Get a new persepective

One of my favorite movies in the whole world is Soul Surfer. It's about this amazing girl named Bethany Hamilton. She was a surfer who had her arm bitten off by a shark. She ended up still surfing and competing. She is an amazing inspiration to all of us. Although the movie got a little cheesy, it still has amazing message.

At the beginning of the movie there is scene where they talk about getting a different perspective on hard situations. Often, when things happen in the moment, it's hard to understand why things happen or how come. You can't see the full picture, and you don't know how its going to turn out.

When my Daddy passed away there were so many things that crossed my mind. When they told us everyone started to cry and I said through tears "What are we going to do? How are we going to pay for things?" I was so afraid. My main concern was just surviving. Luckily, we had families donate money to us as well as my dad's business helping pay a few expenses.  After I knew we wouldn't be starving or living on the street (Dramatic, I know.) I was finally able to focus on the fact that my life had fallen apart. The world would continue moving but a piece of my heart was still stuck in the time where my dad held me in his arms and laughed with me. I had such a hard time seeing that I would be able to handle this. I wasn't able to see that my dad was in heaven and that I would see him again. We were together forever, sealed in the temple for eternity. My friends would tell me that but I wasn't able to understand that that made everything ok.

But, as time went on I could see the eternal picture. Everything was going to be ok, and everything is. I know that on my wedding day I'm going to have a really hard time. As well as having my children come into the world. All those things that fathers and daughters enjoy and cherish doing together are out of my reach. But not completely, luckily I have many father figures that I consider my second daddy.

My other favorite part in soul surfer that always gets me into tears is when Carrie Underwood is talking to Bethany and says "I don't know why terrible things happen." They go on to talk about a couple other things. Last night I thought about it and I realized that god gives us hard trials because he knows we can handle it.

Basically, God will not set you up to fail. At all! Now, let me make this clear that with god anything is possible. Without god, you will fail. That sounds so depressing but its true. You need Heavenly Father on your side in order to succeed. He will provide happiness when you think that happiness isn't possible. Technically I should be extremely sad and depressed all the time but because I have God with me and I see that I have eternity with my dad, I can be happy!!

So when things get hard to handle, please take a step back and try to see the whole picture. It's hard but you will feel so much better about the situation if you do.

peace out guys