WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.600 Paisley: Paisley. Hey everybody, Paisley, imperfect. And today 00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:09.660 we're going to do something a little bit different. My oldest 00:00:09.660 --> 00:00:12.060 is actually getting baptized this weekend, and so I've got a 00:00:12.060 --> 00:00:16.200 super busy week, so I am hoping that you will forgive some 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:19.080 shorter episodes, and for all I know, maybe you'll like them 00:00:19.080 --> 00:00:23.600 better. Today, I just want to share three quotes, and all of 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:28.880 these quotes have to do with the people in our lives. Many of us 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:33.320 are blessed to have great families, some of us are blessed 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:39.980 to have really awesome friends, and then some of us struggle in 00:00:39.980 --> 00:00:44.380 our relationships. It's okay. I'm not here again. I'm not here 00:00:44.380 --> 00:00:47.320 to judge you in your relationships or your family 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:51.220 life or anything like that. I want to share you these. I want 00:00:51.220 --> 00:00:57.040 to share with you these three quotes, because they've helped 00:00:57.040 --> 00:01:01.860 me. And I'll kind of explain as I go, but they've, they've 00:01:01.860 --> 00:01:06.660 helped me be able to see things a little bit differently and set 00:01:07.380 --> 00:01:12.120 better boundaries. We'll get into that in just a second. So 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:16.860 the first one is by a guy named Steven Furtick. I hope I'm 00:01:16.860 --> 00:01:20.420 saying that wrong, that right? Maybe it's Steven fiertick. I 00:01:20.420 --> 00:01:24.260 don't know. He is the founder and lead pastor of Elevation 00:01:24.260 --> 00:01:29.180 Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and he said, even the 00:01:29.180 --> 00:01:33.140 people who betray you are part of the plan. Jesus couldn't get 00:01:33.140 --> 00:01:38.780 to the cross without Judas. Betray is a strong word, but 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:47.020 even the people who hurt you are part of the plan. We come across 00:01:47.020 --> 00:01:53.020 different people in our lives who hurt us in different ways 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:59.500 and help us in different ways. People are placed in our lives 00:01:59.800 --> 00:02:08.580 for a reason or a season or sometimes forever. No matter 00:02:08.580 --> 00:02:12.360 what has happened, though, if someone if someone else has hurt 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:17.580 you, or if someone else has said something dumb, there is an 00:02:17.580 --> 00:02:22.220 opportunity to forgive. I want to share this quote from elder 00:02:22.220 --> 00:02:25.940 Holland, one of from one of my all time favorite elder Holland 00:02:25.940 --> 00:02:31.640 quotes. He said, don't you quit and think about the people that. 00:02:32.780 --> 00:02:35.120 Think about those people that you were just thinking about a 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:39.320 second ago. With that, with the other quote about Jesus and 00:02:39.320 --> 00:02:43.180 Judas, think about those people for a second while we go through 00:02:43.180 --> 00:02:47.500 this quote, don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. 00:02:47.740 --> 00:02:51.700 There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. 00:02:51.700 --> 00:02:55.300 Some come late. Some don't come until Heaven. But for those who 00:02:55.300 --> 00:02:59.200 embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:02.520 all right in the end, trust God and believe in good things to 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:10.620 come. This too shall pass like a kidney stone, but it will pass. 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:18.300 And then this last one from elder Maxwell. And I can't help 00:03:18.300 --> 00:03:21.320 but smile at this one. So thinking about the people in our 00:03:21.320 --> 00:03:23.480 lives, right? There are people who are going to hurt us. 00:03:23.480 --> 00:03:26.180 They're going to say mean things or dumb things or just 00:03:26.180 --> 00:03:30.320 completely oblivious things to hurt our feelings. I cannot tell 00:03:30.320 --> 00:03:35.600 you how many times I ran away crying when somebody would ask 00:03:35.600 --> 00:03:37.940 me, When are you going to have kids? How long have you been 00:03:37.940 --> 00:03:40.840 married now? How old are you? When are you going to start 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:43.780 having kids not realizing that we had been trying for so many 00:03:43.780 --> 00:03:49.120 years? People just say dumb stuff sometimes, but that 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.960 doesn't mean that we quit. We keep trying, we keep moving, 00:03:53.200 --> 00:04:00.480 because the blessings will come and then elder Maxwell, he says, 00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:04.920 The Holy Ghost not only helps us to recognize plain truth, but 00:04:04.920 --> 00:04:13.200 also plain nonsense. When we listen to the Holy Ghost and we 00:04:13.260 --> 00:04:17.460 allow the healing power of the atonement to truly work in our 00:04:17.460 --> 00:04:24.800 lives, we are less likely to quit. We can keep moving. Things 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:37.100 seem more doable, and the Holy Ghost can help us also to what 00:04:37.220 --> 00:04:40.600 are the words I'm looking for. The Holy Ghost can help us when, 00:04:40.660 --> 00:04:43.960 when somebody says something like that, on purpose or by 00:04:43.960 --> 00:04:47.320 accident, and I'm not just talking about infertility, I'm 00:04:47.320 --> 00:04:50.500 talking about everything, anything when somebody says 00:04:50.500 --> 00:04:54.400 something hurtful or dumb, the holy ghost can help us to stay 00:04:54.400 --> 00:05:02.520 calm and to keep going and to. Just take it for what it is, 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:07.860 somebody who didn't mean it or somebody who did mean it, and 00:05:07.860 --> 00:05:12.900 maybe no longer matters. And this is kind of also what I'm 00:05:12.900 --> 00:05:16.140 talking about with boundaries. The Holy Ghost can help us to 00:05:16.140 --> 00:05:23.120 recognize when and where we need to set our boundaries, whether 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:27.380 to once we have forgiven someone for something like that, whether 00:05:27.380 --> 00:05:37.700 we let them back in or let them go, let them in or let them go. 00:05:40.700 --> 00:05:45.220 Remember that quote from President Nelson? I still have 00:05:45.220 --> 00:05:51.640 it around here somewhere. Satan delights in your misery. Don't 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:59.380 let don't let him delight in you. Let the atonement work, let 00:05:59.380 --> 00:06:04.260 the Holy Ghost comfort you. That's kind of that's part of 00:06:04.260 --> 00:06:07.380 his job. Let the Holy Ghost comfort you and let the 00:06:07.380 --> 00:06:10.080 atonement work in your life. It's not just for repentance. 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:14.280 The Atonement, when Jesus suffered for our pains, he 00:06:14.280 --> 00:06:17.520 suffered for all of our pains, not just the pains that we feel 00:06:17.520 --> 00:06:21.380 as we go through the repentance process, but all of them, for 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:26.420 the hurt, the feelings of for of being forgotten, overlooked, 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:31.580 left behind. The Atonement is there to help with all of those 00:06:31.580 --> 00:06:38.420 things, not just repentance, anyway. Thank you guys for being 00:06:38.420 --> 00:06:41.740 here. Thank you for letting me do a couple of short episodes 00:06:41.740 --> 00:06:49.420 this week. Keep learning, keep growing, keep trying and keep or 00:06:49.420 --> 00:06:53.440 start listening to the Holy Ghost. And thank you for being 00:06:53.440 --> 00:06:54.820 here until next time you.