Scriptures

With a new year comes many resolutions - lose weight, organize home, read more and become spiritually stronger. Our family is like everyone else. We have set the goal to read our scriptures together each day. We are a little late in getting started but at least we are starting. Justin read tonight out of the Book of Mormon in Chapter 4:20-5:6.  It was when Nephi and his brothers went to get the plates from Laban and Sariah was murmuring saying that Lehi is a visionary man. I'm grateful for this story of how Sariah's faith was wavering. It is a good reminder that we will all have trials of faith and gives us comfort in knowing that we will go through trials but come out stronger because of them. It came at a perfect time as Justin is going through some of his own trials that he is really struggling with, nothing having to do with faith but more of finding joy in this life as he comes to terms with the fact that he will not be playing baseball, football or rugby in high school. When life doesn't go the way you want it you definitely question what direction you are supposed to be going in life which can be defeating, frustrating and create a void that is hard to fill. I love that we can search our scriptures and find examples of people going through struggles and how they dealt with it. Our heavenly father was so loving to give us scriptures to study and learn from and for that I am grateful.