Last night, it hit me that a new year is almost here. I'll be honest, I almost started to panic. It seems a new year always means a new trial or challenge to overcome. Last year it was a brief period unemployment, followed by living on my own for three months with the kids while Nic started his new job and we tried to sell the house in Utah, then moving to Nebraska to join back up with Nic. The year before that it was having twins. The year before that we moved, the year before that, we moved and went through our ordeal with the birth with Josh etc. As I started to worry and wonder what this new year might hold for our family, I realized that there was nothing I could do about what life may throw at me, but I thought of Elder Wirthlin's quote from his last conference talk "Come what may and love it." I realized that was the attitude I needed to take, not one of fear and trepidation. Come what may and love it. I looked up the talk this morning and read it. It was filled with good counsel and wisdom. Here is the link:
What a great talk! So I guess what ever comes to us this year, I will do my best to face it bravely with a smile, because looking back, the hardest things in my life have brought the most growth and blessings. So 2011, come what may and love it!
