Comments on: Can God Trust You With a Blessing?

By: Decyrano

Decyrano — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:46:50 +0000

In reply to Michelle.

Michelle, strengths do not come without trials… It grieves me that all I can offer are words, that someone is not there to physically hug you and offer a shoulder… I do know than I have seen women that I would hope to comfort, but did not know how to negotiate the virtual minefield of emotions that were evident upon their faces. Those past hurts, that could have been paths to humility, grew thorns around then instead. Nonetheless, I ached for them.
Please, Please do what you can to make yourself accessible, there awaits someone who wants to be your comfort, yet they have already have experienced the thorns of life. Help them to see you, as Christ sees you. See them, as Christ sees them… aloha, dear one

By: bert webster

bert webster — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 17:22:36 +0000

I would like to make a copy of this but can’t seem to be able to do so. Can it be sent so as to make a copy.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 03:31:30 +0000

In the Face to Face Young Single Adult chat with Elder Holland I read every single question submitted keeping a particular look out for single women as equally frustrated with the lack of marriage opportunities in the LDS dating scene as I was. One women’s question went straight to my heart, (paraphrasing Lindsay-New Mexico) “I struggle with feelings of unworthiness as I see everyone around me progressing in dating and marriage opportunities while I feel like my singlehood is an indication that God doesn’t trust me to be a spouse or parent. How do I overcome this?” Sadly, this was one of the questions Elder Holland chose to ignore, yet I wonder, out of the 51% of women in the church who are currently single, how many also struggle with similar feelings? If God trusted us, wouldn’t we be married and have children of our own by now? As the years pass, having a job that pays the bills is great, an entire fridge to yourself, nobody hogging the remote control, a church calling to provide an incentive to stay active while trying not to cry yourself to sleep in your single bed every night doing your best to ignore that screaming uterus. Eventually one begins to question, “Is this all I get?” And when you grew up in a home with parents who married in the temple and then divorced, putting their own selfish needs first, who blame you for your lack of effort to “catch a man” it is very easy to question a loving Heavenly Father’s perspective of what is truly right and just in this world. Suddenly, it becomes very easy to throw trust in God out the window. It is not good for man to be alone but God doesn’t seem to have any problem with so many women.