to wonder that this is the way he continues to see in our daily lives on a regular basis. He is not afraid to reach out his hand & give us a boost to get up back onto our feet in spite of the challenges that hold us down from being closer to him. If there is one thing that I love about this picture is that we are never alone and even if we have difficulties that are not easy for us to deal with, I know it is because of him that we can make it through anything that our lives experience.
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