Alice in Wonderland

I'm a huge fan if Alice in Wonderland. I have several editions of the book as well as various versions of the film. In the Disney version of the movie, there is a point where Alice finds herself lost in the Tulgey Woods. As she is walking along one path, it is being erased from behind her and then disappears completely. She has nowhere to go, she is wandering without a path. Lately I have felt like Alice when all her paths disappear. I have been traveling down a road that has just been erased for me. Am I devastated? Well sure, Who wouldn't be? The question is, What am I going to do now? Sometimes I just sit and pray that everything will go back to that way it used to be. After all, the hardest part is picking up your feet and moving on. I could sit and cry over what was lost like Alice, or I can...???? What's next, Do I wait for the Cheshire cat to come and save me or do I save myself?

Forever and Ever

I just recently came to understand just how much God knows each and every one of us personally. He knows my strengths and weaknesses and even my "soft spots". One on my soft spots is eternal families. I love my family more than anything and I couldn't imagine spending a minute without them. So when a talk was given at our stake conference on the subject, I sat upright and listened intently. The speaker asked us to grab the hand of someone we couldn't imagine eternity without. Without a pause, my dad scooped up all of our hands. Tears rolled down my face as I realized that my family loves me just as much as I love them. I couldn't tell if any other families were holding hands, but we sat there for the remainder of the talk hand-in-hand.

This past Sunday a lesson was given in Relied Society on the same subject and I cried as the opening song was being sung.

    " I have a family here on Earth. They are so good to me. I want to share my life with them through all              eternity. Families can be together forever through Heavenly Father's plan. I always want to be with my          own family and the Lord has shown me how I can."

Why does this topic make me so emotional? It's my family. My best friends. My personal cheerleaders. The people that make me laugh until it hurts. The people that give unconditional love. The people that will tell me the truth even when it hurts. The only people that know how to really make me angry. The only people that really KNOW me. I have been worried lately about what the future holds for me, but I know the one thing that remains constant is my family. I want to spend eternity with my family and I want to do everything to make that possible. A year ago I would have not even thought about going to the temple, but I think God has been slowly chiseling away my hard spots. Like I said, God knows our soft spots.

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