After Much Tribulation Come the Blessings

The Lord loves us and I believe that He wants to bless us. That can be a bit difficult to remember while feeling swamped by incessant incoming tides: a capstone paper, classes, finals, grad schools applications, letters of recommendation, Church callings, and/or a social life.

The words in D&C 58:4 can be a bit comforting in times such as these. We can have hope that we'll finish our paper, the semester is almost over, finals do pass, we can get into grad school with some helpful letters of recommendation, and we can help others as well as have fun with them--all because the Lord blesses us with these things.

It's clear that giving a child everything they want merely because they want it is a poor parenting technique. Thus, Heavenly Father, who, again, loves us and wants to bless us, doesn't give us everything we think we want or need. We work, often hard and for a long time, before we obtain blessings the Lord is so anxious to give us.

I experienced this once more just today. I seriously didn't know if I could handle all the stresses for much longer. But I know the Lord blessed me to be able to calm down and work efficiently and feel like things can work out! They always do.