Things Work Out

Sometimes I don’t have enough faith in the future. I stress and plan and try valiantly to make sure everything will work out just so. But no matter how much futile planning I do, no matter how little time I have, it still ends up working out. This past week as I looked at my planner on Sunday night preparing myself for the week ahead, all I wanted to do was run and hide. There was just too much to get done. I did not see how I could possibly accomplish everything I needed to.

But try as I might to delay it, the week began. Several days I went without breaks and would have loved to crash and take a nap but I kept going. My brain protested, my spirit ached, but everything ended up working out. While I would love to say that I planned my time really well and that my extra diligence paid off, I know that it is only through the heavenly help that I managed to get everything done. Though at the beginning of the week I could not see the light at the end, I knew that somehow, some way, it would work out. And it did.

"Things work out, it isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out, don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. If you do your best, it will all work out. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in him, if we will pray to him, if we will live worthy of his blessings, he will hear our prayers." 

Gordon B. Hinckley