"It isn't as bad as you sometimes thin it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. If you do your best, it will all work out. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. . . . If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers." - Gordon B. Hinkley.
It has come to my attention (mainly due to my own self awareness) that there are some feelings of discouragement, pessimism, and perhaps a bit of down right despair among certain group of Americans in the last few days. It has become ever so obvious to me that I fall in this group of people. I have reflected a little bit about my thought and feelings in what some may seem are troubled times and I have come to a few convulsions about mine right now and I wanted to write them down.
It seems we, Mormons, like to stand on top of a pedestal and shout to the world how the "sky is falling." Don't we like to do this as LDS people? We like to tell the world our views are more right, our standards are higher, our thoughts more divine, our traditions more correct. But are they? I actually don't know, BUT certainly you can not argue that others beliefs- political, religious and personal- are worth our time, consideration and at the very least our respect in this mortal life. Because remember, "We believe the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where or what they may." Right?
The vast majority of American's are Christians, who strive to seek for righteousness and truth through the Savior Jesus Christ. It's the reason so many of our for fathers left their homes and traveled unimaginable distances on ships, wagons, and even by foot to create a life they had never known or could only imagine under their current political systems. This is the reason our Fathers of this Nation constructed a democratic system under the instruction of our Omnipotent Creator that this country moves forward in a world of ever more political/religious/ethnic/geographic unrest. Certainly we see this as we turn on the news, flip on the computer or witness it in our own communities, but if "WE seek being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men," if "we hope all things," and honestly believe that the majority of our fellow man seeks these same truths then we need not breed the pessimism. We need not construct our own "Fiscal Cliff" to fall off once things are no longer moving in a direction we "believe" is not right, no matter how much you believe your views are founded in truth. If you do this then you my friend are breeding pessimism, you have left the foundation of the building upon which you stand, because I will tell you the truth is if you despair you are turning your back on God and the acknowledgement that He is weaver in this tapestry. "It isn't as bad as you . . . think it is. It all works out. Don't worry."
Don't breed pessimism; you are part of the problem if you do this. If you are optimistic and believe that there are so many things that American has, is, and will yet over come then you are the light to which people will be drawn and feed off of, even if it is your soul belief that they country is moving in the wrong direction. Don't feed the pessimism. PREACH THE OPTIMISM.
The sky is not falling. "It's never as bad as you think" and it really does "all work out in the end." I know we will still know greatness in American because that is what it was constructed to do. I have this new found optimism for President Obama that I have not known, I am cheering him on and praying for his success in the next fours years. You should join me.
The vast majority of American's are Christians, who strive to seek for righteousness and truth through the Savior Jesus Christ. It's the reason so many of our for fathers left their homes and traveled unimaginable distances on ships, wagons, and even by foot to create a life they had never known or could only imagine under their current political systems. This is the reason our Fathers of this Nation constructed a democratic system under the instruction of our Omnipotent Creator that this country moves forward in a world of ever more political/religious/ethnic/geographic unrest. Certainly we see this as we turn on the news, flip on the computer or witness it in our own communities, but if "WE seek being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men," if "we hope all things," and honestly believe that the majority of our fellow man seeks these same truths then we need not breed the pessimism. We need not construct our own "Fiscal Cliff" to fall off once things are no longer moving in a direction we "believe" is not right, no matter how much you believe your views are founded in truth. If you do this then you my friend are breeding pessimism, you have left the foundation of the building upon which you stand, because I will tell you the truth is if you despair you are turning your back on God and the acknowledgement that He is weaver in this tapestry. "It isn't as bad as you . . . think it is. It all works out. Don't worry."
Don't breed pessimism; you are part of the problem if you do this. If you are optimistic and believe that there are so many things that American has, is, and will yet over come then you are the light to which people will be drawn and feed off of, even if it is your soul belief that they country is moving in the wrong direction. Don't feed the pessimism. PREACH THE OPTIMISM.
The sky is not falling. "It's never as bad as you think" and it really does "all work out in the end." I know we will still know greatness in American because that is what it was constructed to do. I have this new found optimism for President Obama that I have not known, I am cheering him on and praying for his success in the next fours years. You should join me.
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