Hope
byMy beliefs give me hope. I was sexually and physically assaulted as a child, when I existed at all. I have PTSD. I lost my first apartment in a fire, and I was homeless for 7 months. I have severe scoliosis and no treatment for it. Without my Heavenly Father’s gentle grace I would have no hope at all. He has walked me through all of the scariest places in my life with love. I can easily point to a thousand places where things could have been much worse than they ever got, because of that gentle protection. I was investigating the church while I lived with a man I eventually left. Somewhere in those years between meeting the missionaries and leaving him I felt the spirit clearly telling me that THIS church is where God wanted me to go. Once I knew that it became simple to quit smoking, drinking, and living with my ex. None of that mattered a bit standing next to the path God wanted me on. He has asked me for nothing else in my whole life, and given me so much. He called me to this LDS church, and gave me hope. That’s what my beliefs have done for me. Hope.