LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

When I was here 37 years ago, I learned a few things that have stuck with me ever since.  One lesson was, there are going to be good times and bad times.  You need to enjoy the good times and learn from the bad times.  If you don’t learn from the bad times then you have just suffered in vain. 

This week has been a challenging one.  While there have been plenty of problems before, this week seems to have more than its share of “learning opportunities.”  Between a post project review that was not well received, problems with a new project we had such high hopes for, and challenges at home that we are too far away to be of any real help with, it will be good to move on to another week with its new challenges and distractions.  It does make us grateful for the loving family members who care and for the gospel of Jesus Christ.  The words of the song “Where Can I Turn For Peace” seem particularly comforting. 

Where can I turn for peace?
Where is my solace, 
When other sources cease to make me whole?
When with a wounded heart, anger, or malice,
I draw myself apart, 
Searching my soul?

Where, when my aching grows,
Where, when I languish,
Where, in my need to know, where can I run?
Where is the quiet hand, to calm my anguish?
Who, who can understand?
He, only One.

He answers privately,
Reaches my reaching
In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend.
Gentle the peace He finds for my beseeching.
Constant He is and kind,
Love without end.