Have the difficulties of life ever made it hard for you to breathe and caused you to wonder how you can make it through the day?

👉 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐮𝐬.

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As you seek guidance from your loving Heavenly Father, you can become a strong link of faith in your family.

👉 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐮𝐬.

Difficulty comes when agency is used to make choices that are inconsistent with those covenants. Study the things you do in your discretionary time, that time you are free to control.

Do you find that it is centered in those things that are of highest priority and of greatest importance? Or do you unconsciously, consistently fill it with trivia and activities that are not of enduring value nor help you accomplish the purpose for which you came to earth?

Think of the long view of life, not just what’s going to happen today or tomorrow. — Richard G Scott

👉 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞.

In one of my direct 17-hour New York flights, our captain, during our briefing, emphasized the need to buckle our seatbelts low and tight.

The flight took off and normal service followed. After a few minutes, the seatbelt signs illuminated and an announcement of compliance from our purser (senior cabin crew) echoed the whole cabin.

As a flight attendant, I went to my seat instructing the passengers to be fastened and I demonstratively seated and fastened myself, too.

While others did follow promptly, others did not. They kept on standing and walking around the cabin. They ignored the announcement, the signs, and instructions from the cabin crew.

Minutes after the announcement, a severe turbulence hit our aircraft. It was a circus for half an hour.

Food trays, beverage boxes and bottles — everything scattered everywhere. Babies were crying. Some were shouting and some were praying.

Those who did not heed the announcement were tossed up the aircraft ceiling and fell down badly on the floor.

After the turbulence, we checked passengers in our area for applicable first aid or oxygen need, for cleaning vomit mess, for handing additional barf bags, for making sure that everyone was OK and safe.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐦 𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲?

Am I the one who listens and obeys or the one who does not? Am I the one who hears the danger but chooses to ignore the instructions given or the one who follows and obeys even if everything is strange, foreign, and not understandable?

I arrived New York safely because I took heed. I thought in my bed at my hotel room that we have a Living Prophet and blessed is even an understatement. Heavenly Father gave commandments, through prophets, to follow with exact obedience.

Like the Captain of the flight, He is so protective and concerned of His children’s safety and welfare so that we can be with Him in the last days.

Sometimes I feel like I do not listen and it leads my life to severe turbulence and I suffer certain consequences of my mistakes.

Maybe I comfort myself with excuses and alibis even if I know that I am spoon-fed with so much for my own sake. I am sometimes tossed by the devil’s mighty winds and shafts in the whirlwinds but Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, helped me and healed me and accepted me with open arms more than first aids.

Even if I forget Him sometimes, He still loves me and blesses me and gives me the things that I ask for, even if I feel like I do not deserve it. He is full of infinite and unfathomable grace and mercy and we are so much loved.

Xycysthiae Meredith Santillan - Marcelo
Paranaque II, Paranaque Stake

The pure love of Christ can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the way our Heavenly Father sees us: as flawed and imperfect mortals who have potential and worth far beyond our capacity to imagine. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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