Simple Pleasures

Take your own advice, Vicki: the simplest things mean the most in life. Look at a tree, how green it truly is and how it got there. Imagine how long it has been there and what it has seen for the past several years. Imagine how wise that tree is. Look at the rain. Look how simple the rain is, and how much of an affect it has on the entire world around it. The rain nourishes plant life and animal life. We see it bring a whole new light as it washes away our thoughts and as soon as the clouds break to let through the smallest shimmer of sunlight, our heart warms up with it. Why does something so simple have such a deepening affect on us? I am slowly realizing every day that God does have a plan for me. It was on my path to be born outside of the covenant. It was on my path that I made the friends and dated the boy I did before I was baptized. It was on my path that I met DJ and his family. It was on my path that I had the missionaries that I did. It was on my path that I was baptized when I was at 18. It was on my path that I went to BYU-Idaho to meet the people I have. It was on my path that I met Casey when I did. It was on my path to come back home for the summer. I have to remember how simple things are, and that I have been brainwashed by society that you have to second guess everything in life. Things are exactly how they will be and I need to just accept it. Man is the only thing making life complicated. Life is simple, life is hard. Life is not complicated, and life is not easy. I must live up to that potential that Heavenly Father sees in me, that my parents see in me, that Casey sees in me, that friends see in me, that society sees in me, that I see in me. I’m here for a reason. I’m on my own mission.