Discouragement and Darkness

Laying Foundations

“We may not feel today the peace and joy which we felt yesterday; but we should by faith grasp the hand of Christ, and trust Him as fully in the darkness as in the light.” – Messages to Young People p. 112

Life is complicated and difficult.  We do experience beautiful things and happy moments, but these do not stretch to all of our waking moments.  We can experience, relationship problems, work problems, health problems, inner problems, and sin problems.  It is easy sometimes to focus on these situations and become discouraged and lose site of the sun in our lives.

What can be most difficult is when we feel far from God.  When we feel that our own shortcomings are cutting us off from the Savior, it can feel like a negative spiral of hopelessness.  We have separated ourselves from the holy by our actions, and it seems that…

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