BLESSINGS

I am truly blessed. My life is so far from perfect, but I am still blessed. There is tragedy and sadness and horror all around me. The world is a frightening place and getting more and more scary by the day. But I have a wonderful husband who is loyal, faithful and loving. I have four wonderful, healthy, intelligent, caring children. I have the knowledge of truth and a testimony of God and Jesus Christ. I am fairly healthy. I have a saint for a mother. I have a house to live in and food to eat. My cars work, for the most part. Thank God I was born where and when I was. I am surrounded by divorce and heartbreak, rifts in families, destitution, people living in daily fear. I cannot even watch the news anymore because everything is depressing and wrong. I have family members making poor and horrible choices that cause heartbreak and anguish to all around them. I have finally come to realize that I cannot control all that. I really have very little control in the larger scheme of things. Let go, let God. I have no control except to pray and plead to my Father in Heaven. May those around me feel His love and His power to comfort and bring peace. I don't have that power. I cannot make people choose the way I think they should. I cannot bring that internal peace everyone needs. I cannot make people believe what I think they should believe. But I can search for that peace and pray that others may find it as well. Peace not as the world can bring, but peace only through the Savior.