Experiencing Forsaken

I'm not sure we can truly appreciate something until we have lost it, at least for awhile.  I wonder if we can actually be grateful for something we have never been without?  ...Matthew 27:46: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"  ...I have heard lots of explanations, but I wondered if maybe even Jesus needed to feel what it was like to be without His Father, if only for a short time.
That is a quote from a book by Elder John H Groberg, my sister sent me at just the right time. 

You name a emotion on the positive or negative scale of emotions, and my mission has given me view and understanding of some level or another of it--almost whatever it be.   Not that I claim to understand everyone and their problems, but I have a heart so pierced and pulped from dealing along side God with the weaknesses and pains and burdens of others and self, that I can love and relate and cry and hold and help and have patience and longsuffering, charity, compassion and tender feelings for any human sorrow or burden--to see them through it.  To stay with them.  To see from a gentle, suffering, pure Savior's eyes.  The afraid, sad, confused, guilty, discouraged, overwhelmed, lonely, hurt, weak, doubting, sick, frustrated, worthless... Christ has depths within us to unlock when we submit ourselves to His reshaping. 

"This is the Lord's Church.  He called us and trusted us even in the weaknesses He knew we had.  He knew the trials we would face.  By faithful service and through His Atonement, we can come to want what He want and be what we must be to bless those we serve for Him.  As we serve Him long enough and with diligence, we will be changed.  We can become ever more like Him." _President Henry B. Eyring

That has given me strength.  > I'm Feeling... <

Every day is a test. Because of His Atonement, Jesus Christ can strengthen you to press forward through anything.  Those aren't words.... I know that. Christ's light and teachings are emerging from distant ideals and hungers of my soul, to being the anchor of my life and the 24/7 pulse of my mind.  His Atonement is flowing through and piercing every part of my soul. For I am weak.  I am nothing. Oh, embrace the forsaken moments in your life. You are understood and loved.  All is only for your good if you keep holding to Heavenly Father and Christ and inclining your heart to them. 

Humility is the ultimate key to life.  Oh, how I wish the world could understand. 

In a word,

Serve a Mission.

I Know

--let those words be larger than your computer screen or paper or wherever you read or hear this from--from the deepest reaches of my soul immortal-- I know you have a Savior who won't forsake you.  i KNOW that.  

I Know

You have a Savior who won't forsake you.

My life is for one purpose:

Jesus Christ. and to show all, of how deep and real who He is and what He has done is

for YOU.