There are many days that I have struggled to understand the reason that I have had to deal with having bipolar. It’s not easy to find hope when you are full of despair. My whole life I’ve been through the ups and downs of it. I could go months and months with no signs of it and then all of sudden it was there like a cloudy, gloomy day. Some days are wonderful, and other days I wondered if I’d make it through.
But good news! I did. And maybe one of the reasons that I’ve had to go through this is so that you can see that you can too! I know that we are here to help make another’s burden light.
So how did I find hope? Well one truth that I can point to is that I knew that there was a reason for me to be here, to be alive. I know that part of that came from my upbringing and knowing that there is a God and that He loves me. But another part came from deep inside, just feeling that there was something more to all of this. Somehow I had hope.
Deiter F, Uchtdorf once said “Hope has the power to fill our lives with happiness. It’s absence– can make the heart sick.
Despair drains from us all that is vibrant and joyful and leaves behind the empty remnants of what life was meant to be, despair can seem like a staircase that leads only and forever downward.
Hope on the other hand, is like a beam of sunlight rising up and above the horizon of our present circumstances. It pierces the darkness with a brilliant dawn. It encourages and inspires us to place our trust in the loving care of an eternal Heavenly Father who has prepared a way for those who seek for eternal truth.”
The rest of that talk can be found here.
I love the vision of a beam of sunlight. I can just picture it coming through the clouds and shining brightly and warmly on my soul. Giving me hope for a brighter day.
Today, let’s look outside of ourselves. Let’s look for a way that we can make another’s burden a little lighter. Just look around you, there are people everywhere that have hard things that they are dealing with and it doesn’t take much to give them some hope. Remember that maybe you were given this mountain to show others that it can moved! Pray and ask God who it is that needs your help today, and I promise he will show you. And remember it only takes a tiny bit of hope to keep you from falling into despair. Today choose to have hope.
XO Wendy
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