I know that things aren't always as they seem.  I also know that things are not always good.  This world is a place of trial and evil and bad things that are everywhere.  And, of course, bad things do happen to good people.  I was just walking back home from the church thinking about my day and knowing that I really hadn't done my best.  Here I am thinking about making it back to Heavenly Father and I can't even finish off one day perfectly.  It seems a contradiction.  But then I realize that it isn't.  The expectation is not meant to be right here, and right  now.  The truth is that this expectation is eternal.  And even if it takes that 'eternity' to finish the job, well then, that's alright.  I guess that I can't even say that every day has to be better then the previous day.  I try, but my reality isn't that.  I make progress then I backslide and sometimes its a step backwards and then a step forward.  Mathematically that equals zero, but in life I believe that it can be counted as progress.  (At least I hope it can!)  Life tires us out in more ways then one.

 

I dream about what it might be like to have everything happen the way that I want, but not for long.  I'm smart enough to separate my dreams and my reality, at least some of my dreams.  I guess that there are a few things that were dreams and now they are real.  And I plan of some other dreams that I have becoming real someday.  Its hard to imagine this body being 'renewed', but that is the promise.  And the other promises that go along with that will happen as well.  They do seem like dreams, but one day that will be the reality for all of us.  Keeping that in mind helps make the days before tolerable and we work for the days ahead.