Paisley: Paisley. Hey everybody, Paisley, imperfect. And today
we're going to do something a little bit different. My oldest
is actually getting baptized this weekend, and so I've got a
super busy week, so I am hoping that you will forgive some
shorter episodes, and for all I know, maybe you'll like them
better. Today, I just want to share three quotes, and all of
these quotes have to do with the people in our lives. Many of us
are blessed to have great families, some of us are blessed
to have really awesome friends, and then some of us struggle in
our relationships. It's okay. I'm not here again. I'm not here
to judge you in your relationships or your family
life or anything like that. I want to share you these. I want
to share with you these three quotes, because they've helped
me. And I'll kind of explain as I go, but they've, they've
helped me be able to see things a little bit differently and set
better boundaries. We'll get into that in just a second. So
the first one is by a guy named Steven Furtick. I hope I'm
saying that wrong, that right? Maybe it's Steven fiertick. I
don't know. He is the founder and lead pastor of Elevation
Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and he said, even the
people who betray you are part of the plan. Jesus couldn't get
to the cross without Judas. Betray is a strong word, but
even the people who hurt you are part of the plan. We come across
different people in our lives who hurt us in different ways
and help us in different ways. People are placed in our lives
for a reason or a season or sometimes forever. No matter
what has happened, though, if someone if someone else has hurt
you, or if someone else has said something dumb, there is an
opportunity to forgive. I want to share this quote from elder
Holland, one of from one of my all time favorite elder Holland
quotes. He said, don't you quit and think about the people that.
Think about those people that you were just thinking about a
second ago. With that, with the other quote about Jesus and
Judas, think about those people for a second while we go through
this quote, don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying.
There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon.
Some come late. Some don't come until Heaven. But for those who
embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be
all right in the end, trust God and believe in good things to
come. This too shall pass like a kidney stone, but it will pass.
And then this last one from elder Maxwell. And I can't help
but smile at this one. So thinking about the people in our
lives, right? There are people who are going to hurt us.
They're going to say mean things or dumb things or just
completely oblivious things to hurt our feelings. I cannot tell
you how many times I ran away crying when somebody would ask
me, When are you going to have kids? How long have you been
married now? How old are you? When are you going to start
having kids not realizing that we had been trying for so many
years? People just say dumb stuff sometimes, but that
doesn't mean that we quit. We keep trying, we keep moving,
because the blessings will come and then elder Maxwell, he says,
The Holy Ghost not only helps us to recognize plain truth, but
also plain nonsense. When we listen to the Holy Ghost and we
allow the healing power of the atonement to truly work in our
lives, we are less likely to quit. We can keep moving. Things
seem more doable, and the Holy Ghost can help us also to what
are the words I'm looking for. The Holy Ghost can help us when,
when somebody says something like that, on purpose or by
accident, and I'm not just talking about infertility, I'm
talking about everything, anything when somebody says
something hurtful or dumb, the holy ghost can help us to stay
calm and to keep going and to. Just take it for what it is,
somebody who didn't mean it or somebody who did mean it, and
maybe no longer matters. And this is kind of also what I'm
talking about with boundaries. The Holy Ghost can help us to
recognize when and where we need to set our boundaries, whether
to once we have forgiven someone for something like that, whether
we let them back in or let them go, let them in or let them go.
Remember that quote from President Nelson? I still have
it around here somewhere. Satan delights in your misery. Don't
let don't let him delight in you. Let the atonement work, let
the Holy Ghost comfort you. That's kind of that's part of
his job. Let the Holy Ghost comfort you and let the
atonement work in your life. It's not just for repentance.
The Atonement, when Jesus suffered for our pains, he
suffered for all of our pains, not just the pains that we feel
as we go through the repentance process, but all of them, for
the hurt, the feelings of for of being forgotten, overlooked,
left behind. The Atonement is there to help with all of those
things, not just repentance, anyway. Thank you guys for being
here. Thank you for letting me do a couple of short episodes
this week. Keep learning, keep growing, keep trying and keep or
start listening to the Holy Ghost. And thank you for being
here until next time you.