Upon the Rock........

As I have recently started a family, college, a new job, and an array of other activities my mind and body have never felt more overwhelmed. Last week I wanted to just lie down and die. I had more assignments due for class the next day than I could count on my two hands. Work was demanding more than I had imagined, and I just wanted a few minutes to rest!

I attended a training meeting at work with the culmination of all this. The meeting was centered on how the Book of Mormon teachings enhance our relationship with Jesus Christ. As I participated in the meeting it dawned on me. How often am I studying the Book of Mormon? Am I receiving the spirit of Christ as I read? My worries and stresses seemed so overbearing, but I realized it was because I was not accepting the peace offered by the Savior.

I realized my ineffectiveness to handle the stresses of life was a direct result of not depending upon the Savior. Finally recognizing it, I resolved to turn again to him. Since last week the pressure has not relented, but my strength as never been so strongly founded upon the rock of Savior. Reading the Book of Mormon and the New Testament daily is inviting a peace not found anywhere else but through God.

 "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: 

not as the world giveth, give I unto you.

 Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." 

                       

                            - Jesus Christ (John 14:27)

" These things I have spoken unto you,

 that in me ye might have peace. 

In the world ye shall have tribulation: 

but be of good cheer;

 I have overcome the world. "

                           - Jesus Christ (John 16:33)