In my humble opinion, trials are not always the most enjoyable experience in life. Somedays I feel like I just travel from one Trial to another, never getting a chance for a little vacation between stops. I know someday I will look back and be grateful for each one and the person they helped me become but until then… I hold onto my faith and one of my all time favorite quotes from a talk given by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland “If sometimes the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived.” (“The Inconvenient Messiah”, Feb. 2, 1982)
It’s easy for discouragement to creep itself on me
It’s easy to forget that God has any love for me.
At times it seems that everyone is blessed beyond belief
At times it seems I’ll never feel the kind hand of relief.
Sometimes it feels the more I try
The more the Blessing Well is dry.
Sometimes it seems the more I try
The more blessed is the Other Guy.
Sometimes I think the more I try
The more I just sit down and cry.
But before I let discouragement make its next meal out of me
I try and take a moment to see what I don’t see.
And then while sitting there, in yet another trial,
I begin to see things hidden there that make me want to smile.
Like the thirty extra minutes that the baby took his nap
And the fifteen extra minutes the toddler cuddled on my lap.
Or the simple little note I found tucked within my book
That simply said “I love you, Mom!” when I opened up and took a look.
There’s also things that can’t be seen, like how much I’ve learned to love
Or how much more time I spend now in prayer to Him above.
Or how much I’ve learned the value of serving one another
Or how much I now appreciate all the things done by my mother.
How often do we think our blessings just aren’t what we need.
How often does our Father know they’re there to grow a seed.
Sometimes it seems we only see the things we think we lack
But fail to notice that the Savior is there carrying us on his back.
No matter what, we’ll always hurt as our trials make us grow
But someday we will look back and see the value and we’ll Know.
It’s easy for discouragement to creep itself on me
But I try my best to see the love my Father has for me.
I try my best to notice the kind hand of relief.
I try my best to see that I am blessed beyond belief.