Thanks Elder Holland

I think I remember first hearing this talk (ok I'm still no good at this blogging thing - so this link will take you to the Mormon Messages page where you then have to click on page 2 and then find the video that says "Good Things to Come" - sheesh) by Elder Holland when I was in college. I don't remember much about it other than that it made an impact. I probably thought what I thought on Sunday night when I listened to it again, that it was something I needed to hear. And if I went back to my college self with all my college self worries and concerns I would definitely want to say, "don't you quit, you keep walking, you keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead." So I like to imagine myself in thirty years sitting on my back porch watching my grandkids laughing in the backyard while thinking of the young-Mom me struggling to figure out what each of my kids needs, how to best help them be happy, how to not mess them up for life, and wanting to say to the young-Mom me, the right-now me, "don't you quit, you keep walking, you keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead." Imagining that really helps to keep me from dying in an ocean of parental self-doubt and worry when I look at my kids that I want so very, very, very, very badly to find peace and happiness in their lives. So thanks Elder Holland for reminding me how to keep my optimism alive - a girl needs that sort of whack over the head sometimes.