Today

Today I felt so overwhelmed and lonely in my despair. I was just feeling pretty discouraged. So I struggled and struggled and finally gave myself to prayer, pondering, and studying my Patriarchal Blessing. I felt so strongly that my Savior and my Father in Heaven love me. Sometimes I forget that. Sometimes I don’t understand that. Once I asked Him why He loved me and I swear I could hear something in my heart say, “Because you are mine.” I love Them. I feel so reassured and so good.

Life’s trials can break us or they can strengthen us. The choice lies within us. My choice lies within me. Your choice lies within you.

Choose the right especially when it seems the hardest thing to do to you.

Love,

Mariah

P.S.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

--Marianne Williamson