Emotional Healing

" Somewhere along the line, we assume - erroneously so - that what happens to us causes our happiness or unhappiness. This is not true. It is how we perceive what has happened to us and how we act upon that perception that results in the emotional reaction we feel. We cannot always control what happens to us, but we can most certainly control the way we react to what has happened." Kathleen Rawlings Buntin.
For all those who have wounds to heal and are searching for that peace to come, all I can say is that come it will when we earnestly seek for that healing from the only true source by which it is given. We are healed as we yoke ourselves to the Saviour, by following him and by doing our very best each day. As we do this we find that we are being upheld in the very hollow of his hand when times are too difficult to face alone. We are healed as we draw nearer to him and when our self esteem is based upon what our creator thinks of us then we will not personalize the behaviours of others as our paths cross and their heavy loads press upon us for a time. We will be able to withstand these buffetings and look above the smog and still know that we are good enough. As we develop this divinely given self esteem we will find strenghth enough to be the extension of His arms and lift another's weary head, reassure a troubled heart and love a wounded soul so that they can know to whom they should look for their inspiration, guidance and self esteem. As we walk uprightly and with certainty about our divine identity, we allow others to do the same.
"True joy can be born of painful experience. The atonement of Jesus Christ makes this joy possible."Catherine Christensen.
Thank you to all who have shone so brightly in my life that I now know how and to whom I should look for my source of inspiration, revelation and confidence. Today I am still the same girl I was at that beautiful age of eight in my desire to be good but have learned so much of what is required by way of sacrifice to stay on that path of goodness.