I wrote this at a time when I was feeling like a change was coming. I was still believing that my little world was going to have to change before I would be happy. I could feel that change coming just like we "feel" spring is coming long before it actually arrives. I just hadn't learned yet that happiness is connected to my inner spiritual life. It was my inner life that needed to change - not the circumstances around me.
In the book Little Women, there is a scene where the daughter Jo is questioning her mother. She thinks her mother should be much more emotional about her husband being off in the war. Her mother replies: "If I don't seem to need help, it is because I have a better friend, even than Father, to comfort and sustain me. My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and maybe many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength."
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