Grateful in Any Circumstances.

I am so excited to be on this amazing journey through the Pathway program.  In just the last few weeks, I have noticed changes in my life.

This week was an especially hard week for me.  I had a hard time getting all of my school work done. It felt like every time I sat down to do school work, one of my kids needed something.  My oldest son (11 years old) had a huge project due at school this week that he needed help on. He has a learning disability and my husband gets easily frustrated with him.  That means that I am the only one who can help him.  My middle son (9 years old) is such a social child and always wants me to run him to and fro his friends houses to play.  My baby (4 months old) has been teething and so all he wants is for me to hold him.

Somehow, even though all of this was going on, I managed to get my work done in the nick of time.  However, I didn't really feel like my whole heart and mind was in it.  I was looking forward to going to my weekly gathering to hopefully gain some insight that I felt like I had been lacking all week.  I left home a little but early hoping to be able to gather my thoughts before class started.  I was sitting in the parking lot with my windows rolled down waiting for it to be closer to class time.  I went to roll up my windows in my car and realized that my car battery was just about dead. I knew my husband couldn't come and get me because he had all of the kids at home in bed.

I went into the gathering and found several willing men who were happy to volunteer to jump my car afterwards so I could get home.  I immediately said I silent prayer in my heart thanking Heavenly Father for that small blessing.

Then someone asked me if I would be willing to switch the day that I signed up to be lead student with them because they had a conflict with doing it this coming week.  I realized that I would be off of work this week and could spend more time focusing on being lead student if I switched with her.  Yet another small blessing.

When our gathering was over, several of the men in my group came out and made sure my car would start so that I wouldn't be stuck.  It made me feel so comforted to know that I have people like that in my group.  Blessing #3.

Then my home teacher came over today and changed my battery for me so that I didn't have to take the kids out and try and do it on my won.  Blessing #4.

I watched a talk by President Uchtdorf this week that was called Grateful in Any Circumstances.  I know that I could have looked at this week as a series of horrible things but because I was able to listen and apply his counsel, I saw all of the blessings instead.  I think that is the first time in a long time that I was able to do that. I was so excited today that I wanted to shout it from the rooftops! What a blessing!

And because I loved it so much... I am going to share the talk with all of you!

Grateful in Any Circumstances