Today, in my “Use of Self” course I got to hear the life stories, or life landscapes of my 19 classmates and my 2 professors and I am really glad I have the life I do. This had just served as a testament to me, more than anything, that our loving Heavenly Father gives us exactly what we can handle.
After hearing some of their stories, I don’t know how I would have faired in their situations. Because I am a very different person than them, and have my own personality oddities, I may not have come out as well as they seem to be.
I have never had to deal with a politically brainwashed family.
I have never had to deal with being sexually abused.
I have never had to deal with being raised by a grandparent because my parents abandoned me.
It made me feel guilty for thinking that my life is hard. EVER. Because in reality it’s not that bad, but then when those same people whose stories I could never have survived heard my story they felt the same way.
Clearly our Father knows exactly what we can handle and what we can’t. The fact that we are all here means that we COULD handle it, and that we did.
It may have changed us.
It may have shook us.
It may have left us gasping for breath, thankful for the ride.
But we did it.