"You Gotta Have Faith," Said George Michael

This morning I looked up faith on lds.org. This was the article that caught my eye,

The Transforming Power of Faith and Character by Richard G. Scott.

I went through the article highlighting all of the different paragraphs that really spoke to me. I was going to post each one but they are all so good and I would hate to motivate anyone to only read a portion. There was so much there that I needed to hear for myself.

A few weeks ago I was listening to this wonderful, full of life, smiling eyed lady girl (35 or so) tell how she climbed out of her hole of misery. The past several years had been overwhelmingly difficult. She had become consumed by her trials, hardened and bitter. Maybe 10 years ago I would have heard her story and I would have misjudged this lady. I would have said to myself,'that lady wasted years looking for the crappiness of life' or 'that lady chose to be unhappy all of those years' or 'she chose to be a victim.'(Thanks to my misuse of the Arbinger philosophy). But because life is unpredictable and designed to try the hell out of you, I understand where this woman had come from because it has been all too easy to find myself in that same place...the victim. I have a good life but yes I have had some trials that have been so painfully overwhelming to me that I wanted to be put into some kind of induced coma until the end was in sight, just as we all have and will experience at many points in our life plus or minus the coma desire. So back to this lady-she started to sincerely work through the young women's booklet (don't know the name, can't remember), relearn the gospel and had truly started to look at herself and where she had allowed herself to be. Within a reasonably short amount of time, light replaced dark, her heart had defrosted and she felt joy more often than she had in years. I was so inspired by her transformation that I got my own copy and cracked it the other day. Again I am learning of faith.