I have been deeply saddened by news I heard this week about choices people I care about have made. My heart is broken for them. I fear for their happiness. We live in a world steeped in cynicism and worldliness. Temptations of every kind surround us. I don't understand the draw to that world. I have seen the terrible toll that results. I have seen broken lives where people live without hope, without faith, without a belief in anything good. I have seen lives governed by money and power.
In contrast, I have also seen people whose lives are governed by faith, trust in God, love, and charity. They do not have lives that are without trials, they do not have the appearance (in most cases) of actual angels to buoy them up. Many have been burdened with sorrow, loss, and trial. But they know joy. They do not live for themselves, they do not wallow in pain. They look forward to the Savior. He can heal and they accept his healing.
I wish I could heal everyone. I wish I could touch their hearts and hand them the peace that comes from the atonement. But I cannot. It is a gift that must be accepted. It is freely offered, but cannot be forced upon others. Christ already suffered for our sorrows, our pains, our mistakes. Why do we insist on continuing to suffer?
It is so easy to doubt. The world teaches us to doubt. We have seen so many people who have deceived, so many people who have been deceived. We have been taught to only trust things we can know with our senses. There is a problem with that. There are things we cannot know with our senses. We cannot know gravity except by seeing how it affects objects. None of our senses are able to detect gravity. The same is true with God. We cannot detect him through logic or our senses. We can only know him through his actions.
So, to all who are sorrowing over a loved one, take heart. Leave it in the hands of one who is divine. Let him assign it to the angels around us.
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