{CHRISTmas} Devotional

Tonight we got invited over to the Diede's to watch the First Presidency's Christmas devotional. We were excited that we would get to watch it sitting on comfortable couches instead of hard chairs crammed around a computer. (We don't have cable and thus have no T.V. A thing I love except at conference and Christmas devotional time)
The Diede's made us popcorn and we took cookies and I loved the messages this year.
I loved how President Uchdorf said: "The Lord does not require us to move mountains, but he does expect us to walk forward one step at a time to climb the mountain."
Those words really hit home hard for me. I am continually amazed at how mountains appear in my path and they seem impossible to climb, but with prayer and with constant movement in a forward direction; even if that movement is a hairs breadth, I somehow seem to find myself on the other side of the mountain looking back. That look back is always with eyes of understanding, and wisdom, relief that that trial is over and often with joy at the learning and great wisdom that I have received. Now don't get me wrong, those climbs sometimes are more than I can bear. Some of them are flat out gut wrenching, and not enjoyable in the least. There have been times that I have truly wondered if the Lord had heard my prayers, or if he was even mindful of me. There are trials that I am facing that I wonder why guidence was not given to me so that I could avoid the struggle, but really that questioning is so short lived(though it is awful in it's fullness) Because I truly know that the Lord is mindful of me, and that at times, I am lifted on wings of angels. Often those angels are those that know me best and lift me with a kind word, a smile or a hug. I know where my strength lies, and like I always say...whatever I have to go through to get me where I want to be in the end, well then it will be worth it.

I have never like the saying..."I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it." It has never seemed right to me somehow. Especially when sided next to "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." When I take a second to look with an eternal perspective, it is easy, and all things are possible.