Find Joy in the Journey

So as the world winds down and the closing number is upon us I feel its only necessary to post this. I am proud to be alive and know what freedom means. I am proud to have been raised by righteous parents who might have been tough on me but love me still. I am grateful that there is a God in heaven that hears and answers my prayers. And I am grateful to know someday we can live in peace and happiness with the Savior here on the earth. This past conference President Monson spoke about finding " Joy in the Journey" Today there was all this bad news on the TV and I felt so low but I remembered about this talk. On another occasion a few years back President Monson spoke that We were blessed with memories so we can June roses in the December of our life. I was grateful to see this more clearly now and to cherish these words. He has mapped out how we can find joy in the journey. When everything is crashing around you steal away and remember those good times and find safety in them. Find the comfort that we all search for. Yes the world is in bad condition. It can and will be saved. I would like to encourage all of us to pray for our leaders whomever they maybe. That they will be led to govern in righteousness and not from the greed and wicked stand point they have been. I say pray for Obama that he will do what is right. Any ones heart can be changed. That was proven with Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus. Not the part that was misinterpreted about God hardening his heart..... because men harden their hearts. Not God. The part where he softened and let the people of Israel go. Pray for America.... that she will once again be a good land full of prosperous good people. A land that welcomes all and challenges all to be GOOD. Pray for our Great Country. Because I feel my forefathers died with a purpose and it would be a waste to see all of that to be for nothing. I know that God helped to guide those men who set forth our Constitution. And declared with the declaration of independence " we will not be held down by a tyrant that cares for nothing but himself". America will be good again and I will be there to help in anyway I can... for I am still proud to be an American even if it is only in thought and purpose!!!!