{"id":8612,"date":"2014-01-29T07:51:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2014-01-29T09:07:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T16:07:26","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140129_073833.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8613\" alt=\"IMG_20140129_073833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140129_073833.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140129_073833.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140129_073833-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_20140129_073833-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>I spent a few minutes yesterday reading my journal from 2001. What a heartbreaking year that was. I&#8217;m pretty sure it was one of the most difficult in our lives. It was the year that I said goodbye to teaching seminary (I mourned over that) and I had my 3rd major surgery in 3 years. I was in pain for months and there were other troubles that I won&#8217;t list here. I&#8217;d get over one trial and another big one would emerge. The terrorist attacks affected the mood. Some of my entries were so sad. Other entries helped me see how I got through that time. I maintained hope that things would get better; I maintained hope in the power of prayer and faith. I clung to the written word from Church magazines and the scriptures. I believed that my problems were known and carefully measured for my good. I took time to realign my priorities.<\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking about hope this month. I found a nice article about it in the September 2013 Ensign and I highly recommend it. Here is my favorite quote from the article and a quote by President Uchtdorf for you today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Profound and sustaining hope is more than an attitude; it is an orientation of the spirit toward God.<\/p>\n<p>-Vaughn E. Worthen, &#8220;The Healing Balm of Hope,&#8221; Ensign, September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There may be some among you who feel darkness enroaching upon you. You may feel burdened by worry, fear, or doubt. To you and to all of us, I repeat a wonderful and certain truth: God&#8217;s light is real. It is available to all! It gives life to all things. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound. It can be a healing balm for the loneliness and sickness of our souls. In the furrows of despair, it can plant the seeds of a brighter hope. &#8230;It can illuminate the path before us and lead us through the darkest night into the promise of a new dawn.<\/p>\n<p>-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, &#8220;The Hope of God&#8217;s Light,&#8221; Ensign, May 2012, 75.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a few minutes yesterday reading my journal from 2001. What a heartbreaking year that was. I&#8217;m pretty sure it was one of the most difficult in our lives. It was the year that I said goodbye to teaching seminary (I mourned over that) and I had my 3rd major surgery in 3 years. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/hope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-life-according-to-angela","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8615,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions\/8615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}