Embarking My Life

The hymn "Where Can I Turn for Peace?" has always been one of my favorites. A new perspective was brought to me during one of my Institute classes during the last few weeks that has changed the way that I view the Savior helping me through my trials. This line is in the third verse of the hymn. It reads as follows: "He answers privately, Reaches my reaching In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend.  Gentle the peace He finds for my beseeching. Constant He is and kind, love without end." During class, our teacher spoke of the story of the Savior walking on the water. When Peter decided that he wanted to walk out on the water to meet the Savior,  he was filled with strength, courage and peace as the Savior called out to him. Peter got out of the boat and started walking. He was doing great until he stopped his forward motion, faltered in his faith, which then caused him to sink. I love this painting by Liz Lemon Swindle. It's a great depiction of...

Love is a crazy emotion and does a lot of crazy things to us. Many times when we're infatuated or twitterpated with someone, we wear rose-colored glasses and only see the things that we want to see. We see people in the best way possible and have a hard time seeing the bad things about them, including red flags. Red flags are warning signs that something could be wrong that could make your relationship hard. Some red flags can be if the other person does anything that loses trust or has qualities that we are not willing to negotiate living with. As I've talked to some friends the last couple months about how easy it is to not see the red flags about other people, I came up with an analogy. The analogy is that we can't see the red flags because they are the same color as our rose colored glasses. It takes other people's perspective to help us see the red flags and help us see past only the good things we see. I'm not saying that we shouldn't give peop...