Wednesday, April 30, 2014

What Is Your Tomb?

I had a lot of cool experiences this past Easter.
I was able to go and visit my sister in Austin, Texas and join her in Young Womens. (She is in the presidency.)
A lot of the girls in their ward come to church alone, or are looking to get baptized so they don't know a lot about the Gospel, this means that their lessons are brought down to such a simple level.

We talked about the Atonement and the cruisifictisn and how when people went to our Heavenly Fathers tomb they didn't find him there. He had risen.

My sister shared this example.
"I often think back to times in my life where I thought I would never recover from something, that it would be the end of me, it would be my tomb. Now if I travel back to those times I am no longer there, I made it out, it wasn't those things that ended me. Everyone has their own tombs. Heavenly Father made it out of his and he helps us make it out of ours."

Some of my tombs are:
-Depression.
-My dads illness.
-Anxiety.
-Bullying.

Heavenly Father felt all of our pain in the garden. But he didn't feel a generalized pain for everyone. He knows what MY depression feels like, he knows what MY broken heart feels like, he knows MY worries and MY struggles and MY anxiety. He knows ME.

Heavenly Fathers friends and family didn't find him in his tomb because that wasn't the end of him, he lives. My friends won't find me in my tomb of depression or anxiety because that isn't the end of me, I live.

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