Blessings Unmeasured

"I would that ye should remember, that as much as ye shall put your trust in God even so much ye shall be delivered out of your trials, and your troubles, and your afflictions, and ye shall be lifted up at the last day." -Alma 38:5

How was I to have known that my life would change so drastically in such a short period of time? I should have known. I should not have doubted for a second that the Lord can truly pour out blessings without number, but regardless of that fact, I do know now.

Every day I awake with excitement to face the day ahead,
& every night I go to bed with increased vigor to serve in the Cause.

"Where was I last semester?" Rachel asked me last night. I'm not sure where any of us where, Rach. Surely not here though. Surely not where we needed to be.

What changed? The change did not come in the number of trials or the circumstances of which my life consists. No, that did not change at all. The change came, as President Eyring suggested years ago, from inside & not in the world around.

I made a determination to trust more & after that all has seemed to just fall into place. Increase in Prayer, Scripture Study, Temple Attendance - all of the basics were obvious as the next steps in the pattern. So easy, so often repeated, & so little heeded are these eternal principles.

I know that they are true, though. Everything within me whispers of their rightness.