Following up on yesterday's Dr. Seuss quote about making things happen in our lives. Sometimes we may feel like things are happening TO us, but no matter what circumstances we find ourselves faced with, we can choose our response. Part of this is accepting the consequences of our choices. Sometimes we chose poorly and we need to pick ourselves up and move on, learning from that choice and choosing better next time. Sometimes we chose well and things are favorable for us. Sometimes we didn't choose anything, but adversity challenges us. Then we choose our response to it.
No matter what, we need to praise God for His blessings and for "being there" with us through thick and thin. He wants us to make choices and learn. He doesn't cause everything to happen to us, but lets natural consequences help us learn and I think occasionally he "throws us a curveball" by handing us learning experiences. Still other learning experiences are the effects of other people's choices. But I know that He never leaves us alone. He provided His Son to not only suffer for our sins, but as it says in Alma 7:
11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations
of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will
take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.
12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of
death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities,
that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he
may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to
their infirmities.
He knows how to "succor" me, which means "to run to." I am grateful for His constant care and companionship. It is only by learning how to make good choices that we can become like Him. I understand that He is in the details of my life, not making choices for me and not overriding natural consequences. But holding my hand and helping me learn. I am so grateful for the Father's wisdom in providing a Savior to suffer for us, that He would know how to "succor" us and help us learn and grow. And by descending below all things and experiencing all our sorrows and pains, he is the only one who truly knows what we are going through. Our part is to turn to him and let him heal us.
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