Subtle moments can change the course of our lives.
I've been thinking about how little things can truly impact so much. Like building a house or a building, if it doesn't meet the necessary requirements, a simple piece of paper can halt the progression or even finishing of a project. Sometimes, it seems as though life throws those at us.
It can be something as small as wanting a bowl of cereal and realizing that there is no milk, to losing a loved one in an instant.
And when it's the single instant choices that others make that cause us grief and pain. yeah, ain't nobody got time for that. The pain can sometimes seem too much to bear.
When I'm faced with these moments,
Which I feel are daily,
(Perks to being in a fallen world)
I think about moments that the Savior had.
Whether in His premortal existance,
His mortal existance,
or His resurrected existance.
I wonder about the happiness He feels when we are happy,
When we're truly happy, and His kind of happy.
I think about His giggles when He laughs with us.
I ponder His sadness when we are sad,
And His hurt when we are hurt.
His pain when we have pain.
His disappointment when we are our imperfect selves.
I think about the Garden of Gethsemane,
The tears He shed,
The drops of blood that fell.
Our moments sometimes seem too hard to bear,
But His were impossible to bear by anyone else.
His moments.
They were all for us.
Because of our Savior Jesus Christ, our moments can be borne.
Because of our Savior Jesus Christ, our happiness can be magnified.
Because of our Savior Jesus Christ, we can heal.
If a survey were taken of history's most significant events, common answers might include the harnessing of fire, the discovery of America, the splitting of the atom,
landing on the moon, or the invention of the computer.
Each is a wondrous event, but absent the backdrop of the Atonement each is of but transitory importance--no more than a shooting star illuminating the sky for a brief moment, and then vanishing into the night.
The Atonement gives purpose and potency to every event in history.
President Gordon B. Hinckley spoke of its relationship to other events in world history:
"When all is said and done,
when all of history is examined, when the deepest depths of the human mind have been explored,
there is nothing so wonderful, so majestic, so tremendous as this act of grace."
-The Infinite Atonement
The greatest example of our Savior Jesus Christ, I think,
Is the fact that He came and fulfilled His purpose for what He was sent here to do.
Christ fulfilled His mission, in humility and love.
The important part that we must always remember
Is that we, too, have a purpose that we are here to fulfill.
And just as the Atonement is full of moments full of hurt and hardship,
Those were accompanied by fulfillment of a very vital purpose and mission.
We have moments that are used for our vital purposes and missions.
Every moment defines who we will become, big or small.
Are we allowing the Lord to form us into who He designed us to become?
Are we allowing our moments, whether happy or painful, to fulfill our purposes?
Do we forget the bigger picture?
Or remember that 'If it be thy will, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but thine.'?
The truth is,
It's all better left in the Lord's hands.
The greatest things are brought to pass if we will but submit to our All Knowing, All Mighty God.
And do His will, not ours.
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