Be Still, My Soul

Be still, my soul, the Lord is on thy side. With patience bear thy cross of grief or pain. Leave to thy God to order and provide. In every change, He faithful will remain. Be still my soul, thy best, thy Heavenly Friend, through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.

Christ should be my best friend because he's the only one I can really count on to be with me throughout my entire life. He's a real person, why wouldn't I have that kind of relationship with Him? Other people will come and go, I grow close to friends and then we grow apart, people move, people change, life happens. Jesus is the only one I can count on to always be there with me every step of the way. He knows me better than anyone and yet he still loves me infinitely more than anyone ever could. He is perfect. He understands exactly what I'm going through. I need to turn to Him in times of need, the same way I turn to my human best friends. I need to nurture the relationship, to put as much effort and investment into it as into my earthly friendships. Relationships cannot exist one-sided. One person can't be expected to give and give and give into the relationship. It has to be two-way. Mutual loving. I don't have to give equal to what He is giving, but it has to be my all, 100%, because that is what He is giving me. Christ is perfectly loving and forgiving and understanding. He wants me to rely on him, to turn to Him when other sources fail me. Perhaps that's why other sources have failed. So that I will be forced to turn to Him. He loves me. And I know that he will always love me. I can trust him with my life, because he gave His life for me. I belong to Him. I want to belong to Him. He offers salvation to his friends. "Greater love hath no man than this - that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you." {John 15:13-14}

Good friends talk often. {Every day at least.} They consult each other. And not just when it's convenient for them or when they need something. They want to talk to each other.
Good friends do things for each other out of love. They sacrifice for each other.
Good friends listen, and they care.
Good friends do things together. They like to spend time together, doesn't matter where.
Good friends say "I love you," and mean it.
Good friends defend and protect each other.
Good friends put each other first.
Good friends express appreciation.

Be still my soul: Thy God doth undertake to guide the future as he has the past. Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake; All now mysterious shall be bright at last. Be still, my soul, The waves and winds still know His voice who ruled them while He dwelt below.
God is in control. He's got it. He rules over over the universe. All things are within his power. He will take care of me. He has a plan for me.

Be still, my soul: the hour is hastening on when we shall be forever with the Lord, when disappointment, grief and fear are gone, sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored. Be still, my soul: when change and tears are past, all safe and blessed we shall meet at last :)
Everything has a purpose. He knows me. He is aware of me. He has a plan for me. He will not abandon my. My God is faithful.

Jesus gave His life for me. Shouldn't I return the favor?

He paid the highest price for me, and still He tells me I am free.

"I love you this much."

He is truly my Redeemer, my Savior, and my God.

rambling thoughts on trust part 2 :)

Trust is essential to a relationship. If you can't trust a person to tell you the truth or to always be there for you, to treat you right, to love you, to be faithful, to be honest and good - then you really have no relationship. Until you can trust a person to love you completely, you can't be totally open and so you put on a façade and it's not really you in the relationship. You need to be able to trust them to never ever use anything against you or hurt you. Relationships are trusting people with your real self. We can trust God completely to be all of these things, and once we do, we can have a relationship with Him. 

When other sources fail, God is constant. God is constant when nothing else is.

rambling thoughts on the subject of trust

Trust is hard, and it's one of our most precious gifts to give. People might change, or let us down, or break our trust, but the Lord never will. God can always be counted on, He is always there and He will never change or leave us. That's how we can "trust in the Lord with all [our] hearts." {Proverbs 3:5} :)

How can we have faith in something that could change? God will never change. He is perfectly reliable and will never leave us. We can trust Him because He is constant. God is the one constant in life. We can trust Him because He knows us better than we know ourselves, better than anyone else. He made us, He created us, and He knows us perfectly. My life is secure in His hands. He will never change, He will never leave me.

Why would we put our faith in something that could change? Trust God more than anything else. Everything shall pass away, but God's word shall not pass away. {Matthew 24:35} 

The more Christlike I become, the more people can trust me. God is always faithful. If I become more like Him, I will be more trustworthy.

Trust in God above all else. Perfect faith. Trust God more than even yourself. Trust God to give you the strength to make it through. Acknowledge that I can't do it alone, or even with others, if I'm not with God. Everything good comes from God. :)

Put your trust in God - fully invested.

Job 13:15 - "Though He slay me, yet will I trust"

He is the Good Shepherd. He is perfectly loving. "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." ~John 10:27

"Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord." ~Ps. 20:7

The Lord redeemeth the soul of His servants, and none of them that trust in Him shall be desolate. ~Ps. 34:22

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man or princes. {Psalms 118:8-9}

Sometimes we put our trust as a nation in our army or our national defense. Wrong.

"I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you to bear you up." ~D&C 84:88

"The fear of man bringeth a snare, but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe." ~Prov. 29:25

"I am encompassed about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so easily beset me. And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins, nevertheness, I know in whom I have have trusted. My God hath been my support. He hath led me thorough mine afflictions in the wilderness, and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep. He hath filled me with his love... he hath confounded mine enemies,... he hath heard my cry." ~2 Ne. 4:18-23

Come what may, I will trust in the Lord.

"God... delivered his servants that trusted in Him." ~Dan. 3:28

"The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him." ~Nahum 1:7

I will put my trust in the Lord - I will make an active choice to place my life in His hands and let him guide my actions. My trust is a gift to give Him. The only thing I can give the Lord, really. He gave me my free will, and I can use it to choose His will.

"O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh." ~2 Ne. 4:34

"Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song, he also has become my salvation." ~2 Ne. 22:2

Once I put my trust in the Lord, I should not be afraid, for what is there to be afraid of? God is perfectly in control, always. He is all-powerful and perfectly loving and caring. He's got it. Faith casts out all fear.

The people of Nephi fortified against their enemies with their arms, and with all their might, trusting in the God and rock of their salvation, wherefore, they became conquerors of their enemies. {Jacob 7:25} Trusting in God doesn't mean idly sitting by and expecing God to do all the work. It means work your hardest and trust God to make up the rest and add more to you than you ever could have accomplished yourself. All He asks is that we give Him our all.

God has promised us that if we put our trust in Him we will be supported, lifted, receive mercy and joy, and be victorious. And God cannot lie.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. {Isa. 2:22} Who will I trust? Man, who will die and is mortal, or God, who is perfect and all-powerful and always there?

seattle ♥

i miss seattle so much it is my home and native land where the water is in the air where it belongs and my skin can absorb it like a fish

and the beautiful green trees
and the water

and the coffee (that i don't drink haha)

and the hippies

and the ocean

and the green

and the beautiful

and the seattle

that i love

♥♥

let's discuss my medical history, shall we?

I cracked my arm bone in elementary school but didn't get a cast because my mother didn't believe me and so didn't take me to the hospital until a month later when it still hurt. and it had already fixed itself {mostly} so I just got an arm brace.

My sophomore year of high school, my mother tricked me into having toe surgery. Literally tricked me. Lied to me about why we were going to the doctor. I believed her up until the nurse took me to the room labeled SURGERY. thanks mom.

Later that year I fell down the stairs and got a concussion... that was exciting.

Wisdom teeth removal senior year... thought I was going to die. I did not die {barely}.

And now I have broken my foot.

The first of this month I hurt my foot at a friend's house, but I didn't think it was that bad so I drove home. Now a week later it still kinda hurts and is bruised pretty badly so I just went to the doctor's.... oh. It's broken. And all the doctors think I'm an idiot/liar when I tell them I was just walking and I fell. and broke it. on some stairs. cement ones.

But it's the truth.

yay me! :)

But it really doesn't hurt that bad and I don't even get a cast, just a shoeboot thing for sympathy purposes. Not too much walking, & wear the boot for a month.

Yay, memories! :)