Becoming who we are

Yesterday I found this post on my cousin's blog and I thought it was beautiful. I hope that she won't mind that I posted it on my own blog. I feel like she has captured the essence of what I have been feeling the last couple of months. It's amazing how no matter what point you are at in your life or how truly happy you are there is always more strength in you than you sometimes realize. Becoming who our Heavenly Father needs and wants us to be is so difficult at times because we can't see the end result. The principle of faith is so simple but yet so difficult at times to have. For all of you who might be feeling a bit down or a bit lost this post is for you. Thanks Leila!

DREAMS

Within each of us is a complex world of desires, thoughts, passions, dreams, wishes and hopes. And at one time all of those things each try to find a way into our lives making us who we are, and who we are going to become. Everyday, we weave through these things, trying to make sense of them all. Trying to find a place for each of them to be brought to life. Not wanting anything to be forgotten or left unopened. Everyday I wake up with ideals. With these desires and hopes. And everyday, I find myself having to choose one thing over another. In an ideal world, Every day would be a new opportunity to explore every last particle of what makes me, me. I could create and push the boundaries and limits of life. I could bring to life my inner most secret desires, and feel as though I have conquered everything that tried to tell me no. But yet, life often times has its own ideas, its own ways of testing me. Its own way of trying and challenging me. Slowly molding me into a person that I could have never become without all of those challenges and trials. And yet, the whole time I have been finding my way through, it has been my desires and passions, my hopes and dreams that have given me my strength and direction. The desires to stand for what is true, and to become someone that I could have only dreamed of becoming. Its the times in life when things are the hardest, that we search to find the truth and when we find that truth, that pure light in the midst of haze, that we have the tools to help us become who we have always wanted to be. We find ourselves strengthened and empowered. With even greater desires, thoughts, passions, dreams, wishes and hopes.